The gold standard, by Horace White 78364 [Subtitle: How it came into the world and why it will stay. A historical sketch with some practical reflections thereon.] [Author: Horace White] [Link: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78364] note: link will be active within two hours of posting. Thanks to Charlene Taylor, Daniel Lowe, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Regards, Al