Show 3 j we g G N NA cgale M FE rig 0 7 i 0 1 z i R eai 1 culture cul abeen dis 1 14 fl adver fqy er yet ye t ls a s aby say device si sa y ir A geni and we ays t 1 46 ikaji educated 1 by cas Wand laTr to I 1 submit to such av have believed it all 2 45 Z inget n g j s ST a airis n is the abject creature thabit oH abit vh e noney token or piece is to 4 exchange si just what the plow is to the one almost sole instrument for facilitating exchanges by y cancelling the differences or debts strange however at an early date this instrument was monopolized and laws and customs arose to establish this or that for the lawful tender it w was as always done by making people believe that some peculiar preciousness was in the article the effect of this was as to make the value of all things bear some close relation to the sum of the legal tender if ahe sum of the legal tender stuff staff was only one million dollars and the sum of all the property in the state was many billions worth Tea lity yet the one million of legal tender was master of it all and during a business panic all the property in the state could be bought up kv by those who held the legal tender now exchange exchanging n ing is merely one branch of distribution of which carry carrying arg is the other branch and there is just as much sense in declaring by law that idl all carrying shall be done by a legal vehicle as to declare that exchanging shall be done by only legal tenders but custom has blinded mau man to this f folly oll y another effect of legal tender law has been to cause people to hoard board up and lay by their money pieces it would seem strange it if men were to lay up all the plows or vehicles they could get hold of but if the legal legai tender legislation had been practiced concerning plows or celii vehicles cles and it had been made unlawful to plow with any but bat legal plows or carry with any but legal carts men would hoard up their plows and vehicles just as they now do their legal tender money pieces it sounds strange hut but just think over bow many odd queer senseless wicked idiotic things have been ordained by law slavery polygamy divine right of kings laud land monopoly liquor drinking by license child murder torture of prisoners torture of wit nesses prison for debt bread monopoly anda and a thousand other hellish thin things 93 all duly established by law this legal tender business is oue one of 01 the worst and yet we hug it to our souls today as forty years ago we did skir slavery ery the sufferings man has endured the wrongs opples ak inconveniences embarrass a menta under this silly idea have G been infinite not everywhere nor aa always r 6 M ya amt generally in most lands T 1 wherever people have had more t t k anim anthe sub subject eject J and used com on as regards their inspru jala ken t of exchange they h hole a e lived 7 happily iari but so great m t was the aisis Mi powei SiS 2 e 1 1 1 givren 9 aven to moey ney by one of the pro J lt emter ever used the sy is i S compeer Com peed to ex exclaim claira of love of money y ass a all 11 evil such a zu ar had haa the law IM meagre were p iea dij ny wickedness sa to s th inde edl sc 3 sr 1 T t hiba iddo tender fider had baade ioa bimble 17 1 i winch 0 i ja q T anore ore than a easis ie ia r barg cattoir carto ir sa 0 iNe 8 ettae inea st tae f in esaa A 1 isa iS 1 a 4 r i ss ga i hw alie exe 1 T al zab conf ga 4 t r 01 M W qi am le rix E R 4 as R as iff t tt ww rry Q M aa ifeng ife sg taB the SS 6 rsm rs 3 sa s1 k a 8 ya y a A r ty 5 4 it d p e J 1 hessed oit ait and such have em the c hanges changes in in modem life so 0 many novel things have been en mg maae necessary necessary essaiy that are am to lier be had oula with cash down great distress pre 1 vaila tails in every government under the sun the tax gatherer knocks at the cottage door more frequently and with the solemnity of death the ordinary farmer requires quires more for postage and telegraph than once he did for all expenses the year round it may he be said without the least exaggeration that winder under all governments save some few like switzerland or in some of olour vur communities that have resolved to abolish this curse such as amana in iowa where a post mortem held upon every heart would be found stamped with undying characters an insatiable want of money what an infernal condition of society has been created by this artificial arti fical institution and daily this inferno increases increases its bounds and populations had mankind not all but the laboring 10 party only the good sense to unite and declare their independence of this and to endure any inconvenience inconvenience for a time rather than submit longer as did our forefathers of boston harbor tea memory what a glorious revolution that would be li live ve act and I 1 operate cooperate co under the labor exchange principle 0 for but one day dav ef such a life its lesson imon would go down the ages HOLT |