The Cyclopedic Review of Current History, Volume 2Evening News Association, 1893 |
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... gold to Europe .395 , 396 Löwe rifle scandal . Inauguration of an American line to Buenos Ayres 368 The Army bill ... 368 421 Anti - Jewish sentiment . 368 Comets , Discovery of 422 Gilbert Islands seized by Great Britain . 266 ...
... gold to Europe .395 , 396 Löwe rifle scandal . Inauguration of an American line to Buenos Ayres 368 The Army bill ... 368 421 Anti - Jewish sentiment . 368 Comets , Discovery of 422 Gilbert Islands seized by Great Britain . 266 ...
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... Gold nd silver production .. 129 175 viceto the Navy . 177 Trad with Canada . 186 Colord population of the . 186 , 396 Chinse in the 221 Posta Service .. 222 Religous Census of 1890 .. Propced transfer of Revenue Marine ser- Grossman ...
... Gold nd silver production .. 129 175 viceto the Navy . 177 Trad with Canada . 186 Colord population of the . 186 , 396 Chinse in the 221 Posta Service .. 222 Religous Census of 1890 .. Propced transfer of Revenue Marine ser- Grossman ...
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... gold , but the holders of bonds may have either to assent to a conversion of them into a maximum of half their capital , receiving interest at the old rate , or to retain their nominal capital and receive interest at half the former ...
... gold , but the holders of bonds may have either to assent to a conversion of them into a maximum of half their capital , receiving interest at the old rate , or to retain their nominal capital and receive interest at half the former ...
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... gold , and so are the foreign trade balances , which are heavily against Greece . The Government had to pur- chase gold with paper , and this depre- ciated the latter so that gold reached a premium of 45 per cent . Within six months ...
... gold , and so are the foreign trade balances , which are heavily against Greece . The Government had to pur- chase gold with paper , and this depre- ciated the latter so that gold reached a premium of 45 per cent . Within six months ...
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... gold and silver at fixed rates , or the adoption of a gold standard for India . At In Upper Burmah , the Kachyens and other frontier tribes are causing trouble to the British Indian Govern- ment , which suspects that the disaffec- tion ...
... gold and silver at fixed rates , or the adoption of a gold standard for India . At In Upper Burmah , the Kachyens and other frontier tribes are causing trouble to the British Indian Govern- ment , which suspects that the disaffec- tion ...
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Page 177 - Republican protection as a fraud — a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the Federal government has no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties except for the purposes of revenue only, and we demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the government when honestly and economically administered.
Page 74 - All land now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of their actual needs, and all lands now owned by aliens, should be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only.
Page 276 - ... worth of commodities consumed in their production; the existing currency supply is wholly inadequate to make this exchange; the results are falling prices, the formation of combines and rings, the impoverishment of the producing class. We pledge ourselves that, if given power, we will labor to correct these evils by wise and reasonable legislation, in accordance with the terms of our platform.
Page 3 - Pacific Ocean," as used in the treaty of 1825 between Great Britain and Russia, and what rights, if any, in the Behring Sea were held and exclusively exercised by Russia after said treaty ? 4.
Page 3 - March 1867, pass unimpaired to the United States under that Treaty? 5. Has the United States any right, and if so, what right of protection or property in the fur-seals frequenting the islands of the United States in Behring Sea when such seals are found outside the ordinary three-mile limit?
Page 74 - We demand a national currency, safe, sound, and flexible, issued by the general Government only, a full legal tender for all debts, public and private, and that without the use of banking corporations, a just, equitable, and efficient means of distribution direct to the people, at a tax not to exceed 2 per cent per annum, to be provided as set forth in the sub-treasury plan of the Farmers...
Page 164 - Bulgaria was constituted an autonomous and tributary principality under the suzerainty of the Porte...
Page 276 - ... campaign, every issue but one. They propose to drown the outcries of a plundered people with the uproar of a sham battle over the tariff, so that capitalists, corporations, national banks, rings, trusts, watered stock, the demonetization of silver and the oppressions of the usurers may all be lost sight of. They propose to sacrifice our homes, lives, and children on the altar of mammon; to destroy the multitude in order to secure corruption funds from the millionaires.
Page 122 - ... hundred a season, upon the basis of the difference between this number and such larger catch as in the opinion of the Arbitrators might have been taken without an undue diminution of the seal-herds.
Page 3 - Sea, and what exclusive rights in the seal fisheries therein, did Russia assert and exercise prior and up to the time of the cession of Alaska to the United States ? •?. How far were these claims of jurisdiction as to the seal fisheries recognized and conceded by Great Britain ? 3.