Show JOHN SHERMAN BEFORE HIS DOTAGE in the united states senate april alth 1876 pleading for the silver dollar senator sherman said the utter ruin that would come to mankind especially ally to the poorer na nations eions by the entire of silver cannot be estimated by us take one half of the solid money of the world out of existence take the sole standard of more than two thirds of the human race reduce it to a base metal and the effect upon the commerce of the world would be incalculable it cannot be done it will not be done these two metals have traveled side by side from the beginning of time the records of human history do not go back to a time where they did not move together they have varied in value sometimes one and sometimes sometime es the other being higher but they have gone on gold the money of the rich silver the money wealth the other to measure the acquired of the poor the one to measure dally daily necessities of life and sir no act of parliament although it may disturb for a moment the relations of these two metals to each other nothing but the act of god can destroy the use of both of them by mankind |