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  • Source:
    Nation. 9/23/1897, Vol. 65 Issue 1682, p234-237. 4p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      PRACTICAL politics; UNITED States politics & government; AFRICAN Americans; POLITICAL parties; COINAGE
    • Subject Terms:
      UNITED States; SPAIN
    • Abstract:
      The article presents news related to political and economic issues around the world as of September 23, 1897. Three recent occurrences in the South illustrate very clearly the apparently insuperable difficulties which the Republicans encounter in their attempts to build up the party in that section of the Union. The first was the appointment of a Louisiana Negro as Naval Officer at New Orleans; the second, the demand of Baltimore Negroes for representation on the Republican legislative ticket, and its refusal by the party; and the third, the attempt to assassinate a Negro post-master in a Georgia village on account of his color. Historian Mr. Henry C. Lea of Philadelphia has an interesting article in the last number of the Popular Science Monthly on "Spanish Experiments in Coinage," which is full of suggestion for bimetallists. It appears, according to Mr. Lea, that the Spanish Government was engaged from 1537 for the next two hundred years, in attempts to keep copper, silver, and gold at ratios fixed by the state, independently of the market value of the metals.