monometallist

Robert Giffen, the well-known chief of the statistical department of the Board of Trade, London, was long known as the most determined and uncompromising monometallist in England.

If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter

And this brings me to consider that singular piece of folly which furnishes the basis of so much monometallist literature, namely, that gold is less variable in value than silver, and that one metal as a basis varies less than two.

If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter

Mr. Leonard H. Courtney, one of the monometallist members of that commission who signed the report, has since become an avowed bimetallist, as have many other prominent Englishmen.

If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter

The monometallist rejoins that this is "all theory."

If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter

Let us, then, bring the figures down to the present, and it will be found, I think, that the farther down we come the weaker does the monometallist contention appear.

If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter

There seems to be a mysterious power in gold which blinds the eyes to deductions from statistics and experience; the internal conviction of the monometallist that gold stands still while everything else changes in value resists all logic.

If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter

And all this, the monometallist tells us, because there has been an excess of silver produced amounting to less than a quarter of a billion in twenty-three years.

If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter

All the world will dump its silver on us if we adopt free coinage, says the monometallist.

If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter

I do not indulge the hope that the figures herein presented will affect the opinion of any pronounced monometallist.

If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter

Gold has an intrinsic value, says the monometallist, which makes it the money of the world.

If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter