Show WHAT IS IT what is anything I 1 dont mean what it may ruay do or mav may be done by 1 nor what a are re its attributes etc but what is it made of what are its essential constituents certainly these or this must be something or things without which the thing itself could not possibly be I 1 ask bior for example what is money this is is a thing about which there is a great uproar and dispute the thin thing itself is so necessary to our life here here that in truth life is not v orth living without it and it is impossible to regulate the subject properly unless we know what it really is society is diseased and thousands are perishing for want of a little money money suicides murders frauds of al all I 1 kinds are daily dune done for mon money ey or its want let a nitin man on any crowded street show a hand full fill of money and hundreds hundred of eves eyes glare at him envious enviously lv and ten to one he will be spotted followed waylaid or murdered for the money it is horrible mankind are naturally kind and sympathetic but let a famishing child enter a provision store and ask for bread where is your money is is the reply A small bit of metal or paper is the passport to life without it you go down into the dark ways of death therefore this is the grbac question of all others what is money usury and monopoly declare it is is a precious metal rare seam scarce and a nd easily hoarded but if no such metal existed we could have money as all know others say it is anything the law declares shall be legal tender that is money by law we want to know what money is in itself the law may say anything but that does not change facts money in the abstract must be made of something t which if the something did not exist no money could be made if law calls a thing money which no one will take it is is no money that is certain so law cant make anything money it must take something people have confidence in there then is the point confidence that is is trust credit I 1 is so essential to this all important thing that it cannot exist without it but this credit or trust alone is not enough it must circulate by paeans means of popular tokens in proof that credit is the real thing thin g that constitutes utes the money just imagine that it be withdrawn from any metal or paper representative and see how soon said metal or paper is is worthless Is it any wonder that a thing invisible intangible like credit shall be so powerful ignorance is very apt to mistake the thing handled for the power itself but are not all the greater forms forces now used invisible and impalpable air gas electricity I 1 heat mete the saddest mistake perhaps ever made was when mankind mis took the substances sn bs used to represent money for the real money from that has proceeded the statutes that declared some endy easily monopolized thing shall be the sole legal tender oat of this las has grawn crown all the usury u anil ant monopoly no av FOY lay W which hi dead capitals have been to draw from labor all is int rent shares TM r abe gr greater sater these dead d eaid capitals i i fabj grew w AT t cavier is t labor L I 1 4 increase as Q z ti A M 1 never M florl r KJ ay iy 7 a y mhd za vf M KIM of living labor instead of ou on labor and wars long ago finished I 1 when we go goback back and consider of the first labor ever done we see that all its wages must have been paid out of its prospective product how then could idleness have secured nearly the whole product save by force slavery or fraud rent interest etc it is false that old capitals are needed to pay present wages not one dollar of 0 f old capitals would be advanced but on the faith credit or trust in in the value of the labor why not n ot issue issue the money on the supposed oed value direct HOLT |