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Not only is there now no joint action taken by these nations to place and keep silver on an equality with gold, according to existing standards, but it has been by the treatment it has received from European nations greatly lessened in commercial value.
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John Sherman
Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Sherman discusses the diminishing value of silver due to lack of international support for its parity with gold.

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