Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1889 — Decimal Coinage in England. [ARTICLE]

Decimal Coinage in England.

During the last few years renewed attention h ;s been directed in England to the decimal system of coinage and weights pfid measures. the adoption of which was strongly urged in that counts ry nearly four decades ago. The change from the present to the decimal system would undoubtedly be a desirable one in the abstract, for the reason, among others, that most of the nations of the world have adopted decimal systems, and this fact was recognized by a parliamentary committee appointed to consider the question as far back as 1363. The movement in favor of the adoption of the system has not; however, gained much in force until quite recently. The English are a conservative people, and there are undoubted difficulties to be met in making the change. The use of a decimal system of weights and measures has been made permissive in Engl nd, but no general disposition to take advantage of the permission has been shown. The question has, however, been brought prominently before the public of late, and there are signs that the movement in favor of the adoption of the decimal system will be pushed. Among the indications of this kind is the formation of a decimal association, whose object it is to secure the adoption of a decimal system of notations in money, weights and measures.