Observations on the present export of silver to the East

Abstract

Unlike the old movement of silver to the East, the present cannot be permanent. The former was rarely more than might be accounted for as the distribution of that metal to some of its principal customers? the nations of the East?according as fresh supplies were raised in the silver producing countries. But now silver is going faster to the East than it is produced throughout the entire world, and therefore the process cannot go on long, but must come to an end as soon as the redistribution of the old stock has been effected.