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| | Senator Jones, Gold Silver standard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | The standards of the various principal countries of the occidental world previous to 1865 were either of silver, as in Germany, Holland, Scandinavia, &c., or of gold and silver equally, as in France, Spain, the United States, Belgium, &c. |
 | | With a double standard wisely fixed, all the moderately large payments would be made in gold and all the smaller ones in silver, just as for moderately large quantities of liquids the oaken hogshead is employed and for smaller ones the tin gallon. |
 | | The violent aberrations in the annual supplies of gold, the steadiness of silver, the often deficient and sometimes excessive supplies of the one, and the always ample supplies of the other forbid us to rely upon one as a standard of value to the exclusion of the other, and particularly when that one is gold. |
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