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Seventh, such a lowering of the exchange rate will eventually become dangerous, with regard to foreigners, who now hold considerable amounts of our bank deposit-receipts, the debentures of the Paymaster General’s Office, with the acceptances of the Bank, or the bonds of private individuals in daler kmt, all of which, after the passage of a certain number of years, will be paid for with twice the number of riksdaler when the rate has reached 36 mark compared to what they actually represented at the time of issue, whereby foreigners, apart from the interest, will claim 100 per cent of our assets in return for nothing, causing an irremediable loss to the country.
In addition, this opens the door to foreign merchants for a new form of speculation, during such a scarcity of money as must exist among us, that of investing considerable sums of riksdaler in our trading houses against bonds made payable in daler kmt, at the current exchange rate, as they will within a few years, in the same manner as described above, gather in twice the number of riksdaler for their promissory notes before the sum of daler is fully repaid.
That such speculation does occur is all the less to be doubted, as it has in fact already frequently been engaged in previously,
although at great risk, when the exchange rate has suddenly shot up. Foreigners risk far less if the Government itself lays out such a road, and if the shortage of money compels us to seek loans, even if they were to be provided on the harshest terms.
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