Excerpt from What Shall Our Paper Currency Be? And What Shall Be the Solution of the Silver Problem?: How an Unlimited Quantity of Silver May Be Used as Money, The Currency Systems of Leading European CountriesThere is but one means to give such confidence in the currency and that is to make the government responsible for its redemption. Any other currency scheme, no matter how plausible, will be unsatisfactory.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.