"Later Carl Menger became the target of anti-Semitic attacks over his role in establishing the gold standard in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a member of the Austrian Currency Commission. The specific charge was that in promoting the gold standard Menger was working for “the Jewish haute finance” – just as the pro-

gold (Republican) party in the United States was – opposed by the “silverites” under the leadership of William Jennings Brian (of “the

crime of 1871” fame, whose plank to re-establish bimetallism in the United States was soundly defeated in the presidential election of 1896.)"