A gold rush is what happens when a line of chorus girls spot a man with a bank roll. Thinking to get at once all the gold that the goose could give, he killed it, and opened it only to find - nothing. There are about three hundred economists in the world who are against gold, and they think that gold is a barbarous relic - and they might be right. Unfortunately, there are three million inhabitants of the world who believe in gold. Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
Piety is vanquished and all men worship gold.
Gold has banished faith, gold has made judgement to be bought and sold, gold rules the law, and, law once gone, rules chastity as well. Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite. Regardless of the dollar price involved, one ounce of gold would purchase a good-quality man's suit at the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, and today. Gold is pale because it has so many thieves plotting against it. Gold were as good as twenty orators.