It does not matter how this plain statement may be twisted and bent by the alluring sophistries and glittering generalities of the protectionist; a plain statement, viewed with clear light, needs no authoritative sanction to determine its truth.
Woodhull asserts that clear truths do not require validation from authority, regardless of opposing arguments.
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Gold is relatively valuable for the general uses it can be made to subserve; so, too, and only so, are all other products.