Playfair, Sir Lyon, uses the argument that England is a creditor nation, 23 Population, Money should increase in a ratio not less than the ratio of increase of, 75 Price, the index of the value of Money, 8 Price, Bonamy, on Money, 67 Prices, what produces a general fall of, 5 fall of, in United States since 1873, 38 relation of general prices, 1809 to 1849, Jevon's tables, 40 relation of general prices, 1849 to 1885, Soetbeer's tables, 41 Progress, evolutions of, in Money, 9 Prophecies of gold advocates unfulfilled, 30 Protection, its effect on prices, 88 Quantitative theory of Money, The value of each dollar depends on the number of dollars out, 75 Railroads, number of miles in United States, 4 value in 1880, 4 Ratio of precious metals from earliest times to Christian Era, 13 Christian Era to discovery of America, 14 discovery of America to 1822, 15 1823 to 1889, 16 Ricardo, use of the metals as a standard, 43 the value of money in a country depends on the amount existing, 76 there can be no depreciation of money but from excess of quantity, 76 his views as to a "well regulated paper currency", 78 Rothschild, Baron, opinion of bimetallism, 17 Rouland, M., governor of Bank of France, opposed to demonetization, 17 Royal Commission of England, extracts from report of, 23, 110 Sauerbeck on general price (those of 1887 the lowest for one hundred years), 41 Seventy-two cent dollar, the, 92 Seyd, Ernest, effect of increasing money volume, 8 Silver, ratio of, to gold, at various periods, 13-16 declared unfit to be used as money, 21 objections to, considered, 21 the motive for demonetizing, by England, 21 the motive for demonetizing, by Germany, 24 the motive acknowledged, 23 and gold both variable in value, 41 --has it fallen?, 49 purchasing power in 1873 and 1889, 52 prejudice against it as money arising from the idea that gold money has greater "intrinsic value." That question considered, 63 shall we be flooded with it in case of remonetization?, 108 the world's supply, 101 If $2,500,000 a month for twelve years has not driven out gold, how much will do so?, 91 Silver miners, their loss by demonetization contrasted with that of farmers and cotton-planters, 58 Smith, Adam: Both gold and silver variable in value, 41 Definition of a guinea, 66 Soetbeer's table, showing relation of general prices 1849 to 1885, 41 Standard: The true Money standard not the material of which money is made, 78 Stewart, Dugald, on Money, 67 Steel, yield for 1888, 4 Suicides in Germany, 25 Supply of money, what it is, 73 Tabular standard suggested for time contracts as securing greater equity than gold, 43 Thornton, Henry, on Money, 66 Time contracts, their importance to industry, 6