Word: constant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Congress in issuing legal tender notes has given us practically flat money, the evils of which are only too well known. For fifteen years our confidence has been undermined by this constant flooding of the currency. Until the legal tender notes are retired confidence can not be restored. We must draw a sharp distinction between the functions of a bank and the true duty and business of a government...
...costs at least $100,000: Biennial Elections, H. C. Lodge, p. 20.- (c) It results in crude laws: Biennial Elections, ex-Gov. Talbot, P. 4.- (1) One year is not time enough to give an understanding sufficient to direct legislation.- (2) Elections are so frequent that they are a constant influence upon legislative action...
...ground covered in former lectures. He then traced the effects produced on the industry and trade of oriental nations by the demonetization of silver in other countries. While in other countries silver had fallen to one-half its former value, in the east its value remained almost constant. Oriental countries held silver as their greatest metal. This tended to discourage other nations in their trade with the orient. As a consequence, industry was very seriously affected. But in the eastern countries new industries sprang up, the foreign depreciation of silver acting as a protection to them...
Ever since the completion of the addition to the Gymnasium and its opening to the University, it has seemed to Dr. Sargent and others having the Gymnasium in charge, that some public recognition, more than that implied in its constant use, was due Mr. Hemenway...
...currency. The three reports of this commission,- a unanimous report of all members, a report signed by the six monometallists, and another signed by the six bimetallists,- are a mine of wealth for the financier. The commission formally admitted the efficiency of the bimetallic system in maintaining a constant par of exchange...