People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — Honey. [ARTICLE]

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From the Cinclnuattl Enquirer.)Dem.) Aristotle said: “Of itself money is an empty thing. It has value only by law and not by nature, for a change of agreement among those using it can depreciate it entirely and render it entirely unfit to satisfy our needs. This assertion of the ancient philosopher was true when he made it and is just as true now. The idea that money is a national product and that the value inheres in the product is a prevalent error. It is purely a ci’eature of law, and may in and out of itself be worthless. A laboring man hires himself out to perform a day’s labor .for sl. His employer pays him a piece of gold or silver or a greenback or twenty nickels or 100 copper cents, each of which the government has stamped and declared to be sl. It is a> matter of no moment to the laborer what may be the intrinsic value of the article he receives in payment. He has no use for the gold, the silvei*, the nickle, the copper or the paper. He wants a dollar’s worth of food or clothing, and he has a certificate of the government that lie is en-' titled to one dollar’s worth of any property that is for sale. Compared with each other, the intrinsic value of his gold certificate may be 100 cents, the silver 70 cents, the nickle 14 cents, the copper 20 cents, the greenbacks 2 cents but as money they are all the same value. All the talk about the injustice and the wrong of paying the workingman a 70 cent dollar when payment is made in silver is mere Clap-trap, the vaporing of a demagogue.

As Aristotle says, “there may be a change of agreement among those using it that will depreciate if entirely and render it upfit to satisfy our needs. ’’ If gold is demonetized the laborer who has received his wages in a lump of gold weighing 25.8 grains would be compelled to hunt up a dentist or a jeweler who would give him money with which to satisfy his needs. The truth we would impress is that gold and silver is not money independent of any power or agency of the state. The stamp or seal of state converts a sub-’ stancew into money. An ex* change of actual values is barter. Uncivilized men exchange values. They have no conception of the representative value of money. Every civilized stgte has its own representative of value. There is no such thing as “money of the world. ” Amer-. ican gold is not money in England or any other foreign state. Our gold is there a mere commodity, and is taken abroad the same as a caddy of tobacco or a barrel of pork—.by weight.

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