There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equ...als in importance the putting of our banking and currency system on the sound basis proposed in the National Monetary Commission plan.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of thin...gs today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic, and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of sha...red experiences, all our pronouncements are cheques drawn on insufficient funds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, becaus...e for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency ...in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a sound ...currency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Both of us felt more anxiety about the South--about the colored people especially--than about anything else sinister in the result.... My hope of a sound currency will somehow be realized; civil service reform will be delayed; but the great injury is in the South. There the Amendments will be nullified, disorder will continue, prosperity to both whites and colored people will be pushed off for years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both... bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the ...multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges ... which are employed altogether for their benefit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »