To go still deeper, there is a no more mischievous idea than that all paper money should be redeemable in gold which should alone be legal-tender, because everybody knows that the amount of currency this country demands cannot by any possibility ever be redeemed by gold.
Woodhull warns against the idea that all paper money should be redeemable in gold, arguing it is impractical given currency demands.
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