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Victoria C. Woodhull: I am not going into this discussion to prove to you that gold is not money, since everybody ought to know that it has no…

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I am not going into this discussion to prove to you that gold is not money, since everybody ought to know that it has no more the properties of money than cotton, corn and pork have the properties of money.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull challenges the notion that gold should be considered money.

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