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Thus it is all important for us to kook The monthly meeting of the General where we stand to-day. The closing of the Committee of the Hongkong Goners! Indian Mints in 1803, has in my judgment · Chamber of Commerce was held in the starved the Indian currency, and has pro Chamber Room, St. George's Building, on vented, silver prices and wagas there from Saturday, the 5th December, at 12 o'clock rising. Again the great expansion of the of the Dew Doon, Hon. Mr E, A. Hewett presided and guld
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replaced in the world's economy by mills UNITED STATER MONETARY COMÍTISSION. and factories mauned with yellow labour, A lotter was read from Mr Moreton in Asia: in short the labour cost of what VOLE PROPRIETORS of TAKASIMA, Frewen, Government House, Oktawa, as Asia manufactores for export has been OOHL, HOJO, NAMAZUTA SAYO, follows-It is evident that the report of the already cut in half, by the reduction in the SHINNEW and KAMIYAMADA Ool-11. 8. Monetary Commission will bring up guld price of alrer. Possibly the interests Tories.
once more the entire question of silver and of the people of India sue subserved by the exebanges. I enclose copy of a letter I these low exchanges with alosed Minta; have received from Senator Teller of that certainly the industries of China where no Minta are closed are being stimulated by Commission and I think you may like to low exchanges, and already Chion has com lay it before your Chamber. We in Eng. sneed to manufacture steel, but that a land have no longer any organisation such great civilised Government should be mak as before 1886 provided us with informing a profit me to-day of 50 per cent by tion from the Far East; but if it were selling currcury of unlimited legal tender possible for representative of your Cham- to three hundred million of its citizen; bee to attend at Washington between that the currency of India should be November and April 1908-1999, 1909-1910 manipulated as today by a few officials, the Commission would, I am sure, greatly whose purchases or ma-purchases of silvor value such evidence. Meanwhile any ballion slevate or depress all the world's atateront addressed to me osre of Seratorerobanges in China-this is so opposed to Teller, Washington, D. C., U. S. A.. will every theory of your own economista that |be valued and very carefully considered. I must now venture to press the point The enclosure was as follows:-United further. But this at least I may say;;
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Dear Mr Moreton Fiewen.-I am bliged Americaduring the past few years to succour to you for your note. While the Mocetary starving Hindas who had on their persons Commission would prefer your evidence all the material of a famine reserve fund in just as early ne possible after the date of the shape of banglow and ornaments and its sittings (November 10th) I follow that only that the India Mints were closed and you would like to give it the latest returns the mintago of rupees made a moat pro- you can prosure in England as to pricas,fitable monopoly of the Indian Govern and wages in the Orient. I quito agree would be if we had a faming in the United ment. Let me ask you what your riow that the real storm centre of our onquiry States, if our people had vast stores of will not emerge aither from our outroccygold in bars and bangles accumulated dur er fram yours, but from the deplorabite ing a thousand years, and if we closed our collapse in the gold price of silver. Ji saints to the Eres coinage of gold at a other words, our troubles come not trois moment of acente famine and disaster, our currency but from our exchanges. In I now came to the point which greatly
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the world's history of the, two precious concerna our Commission. “I personally matals, we have hitherto experienced two am in favour of the proposal advanced by and only two great variations in their prices Lord Hershell and the gold members of namely the fall in the price of silver in which reported in 1888, namely the issue of your Royal Commission upon eurenty 1803 occasioned by the closing of the Indian small notes of limited legal tønder (40 Mints, the collapse last year which resulted shillinge), those notes to be seenrod by from failure of the mies in Hindustan. silver. This proposal was again advocated On each occasion the suffering and disaster in what we here call the "Goschen plan."
in 1891 by Four Chancellor of Exchequ was unspeakable, and that given tho stane If our nation with England and Germany canse we shall have a recurrence of the would issue these notes, would purchase effects I have no doubt. For thirty years with them and impound large central gold past the conviction has been borne in upos doable effect. It would accumulate great reserves the Goschon, play would have a
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