02591cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000300012624500220015626400510017830000470022933600260027633700260030233800360032850000310036450802100039552014110060553400710201665300220208765300180210985600640212785600430219199900190223478364UtSlPG20260610134821.0mcr n260607r20261893utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a06005506  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aHG1 aWhite, Horace,d1834-191614aThe gold standard 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-04-05  aCharlene Taylor, Daniel Lowe, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)  aThe gold standard by Horace White is an economic essay and historical sketch written in the late 19th century. It examines monetary systems and policy, arguing for the single gold standard over bimetallism. The likely topic is how gold became the dominant standard across major nations and why it would endure.

The work surveys England’s shift from a troubled double standard to legal gold monometallism, the United States’ move from early bimetallism to a de facto gold basis after 1834 and its formalization in 1873, and Germany’s post-1871 reform, all driven by silver’s bulk and market instability. It traces France’s path from the 1803 silver-based law to practical bimetallism, the gold influx of the 1850s, the Latin Monetary Union, and the 1873–76 closure of mints to silver; Belgium, Holland, and Austria followed similar trajectories. The author rejects claims that Germany caused silver’s collapse, portrays gold’s rise as a natural evolution reflecting commercial preference, and explains the failure of international bimetallic efforts. He argues against turning back, contends that falling prices mainly stem from productivity, not gold scarcity, disputes the idea that mortgages and public debts are unjustly burdened, and defends the 1873 coinage reform against charges that it “unwittingly” stripped the public of a right. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: Evening Post Publishing Co., 1893  aCurrency question  aGold standard4 uhttps://archive.org/details/goldstandardhowi00whit/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78364  c119084d119084