This book reviews the innovations upon the financial system inaugurated by the Constitutional fathers—some of them vicious innovations, and others unavoidable through the legacy of economical errors left by the financial pioneers of the infant republic. It shows logically and conclusively that the legal-tender greenback money which took the place of banished silver and gold money during the civil war (and of which some $346,000,000 are still in existence) was not a “debt,” but a privileged circulating medium, as much money as the metals which preceded, and not any more essentially to be redeemed in anything than gold itself. With the laborious research and close analysis of the trained lawyer, the author has followed the financial legislation of America from the Colonial fathers down. The subject of money is discussed in the cold, calm light of pure science. Congressmen, irrespective of party, may study its pages with profit. There is in it a world of enlightenment to our lawmakers who are unbought and conscientious. To the people of the United States, whether borrowers or lenders of money, it is instructive; to the high school lad, studying political economy and currency, it is a liberal education. No more timely or useful contribution to the financial literature of the times has yet appeared.
Ten Men of Money Island.
A Primer of Finance. By S. F. Norton. 12mo, 142 pages, enameled paper cover, 25 cents.
Over half a million copies of this wonderful book have been sold.
“It gives the principles of money in the form of a story so interesting and in such simple language that even a child can read it with understanding. This is undoubtedly the simplest book that has ever been written on the principles of money.”—John B. Gill, Secretary American Economic Reform Society.
“No man or woman born will, after reading ‘Ten Men of Money Island,’ deny that the money it cost was well invested.”—New York World.
The Voter’s X-Rays.
By Clarence T. Atkinson. 12mo, 132 pages. Cloth, 75 cents; paper, 25 cents.
“This book intelligently sets forth the condition of national affairs as they exist to-day, and its whole tendency is toward the instruction of the great mass of voters who have not the time to personally study the many intricate details of American politics.”—Burlington Gazette.
A Tramp in Society.