With us bank issues constitute such a currency, and must ever do so until they are made dependent on those just proportions of gold and silver as a circulating medium which experience has proved to be necessary not only in this but in all other commercial countries.
Jackson argues that bank issues must be tied to gold and silver to ensure a stable currency.
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