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COIN'S FINANCIAL SCHOOL.
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of value, gold enjoyed free coinage, and was legal tender in the payment of all debts. Now things have changed. Gold is the unit and silver does not enjoy free coinage.

THE PEN MORE POWERFUL THAN THE SWORD.
THE PEN MORE POWERFUL THAN THE SWORD.

THE PEN MORE POWERFUL THAN THE SWORD.

It is refused at the mints. We might get along with gold as the unit, if silver enjoyed the same right gold did prior to 1873. But that right is now denied to silver. When silver was the unit, the unlimited demand