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With such a lesson before us it is futile to attempt to conduct the business of a great country like ours with coin alone.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “With such a lesson before us it is futile to attempt to conduct the business of a great country like ours with coin…”
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Sherman argues that a nation cannot effectively operate using only coin as currency.
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