substantial difference in the results.

History does not contain, the imagination cannot evolve, a more damnable
exhibition of incompetence than this failure of our scrub statesmen to
extricate their country from the clutch of its foreign masters.

Ruling one or the three principal gold producers of the world, they are
compelled to resort, to all the shifts known to the desperate bankrupt
in order to keep a few millions of it in the Treasury, and thereby save
our whole monetary system from going to the dogs. For let us not delude
ourselves; the moment the United States Treasury cannot give gold for
its greenbacks, that moment will the history of the greenback begin to
repeat itself. And we are not saving ourselves by making greenbacks lean
on silver. They cannot be made stronger than the thing they lean on.
Gold we must have as our standard.

We are in commercial relations with all nations, and the laws of trade
are inexorable, and say: You must have money that is acceptable to those
you buy from. Bring any other, and you can call the fifty cents it
contains one hundred, but your laws are for the United States only, and
you must accept the fifty cents or take back the mongrel that in your
own barnyard crows so loud, for the United States has induced a swindle
that she is powerless to enforce beyond her own borders.

No law is necessary to make us take gold. Just out of the mine or just
out of the mint, we want it - the whole world wants it.

Finance, if not as old as the hills, is at least pretty near as old as
the graves at the foot of them. There is nothing new to be learned
regarding her laws. And those laws do not shut out tin, copper, paper,