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
savage republics to the south of us!
This nation, whose chief magistrate is the embodiment of power never
dreamed of by the Caesars and Napoleons in their palmiest days! This
nation, that is impregnable against the combined armies of the world, is
being sapped and mined of its wealth under the very eyes of its
driveling lawmakers, and silver is becoming the badge of its humiliation
and inferiority!
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