Roger Sherman, A Caveat Against Injustice

The other day, I posted Roger Sherman's A Caveat Against Injustice, a proto-Austrian economics-type pamphlet advocating for a hard gold and silver currency and against paper money. Well, here's a scan of the original work itself, as it was originally published!

This is significant because, to quote Saussy (see the aforementioned post by me),

The reader of Madison's Notes on the Debates of the Convention would naturally infer that Sherman was prejudiced against paper money. But where is any material explaining why Sherman disliked paper money? None can be found. There's a black hole in history where Roger Sherman's monetary philosophy should be.

It's been estimated that there are more than 500 million copies in print of Karl Marx's Manifesto of the Communist Party and Das Kapital. How many billions of impressions of Marx's monetary philosophy have been etched into human consciousness nobody can calculate. He is celebrated as the founding father of the Communist movement and is regarded as one of the greatest thinkers of all time not only in the communist countries, but also in most American colleges and universities, where he is Required Reading in many sociology, history, economics, and philosophy courses. Karl Marx (1818-1883), of course, was a friend of paper money. He held that a central bank empowered to emit paper money and compel the people to use it was essential to government's control of individual property.

We don't have to estimate how many copies of Roger Sherman's only book there are in existence. There are considerably fewer than 500 million. In fact, there are only two. Only two copies of A Caveat Against Injustice left in the world. Think about it. Five hundred million that say paper money is good vs two that say paper money is evil.