They insisted that every attempt to restore silver to its old place would be futile, and that the promise to make the attempt, under any circumstances, was juggling with the people, from which nothing but disaster and shame would follow.
Hoar warns against the futility of attempts to restore silver's value, predicting disaster from such promises.
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