Bimetallism could only exist where the market value of the two metals approached the coinage value, or where a strong government, with a good credit, received and paid out coins of each metal at parity with each other.
Sherman defines the conditions necessary for bimetallism to exist, emphasizing the need for parity between gold and silver.
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It is not in my blood and these gentlemen cannot put it there.
Our gold dollar is certainly as good a unit of value as the franc; and so the English think of their pound sterling.
We have done no wrong; we have no apologies to make, and no concessions to offer.
How can we avert a calamity at which humanity and civilization shudder?
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