Show more taxes most men will be impressed by the fact that it involves additional taxes additional corps of political appointees and a vast extension of government me nt control over industry if U the special privilege of borrowing money without interest Is really a boon and la Is gr granted anted only to certain groups of producers the list to be changed from ume time to time somebody must decide who are to be the favored groups and whether that somebody la Is Cong congress Tess or federal warehouse directors who are subject to partisan appointment and removal tho the question who la Is to receive tree free money will undoubtedly remain in politics and will recurred recurrently antly become of 0 great moment az as election day approaches mr edison contends that hla his commodity dollars will bo be sounder than gold dollars because there la in the warehouse 11 lies the actual wealth the things we eat and wear and must consume to live at first he says only a few basic commodities are to bo be accepted such as grain cotton wool rice legumes tats fats flax and tobacco manufactured articles ho he warna us will trill not be satisfactory for or wa purpose if then a warehouse full of tobacco guarantees the soundness of 0 tho the notes issued against it they must bo be redeemable in tobacco they are in tact fact federal tobacco notes the plan must provide in like manner tor for federal flax notes and so 10 on furthermore there would have to be aa many different kinds of tobacco notes as aa there were grades of tobacco everyone a no who used money in ex exchange chango would need to have at band the latest market quotations on all products accepted tor for storage as aa they approached in market the established loan value in order to estimate the rela tiro values ot of different kinds ot of dollars salt cod notes would have to observe carefully whether he had grade A kip kippered Kipp pored ered herring notes or grade X salt cod notes it there was a strike of bituminous coal miners he would hoard bituminous coal notes it there was a slump in cotton he would try to get rid ald of 0 cotton notes consider on the other hand the simplicity and definiteness dennit eness ot of a gold secured dollar all the world knows know what Is meant by the con of a paper certificate into gold all the world accepts accents tho gold in erel iange its value 1 known la in |