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Budded Cherries loc each; Budded Peaches 4c each; good varieties: Concord Grapes It tier 100: 1000 Ash 11: Sd H.uxnut, Ruulu Mulbwrr . prln, hlib qultT Cataloc fro. Galbraita Nurseries, Box 86, Fairbury, Nebraska. .Bl3 a. Tress Tlrat Grcv? The best aad hardiest varieties. See our prices, mwa urau S Molina tl Box 21, Illus trated Cat alog. Germanl or fcnplish free. Gtrmin Nunterias. Carl Soadereeper, Prop., Beatrlca, Htb. fruitlrees 1 Peieh $1.00 50 Conou'd, $1.00 1000 Mulberry, $1.00 50 Asparagus, 25o. 1 Immense stock, fine quality, low price. Frelsrht prepaid on $10.00 orders. General catalogue free. GAGE COUNTY NURSERIES, Beatrlca, Nebr., Bar '! Pure Bred Seed Corn in the vEar. Leroy Kominei, Box (33, Martinsrille, I1L CHAPTER XII. When it is thus seen that the word "Dollar ".which stands as the symbol of the fixed and unchanging quantity of valuation of the force of demand, for purposes of taxation, se lected to be the "standard unit," con stitutes the "standard of money" of this country, it becomes clear that tax levies must be made and judg ments rendered in that "money;" and it is that "money" which congress is empowered by the constitution to "coin," stamp, or print - ? , The "standard of money" is from necessity a word or term standing as the symbol, by the use of which to express a fixed and changeless quan tity of the force of demand, which is created by government striving to sup ply its needs by taking articles from its citizens; and cannot-be a physi cal object. This word "dollar" is the "unit" of the force of demand in the United States. In the face of this incontestible fact, in 1873, and again, after 27 years of deliberation, in 1900, the congress passed, and the president approved, a statute declaring that a Vcoin" of the United States, composed of 25.8 grains of gold 9-10 fine shall be the "unit of value." By this absurd act of v in sensate and sacrilegious folly, con gress solemnly undertakes by a stat ute to divest a material substance of its density, malleability and all the other characteristic properties of mat ter, and to cause a small lump of the metal, gold, to become a fixed and unchanging quantity of the force of demand; thus attempting by statute to transmute matter into force. Had a yardful of jackasses perpe trated such an egregious act of idiocy and of monstrous wickedness com bined, that one act alone would have vindicated the Judgment of Aesop, long ago passed upon the stupidity of intellect of that dull animal. But what shall we say of the mental con dition prevalent, wuen the assembled representatives of the mightiest na tion of the earth, boasting of its transcendent enlightenment, really attempt to enact such grotesque in iquity and impossible nonsense into law? When King Canute, reduced to a state of semi-idiocy by the flatter ies of his courtiers, seated himself on the beach and commanded the tides of the ocean to cease their resistless flow, his decree thus uttered was not more ludicrously sacrilegious and fu tile than this insane attempt to an nihilate by statute the inherent prop erties of a metal and to cause a ma terial commodity to become a fixed quantity of an abstract form of force. Such an incredible absurdity, at tempted to be enacted into law, is the logical outcome of the teachings of a race of impostors, called "Profes sors of Political Economy," who from the days of Aristotle downward have set at defiance all the rules for the guidance of scientific inquiry, and each succeeding generation of charlatans, like , parrots, have repeated without investigation the senseless platitudes of ignorant predecessors. Instead of giving us a science, they have contin ued to impose upon us the supersti tions and childish assumptions of our remote ancestors, who were savages. No one of them ever labored enough himself to devote the necessary labor and wearing , toil required to wrench from the jaws of chaos a real knowl edge of the thing called "value" and catalogue it among the forms of force, where it 'belongs, and where its ex istence ceases to bo an anombly, but becomes intelligible. No one of them ever delved into the dark quarries and with drill and dynamite blasted ouj the truth, that the thing properly called "money" is not a "coin," but is a device for expressing a fixed quan tity of. the force of demand, and con sists of a term standing as the sym bol of that fixed and changeless quan tity of the force of demand adopted as the "unit;" and that quantity of all valuations may be expressed by that symbol, aided by the numerals. . -o one of them ever, labored enough to discover that which, when pointed o-it, is . patent, to all that-the neces sity which brought about this Inven tion was not any imaginary difficul ties surrounding the exchange of heterogeneous commodities .for each other; but that instead it was brought forth to overcome otherwise insuper able obstacles in the way of a just exercise of the taxing power by the governing forces of the world. Such puerilities as we find in the works of these priests of chaos are limited, when they essay into the field of "money,": to childish discourses con cerning "coin" and its substitutes, T7hich their infantine imaginations clothe with magical powers that put to shame all that was claimed for Aladdin's lamp, in. capacity to set at defiance the laws of nature. ' TJte conflicting, cross action pf hu man beings engaged-in a competitive struggle to obtain or. retain exclusive possession of things endowed with power to beneficially serve them, driven by the impulse of self-preser vation, and restrained - from violence by govefnment authority, generates in that struggle the force of demand. The elusive resultant of differing estimates and appraisals of, the quantity or in tensity of that force for those things upon which the force of demand acts at. any given time and place, culmi nates in a "valuation" of the "quantity of demand in action, and that result ant of differing . valuations of that force is what is truly, meant by that ignis fatuus, "value." 'it is a form or mode of force less tangible and fur ther removed from comparison with material substances than electricity or sound. And yet these "Professors of Political Economy" and "Authori ties" upon the "science of money" tell us that disks of a magical metal called gold are able to "measure", that in tangible force! Having made clear the fact that money is a device instituted as an es sential part of the mechanism for equitably exercising tne taxing power, by making it possible to express any given quantity of the force of de- mand, through a term which stands as the symbol of the fixed and un varying quantity of that force, chosen as the "unit," it was to be expected that we should find it performing its proper official functions "in the public offices," where tax levies are made. Accordingly we find its use in those public offices is made mandatory in making tax levies. Next by a stat utory adaptation of the device, we find the use of the symbol, which is "mon ey," is also made mandatory in the courts in rendering judgments. It is by statute compelled to perform the functions pertaining to its "office." It was created for the purpose of per forming those official functions, and was . not created for any other pur pose. When we find people employingthis "money" in other places and for oth er purposes, to suit their private con veniences and as a means of facilitat ing their private aims, we are com pelled to recognize the fact that all such uses of the symbol (which is our "money) are purely voluntary and optional. These secondary uses to which it may be applied exercised no influ ence in its creation. It was not with any view to its being applied to those voluntary . uses, that it was devised. As an old hat, seen doing duty by voluntary adaptation ii place of a broken pane of window glass, does not justify the conclusion that any such use was contemplated by its manufacturer; so also when we find the symbol, which is "money," em ployed by private persons in keeping their accounts, in expressing nominal quantities of value in promissory notes, bills of exchange, private bonds and stocks, and in market reports and prices current (where it does "facili tate exchanges between commodi ties"), we are bound to take notice of the fact that such uses were not con templated in its creation, and are mere voluntary adaptations of an in genious device, (which was' created to fill a public office in making tax lev ies and rendering judgments), to the performance of a service ; which was not contemplated or intended by its makers. . ; ",' ' Its use in market reports, as a means of "facilitating" the exchange of heterogeneous commodities for each other, was not .a factor in its cre ation. After it was devised as a means of accomplishing the just ex ercise of the taxing power, it was siezed upon without authority, and voluntarily employed by : private per sons in private transactions never contemplated in its original creation. It is used in prices current and mar ket reports simply because; of its con venience, and not because; Jit was in stituted for any such purpose, nor be cause such use is necessary , in such cases. 1 . ' , -' ' ; U (Continued Next! Week.) Ours have stood tbo teat mt 50 rears Send for Catalogue. ' ! ' 600 Acres. 13 Greenhouses. Established 1882. PHOENIX IWRSEKY COMPANY, . ' 1860 Park gk, Blooming-ton, Illinois. FREE SAMPLES OF SEED COl. Send to the Nebraska Seed Farm and receive five of the best seed corn samples on earth and my catalogue free. Free samples of Oats and Seed Potatoes. I have the Early Six Weeks Ohio and the Late Ohio. My Seed Corn, Oats and Potatoes will be just as good as the samples. 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