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June 27, 1895
READ AND REFLECT.
D Not Let the Ftm Silver Ihm Con f us
Oar IdM on Monetary lUform.
In the Chicago Times-Herald of May
SO Prof. J. Laurence Laug-hlln pub
lishes an&rticle under the caption
"Money as a Medium of Exchange,
portions of which I propose to repro
duce and briefly comment upon. Tbe
first paragraph of the article in ques
tion reads as follows:
"The idea of money as a measure of
value with which other goods are com
pared has been probably too long
dwelt upon. Since value is a relation
there never can be an absolutely per-
feet measure of it Gold does not re
main absolutely invariable in value,
because its ratio to all goods may be
changed by the change in cost of any
one or more of these goods. Gold may
be like a pine tree in a forest with
which the heights of all the other
trees are compared. Ten years from
now the forest wilt have shown the
effect of growth; all the trees will
have changed in size, some more than
others, according to the individual
conditions ot oil, light and air. The
pine tree itself may have grown larger
and finer than it is to-day; but many
other trees may have outstripped it.
So with gold as a measure; it may have
had individual conditions affecting its
own position, and, if all the other
goods did not change exactly in the
same way as . gold, the relations of
goods to gold will have altered. And
there is nothing disastrous or surpris
ing about this change; that is the pecu
liarity of value, which is a relative.
Length is a positive and not a relative
thing, and there the analagy between
gold and a yardstick appears to be in
complete." On May 29, in the Times-Herald, Mr.
Laughlin laid down this proposition:
"The value of goods relatively to gold
makes their prices. First, what acts
""on th'eVatue of gold? How is its value
fixed? By supply and demand (other
things being equal), and the supply is
the total supply in the world. Those
forces control gold. Secondly, what
fixes the value of the goods? Their
cost of production, generally speaking.
Then the result of the forces affecting
gold is compared with the result of the
forces affecting goods. Two sets of
forces, working independently on two
sides, are compared in their results.
The price issues from this comparison.
You may increase or decrease the value
of gold without touching goods at all;
or you may increase or decrease the
cost of goods, in individual cases, or in
general, without touching the cost of
gold at all Then when gold, on the
one side, and goods, on the other side,
affected each by its own independent
conditions, are compared as to their
relative values, the price appears. So
prices can be changed (1) by an in
crease or (S) decrease in the value of
gold; or (3) by an increase or (4) de
crease in the cost of goods."
Merely pausing to note that Mr.
Laughlin makes the important admis
sion that prices are now regulated by
gold alone, and to state that he cer
tainly cannot mean that any but the
exportable surplus of the commodities
of a country are controlled in price by
the quantity of gold in any other coun
try, I pass to the consideration of the
main question.
First, as to prices: Mr. Laughlin
claims that they are controlled and
regulated by the volume or amount of
gold, irrespective of the cost of its pro
duction, but says that demand and sup
ply of commodities have no effect upon
their prices. This is obviously a mis
take. The promoters and manipulators
of the modern trusts and combines
recognize the potency of the factor
"supply" in determining price; hence
their organized effort to control prices
by regulating the output, or product.
As to the factor "demand," the Times
Herald, not long since, asserted that
the more men that are employed the
greater the demand for goods and com
modities, and hence the better are
prices, creating, in an endless circle,
a demand for more laborers and for
more goods and making prices yet
higher. John Stuart Mill, in formu-
lating the quantitive theory of money,
qualified it with the phrase, "all other
things remaining the same." What
ever else may, or may not, be embraced
in the term "all other things," it is
certain that the demand and supply of
and for commodities and goods are
"things," any variations in which ex
ert a powerful influence upon prices.
Now as to the phrase "value of gold."
What does the professor mean by it?
A careful reading of all his articles
would seem to justify the inference
that he means its commercial value, or
price, as a commodity, and not its ex
change value, or purchasing power, as
money. He seems to entertain the
idea that a variation in the supply or
demand of and for the world's gold
affects, first, its commercial value as a
commodity and, consequently, its pur
chasing power, or capacity as a meas
, ure of value or money. This is not
only misleading; it is ludicrous and
nonsensical. The veriest tyro in
finance understands that, until the de
mand for gold for use in the arts
equals the entire world's product, the
commercial price will be merged into
and governed by the monetary value
given to gold by the terms of the Bank
of England charter and the coinage
laws of the several nations. Oq the
other hand, it is easily seen that -so
long as the surplus supply of gold, in
excess of the demand for use in the
arts, has an unlimited market at a fixed
value, or price, gold will never be
worth less than the monetary value
given it by coinage laws. The world's
mass of gold, whether taken as a whole
or in small quantities by weight, never
varies in price per grain, pound, or ton
from the monetary value given it by
law. The variations caused by fluctu
ations in supply and demand of and
for gold, mentioned by the professor,
are variations in the exchange value of
gold dollars caused by a diminution or
increase in the number of such dollars.
Continuing his article of May 30,
Prof. Laughlin says:
"But once that the standard, in
which prices are expressed, is under
stood, we are in a position to discuss
clearly the function of money as a me
, dium of exchange. Goods being al
ready compared with the standard and
prices being fixed, then the question U,
now are these roods exchanged? Cer
tainly it might seem that when more
goods are to be exchanged more money
in Drooortion would be wanted. If
transactions increase money must in
crease. If - money does not increase
correspondingly, then there is "con
striction" and prices falL This is the
belief of many, and they have a right
to hear this fairly discussed. We have
seen that there was no use increasing
the quantity of money as a common
denominator of value merely to affect
the standard; for that produced con
fusion in prices and contracts.. Now
we shall find that an increasing quan
tity of money is, also, not properly
necessary to a perfectly efficient ex
change of goods. Once that prices, ex
pressed in the stable standard, are
given, you can exchange unlimited
goods without actual money; just as
you find room in the air for shooting
countless arrows, since the air is ready
for another arrow as soon as the first
one has passed through it"
It is next to impossible for a metal
list, handicapped as he is by the com
modity ' money absurdity, to convey
his meaning in intelligible language.
Mr. Laughlin appears to be trying to
establish the following propositions,
viz.: That gold is a variable and un
stable "measure of values," but that it
is the best we can find. That the vari
ations in the value of gold are not in
the gold dollar, as a dollar, but in the
value of the weight of commodity gold
constituting a dollar. That variations
in the quantity or volume of the world's
gold cause a variation in the prices of
commodities, but that prices of com
modities are not affected by variations
in the volume of money. That while
prices are affected by variations in the
value of gold and the value of gold is
affected by variations in its quantity or
supply, we really do not need more
than one dollar or unit quantity of gold
with which to differentiate, or "meas
ure,"' values, exchanges being virtually
made without the use of money at all.
In all of these contentions Mr. Laugh
lin sees the truth "through a glass,
darkly," and does but reiterate what
students of monetary science have
demonstrated again and again. As a
matter of fact, the professor, while
making an argument for commodity
money, effectually annihilates that ab
surdity and delivers a knock-ont blow
to the fallacies, "intrinsic value," "spe
cie basis," etc., etc. The professor is
treading close upon the borders of the
promised land.
Shall we ever be able to see that a
variable "measure of values" is insep
arably connected with the commodity
money fallacy, and that in a scientific
monetary system the value of metal
would cut no figure? Mr. Laughlin is
perfectly correct when he ascribes the
cause Of variations in the value of gold
to the variations in its supply. He
clearly sees that the gold "standard of
values" is a variable and unstable
measure, and his argument is adroitly
formulated bo as to separate the gold
unit, or measure of value, from the
gold dollar, or money. The trouble
with all sincere and conscientious met
allists is that they do not perceive that
the metal unit is hampered by limita
tions not inhering in, or adhering to,
the true, ideal unit of account, the
figure 1. The volume of figure Is with
their multiples and decimals is illim
itable and inexhaustible, but the vol
ume of gold dollars is limited by the
supply of gold. Metallism is an effort
to use a certain quantity of certain
metals to perform functions which can
be properly performed only by the
ideal, immutable and invariable "mon
ey of account" Measured and differ
entiated by the true monetary unit, or
unit of account," with its multiples
and decimals, the value of commodities
and goods would be regulated, con
trolled and expressed in "price" solely
by factors inhering in and adhering to,
and having influence only upon the
goods and commodities themselves;
such as cost of production; the laws of
supply and demand; oost of distribu
tion, etc., etc. No question concern
ing money would enter into the differ
entiation of prices, because money
would be completely divorced from all
material and commodity substances.
being merely an ideal and immaterial
system of counters, by means of which
values would be differentiated and ex
pressed. k
The American Cyclopedia, under the
head of "Money of Account," says:
The use of a money of account is
in no respect a mechanical process by
which other articles are compared by
weight or bulk with gold or silver; but
it is an arithmetical one, by which
they are compared with a unit of value,
which has had its origin in some coin
or other commodity which possesses
the quality of acceptability for the
payment of debts and the purchase of
commodities. A money of account is
a language in which all values or
prices may be expressed, and by means
of .which the relative value of commodi
ties may be stated. It is something
which each and every one carries in
his mind, as he does his knowledge of
words, or of arithmetic, and in so do
ing he is quite independent of any
thought of coinage, or of circulating
notes. These are facts which have,
in whole or in part, been recognized
by various writers differing in almost
all other respects in regard to money,
and they have been controverted by
but few. But being facts close at
hand, familiar and almost self evi
dently true, their full significance and
far-reaching importance have been
overlooked and disregarded by almost
all economists."
But even the American Cyclopedia
makes a grievous error. The term
"unit of value" applied to '-money of
account," is ridiculous. The true term
is, of course, "unit of account" And
it does not have "its origin in some
coin, or other commodity" but in na
ture's unit, the figure 1.
As Mr. Edward Evans well says, in
the Buffalo Courier: "The world must
yet learn the lesson that money does
not inhere in any' material thing in its
normal condition. The thing we call
"money" is only the material sub
stance upon which we stamp the sub
division of a mathematical proposition.
I .- ,
Let ns illustrate what I mean: W
have in our mind a 'unit,' a 'dollar'
something to 'dole out' We then pro
ceeded to select a piece of gold metal
of a certain weight and fineness (25.8
grains, 00 fine), which we caU a 'dollar,'
and which represents one of those
mathematical 'units' which we bad in
our mind. We then multiply these
'units' by ten and then proceed to se
lect a piece of gold metal ten times
larger than the piece selected to rep
resent the first unit;' and then stamp
upon it ten 'units,' $10, which gives us
a 910 gold piece; and likewise do we
proceed to select 412f grains of silver,
90 fine, to represent the 'unit' which
we bad in our mind when we selected
the piece of gold to represent the
same 'unit' The point I wish
to make is that money is
purely and scientifically a mathematic
al proposition and only applies to ma
terial things when certain pieces oi
gold and silver are taken to represent
these 'ideal units,' or decimals, which
we first have in our mind. We com
mence to enumerate by decimals, or
by a scale of decimals, such as 'ten
mills' make 'one cent;' 'ten cents,' 'one
dime;' 'ten dimes, 'one dollar.' You
see that the practical decimals are first
determined before we arrive at the
unit, cent Then we proceed with our
numerals of ten to find our 'dime.'
Then, again, by our numerals of ten
to find our 'dollar.' Then we proceed,
by an act of congress, to determine
upon a proper material to represent
these mathematical divisions, and so
we take a piece of copper to represent
a cent, a piece of silver to represent a
dime and a piece of gold to represent
the dollar, and each piece in its turn
to represent a mathematical ideal.
This makes money the creature of a
mathematical ideal,' and precludes
forever any 'intrinsic' value in the
metal, as money, before it is clothed
by congress with its legal debt-paying
function." .
But suppose that instead of selecting
a metal to represent this unit, with its
decimals and multiples, we had select
ed paper bills with suitable inscrip
tions and devices? Then money, sep
arated and divorced from all material
commodities, would simply indicate in
fisfures the relative value of commodi
ties, as compared with each other, and
not as compared with money.
Gkorge C. Wakd.
LEGAL TENDER PAPER.
We Mast Not Let Oar Zeal for Silver Dis
tract Our Attention from the Main
Issue.
In 1863 this government issued $60,
000,000 of absolute legal tender paper
money. That money never depreciat
ed one penny in comparison with gold
through all the years of blood and car
nage that followed. In fact, the great
er part of the time it commanded a
premium over gold. It was that fact
that alarmed the money king's of the
world. They hastened to Washington
and forced the government to discredit
its own money by making future issues
worthless to pay duties on imports and
interest on the publio debt. Thaddeus
Stevens, the ablest man in public life
at that time, fought bitterly to prevent
the consummation of this conspiracy.
In a speech delivered in congress on the
20th day of February, 1863, he said:
I have melancholy forbodings that
we are about to consummate a cun
ningly devised scheme, which will car
ry great injury and great loss to all
classes of people throughout this union
but one. It creates money, and by its
very terms makes it a depreciated cur
rency. We are making one class of
money lor bankers and brokers, and
another for the people. We are allow
ing the capitalist to demand gold, and
compelling the people to receive notes
which the government has purposely
discredited." The scheme was carried
out in spite of Stevens, and from that
moment the greenbacks continued to
go down in value. That was exactly
the result that the capitalists
were striving for. They did not
want the people to get accus
tomed to a ' legal tender paper
money which was beyond their con-
troL But the historical fact remains
that a purely fiat money when issued
and accepted in payment of all dues
by the government will not depreciate
one penny. Our currency to-day is
based on gold. Gold is only one com
modity, and one production of the
country. Does it not look reasonable
that a currency based upon all the pro
ductions and wealth of the country
would be better for the people than a
currency that is based upon only one
of those productions? Let us not lose
sight of this fact in the coming fight
While we demand the free coinage of
silver, it must be supplemented by an
absolute legal tender money like the
old demand notes of 1863. Maine Pop
ulist Paper Money.
When you receive paper money in
exchange for what you have to sell, do
you scrutinize the piece of paper to see
whether it is redeemable in gold?
Well, hardly. You think:' "Will it go?"
"Will my credit take it?" If you are
sure that the money ...will pay your
debt, and that your creditor is com
pelled to receive it, you are satisfied.
Your creditor is satisfied if his creditor
is compelled to take it Thus it goes
till the man who owes the government
import duties or internal revenue tax
finds that the government is compelled
to take it Now, doesn't such a piece
of paper meet all the requirements of
complete money? Sledge Hammer.'
Consistency f
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Lincoln, Neb.
THE POETS.
Work of Art.
OVEl,
.200 Illustrations.
Poems Breathing of Love
and the Divine, Poems of
Joy and Happiness.Poeme
Full of Wit and Humor,
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t' liilA Longing, of the Home and
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b . xieari. oi Memory ana
A Fields, of the Rivers and
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of Stately ships and Hum-
Address, The Wealth Makers,
Lincoln. Neb.
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