Report and List of Members for the Year ...Cobden Club., 1895 |
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agricultural annual general meeting attend the meeting AUGUSTUS MONGREDIEN Bart Bimetallic League bimetallists Britain brushes and mats C. S. SALMON CHAIRMAN CHARLES BRADLAUGH classes Club's Cobden Club colonies Committee copies customs arrangement despatches distributed duty on foreign EDOUARD SEVE election English Fair Trade fiscal Foreign Brushes foreign corn foreign countries foreign prison-made G. J. HOLYOAKE GEORGE COLE Gladstone House of Commons I. S. LEADAM Imperial importation industrial interests J. W. PROBYN labour last annual meeting London Lord Farrer Lord PLAYFAIR Lord Ripon Lord Salisbury M.P. Price MARTIN WOOD ment Ottawa Conference pamphlets Parliament Potter and gentlemen present Price 3d principles prison prison-made brushes produce proposed Protectionist Protective duties PROVAND question of bimetallism recent remedy resolution Richard Cobden Richard Gowing Right SAMPSON MORGAN Secretary SIR WILFRID LAWSON SOPER sugar bounties Sugar Convention T. B. POTTER THOMAS HANBURY THOMAS LOUGH Trade League treaties U.S. America wrote
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Сторінка 10 - That this Conference records its belief in the advisability of a customs arrangement between Great Britain and her Colonies, by which trade within the Empire may, be placed on a more favourable footing than that which is carried on with foreign countries.
Сторінка 10 - Further resolved : That until the Mother Country can see her way to enter into Customs arrangements with her Colonies it is desirable that, when empowered so to do, the Colonies of Great Britain, or such of them as may be disposed to accede to this view, take steps to place each other's products in whole or in part on a more favoured Customs basis than is accorded to the like products of foreign countries.
Сторінка 30 - ... in the Latin Union ceased to be in full operation ; and we are irresistibly led to the conclusion that the operation of that system, established as it was in countries the population and commerce of which were considerable, exerted a material influence upon the relative value of the two metals. " So long as that system was in force we think that, notwithstanding the changes in the production and use of the precious metals, it kept the market price of silver approximately steady at the ratio fixed...
Сторінка 30 - Apprehensions have been expressed that if a bi-metallic system were adopted gold would gradually disappear from circulation. If, however, the arrangement included all the principal commercial nations, we do not think there would be any serious danger of such a result. " Such a danger, if it existed at all, must be remote. It is said indeed, by some, that if it were to happen, and all nations were to be driven to a system of silver monometallism, the result might be regarded without dissatisfaction....
Сторінка 30 - Report which was signed by the six so-called "gold men " of the Commission. Part II, Sec. 107. — " We think that in any conditions fairly to be contemplated in the future, BO far as we can forecast them from the experience of the past, a stable ratio might be maintained if the nations we have alluded to were to ncccpt and strictly adhere to bimetallism, at the suggested ratio.
Сторінка 30 - We thiuk that in any conditions fairly to be contemplated in the future, so far as we can forecast them from the experience of the past, a stable ratio might be maintained if the nations we have alluded to were to accept and strictly adhere to bimetallism, at the suggested ratio. We think that if in all these countries...
Сторінка 30 - It must be borne in mind that in the case of other commodities (than gold and silver) the effect of changes in the supply and demand is both more marked and more immediate. These commodities are generally produced for the purpose of consumption at an early date or within a comparatively...
Сторінка 21 - SIR, — In my despatch of even date,* I communicated to you an expression of the views of Her Majesty's Government on the Resolutions passed by the Colonial Conference at Ottawa in regard to the trade relations of the Empire.
Сторінка 24 - Officer of the Legion d'Honneur. LECTURES in connection with the London Society for the Extension of University Teaching have been going on in Whitechapel now for more than six years. The number of tickets sold for the lectures during this period has been close upon 2000, and the ticket-holders have been nearly all artisans. The reports of the examiners, appointed by the Universities...