This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...of silver weighing 412-J grains, nine-tenths fine, and worth only $39; and he can not by law obtain the value of the gold bullion for the hundred slugs of silver. Why should not the same creditor who has parted with his gold bullion lie compelled to accept 100 slugs of copper, worth $3.90, or 100 slugs of iron, worth ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...of silver weighing 412-J grains, nine-tenths fine, and worth only $39; and he can not by law obtain the value of the gold bullion for the hundred slugs of silver. Why should not the same creditor who has parted with his gold bullion lie compelled to accept 100 slugs of copper, worth $3.90, or 100 slugs of iron, worth 39 cents, or 100 strips of paper worth nothing, the same being irredeemable? Has the Government any more moral right to compel a man to accept 60 cents of fiat in a silver dollar than a hundred cents of fiat in colored paper? Does not the same moral law that compels the Government in good f:: ith to redeem its fiat obligation, written on paper, also compel it to redeem its fiat obligation stamped on silver? Any nation whoso commercial honor may be measured in gold, silver, copper, iron, or paper, according to the caprice of the hour, can not hope to become the clearing house of the world. The complete confidence of busine's men the earth around can only bo secured by retiring the demand obligations of the Government and making every silver dollar as good, under any and all circumstances, as a gold one. OUR DEMAND OBLIGATIONS MUST BE RETIRED. Gold is the one commodity that is now accepted everywhere for everything. Gold is now the only commodity that pays the balance due from one nation to another; that pays all the balances due to all nations from all nations. Gold, like all other commodities, will also go to the market where it will bring the best price; that is, where its tf.se will bring the highest price, for gold is not bought like any other commodity in the world for the purpose of consumption, but for its use alone for monetary purposes, without lessening or destroying appreciably the quantity--thousands of packages being sent from one co.
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