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...England tried to check this flow of silver by reducing the value of the guinea to meet the demands of foreign markets. But it was too late; twenty years of the outgo of silver had taken away her power to exercise this check. The discovery of the mines of Brazil still further reduced the value of gold in relation to silver, and facilitated the progress of England toward a predominant gold-circulation. In 1816 an act was passed making gold the sole legal tender for large payments...
...present tariff is especially bad. - (a) It will injure our commerce with Brazil and Cuba. - (b) It has caused retaliation on our beef by Germany: Harper's Weekly, Nov. 10, 1894. - (c) It is a patchwork disowned by its framers. - (1) Harper's Weekly, Sept. 1; Nation, Aug. 2, Oct. 11, 1894; National Democratic Platform, 1892. - (2) Pres. Cleveland's letter to Representative Catchings in Public Opinion, Sept. 6, 1894. - (d) It favors a monopoly: Nation...
Plinio da Silva Prado, Sao Paulo, Brazil...
...obtain deturs, twenty-six are from New England, and of these, twenty-one are from Massachusetts, two from Maine, two from Connecticut, and one from Vermont. Of the remaining nine, two are from New Jersey, and one each from New York, Washington, Ohio, Illinois, Minesota, Colorado, and Brazil...
...James Rudolph Partridge, to Brazil, Peru...