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Fourteen are hardbound (1 in cloth, the others quarter leather), the remaining in wrappers, self wrappers, or unbound. 

Important collection of booklets, pamphlets, and political speeches on one of the major issues of the latter half of the 19th century, the national currency of the United States, and how it was to be backed - gold, to benefit those that already had it? silver, to flow freely to those who did not? or some combination of the two. The "free silver" debate pitted the pro-gold financial establishment of the Northeast, along with railroads, factories, and businessmen, who were creditors deriving benefit from deflation and repayment of loans with valuable gold dollars, against farmers who would benefit from higher prices for their crops and a lightening of credit burdens. 

A few examples:

• Silver: An Issue of International Politics. By S. Dana Horton. Cincinnati: 1886.
• Bryan's Currency Creed: A Full Exposure of His Economoc Vagaries... Chicago: 1894.
• Money. Speech of Hon. John P. Jones of Nevada on the free coinage of silver. Washington: 1891.
• Proceedings at the Mass Meeting of Citizens... on National Finances... New York: 1874.
• Bi-Metallism vs. A Single Gold Standard for Money. Address of H. L. Bradford Prince of New Mexico. Kansas Cith, MO: 1895.
• Sir Isaac Newton and Wngland's Prohibitive Tariff upon Silver Money. Cincinnati: 1881.
• Some Strictures on an Axt to Provide a National Currency. Boston: 1863.
• Currency or Money; Nature and Uses, and the effects of the circulation of bank-notes for currence. By a Merchat of Boston. Boston: 1855. 
• Remarks on Currency and Banking... By Nathan Appleton. Boston: 1857.
• Coinage of Silver. Speech of Hon. John T. Morgan, of Alabama, in the Senate... Washington: 1893.
• The Silver Question. By Wm. M. Stewart. San Francisco: 1885. 
• An Argument in favor of Honesdt Money and Reddmable Currency, by Thomas M. Nichol. Chicago: 1878.