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John Sherman: “Everybody is deeply interested in the standard of value by which we measure all the productions of the labor and all the…”

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Everybody is deeply interested in the standard of value by which we measure all the productions of the labor and all the wealth of mankind.
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John Sherman
Ohio

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Sherman emphasizes the importance of the standard of value in measuring wealth and labor.

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