The advocates of the exclusive..gold currency never say why there is an advantage in having only one metal as the money basis of the world. Reason says itis better to have gold, silver, and copper, to suit the needs of all classes of persons and all kinds of market bargains. Varieties of productions and manufactures ure more needed in commerce as time goes on. Gold, silver, and copper are substitutes for barter of commodities, and there is no sound basis for the idea that one metal only, a metal too, which is always becoming dearer to. buy, should be the only legal tender. How many transactions counting by millions it may be said, take place in @ year in China, England, und the United States, where copper and silver are paid by the purchaser for some equivalent? And they are legal tender within a certain limit. The governments ought to manufacture as many gold, silver, and copper coins as are required by commerce. This is the most convenient thing for the: trader,-and. government ought to
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