# The gold standard

Author: White, Horace, 1834-1916

Genre: Currency question

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78364

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+gold+standard+White&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The most impressive fact in the world of finance is the dominance of the gold standard. A year or two ago Roumania passed under its sway, to-day it is Austria, next year or soon it will be India, by and by it will be Russia, and meanwhile it has lost no ground that it has ever held. Three international conferences have been assembled to stay this conquering march, while none has been called to promote or assist it. Yet the movement has been as little impeded as that of an ocean steamer would be by the action of a debating society in its own cabin. Is all this due to human perversity, or has it a rational cause founded in the needs of mankind?

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gold-standard-78364/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gold-standard-78364/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gold-standard-78364/chapters/3/index.md)