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458 Currency and national banks—Continued

and legal-tender and national-bank notes, 505; disturbance of values through an irredeemable currency, 507; inflation and rates of interest, 510; foreign investments in United States, 514; general law governing rates of interest, 522; summing up, 524; wage-earners most affected by a fluctuating currency, 530; III., 256, 257

Currency question, The, III., 422; paper currency from 1869 to 1873 inclusive, 424; causes of the crisis of 1873, 426; legitimate means to overcome money stringency, 428; requisites for a sound business foundation, 430; as to bonds and bondholders, 431; paying the National debt, 434; the necessity of a stable currency, 435; delay in resumption of specie payment, 439; fiat money, 443; gold the world's standard, 447; fiat money of other countries, 449; the “Ohio idea,” 451; business not depressed by contraction, 458; greenbacks, not a part of the wealth of the country, 459; silver coinage, 463; a well-regulated and safe banking-system necessary to prosperity, 466; reasons for not substituting greenbacks for national-bank notes, 473; can the national-bank system be called a monopoly? 475; resumption of specie payment, the duty of the hour, 478; IV., 33

Currency reform, V., 141, 152. See also Honest money Curtis, George William, II., article on the “Credit Mobilier,” 466; III., and the Louisiana State elections, 356; predicts downfall of party, 359; suggested for place in the Hayes Cabinet, 379; to, 494; IV., at Chicago convention to nominate Edmunds, 219; from, 274; the reappointment of Pearson, 350, 351; how Cleveland's letter to, was understood, 414, 421, 471; from, 490; V., attends meeting to discuss Cleveland's renomination, 83; Schurz's tribute to, 143; Smith's hope concerning, 411; VI., remark of, describing how Sumner regarded difference of opinion, 286

Curtis, George William, VI., 403; claims the floor at the Chicago Convention of 1860, 404; destined for commercial pursuits, 406; joins the Brook Farm community, and later gives two years to study, 406; four years of travel, his literary work and style, 407; as a public-spirited citizen, 408; declined mission to England but accepts chairmanship of Civil Service Commission, 409; president, National Civil Service Reform League, reëlected from year to year, 410; left the Republican party when convinced it had grown corrupt, 411; political activity not allowed to interfere with editorial work, 412; his best work found in his orations and addresses, 413; the real patriot and patriotism, 415; proud of his country, 421

Dana, General, I., 254

Dana, Richard Henry, IV., extreme spoilsman, 474; VI., 285, 286

Davenport, IV., Republican nominee for governor of New York, 410, 411

Davidson, General, I., 293, 315

Davis, David, IV., 203

Davis, Garrett, II., 217

Davis, George W., I., 222 n.

Davis, Jefferson, I., 235, 438; II., 243, 244, 309, 340, 341; IV., 381, 383, 384, 438

Davis, Justice, IV., 174, 175, 187

Dawes, Henry L., II., 353; IV., case of the Ponca Indians, 60; to, 91, mentioned, 148

Day, William R., VI., purchase of the Philippines, 170

Death of a Child, On the, V., 37

Declaration of Independence, I., 3, 42, 58, 70, 91, et seq., 105, 233, 237; III., 26, 41, 241; IV., attributed to Franklin by France, 334; V., 505; VI., 10, 79 n., 152, 176, 180, 189, 215, 224, 232, 233, 236, 238, 253, 293, 361, 367, 375, 404, 405