I admit it has failed, namely, to prevent by early and gradual, severe and sudden contraction, and the panic and confusion inseparable from it; but the Bill had two other objects of at least equal importance; the one to maintain and guarantee the convertibility... The economy of capital, or Gold and trade. Amended ed - Pagina 198door Robert Hogarth Patterson - 1865 - 456 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1848 - 796 pagina’s
...least equal importance; the one to maintain and guarantee the convertibility of the paper currency into gold — the other to prevent the difficulties...undue speculation being aggravated by the abuse of paper credit in the form of promissory notes. In these two objects my belief is, that the Bill has... | |
| Henry Dunning Macleod - 1856 - 682 pagina’s
...least equal importance — the one to maintain and guarantee the convertibility of the paper currency into gold ; the other to prevent the difficulties...undue speculation being aggravated by the abuse of paper credit in the form of promissory notes. In these two objects my belief is that the Bill has completely... | |
| 1858 - 588 pagina’s
...least equal importance — the one to maintain and guarantee the convertibility of the paper currency into gold ; the other to prevent the difficulties...undue speculation being aggravated by the abuse of paper credit, in the form of promissory notes. In these two objects, my belief is the bill has succeeded.... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1858 - 784 pagina’s
...least equal importance — the one to maintain and guarantee the convertibility of the paper currency into gold, the other to prevent the difficulties which...undue speculation being aggravated by the abuse of paper credit in the form of promissory-notes. In these two objects my belief is, that the Bill has... | |
| Marmaduke Blake Sampson - 1858 - 190 pagina’s
...least equal importance — the one to maintain and guarantee the convertibility of the paper currency into gold, the other to prevent the difficulties which...undue speculation being aggravated by the abuse of paper credit in the form of promissory notes. In these two objects my belief is, that the Bill has... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1860 - 724 pagina’s
...least equal importance — the one to maintain and guarantee the convertibility of the paper currency into gold, the other to prevent the difficulties which...undue speculation being aggravated by the abuse of paper credit in the form of promissory-notes. In these two objects my belief is, that the Bill has... | |
| Robert Hogarth Patterson - 1865 - 494 pagina’s
...circulation of the country on a sounder footing, and prevent, an •much as possible, fluctuations in the currency, of the nature of those which have...had gained experience from the recent crisis, Sir E. Peel doubtless took care to represent his measure in the most favourable light. Nevertheless, in... | |
| Charles Tennant - 1866 - 894 pagina’s
...first object — that in which I admit it has failed — was to prevent severe and sudden co/ifracfion, and the panic and confusion inseparable from it. But...of paper-credit in the form of promissory notes." These remarks of Sir Robert Peel were made after he had gained experience from the recent crisis, and... | |
| Richard Webster - 1874 - 256 pagina’s
...objects of at least equal importance. The one to maintain and guarantee the convertibility of the paper into gold, the other to prevent the difficulties which...undue speculation being aggravated by the abuse of paper credit in the form of promissory notes. In these two objects my belief is that the Bill has completely... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1876 - 446 pagina’s
...least equal importance — the one to maintain and guarantee the convertibility of the paper currency into gold, the other to prevent the difficulties which...undue speculation being aggravated by the abuse of paper credit in the form of promissory-notes. In these two objects my belief is, that the Bill has... | |
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