Base Coin Exposed, Being the Arrest, Exposure and Confession of W. H. H. Money, and the Dismissal of the So-Called Coin's Financial School. (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX COIN'S FINANCIAL FOOL BY HORACE WHITE EDITOR NEW YORK EVENING POST. I propose to examine with some thoroughness a book of 155 pages, entitled "Coin's Financial School." INTRODUCTION. "Coin," it should be premised, is a youth about twelve years of age who opens a school to teach grown men the science of finance. This a piece of clap-trap. The science of finance does not come by nature, as reading and writing came to Dogberry, and it is not particularly "catching." It requires a considerable amount of study. The suggestion here thrown out that a boy can drop his marbles and spinning-tops and deliver valuable lectures on this science is likely to prove captivating, however, to persons who would be glad to acquire it without any antecendent effort, although they would not attempt to play on the bones at a minstrel show without previous practice. They may not perceive the inherent absurdity of taking lectures on this abstruse subject from a boy of twelve, although they would not take his advice on the subject of shoeing a horse. THE ONE-LEGGED MAN. The book is largely made up of pictorial illustrations which, of course, cannot be answered. If anybody is deluded 'Reprinted by kind percussion of the author. in a financial discussion by a picture of a man with only one leg, his delusion may, perhaps, be cured by telling him that the single standard of silver is just as one-legged as the single standard of gold. The object of u Coin's Financial School" is to bring about the free coinage of silver at a legal ratio of 16 to 1 by the action of this country alone. As the market ratio of the two metals is 32 to 1, it is evident that this country cannot make sixteen ounces of silver equal in value to one ounce of gold when the whole world is offering thirty-two...