The labor which the people of this country are capable of performing, then, is the real basis upon which money should be formulated, and, as in practice, the results generally are annual in their return, this basis should be measured by all they can produce annually.
Woodhull asserts that the labor capacity of the people should form the basis for currency formulation, linking economic value to productivity.
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