6. When gold comes out of the mine is the gain to the community greater or less than when the same value of grain is harvested? 7. Are men wealthy in proportion to the money they have? Are countries? 8. Would a nation be poorer, if, like Sparta, it prohibited all money? 9. Is a community poor because it has little money in circulation or does it have little money in circulation because it is poor? 10. Could a country better do without money, horses, or roads? 11. Why does nearly all the gold produced in California leave the state? What keeps any of it there? 12. The mint price of an ounce of gold, .900 fine, is alike at San Francisco and Philadelphia, $18.604. Why is gold ever shipped from California to New York? 13. Does gold cost the day-laborer as much in California as in New York? 14. Note any habits of friends that result in their carrying more or less money than others of the same income. 15. What determines the amount of money needed by different persons, towns, states, and nations? 16. Give examples of things that increase the demand for money. 17. On an isolated island would it make any difference as to the value of money if there were but one gold-mine or several competing ones, supposing that the output were the same? 18. What per cent. of the total money in the world is the yearly output of gold; of silver; of gold and silver? Stat. Abst. 19. Is the value of gold and silver due to the action of government? 20. In what ways may the government determine the value of the monetary standard? 21. If all the different denominations of media of exchange were doubled in number, exchanges remaining unchanged, what would be the effect upon prices? 22. Is it true of all commodities that changes in supply affect their value proportionally? Is it true of money? If in your opinion there is any difference, explain it. 23. If the amount of coal in a country should be increased twenty-five per cent., in what percentage would you expect the value of coal to change? Give reasons. If the amount of money in a country should be increased twenty-five per cent., in what direction and in what percentage would the value of money change? Give reasons. (In each case the condition is "other things being equal.") 24. If in a given community all watch cases were made of gold, and each case contained one ounce of gold, would you expect the value of watch cases to fall by exactly one-half if the number of watch cases in the community were doubled, all other things remaining the same? If in another community (at another time) all exchanges were made exclusively by the use of gold coins, each containing an ounce of pure gold, would you expect that prices in general would be exactly doubled in case no change occurred in the community except a doubling of the number of coins in circulation?