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Surely each commercial nation should be willing to yield a little to secure a gold coin of equal value, weight, and diameter, from whatever mint it may have been issued.
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Sherman advocates for a unified gold standard among nations to facilitate international trade.
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But, sir, I have no hope, while this House is constituted as it is now, of instituting any radical reform.
Some of you broke down the only political organization that could compete with us, and thus gave us an easy victory.
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