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Mining and Commercial Mexico
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impatience as the result of ignorance. "The public," he says, "have the idea that the old paper has no value because merchants refuse to receive it in payment for goods. Men of business" he goes on to say, "use the Government's old money, but they do not wish that they should be paid in it. The merchants," he says, "are giving the people a false impression of the value of the old currency." It is a pretty financial muddle, and would tax the abilities of a Law or a McKenna to unravel.
