We demand that this policy be abandoned, and that the volume of currency be made and kept equal to the wants of trade, leaving the restoration of legal tenders to par with gold, to be brought about by promoting the industries of the people and not by destroying them.
Sherman demands a change in financial policy to ensure that currency volume meets trade needs, advocating for economic growth over destruction.
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It seems to me that in the present condition of our finances there is no necessity for conferring these large powers on the Secretary of the Treasury.
It was the same old story of injustice and wrong, of might against right.
You can arrest this movement, and you alone can do it.
The legality of this legislature was denied by the great majority of the people who never acquiesced in or obeyed its enactments, thus taking the only course open to them to secure a lawful government.
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