Excerpt from The Bi-Metallic Question
The following collection of pamphlets, letters and addresses, on the "Silver Question," as it is generally styled, are here re-issued in one volume, for easy reference.
They cover a period of ten years, and have in consequence a certain lack of consecutiveness, for which the indulgence of the reader is sought.
They also deal with various aspects of the question, according as one or other happened to be uppermost at the time; and if there be apparent discrepancies in the figures quoted, let it be remembered that considerable changes took place in the production of Gold and Silver during that period, and the statements made only claim to be accurate at the date they were first published.
The whole question of the relations of the precious metals, and their bearing upon general prices, is one of the most complex in Political Economy, and can only be popularised by presenting it from various points of view, and with a variety of argument and illustration.
This is my apology for reprinting so many papers which travel over the same ground, oftentimes, it may be said, with tedious iteration. The public to which a writer on this subject can now appeal is much enlarged, compared with ten years ago, and the author of these papers can count now upon a measure of assent which seemed hardly probable when he first addressed the public on this Question.
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