THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
JANUARY 1, 1903.
. What is a Unit?
Editor Independent: A unit is one,
not many. An abstract one is the unit
of, number. By adding or multiplying
it can express all numbers to infinity.
By subtraction or division, it can ex
press all fractions to the infinitesimal.
It. seems absurd to call the sum of
these numbers the unit of number, to
call the sum of all figures the abstract
figure one. This abstract one is rep
resented by the earth and all things
or by a pencil mark.
The yard unit Is a determined three
parts of the earth's surface, a deter
mined three feet of an Imaginary line
drawn over the earth's surface, called
the equator. Since all things have
length, the yard unit can be repre
sented by any and all materials pro
vided' the material contains the deter
mined three feet of this equator. Andy
applies the yard stick ten times to de
termine the ten yards stored in a bolt
of cloth, and each time the stick is ap
plied it expresses in" the cloth the
three feet stored in both.
The pound unit is sixteen ounces of
the earth weight. The bushel unit is
' a thirty-two quarts of the bulk of
the earth in space. It is represented
by any material that encloses the 32
quarts of space. It is absurd to call
the material the unit since that would
be calling the material the space it
encloses. These units always and ev
erywhere measurs the same quantity.
If the earth would be destroyed, they
would remain true units. They meas
ure a thousand units stored in any and
all materials with the same exact
ness they measure on unit stored in
any material.
A thousand yard stick does not add
to or diminish the three feet stored in
any material. The same is true of all
exact units. The increase of meas
ures does not affect the units to be
measured. It does not increase the
pounds to jbe weighed. It does not
decrease the bushels to be measured.
The law of supply and demand has no
effect upon true units. If used a mil
lion times or not used at all, both they
: and the things to be measured remain
UUlUtiugUU. i. lie ijiiuuiieo wuitu mcoc-
exact units measure re stored in all
things by continuo. ime or labor.
' Length, weight and bulk are not cre
ated in an instant by fiat The sum
; of these qualities ism product or con
tinuous time stored." Since all the
"qualities which make up product do
have exact units of measure for ex
change it is a scientific and mathe
matical conclusion that the product
-must equally have as exact a unit for
exchange. 4 plus 4 plus 8 equal 16;
since the first three figures can be
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If! their sum can be equally divided by
.1-2-4. History tells in what this ex
act unit is, that it was created pre-
cisely as bur other units ' were and 1
that by it we can have a scientific mon
ey system for the exchange of prod
ucts in accord with our scientific sys
tem by which we now exchange quan- J
titles of product by their unit of quan
tity. , , ' : ,
iThe dishonest price unit: all our ex
changes of product for product are
now made by price. What is this price
unit; by which we now. -make ex
changes? ' The law pr)ce pf a few
grains of gold. Whence comes the
authority to make a few grains of gold
always hear dollar price and always
command In exchange any and all
commodities' at dollar price? Every
tree in the wilderness which no" man
'ever saw and never will see has the
qualities of length, weight; bulk' and
: number and is continuous time or la
bor stored. Has nature stored in this
tiee5the qualityof price? What na
ture has not created man by his flat
cannot create. Man ' cannot create !
something1 out of nothing. ; Yet the
neatnen goas wnicn never were rule
the thoughts- of cultured Greek and
Roman. So this flat price unit which
is not1' and never was, does rule our
thought and actions.
It is as absurd to talk of the price
of money as of the God Jupiter, sinca
neither are and never were. The be
lief -in a worship of the gods of myth
ology created false relations. The be
lief in the fiat price of gold and our
worship of gold creates false relations
between gold and all other commodi
ties. There can be no unit created
to measure these false relations. How
can constantly changing relations hav
ing no basis be measured? That which
has no existence cannot measure.
Could you uniform the relations of
heathendom to the gods only of
'mythology?
These relations must be changed by
accepting the unity of God. In dis
cussions ambiguous terms are to be
avoided. It is a fact that labor cre
ates products. It is a fact that all
products of labor do have In common
certain qualities. It is a fact that
these qualities do have exact units Tor
their measure In exchange. No one dis
putes these facts. It is a disputed
fact that product does or can have an
exact unit for measure in exchange.
That men have lost the knowledge
and are of this mind through their use
of a lie, no more destroys the unit
than the worship of the gods of myth
ology destroyed the unity of God. We
must look beyond the appearance of
things for the wisdom that informs
the life that walking in the light of
the life we may become children of
the light and cease to walk in the
darkness of ignorance. It is foolish to
say the house a man builds is the
man. It seems equally foolish to say
the creations of intelligence are the
intelligence, that created them. If from
apes through the law of suggestion we
have ascended to our present plane,
can anything but supreme intelligence
through his suggestions, assimilated
and made part of us, limit our ascent
toward him or it? It is immaterial
to the argument whether this ascent
was made innate, placed in us when
we were created by the intelligence
which created us. or comes to us from
external suggestion as we are fitted
to accept it Behind each lies the
creative intelligence either acting one?
or continuously. Analogy suggests
continuous action by an ever living
God in whose invisible world we live.
move and have our being here and
now on this earth.
F. W. ANTHONY.
Mattawan, Mich.
Modern Esaus
Editor Independent: Inclosed please
find $1 money order for which please,
send me your paper for one year from
the 14th of December, 1902, to De
cember the 14th, 1903, my subscrip
tion at present will be due December
14, 1902, by the wrapper notification.
I think it is the best paper printed in
the interest of the common people,
but there are so many cussed fools
that don't know their own interest and
if you undertake to show them they
will curse you as likely as not ann
Bay you got that logic out. of thar. old
Independent
Well, I tell you there are lots of poor
devils that, worse than old Esau, sell
their birthright for a mess of pottage
full dinner pail followers that siruck
as soon as the first dinner pail got
empty. Well, I think just such fel
lows ought to starve; a man that has
not got a bit of independence about
him is not fit for a good citizen, and
any man that will sell his vote should
not have the right of franchise for 'he
is a dangerous man to the pubiic.
Well, I predicted twenty years ago
that we would never get Jefferson or
Jackson or Lincoln policy of justice
to all men alike with special privil
eges ,to none .until we got it through
revolution and 1 have not ch&ngeci piy
mind a bit on it yet; we are now very
near the Robespierre time in old
FYance. All that we lack is that the
beheading and uilottin.e has not com
menced yet, Jj.nt . soon may.
E. EUBANKS.
Cambridge, ; Neb.
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Who is the Foci?
.v Editor; Independent:. 'Mr.' Roosevelt
makes me tired. Passing by his very
shameful remarks about Jefferson.
Van Bufen, Pierce, Polk, Monroe and
Tyler men who once filled' the presi
dential chair with credit to themselves
and the nations, I come to consider
Mr. Roosevelt in another phase than
that of critic, and let me say in the
beginning that I do not mind beihg
taken for a villain or a coward, or a
thief, but when a man takes me for
a fool, I draw 'the line, right there,
and 'that is what Mr. Roosevelt has
done. Yea, more, he evidently takes
the American people for a lot of fools;
if he did " not, he would not talk to
them about a' tariff commission. '
Has he forgotten, or doed he think
the people have forgotten President
Arthur's message to congress in which
he told them that : there was being
collected from the people over one
hundred million of dollars annually
that ought to be left ; with them in
stead of being piled up in the treas
urythereby creating5 a scarcity of
money? and that the congress unwise
ly created a tariff commission to look
into the matter and report to the con
gress? Now, commissions are as a' rule a
soft snap. Generally they are slow in
reporting and slower resigning; but af
ter a long time, said commission 'did
report and strange to say (although
it was selected by the friends of pro
tection) it advised an average reduc
tion of 25 per cent in the tariff, and
what did the congress do? It un
wisely ignored the advice of its own
commission it reduced the tariff les?
than 2 per cent, but years had been
spent in doing that much, and all
those years, the people were Deing
robbed by the tariff, and hundreds of
millions of dollars were being piled up
in the treasury, and to get it out and
prevent a money panic the treasurer
bought hundreds of millions of dol
lars in bonds, paying as high as 33 per
cent premium, if I remember cor
rectly.
Here we see how millionaires and
paupers are made. The national bank
era took, we will say, $100,000 to the
treasury. He bought the same amount
of bonds, drawing 5 per cent; he leave
the bonds with the treasurer who
hands him back the money he paid for
them and with this cash he opens a
bank. He gets 5 per cent for the bends
from Uncle Sam and he gets from 5
to 10 per cent from the people on the
same money, tnd then f.oes back to
the treasurer and sells him the bonds
for a premium of 33 per cent.
Now. let's figure out the result of
say one year's business: he gets irom
Uncle Sam for the bonds 5 per rent,
$5,000; from the people on same mon
ey say 8 rer cnt, $8,000; he sell tin
bonds back to Uncle Sam for a prem
ium of 33 per cent, $33,000. Total
profits, one year, $46,000 a fine year's
York, is it not? In the meantime he
has paid no taxes; but let's see how
it is with the people who pay the
freight. In some of the states his
farm is taxed 3 and 4 per cent and he
pays a tariff duty of from 10 to 100
per cent on everything he wears or
eats or sleeps on and pays the banker
8 per cent if he gets any money. I?
it any wonder his house is sold and
his cow is sold and his horse is sold
and he and his wife and his children
are paupers?
But let us go back to Mr. Roose
velt: all of those things are known
to "him; he has not forgo; ten the tar
iff commission that the friends of pro
tection got up, nor the results during
Arthur's administration; but he takes
the American people to be a lot of
born idiots and believes that he can
humbug them with a tariff commis
sion. In the meantime the protec
tionists are filling their pockets. Then
he wants the trusts to have full swing
until the constitution is amended, and
amended so that they will only need
to own a small majority of the United
States senate to control all legislation,
no state being allowed to 1 rouble them.
Ah! Mr. Roosevelt, the people are not
the fools in this case, and yet, and yet,
Is there a fool in the case? I leave you
to say who is the fool.
A. H. STEAGALL.
De Land, Fla.
S. G. Sheffer. South Haven. MiVh
I have been interested in the work
ever since the greenback party was
formed at Toledo, O. I was a green
backer until the neoole's nartv was
formed; and then a populist until the
democrats adopted our platform ac
Chicago in 1896. Then I thought my
labor had amounted to something;
but, alas, the money power was too
much for us. However, I think the
education the masses are getting
through the trusts and the coal strike
will bring the wage-workers to their
senses and we shall yet prevail. So,
my dear sir, keep on striking for the'
right through The Independent. -It
stands up for the rights of the Ameri
can people and may it aiways strike
sledge-hammer blows until we all
stand equal before the law. Enclosed
find five educational subscriptions.
New Ninety and Nine
There are ninety and nine that work
and die
In want and hunger and cold
That one may revel in luxury
And be lapped in the silken fold!
And ninety and nine in their hovels
bare
And one in a palace of riches rare.
From the sweat of their brow the
desert blooms
And the forest before them fas--
heir labor has builded humble homes
And cities with lofty halls.
And the one owns cities and houses
and lands
And the ninety and nine have empty
hands.
But the night so dreary and dark and
long
At last shall the morning bring
And over the land the victors' song
Of the ninetv and nino ohoii
And echo afar, from zone to zone;
ivejoice: ior labor shall have its
own!"
ROSE ELIZABETH SMITH.
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