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it is this day; and this circulation, moreover, is of 

 money every dollar of which is at par with gold. 

 Now, our having this sound currency system is of 

 benefit to banks, of course, but it is of infinitely 

 more benefit to the people as a whole, because of the 

 healthy effect on business conditions. 



In the same way, whatever is advisable in the way 

 of remedial or corrective currency legislation and 

 nothing revolutionary is advisable under present 

 conditions must be .undertaken only from the 

 standpoint of the business community as a whole, 

 that is, of the American body politic as a whole. 

 Whatever is done, we can not afford to take any 

 step backward or to cast any doubt upon the cer- 

 tain redemption in standard coin of every circu- 

 lating note. 



Among ourselves we differ in many qualities of 

 body, head and heart; we are unequally developed, 

 mentally as well as physically. But each of us has 

 the right to ask that he shall be protected from 

 wrongdoing as he does his work and carries his 

 burden through life. No man needs sympathy be- 

 cause he has to work, because he has a burden to 

 carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers 

 is the chance to work hard at work worth doing; 

 and this is a prize open to every man, for there 

 can be no work better worth doing than that done 

 to keep in health and comfort and with reasonable 

 advantages those immediately dependent upon the 

 husband, the father, or the son. 



