| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency - Currency question - 1870 - 502 pages
...produce strikes among the workmen, and the workshops, to a great extent, would hare to be closed ; the manufactories would have to stop. I took the ground...facilitate an upward movement of gold in the fall. The fall and winter is the only time in which we have any interest in it. That was all that occurred... | |
| Democratic National Committee (U.S.) - Campaign literature - 1876 - 764 pages
...would produce strikes among the workmen, and the workshops to a great extent would have to be closed; the manufactories would have to stop. I took the ground...facilitate an upward movement of gold in the Fall. The Fall and Winter is the only time which we have any interest in. That was all that occurred at that... | |
| Henry Clews - Business - 1887 - 880 pages
...produce strikes among the workmen, and the workshops, to a great extent, would have to be closed ; the manufactories would have to stop. I took the ground...alone, and let it find its commercial level ; that, in fact, it ought to facilitate an upward movement of gold in the fall. The fall and winter is the... | |
| Henry Clews - Business - 1887 - 884 pages
...produce strikes among the workmen, and the workshops, to a great extent, would have to be closed ; the manufactories would have to stop. I took the ground that the Govern' tnent ought to let gold alone, and let it find its commercial level ; that, in fact, it ought... | |
| Don Carlos Seitz - United States - 1926 - 348 pages
...business come to a halt. "I took the ground," he said later, when Congress inquired into the matter, "that the government ought to let gold alone, and let it find its commercial level; that, as a fact, it ought to facilitate an upward movement of gold in the fall." Fisk, in telling his part of... | |
| H. W. Brands - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 256 pages
...would produce strikes among the workmen, and the workshops, to a great extent, would have to be closed. The manufactories would have to stop. I took the ground...facilitate an upward movement of gold in the fall." The president was not convinced. "The interview . . . was a wet blanket," Gould declared. "We supposed... | |
| Henry Clews - Business & Economics - 2006 - 360 pages
...the interests of the country and to the success of the gold clique. "I took the ground," says Gould, "that the Government ought to let gold alone and let it find its commercial level." This reference to "its commercial level" is rich, coming from the head-centre of the plotters who wanted... | |
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