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Charles Sumner: “Against the movement for contraction, which is commended by its simplicity and its tendency to a normal condition of…”

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Against the movement for contraction, which is commended by its simplicity and its tendency to a normal condition of things, we have two adverse policies,--one, the stand-still policy, and the other, worse yet, the policy of inflation.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner critiques both the stand-still and inflationary policies regarding currency management.

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