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'There, people of wide experience would say, 'There goes the sallowest bimetallist in Cheshire. Once this was said so that he overheard it: it was said by an actuary, under a sunset of mauve and grey. Polycarp turned upon him. 'Sallow! he cried fiercely, 'sallow! Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditione querentes. It was said that no actuary ever made game of Dr. Polycarp again."
He begins the discussion by going over the same ground as Aristotle in demonstrating the origin and utility of money, and then proceeds to discuss the most suitable materials which can be made to serve as money. He decides in favour of gold and silver, and shows himself an unquestioning bimetallist.
Thus Midas fell into a fallacy about the currency; and soon had reason to become something more than a Bimetallist. Thus Macbeth had a fallacy about forestry; he could not see the trees for the wood. He forgot that, though a place cannot be moved, the trees that grow on it can.
Even the hardiest bimetallist cannot be got to think of his hobby in the face of the dread news just heard. By the time Mr. Gladstone has given his answers, Mr. Balfour has managed to slightly recover himself, and has framed a question to the Old Man. When at last the question does come, it is of a very innocent character.
Now Howard Vincent is known to all men as one of the people who speak in season and out of season, when once they mount their hobby. The other day I heard of a bimetallist who was so fond of discussing bimetallism that the railway carriage, in which he went to town every morning, was always left vacant for him; nobody could stand him any longer.
Seyd was a writer, a man of good reputation, and a bimetallist. In a letter to Mr. Hooper, which is still in existence, and which is printed in the Congressional Record, Seyd condemned the demonetization of the silver dollar. His letter was dated at London, February 17, 1872. The second charge was secrecy. The answer to this charge was to be found in historical facts. The evidence is this: Mr.
"I saw the point," said Barker, somewhat loftily. "Do you know," said Quin, with a sort of idiot gaiety, "I have lots of stories as good as that. Listen to this one." And he slightly cleared his throat. "Dr. Polycarp was, as you all know, an unusually sallow bimetallist.
"Silver man, I see," he said, nervously, smiling. "No," said I, taking the lock of golden hair from my pocket and dangling it before him. "Bimetallist." His jaw dropped in dismay, but recovering himself instantly he put up a fairly good fight. "It is strange, Mr. Lohengrin," said I, "that in the three years I have been here I've never seen you before." "I've been very quiet," he said.
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