Show SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE THEORY We suggest something to our great statesmen and eastern financiers Better hurry up and und gc get the finances fixed or the people at large will begin to move They will begin to sa say that the creature is becoming be be- 1 coming I greater creater than the creator in the estimation 1 x V of men lu Iu the beginning money was adopted as a 3 medium medium me me- of exchange and the value of it was estimated by b p the value of sheep and cattle Thus if a piece of of silver represented the value of a sheep and nd another an an- other oilier the value of or an ox and iud a third the value valne of a donkey instead of a man mans man's 8 exchanging a donkey for a few sheep and allI the slie sheep p for a bovine the theman theman man Dlan sold the sheep for certain pieces of the silver with the them bought the bovine then sold the bovine for far other ether pieces and with th them bought the donkeys 1 But Hut the pieces of silver represented m merely the different different dif dif- ferent values Tallies of the animals which were regulated by the tho amount of labor required to produce them as compared with the labor required to produce the silver As time went on and men needed the wherewithal to plant a crop or to buy stock to ea eai eat up a crop they went rent to the men who had the silver to obtain the needed medium with th which to do the 1 I work or buy the animals and were willing at harvest cst or when the cattle were sold to return twelve pieces for every ten that had been obtained This was the first banking this w was s the first interest st money that men pa paid d. d It was at that time that bankers began to make men work for them for they had caught the tho truth that in adroit hands men could make other men work for them and all the time be bo making more money moner than the workers After awhile governments discovered that the people who had most of if f these tokens representing values alues could triumph li over those who ho had bad none for with them they could get food for their armies and hire mercenaries mercenaries mer mer- to fight their theil battles So after awhile these tokens took on a new significance sig sig- all forms of property were ere made subordinate nate to them and those who had lu the tokens were the r real al thing Later still stilE when printing was invented values alues were were represented by proper receipts The They were called bills of exchange and cirel circulated freely because because be be- cause these bills were an order for so BO many tokens fokens which were on deposit somewhere So it went on until the functions of and p money property were changed hanged and the former became the real thing th though ugh men could not cat eat or wear it and the property prop- prop erty got to be looked looke upon as noth nothing ng g but a representative representative of a certain number of the tokens and was made to advance or recede in value according ling as ac the the tokens were plenty or or not Since then the tokens have been the real thing But on one truth has rema remained Jl d through Only a few men the tokens the masses of mankind I have had to con content ent themselves with supplying what I mankind eats cats and wears wears' and have h had d to exchange them for what the men of the tokens fixed their value valne at And these men ha have e sejin in the past five months that when the few few men with the tokens began began be be- gan to quarrel and get their tokens so confused and tied up that they could d no longer control them the themen men with th the real property were liable to starve be I be-I cause the medium of exchange was tied up and could not be relied upon that in that way vav it was possible to get the tokens in such confusion that a people might be stopped in full career and women an and men starve stare in the midst of e plenty And contemplating contemplating con con- this thi situation there are more asking asking ask ask- ing lug wh whether ther it would not be best to discard the tok tokens ms and rc resort ort to something else as a medium of exchange than were ever asking the question before and insisting in their own souls that the tokens tokens' ar are growing so few find and the property so vast vust that they no longer longcr serve the needed function as a means of f exchange and that the theory th-eory that a few men be- be causes they have the tokens can by y their knavery or imbecility so manipulate them as to throw thousands thou thou- sands of f men out of or employment and starve multi multi- t tildes of delicate women and little litHe children is a false I out and out |