Political/Financial from Pages For Sages

The battle over whether the U.S. Currency should be based on gold or silver had been going on for years, and in 1896, a presidential election year, it appeared to be a significant issue between the parties. Speeches, pamphlets, articles and arguments abounded, and the pamphlet Fact Against Fiction - Prices of Farm Products For Thirty Years. False in One… Read more about this item

The financial issues related to bimetallism (gold vs silver base for currency) and paper money ("greenbacks" vs currency based on gold or silver) were actively discussed in the late 19th century. Sound Currency, a semi-monthly publication of the Sound Currency Committee of the Reform Club, was a vehicle for many articles on these issues. "Greenbacks and the Cost of the… Read more about this item

At the time when the Speech of Hon. Ebenezer J. Hill, of Connecticut, on H.R.7645: A bill to maintain the legal tender silver dollar at parity with gold, and to increase the subsidiary coinage, in the House of Representatives, Tuesday, February 18, 1902 was delivered, the country's currency was pegged to both gold and silver. The bimetallic ratio between these… Read more about this item

This First Edition copy of the Speech of Joshua R. Giddings, of Ohio. In answer to Mr. Duncan, on the bill providing for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year 1840. - Delivered in the House of Representatives, April 11, 1840 was presented as part of the House discussion on the spending bill. Mr. Giddings states, in… Read more about this item

The debate in Congress over The Independent Treasury Bill was underway, and Mr. Benton stood in the Senate on Wednesday, March 14, 1838, to present the Speech of Mr. Benton, of Missouri, on the Bill to Separate the Government from the Banks. The divorce of government from the banks was an issue which Benton was a staunch supporter of, and… Read more about this item

The question of whether gold or silver should be the basis of American currency, or whether both should be used (the Double Standard) was argued for decades. The "Resumption and the Double Standard"; or the Impossibility of Resuming Specie Payments in the United States Without Restoring the Double Standard of Gold and Silver. -- A Speech delivered in the Senate… Read more about this item

The pros and cons of bimetallism had been argued for years, and "Carlisle on the Ratio of 16 to 1" -- Speech of Hon. John G. Carlisle before the Workingmen of Chicago, April 15, 1896. Printed as Senate Document No. 256 on the motion of Senator Vilas, of Wisconsin, May 14, 1896 represented John Carlisle's position on the subject. Mr.… Read more about this item

Horace Greeley was opposed to the proposed new tariff bill, believing it was part of a devious scheme to affect the Presidential election of 1844, and felt that the current tariff bill was more than adequate for the purpose. His arguments supporting his position are presented in "The Tariff As It Is, Compared With The Substitute Proposed by its Adversaries"… Read more about this item

"Free Coinage of Gold and Silver" - A report of Mr. Bland of the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures to the House of Representatives, February 10, 1892 (To accompany H. R. 4426) was the response of the Committee to its consideration of House bill H.R. 4426, entitled, "A bill for the free coinage of gold and silver, for the… Read more about this item

The pros and cons of bimetallism have been debated world-wide, and "Bimetallism: Its advantage, and what we suffer by the loss of it", by H. R. Beeton, Being an address delivered at the invitation of the Bristol Committee of the Bimetallic League, in the Lesser Colston Hall, Bristol, on 18th April, 1895 is an example of a talk given in… Read more about this item

Millard Fillmore, as chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, presented the result of the committee's deliberations on the Tariff Bill in the Speech of Mr. Fillmore, of New York, on The Tariff Bill, delivered in the Committee of the Whole, House of Representatives, June 9, 1842. His opening remarks included "...I regret that, on a subject of so… Read more about this item

The Civil War was underway, and the question of financing the prosecution of the war effort was on the table in the House. "The Power and Duty of Congress to Provide for the Common Defence and the Suppression of the Rebellion" -- Speech of Hon. Jno. A Bingham, of Ohio, in the House of Representatives, January 15, 1862 opens with… Read more about this item

This First Edition copy of the Report of the Committee on Banking and Currency, together with hearings thereof, on Bill H.R. 8149, Fifty-third Congress, third session, 1894 was published in Washington, DC in 1894 by the Government Printing Office. The book, which measures approximately 5 ¾ inches wide by 9 inches tall by ¾ inches thick, contains 385 pages of… Read more about this item