Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...about $500. The remaining $300 necessary to pay the running expenses of the Union on its present basis must be met by subscription, mainly within the University. To make the Union more attractive and so increase its membership and influence, and to place on a less precarious basis, more money is needed. About $100 could well be expended to furnish one of the rooms as a settlement room where students could live, as several are willing to do, for a few weeks, getting acquainted with the members and making themselves useful in many ways. A like sum is needed...
...Union had an hundred sustaining members, and an equal number of active and associate members in the University, it would escape from its present hand to-mouth condition and would be able greatly to extend its work. Both instructors and students have aided the Union generously with their money and their services, and this together with the appreciation the Union has met with among the working-men at Cambridgeport and others, augurs well for its success. In making this further appeal for financial aid, the Union relies on the continued generosity and good-will of the University public...
Another cottage is also to be erected but it is not known by whom. The old alumni have been very active in seeking subscription although it is said that one-half of the money raised up to the present time has been given by men who have never been connected with the school...
...account the few Western silver producing states and Massachusetts, where both parties are opposed to it, Democrats are in favor of free coinage. The coinage of silver dollars in the United States is so limited that gold can redeem them, and so the gold standard is maintained and the money condition of the United States is sound. Unlimited coinage of silver dollars would make it impossible for their country to redeem them in gold. No doubt it would be rash for the United States alone to undertake free coinage of silver, yet this is what the Democratic party is trying...
...South Africa have already sent their approval of the scheme, and now America's answer is looked for. The idea is to have the events competed for by representatives only of the English speaking race but of the entire race. It is proposed that the prizes should be not money but some trophy from the nation or the race to the man, which he would ever after value and which might form an ornament to his country. The Prince of Wales has been interested in the proposed scheme and shortly the whole matter will be laid before a powerful committee...