Every dollar paid by the Government, both the gold and the silver dollars of the Constitution, and their paper representatives, honest and unchanging in value and equal to every other.
George F. Hoar: “Every dollar paid by the Government, both the gold and the silver dollars of the Constitution, and their paper…”
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Hoar discusses the importance of honest currency in government transactions.
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