Chapter 9.
A TWO-FOLD REMEDY REQUIRED.
As already indicated, I believe that the remedy is necessarily two-fold :
First, and
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and serve as
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In order to completely accomplish the latter, we will have to cease monetizing gold, silver, or
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and cancel the certificate. But we have a complete, and
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The owners of gold claim that it has an intrinsic value which makes it the most practicable commodity to use as
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jim thorpe national bank a means of exchange without making it legal tender. The Government could still st the owners of gold ask anything more, they, in effect, admit that it becomes more valuable with the legal tender privilege than without. They would not demand it if that were not true. It cannot be made legal tender except by governmental act. A governmental act is the act of the people and
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Everything would automatically and
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The illustrations that I have given serve only
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the food loss in wheat, would command 20,500 in commercial value. It naturally follows that the commercial value of the three cereals measured with each other alone, would total the same, or
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kish bank and the same). The same would be true of a decrease of or
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