Show vor for surveyor survivor vor CHAS S WILKES BLUNDERS OF FOUNDERS ALL admit that money is only the instrument to facilitate exchanges just as the plow is the i instrument for agriculture as the vehicle is for carrying and as the deed is for conveying lands but bat the moment the law interferes and declares that only one peculiar plow or vehicle or deed i shall be used lawfully the instrument becomes something else and is ia a power in the han hands ds of its owner in old times the law has bas done many queer tricks and among others it actually required that every deed should be made on a very rare and costly article called vellum and have a stamp on it of a costly character issued only by law stationers station ers this made people confuse the deed with wih the title so that the owner of the deed was supposed to own the land but bat wildest fool never dreimer that wealth of the nation iras was increased by the number of deeds being increased in the effect of the law of legal tender upon money as an instrument was waar singular it made of the simple instrument for exchanging a mighty power in the hands bands of its owners by confining the lawful instrument to a rare precious commodity it made its quantity the measure of all things exchangeable if a man owed a debt and there was hut but one dollar of the 4 lawful tender in the country that one oue dollar purchased all ail the prop efty tate sold for the debt under this law there have been times when ten thou thousand maid dollars worth bf 0 property has been sacrificed for a 1 therefore stay z been enacted to prevent lus u HS A f but it also had ia make knori of such alender ag vl aU 4 mir ender r instruments f adeon aide i an the the is the country do nsf siaw A x fry a m act fhe au an g twice th w r r ta aty at y tsi N ag afif if sw f ta t r 1 aly la 0 U lip T J tx athe chap e of this S az talt M 6 fi y UZ aw 1 V F 71 1 id a ir 1 ivr 5 7 1 g aik g pi u CM ft rw rd ug f at a very low interest it also forced people to use money tokens that are worthless as soon as a panic in in business occurs and to this day 95 per cent of all bubines is done with non legal tender tokens under laws that permit people to lose their lands for debts and taxes it has gradually made the masses of mankind homeless disinherited paupers haupers pau pers at the same time it has made a few families lords of the earth when our forefathers made our oar nation they ignorantly imagined that by forbidding ea kings or monarchs and titles of nobility and gave to free white men the right to vote for certain officers and leac slavery and legal tender laws and executions on land for debt and all lands liable for debts and taxes they imagined they had forever provided for a free equal and happy republic they proclaimed equality and left women helpless and black people as slaves they proclaimed inalienable rights and left to the unfortunate or careless the ri right ht to alienate the home they proclaimed liberty to all and left and usury to stalk hand in hand over the earth HOLT |