... ought to be that America still submits to government by the stupidest. With her enormous natural advantages unlimited land, a national debt, army, and navy too insignificant to count, abundant immigration, and no foreign policy-- America ought to chaw up ...

... 1893. All eyes have this week been turned on President Cleveland and his message to the Congress of the United States of America, specially summoned to deal with the silver question. From the Gold Bags' point of view, there is no doubt that the position ...

... accounts in South African shares which have been closed during the last few days naturally produced a little weakness. In America we are, it seems, face to face with something like a second Civil War, and at the time we write, dear Sir, from the Pacific ...

... of August, very few of us had much doubt that in six weeks we should know the best and the worst of the silver position in America before your return, and no sooner had you gone than by an overwhelming majority the House of Representatives decided in favour ...

... allowance on deposits, the London and County being the only dissentient. Meanwhile, nothing seems to stop the export of gold from America, where an impending monetary crisis casts its ominous shadow before on a squirming mass of selfish politicians, senselessly ...

... in a month, nor, indeed, in a year, and although we think that the prospects are hopeful, and that sound legislation in America will do much to bring about a better state of affairs, you must not expect improvement without periodical set-backs. Home ...

... is quite unusual. Discounts, however, have hardened somewhat since we last wrote to you, and the fear of gold shipments to America will probabh* strengthen this tendency. In finance it is always the unexpected which happens, so we have been treated to the ...

... continue to pay blackmail to the insiders, who use their official positions to obtain the earliest information. The situation in America does not seem to be much improved by the explicit declaration of President Cleveland that he intends to call a special session ...

... by the simple stoppage of the free coinage of silver, and that the effect of the measure would be felt, not in Europe and America only, but throughout the whole world. There is an old saying, dear Sir, about some place where wise men fear to tread, which ...

... legislation, and what will be its effect on the world is the question now passing from mouth to mouth in the City no less than in America, and, indeed, wherever civilised men most do congregate. The rupee is to have a fixed value of Is. 4d. If anyone likes to ...

... If you would like a plunge not over dangerous, considering the views we hold about the prospects of general improvement in America you might do worse than buy a few Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Guarantee Fund Notes, which will give you over 7 per cent, ...

... traders' and manufacturers' despair at the Tariff troubles is natural, but shortsighted. These and suchlike trade troubles in America keep alive English trade supremacy from Greenland's icy mountains to Afric's coral strand a far cheaper Strand, by-the-wav ...