Analysis of the Function of Money, 1898
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Analysis of the Function of Money {Stewart, Wm. M.] U.S. Senator from Nevada. Washington, D.C. : Wm. Ballantyne & Sons. 1898. FIRST EDITION. 94 [2 blank] pp. Brown cloth boards [spinhead with some gnawing, a bit shaken], gilt-lettered spine. Port. frontis of Stewart. Text clean. Good+
The first edition of Stewart's book, reflecting his western mining constituency, favoring free coinage of silver and opposing the gold standard. It was reprinted in 1899. As Senator from Nevada Stewart had, a generation earlier, helped secure passage of the Fourteenth Amendment by proposing that its language track the Civil Rights Act of 1866; and the Fifteenth Amendment, granting suffrage for the freedmen [Flack, Adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment 219]; Here he treats the functions of money, the meaning of 'value' and 'price;' the advantages of bimetallism and free coinage of every sovereign state may create full legal-tender money by the use of metal, paper, or any other suitable material upon which to stamp or print the sovereign mandate." He denounces the "greed of the owners of bonds and other sources of fixed incomes," who have sought to keep money scarce.
The first edition of Stewart's book, reflecting his western mining constituency, favoring free coinage of silver and opposing the gold standard. It was reprinted in 1899. As Senator from Nevada Stewart had, a generation earlier, helped secure passage of the Fourteenth Amendment by proposing that its language track the Civil Rights Act of 1866; and the Fifteenth Amendment, granting suffrage for the freedmen [Flack, Adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment 219]; Here he treats the functions of money, the meaning of 'value' and 'price;' the advantages of bimetallism and free coinage of every sovereign state may create full legal-tender money by the use of metal, paper, or any other suitable material upon which to stamp or print the sovereign mandate." He denounces the "greed of the owners of bonds and other sources of fixed incomes," who have sought to keep money scarce.
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