Evening star., 1933-02-19


Of the hearings of the House Commit
| tee on Coinage, Weights and Measures.
! on nearly score of bills providing for
! Government purchase of silver or for
1 bimetalllsm or some other form of in
PRODUCTION OF the metal into the mon
etary system. and the contemplated
drafting of a bill combining the fea-
lures of the various measures, the
Public Library presents the following
references on the question:
General.
Silver Problem, by Sir Arthur Salter.
Political Science Quarterly. 46:321-
334 September, 1881.
The distinguished British economist
discusses with scholarly detachment
the fall in the price of silver and sus-
gestions for remedies. He urges the
necessity Of keeping a due sense of
proportion in considering the relation
between the silver problem and the
world depression.
Silver-Its International Aspects. by
M. S. Stewart Foreign Policy As
sociation Reports, 7:24l-257. 2 Sep
tember, 1881.
An impartial study, treating the pro-
duction and consumption of silver
causes of fluctuation in price. the sit
uation in the silver producing coun-
tries, and proposed remedies In the
final analysis, the problem of silver
leads to the more fundamental query
as to the adequacy of the gold stand
ard under present-day conditions"
Silver Question Again, by Bernhard
Ostrolenk. Current History, 36:l73-
1T. May, 1882
A discussion of the silver question in
the light of currency and also as a
commodity. The causes of the present
low silver prices are the demonetiza-
tion of subsidiary currency by Great
Britain and ether countries, adoption
of the gold bullion standard by the
Indian government, and a slightly in
creased production. The solution of
the problem lies with Great Britain
and India, with cooperation from
silver producing countries.
Silver in the West and the East, by
H, NJ Bratter. Pan-American
Union Bulletin, 66:832-846. De-
cember. 1882.
A discussion of the history of silver.
its movements in world markets and
the circumstances which depreSs the
price. A more extensive and technical
discussion of silver by this author,
who is connected with the Bureau OF
Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
United States Department of Commerce,
is found in The Silver Market" Trade
Promotion Series No. 139, 1882.
Silver-Some Fundamentals, by H. M.
Bratter. Journal of Political Econ
omy. 39:321-368 June, 1881
An exhaustive study of supply, de-
mand, silver and commodity prices,
end ether phases Of silver in the world
market, with 20 statistical tables.
Fall in the Value of Silver and It's Con-
sequences, by w. D. Graham. Jour-
nal OF Political Economy, SO ;425-470
August, 1881
scholarly discussion of 81 PROPOSE
tons in regard to silver accompanied
by statistical tables The world will
not go to the dogs as result Of fluc-
tuations in the goldsilver ratio"
Silver's Threat to Itself, by E. E. Ag-
ger. American Bankers Association
Journal, 24445-446. January, 1882
Apropos of report on silver by a
committee of experts of the Interna-
tional Chamber Of Commerce. the
author, professor of economies at
Rutgers Univercity. says that the
problem is many sided apart from self
seeking silver interests. He thinks that
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slight.
Silver Problem, by H. B. Elliston. For
eign Affairs, 9:441456 April, 1881.
A discussion of the decline in tn,
price of silver b. one who was for five
years chief editor of the Chinese gov
ernment's economic publications Sill
yer has been affected by the world
wide decline in all commodity prices
and also by governmental action in the
debasement Of silver coinage in Europe.
The problem CT working out harmoni-
Gus program for restoring silver to its
former prestige should not be insuper-
able.
Silver: Causes and Consequences of
the Depression in Its Value, and
Proposed Remedies by H. p Willis.
New Republic, 66:9294. II March,
1881.
Comments 'occasioned by the pro-
pos2l OF a subcommittee of the Senate
to loan silver to China. The writer
considers the status of silver to be
similar to that of other commoditie5
suffering through this period of price
special action in regard to silver
values.
Pro and Con.
Should the Price of Silver Be Regulated
by Government Action? Pro and
Con Discussion. Congressional Di-
geSt, 10:270-287. November, 1881.
Quotations from eminent men Civ
ing opposing views of the question of
government regulation of the price OF
silver Several Senators from silver
producing States of the West are in
taVOr of the measure.
Silver, a Senate Racket, by Neil Caro-
Tiers North American Review, 233
Ais January, 1882.
An attack by a professor of econom-
les at Lehigh University on the politi-
cal forces which the author claims TO
have attempted to coerce the United
States into official interference with
the price of silver bullion. The his
tory of the silver movement in the
United States is given as background
for the activities of the silver interests
today.
Silver, It's Future as Money, by F. H
BroWnell. North American Review
233 :234-242. March, 1882
A reply to Prof Carothers' attack on
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