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1130. CAPITAL, Stock-jobbing and.—[continued].

The capital employed in
paper speculation is barren and useless, producing,
like that on a gaming table, no accession
to itself, and is withdrawn from commerce
and agriculture, where it would have
produced addition to the common mass.—
To President Washington. Washington ed. iii, 361. Ford ed., vi, 3.
(Pa., 1792)