rags, nails, or silver from being used as money as long as it is
agreeable to the interested. But the wisdom of the world comes from her
experience, and if she calls for gold money it is because she has never
found a better. All other kinds fade before it as fades the moon before
the rising sun.

There is but one central orb in the world's monetary systems, and that
is Gold. And its satellites, paper or silver, will never be able to get
out of their orbits where the fixed and unalterable laws of the world's
financial systems have placed them. Temporary disturbances may deceive
the searcher, but he has mistaken his calling who cannot distinguish
planets from the sun around which they are moving.

The different governments of Europe, that are not gold producers, have
gold as the basis of their monetary systems, and, what is more, the gold
is there. The United States, that is a gold producer, would also have it
as the basis of its monetary system, but this nation, the one
independent nation that is all extensive and the leading producer of the
metal that the enlightened world approves of as making the best of all
moneys, cannot retain enough of it to give future stability to her own
currency.

This nation, the greatest of to-day, or any day!

This nation, that has given more to the rest of the world than it has
ever received!

This nation - of all others on this earth - must be content with the
money of the enslaved East Indian coolie; must be content with the money
of the decaying Chinaman; must be content with the money of the half