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1896 MASTER NEGATIVE # COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES PRESERVATION DIVISION BIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET ORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED - EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD Home Market Club (Boston, Mass.) Results of changing I microform]. Boston, Mass. : Home Market Club, 1896. :i8101214 from gold to silver [MICROFILM] OCLC: RESTRICTIONS ON USE: Reproductions may not be made without permission from Columbia University Libraries. TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA FILM SIZ REDUCTION RATIO: 9^/ IMAGE PLACEMENT: IIA IB IIB DATE FILMED: INITIALS: TR/^CKING # : 3//3C FILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES, BETHLEHEM, PA. fl^IRRARY OP Ti fe P -?r. nr- cf L’r: S0’--.';0 Cu-^H'r cv CO..; -ITTEE. 02 Viillfarvi Lt u MONEY LEAFLET Issued by the HOME MARKET CLUB, Bostou, Mass. 1896. THE CLUB’S MOTTO; ^ “American Wages for American Workmen; American Markets for the American People ; An Honest Dollar, Earned at Home and Spent at Home." 1 hose ie:dlcts are intended to be as non-partisan as truth, and their object is to enable people who do not pretend to be up in finance to understanci the money (|ueslion. RESULTS OF CHANGING FROM GOLD TO SILVER. First, <Tol(l would l)c withdrawn and the circu- lation contracted, caus…
1896 MASTER NEGATIVE # COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES PRESERVATION DIVISION BIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET ORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED - EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD Home Market Club (Boston, Mass.) Results of changing I microform]. Boston, Mass. : Home Market Club, 1896. :i8101214 from gold to silver [MICROFILM] OCLC: RESTRICTIONS ON USE: Reproductions may not be made without permission from Columbia University Libraries. TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA FILM SIZ REDUCTION RATIO: 9^/ IMAGE PLACEMENT: IIA IB IIB DATE FILMED: INITIALS: TR/^CKING # : 3//3C FILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES, BETHLEHEM, PA. fl^IRRARY OP Ti fe P -?r. nr- cf L’r: S0’--.';0 Cu-^H'r cv CO..; -ITTEE. 02 Viillfarvi Lt u MONEY LEAFLET Issued by the HOME MARKET CLUB, Bostou, Mass. 1896. THE CLUB’S MOTTO; ^ “American Wages for American Workmen; American Markets for the American People ; An Honest Dollar, Earned at Home and Spent at Home." 1 hose ie:dlcts are intended to be as non-partisan as truth, and their object is to enable people who do not pretend to be up in finance to understanci the money (|ueslion. RESULTS OF CHANGING FROM GOLD TO SILVER. First, <Tol(l would l)c withdrawn and the circu- lation contracted, causing great and prolonged distress. Second, our securities held abroad, estimated at $2,000,000,000, would he thrown uj^on the mar- ket, which would cause a panic, ddds would par- alyze business, earnings woidd in many cases cease and the poor would have to sacrillce their property. Third, all fixed investments and incomes would shrink 47 per cent, or whatever would then mark the diflerence between gold and silver. Here are some of them : Xumber of Depositors. 4-S75.51O SAVINGS HANKS. Amount of Deposits. $1,810,507,023 NATIONAL H.ANKS. A verag;e De|)osit. $371-3(1 Net Deposits, Sept. eS, ’95, .-i fair averaj^e, $1,989,300,000 r.UILDIN'G Axn LOAN' ASSOCIATION'S. Number. 6,000 Assets. $750,000,000 Yearly Receipts. $200,000,000 LIFE AN’D ANNUITY INSURANCE. Number of I’olicies. 11,283,950 Henoficiaries. 25,876,080 Amount Insured. $I 2,285,60.^,9-47 [over.] PENSIONS. Number, June 30, ’95. Annual Payment. 970.524 $128,356,204. NATIONAL DEBT (1895.) Interest Bearing Bonds. Annual Interest. $716,202,060 $29,240,792 NET MUNICIPAL DEBTS, (189O.) ) Total Amount. Annual Interest at 5%. $1,135,210,442 $56,760,522 WAGES. People Employed (1890.) Annual Aggregate. 22,735,666 $7,891,047,500 BAILBOADS. ^ T Fixed Miles, June 30, ’95. Bonds, Annual Charg'es. 180,657 $5,407,114,313 $425,966,921 MANUFACTURING AND OTHER COMPANIES. Bonds estimated at $2,500,000,000; interest, $125,000,000. PROMISSORY NOTES. Principal estimated at $4,500,000,000; int’st, $225,000,000. All these obligations are for dollars. They can-’ not be marked up to oflset the inflation of the standard, as other property can. Thus Four-Sevenths of the Public Wealth is marked for scaling. Nearly forty billions of this wealth is owned by people of moderate means, and the debts are owed by great concerns. Debtors who denounce banks little realize that banks are debtors and that, by loading with silver, they could save nearly two thousand millions of dollars by paying their depositors in dollars worth only 47 per cent of those deposited. ^ Who Would Suffer? If any have thought that free coinage would “relieve the common people,” they can see by the foregoing figures that it would “relieve” them of their property. Who would benefit.? Read leaflet “E.” : *'•*' . * ■ 1- i ■ ' ' ' 1 ■ 1