was worth only about two cents. The demand for diamonds would become enormous, but as expressed in dollars a carat diamond would be a dollar. As expressed in purchasing power, it would buy fifty bushels of wheat. Wheat would be worth about two cents per bushel.
"Let me demonstrate. Say a one-carat diamond is now worth under a gold standard $25.00. If a carat diamond was adopted as the unit of value for our monetary system—one-carat declared by our law to be a dollar, and diamonds the only money of redemption, you would not say that a carat diamond was worth $25.00; but you would say that it was one dollar, or was worth one dollar.
![THE DIAMOND STANDARD.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Coin%27s_Financial_School_-_The_Diamond_Standard.png/400px-Coin%27s_Financial_School_-_The_Diamond_Standard.png)
THE DIAMOND STANDARD.
"As expressed in dollars and cents it would pull everything down with it. Wheat now worth fifty cents would be worth one twenty-fifth of fifty, or two cents.
"You could then make fun of gold as some of our papers are now doing with silver, and say that the gold in a gold dollar was only worth two cents. It could be urged as a reason for not remonetizing gold with as much force as the same argument is now used against remonetizing silver. [Applause.]