[5. In his essay] Can Gold Producers Survive By Promoting Jewelry?, ... At the end of the day, to revive the fortunes of the gold producers, it is necessary and sufficient to restore gold as the choice of free markets and free people all over the world as money that doesn’t depreciate at home or abroad; as money that is as steady as the stars; as money that is as faithful as the tides or, as the American Federation of Labor put it at the turn of the last century: ’Gold is the standard of every great civilization.’