Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore by Robert H. (Robert Henry) Elliot
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The measure has arrayed all classes against the Government, except its own servants and a very few of the merchants. The effects of the measure on the tea-planters of India and Ceylon. It must heavily affect both. If Ceylon establishes a mint, tea-planters there will have advantages over their rivals in India. Coffee planters of India and Ceylon will he prejudicially affected in their competition with silver-using countries. Evil effects of the measure on the trade, manufactures, and railways of India. The measure rotten from financial, political, and economical points of view. The Viceroy and the supporters of the measure have admitted that it must be injurious to the producers of India. Sir William Hunter's admirable survey of the former and present financial condition of India. The Viceroy has publicly declared that cheap silver has acted as "a stimulus" to the progress of India. The unfair action of Lord Herschell's Committee. Not a single representative of the producing classes examined. But the majority of witnesses were dead against the monetary policy of the Government. The Currency Committee reported against the weight of the evidence. The most important points not inquired |
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