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...meddle with this delicate machine. And yet here is only one phase of the financial problem that needs clarification. The fundamentals of exchange and foreign trade are not so vital to welfare, except that it is chiefly ignorance of them that leads to advocacy of most of the wildcat "--standard" schemes. From top to bottom, a thorough knowledge of economic principles is sadly lacking. As a starter, we recommend Economics A for about 90 percent of the United States Congress. Then Professors Taussing and Burbank might consider taking on the State Legislatures, in turn...
...make a great hit with the French public, who never tire of Wild West films, by donning his official Indian regalia and assuming the role of Watakpech Wakiya, the title the Sioux have bestowed on him. If he chooses to found a menagerie, his guinea-pig and wildcat will make a suitable beginning; but no doubt the jewelry business would prove still more profitable...
...Rushed through to show that the party can enact constructive legislation: Transcript, Dec. 17. - (b) Only one banker out of 50 who wrote to Hon. Wm. Springer approves it: Herald, Dec. 18. - (c) It is a weak and impolitic scheme. - (1) Tends to make depreciated paper redundant. - (2) Revives "wildcat" state banks. - (3) Divorces the government and bankings - (d) Several substitutes are offered. - (1) Eckels's plan. - (2) Baltimore plan. - (3) Senate Bill. - (4) Walker's Bill. - (e) Leading papers utterly opposed to plan...