| Show OF CURRENCY SIR M is quoted as saying that the business enterprises of this steam and electric age of manufactured values and commercial exchanges have made the currency of the country utterly incapable of meeting the demands of trade ho is corrected in his theory abc present the currency of the country is not nearly large enough to meet the demands of our busy age wo have in the united states only about 23 per capita which is too small a sum altogether we think the demand of tho farmers alliances that the currency of the country be doubled is not too extravagant though we realize that too much currency would do more harm than good money should be equal to the trade of a nation in and of itself money is not wealth b it the means wherewith wealth is measure dand a scarcity of tie same is bound to prove dasas arous trous to trade if we had no money it might not stop the increase of wealth the farmer could abill sow and reap and the blacksmith might baill beat his iron into plowshares yet if money were lacking it would inter fore with the sale of both the products of the farm and the implements ducts of the farm and the implements j of the shop it would do it in this way the mechanic would have to take wheat haul it to the mill to be ground and otherwise spend his time in unprofitable employment with the measure of his work in money he could go to tho miller whenever it suited his convenience or spend his labor in which other way he might feel disposed furthermore ath money as the measure of wealth and wealth is the product of labor the mechanic would not have his market confined to ahe small num ber of farmers from whom he might directly obtain tho product s of their toil if his own market were supplied then he could ship his wares abroad and receive back the measure of wealth from others too far distant to pay wheat the same would hold true 1 n every instance with regard to the pio duce ot the farmer these simple show us the part that money plays in modern trade the evil effect of having no monay atall is ore easily dem in the same apropo uon too Bi nallan amount of currency has its evils effects on trade |
