Effects of shrinking volume of money (extract from report of Monetary Commission), 36 Encyclopedia Britannica, effect of fall in the value of money, 8 England's position not due to gold standard, 25 Failures in United States, 1887, 1888, and 1889, 49 Fall of interest on gilt-edged securities, a proof of rise of gold, 48 Farm, how it may be lost by an increasing value in the money unit, 70 Farmers, their loss by demonetization of silver, 60 Farms, estimate of value in 1880, 4 proposition that the Government lend money on the security of the land, 83 Fanchet, Léon, probable effect, should all European nations follow England in discarding silver, 17 Fichte, the value of money depends on its quantity, 76 Flood of silver, where is it to come from?, 108 France, law of 1803 held metals at a parity till 1873, 16 Frewen, Moreton, extract from his "Economic Crisis", 30 Gallatin, Albert, a metallic currency not indispensable, 77 Germany, emigration from, 25 Gibbs, Henry H., cablegram relating to bimetallism, 29 Giffen, Robert his reasoning erroneous that the commodity demand fixes the value of gold, 81 Gold and silver, both variable in value, 41 the world's supply of both, 101 Gold, ratio of, to silver at various periods, 13-16 fall of, during times of Alexander and Cæsar, 14 fear of fall of, during California excitement, 19 rise of from 1873 to 1889, 44 proof that it has risen, 55 some effects of its rise, 57 proposition first made to demonetize it, 19 demonetized in 1857 by German States and Austria, 20 fear of an outflow of, 85 rationale of the outflow of, 86 value as money not derived from commodity use, 81 Goschen, George J., chancellor of exchequer of England speaks for, but decides against, silver, 24 Graham, Sir James, the value of money is in the inverse ratio to its quantity, 77 "Greenback", the, what gave it value?, 105 Gresham's law, and so-called "extension" of, 68 Gold standard, what it implies, 90 statement in behalf of, before French commission, 22 of the future, 92 Gold used in the arts, 103 Gold money, practically none in the United States, 95 Hamilton, Alexander, effect of annulling use of either metal, 16 Houses in United States, estimated value in 1880, 4 Hume, David, contrast of conditions under increasing and under deceasing volume of money, 7 value of money depends on quantity, 76 Huskisson, William, if the quantity of money is increased the value of commodities increase, 77 Improved methods of production, their effects considered, 45 India, will remonetization place us "alongside?", 32 International agreement: is such agreement necessary to tie the metals together, 109 Involuntary idleness, enormous loss of potential wealth, through, 61 Iron, pig: Yield for 1888, 4