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The 'seven financial conspiracies' are the seven great pillars of our financial credit, the seven great financial measures by which the government was saved from the perils of war and by which the United States has become the most flourishing and prosperous nation in the world.
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John Sherman
Ohio

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Sherman defends key financial measures that contributed to the nation's prosperity.

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