If the money of either country is fluctuating in value, relative to the other, to any great extent, it may introduce some uncertainty that will hamper and inconvenience trade,--though to a less extent than a variable money would in its own country, as there are means by which such fluctuations can be guarded against; but unless the changes are sudden and violent, no inconvenience will be experienced, as the actual exchange rates are more or less always fluctuating. In support of these statements, and as showing that they are borne out by practical experience, the following quotations are given from Mr. Wells' "Recent Economic Changes," in reference to trade between a silver and a gold standard country when the relative values of the two metals were changing quite rapidly. He says, p. 239:-- "Mr. Lord, a director of the Manchester (England) Chamber of Commerce, testified before the Commission on the Depression of Trade, in 1886, that 'So far as India was concerned, it is not necessary to run any risk at all from the uncertainties of exchange.' Mr. Blythell (representing the Bombay Chamber of Commerce) testified before the same commission, ... 'There is no difficulty in negotiating any transaction for shipping goods to India and in securing exchange.'" Mr. Wells says: "Thus from returns officially presented to the British Gold and Silver Commission, 1886, it was established that the trade of Great Britain with India since 1874 had relatively grown faster than with any foreign country 'except the United States and perhaps Holland.'" He also says, of Mexican exchange, p. 241: "The fluctuations in the price of silver since 1873--Mexican exchange having varied in New York in recent years from 114 to 140--would seem, necessarily, to have been a disturbing factor of no little importance in the trade between United States and Mexico; but the official statistics of the trade between the two countries since 1873 (notoriously undervalued) fail to show that any serious interruption has occurred." During this period, Mexico had a silver standard, while the United States had inconvertible paper for nearly six years of it, and a gold standard for the remaining period. Mr. Wells further states:--