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I want a currency that is stable and safe in the hands of our people. I will not knowingly be implicated in a condition that will make me in the least degree answerable to any laborer or farmer in the United States for a shrinkage in the purchasing power of the dollar he has received for a full dollars worth of work or a full dollars worth of the product of his toil.

from a 1893 letter to Gov. W. J. Northern