The facts existing have only to be considered to prove that our financial system is unsound, and this should be sufficient to force our legislation to take up the question, and to handle it in the light of the demands of the present, utterly regardless of the superstition that has so long existed about the gold idol.
Woodhull argues that the unsoundness of the financial system should prompt legislative action to address current demands rather than outdated beliefs.
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Charity, with its long cloak of justice escaped, has long enough covered a multitude of sins.
It is well enough to cry peace when war rages, but the crying will not bring it.
Gold is relatively valuable for the general uses it can be made to subserve; so, too, and only so, are all other products.
To do so carries no conviction nor prophetic knowledge of what must be next, as a necessary sequence.