Download or read book Paper Against Gold written by William Cobbett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Paper Against Gold: Or the History and Mystery of the Bank of England, of the Debt, of the Stocks, of the Sinking Fund, and of All the Other Tricks and Contrivances, Carried on by the Means of Paper Money Tan time is now come, when every man in this kingdom ought to make himself, if possible, well acquainted with all matters belonging to the paper-money System. It is that System, which has mainly contributed towards our present miseries; and, indeed, without that System those miseries never could have existed in any thing approaching towards their present degree. In all countries, where a paper-money, that is to say, a aper which could not, at any moment, be converted into (gold and Silver, has ever existed; in all countries, where this has been the case, the consequence, first or last, has always been great and general misery, and, in most such cases, such misery has been productive of that confusion and bloodshed, which I most anxiously hope will be prevented, in this instance, by timely measures of a just and conciliator character, and by the good' sense, patience, and fortitude o the people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.