Victoria C. Woodhull: “Now, what we require is a measure of values of just as fixed and…”

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Now, what we require is a measure of values of just as fixed and absolute a character as any of these.

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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull expresses the need for a stable measure of value that is as fixed as standard units of measurement.

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A fact isolated from all connections loses its significance.

Gold is relatively valuable for the general uses it can be made to subserve; so, too, and only so, are all other products.

In such a condition of things, courts of justice, with all their attendant judges, bailiffs and attorneys-at-law, would find their occupation gone.

Every thinking person knows that no such persons or principles are in authority now, and that they have not been these many years.

Victoria C. Woodhull: “Now, what we require is a measure of values of just as fixed and absolute a character as any of these.”