2. The Crux of the Plan is to keep the dollar from shrinking in worth by making it grow in weight, or vice versa. Thus the gold greenback would keep near the products-dollar; every other dollar (the paper dollar and the deposit dollar) being redeemable, directly or indirectly, within the gold greenback, could be equivalent thereto. If this basket prices 1%, or 1 cent, more than a greenback, 1% extra gold is added to the greenback. They require repressive pressure, whereas stabilizing the dollar can be easy.