Show THE MONEY QUESTION The following communication comm was addressed to lo the NEWS by G 0 B De DeBernard DeBernardi Bernardi editor of ot the Labor or Lax Exchange change Independence Mo under date of ot the Editor Deseret New News My fellow citizen and friend E Peter Peter- Peterson Peter sou son Bon has kindly handed me a copy ot of the NEWS of ot the fast in which I read with deep interest the article on Home Industry Therein you yott lay down the indus rial condition of the age I I may flay of the ages ageg and give us its remedy The industries h have Ve cally periodically been and are ate today in a deadlock for lack Jack at ot sad and one of your your institutions has dem dem demonstrated if Utah needed such de den dem demonstration how such cruel ab- ab absurdity absurdity ab absurdity and disgrace di grace to the intelligence of f stigmatize those responsible for it it ita ar a you stig stig- it if itcan can be averted As soon as the accepted the tt-e products product ot of their work in compensation relief began to be extended through a circle much larger than that composed of them and their families and the institution is now in a flourishing condition Then you exclaim Where would Utah be today if her working people in the early years of her settlement had refused to 10 labor for any anything but cash The Utah we now see lee ee would not be in existence I am republishing an humble bumble work of page pages to demonstrate what you do in ina ina i a snort short newspaper article Hence the deep in erest I felt felt in reading it But Bot the fact tact that such soch demonstration should be b needed in Utah strikes me forcibly Its very Tery foundation o 0 to be a living demonstration forever I discover diac ver but two points in said arti- arti article arti article Onis eis cle which saddened me somewhat O One On e is the apology for the article itself the theother other Is la the apparent gratification you seem to manifest that the ion ca soon became able to pay more cash Alas the cash It has proven The root of all evils the world over It has been and is the most intense idolatry of the human race It has In all ages and all countries smoked the workers out of the hive and carried the honey to the drones It would have filled Utah tah with pov pov- erty poverty and degradation from the early earl year years of its settlement by hy should such an element of ot destruction be de- de desired de desired desired sired A people peo le have turned a desert into a Garden of Eden the tb advent of money in Ut Utah h like lika the ser ser- serpent ser serpent r- r pent of old will turn that Garden of o Eden into a desert of want and woe Yes modern civilization will ye yet learn o something lethin about finance not however rom Om the ancient atad extinct l t from the modern first nt 04 o tab h oh but bum I I tear leer the lesson wilt will have ave t ta t f I a come through deadlocks deadlock poverty And suffering Though I stale Itale and tiresome I hope you will continue this theme in the NEWS G B DEBERNARDI The foregoing is II accompanied by several leveral copies of the publication of 01 which Mr De Bernardi Bernard is editor and Judging from their contents he is ie en- en engaged en engaged in advocating a co co operative organization whose aim is to dispense with money entirely f and aDd effect ex ex- ex ex chauges between producer prod and con con- consumer consumer con con- consumer sumer without It by a system of tokens of value to be agreed upon and Issued and accepted by the members mem In publishing the article from which our quotes it was not the Intention of ot the NEWS to enter upon a discussion of ot the time intricacies and metaphysics of ot the money ques- ques question ques tion tion This paper takes the position tb that at the existing fiscal systems system practices practices tices and Institution institutions of ot m mankind are aU all wrong from the root They are unjust t oppressive aud and unnatural They fhay clash Incessantly and at every turn with true and elementary prin prin- principles principles They make of ot every man a toe foe to Instead of ot a friend of ot his bis fellowmen I They add immeasurably to the dim dim- difficulty difficulty culty of ot procuring the necessaries comforts and luxuries of life Ute Most ot of the strife and crime of ot the world are traceable to them directly or indirect indirect- indirectly indirectly indirectly ly aud and relief from their evils would produce a state akin to redemption from the effects of the tall fall of Adam But ut this paper does noes not lend itself to tae ad advocacy of ot any of ot the plans ot of fiscal or monetary reform which are being promulgated by various writers thinkers classes and or organizations in inthis this bis and other countries It does not plc place confidence in the merits nor ulti ulti- ultimate ultimate mate success s of ot any of them As Aa aU all of the religious teachers and bodies ot of the age were in error and to a greater or lead Jests extent destitute of at the true plan of salvation until that know knowledge ledge was wae wa restored through the ministry of ot an angel to the great modern mO Prophet J Jeseph also alIa are all the would would- Would Would-be be be- financial reformers of ot the world at sea lea without a comp compass compass and revelation rota God Gud is III the only means meane by which man can be redeemed from the fiscal evils under w which bleh he labors labora and suffers suf- suf terse fers While pro proper er legislation and the right kind of organizations among the working o classes see may result in ing mitigating those evils somewhat a complete redemption from them t em can be accomplished pushed only by 17 the same ame means that mu must t be adopted to relieve rHeve the race ot of other consequences of ef the fall taU of man maD VIZ obedience to the will of lit the Cre Cre- Creator Creator Creator ator as revealed through Hie His Prophets In ancient and aDd modern times time To the Latter day Saints has beet beel communicated by revelation from God at least leut a partial knowledge of ot the plan and principles by the carrYing out of which the race will be redeemed from its present miserable condition In respect to money and that which money procures But time and Dod the co- co cooperating cooperating co cooperating operating providence Of or the Almighty Will be required to put in iu practical operation a system based upon that plan and those t principles In the interim the NEWS advocates opera co-opera lon Uon in every form under which man manee suk seeks eke by intelligent nt effort effort 0 o benefit himself im eU pd his bis man fellow ao and I ler I-ler easier tp to to live Ue cot and d i PP H on the earth eist a b I it i d This paper h has always alway been ly especial especial- especially ly 11 earnest In ad advocating the manu manu- manufacture manu facture within the community of all the commodities that the community consumes as ae far tar as possible and the be consumption by the people of the art arti- arti articles cles oles produced in their midst rather r than those which are imported These t two o propositions inter Inter and they are natural truths which must be put in practice and adhered to toby toby toby by any people that would become truly and permanently wealthy and inde inde- independent independent independent pendent In connection with them U It may be said eaid that the use of ot money in carrying them out is to facilitate asa as exchange between producer and con con- consumer consumer con consumer sumer and that any substitute for tor money that will do this as well is to Co thi this extent at least just as good as money In many towns in Utah the people have established operative co-operative organizations organizations organizations and for tor their own convenience have issued scrip crip which has circulated as money While there generally ha have beEn disadvantages connected with the scrip system in this region its III benefit benefits have bave more than offset them when U It has not been subjected to abuses that were avoidable and in many instances great good has been accomplished by a JUdicious issue and use of it But ex- ex experience ex experience has haa shown that such ucb issue and aDd use must be limited d and guarded and aDd must be w wisely eely controlled or financial disaster ter may ensue One of ot the main malo propositions ODD con conveyed con con- conveyed in the editorial front which Mr De Bernardi quotes was as that the workers In our home manu manu- manufacturing manufacturing Institutions ought to tie be willing to receive at least iu p part rt pay payment pay pay- payment ment of their wages wager the products of their own labor or su h other kinds of pay as Could be obtained Dell bj bt by t exchange instead of ot insisting upon cash bast It Is Ii a curious fact tact exem exemplified in many maDY mutes that dan can be bt cited In this cU city that mein w whose bose wages walles have ba ve for tor years yean been be D In trade are better oft off today than i imen men of ot similar classes and habits Who have always bad their earnings til cash While cash is commonly con con- considered COB far tar more desirable n nIt it eyIe is far tar more difficult to save BaVe Mo Money ey is Ie a most mOlt elusive and illusory thing but bread bread meat anti anu clothing ar are not ot Mon Money is easily squandered kinds of ot pay are not Dot hence bones the great advantage to lu favor of the latter latter-an latter an advantage which hun hun- hundreds hundreds of ot families tam Illes to whom we might refer reler in this city and Territory cannot be Insensible to because in t their own experience it has been continually exemplified |