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) . 16 i THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT APRIL 16, 1903. PILE C Wa euro Piles, Chronic Constipation, i Fistula, Protrusion, with our S' twenty year old ; HERMIT RECTAL :II0ME TREATMENT No Knife No Burning No Injection of Poisons. " 5 ;nqpelay from business CURE GUARANTEED Our book, "Temple of Life," FREE. Mention paper. tW invite correspondence with full , particulars of your case. HERMIT REMEDY COMPANY, 738 Adama Express Building, Chicago, 111. Women Addreaa "Department W." "Money in Poultry." Our new 68-p. illustrated tiook tells how to make It. Also how to feed, breed, grow and markot poultry lor best rosulti. I'lans (or houses, diseases, cures, how to Kill lire, mum ana gives many valu able receipts. Illustrates and describes lanreirt nure-brad poultry establishment In' me country quun low pnueson purc-brcd , wjfcV,225' fowls and eeifs. Mailed to any address for ictW.Jl&. la stamp. F.FOV.Box ", Dei Moines, la. 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Box 4i Omaha, Neb II " FARM LANDS in the Moof'e Alointaln Dist., CANADA. 200,000 ACRES of the choicest virgin lands for sale at from $8 to $12 per Acre Fertile Valleys, Open Plains, Luxuriant Grasses, Pure Spring Water.' It should interest every farmer in Nebraska to kno that he can sell out his high-priced lands and move to the fertile vallevs of East ern Assiniboia and buy land at from $8.oo to Jti oo per acre, with an expenditure of very I ttle cash. It must certainly be of interest also to know t lint the taxes on improved farms in this famous district ore from f 2.50 to $5 00 on the quarter secth n. Hundreds have come into this district from Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska at my Instigation and have found a district just as fertile, and the winters just as pleasant, as in the Western States, and prosperity more generally prevailing. Poor men who came to this district two years ago and purchased land at $8.00 per acre are now prosperous and contented. In 1901 Areola shipped 500,000 bnshels of wheat, being an average of 29 bushels per acre, and in the season just passed 900 000 bushels of wheat being an average of 33 bushels per acre, be sides 200,006 bushels of flax. Write to your friends in this district, or send to me for my map and pamphlet showing the lai ds I still have for sale at the above prices. Ycu cannot help but be impressed by the prospects. It is worth figuring out. ' . A. B. COOK, Areola, AnsiniboU, Canada. D.BDILIf mm r-m i ia Jr " ' f HORSE COLLARS JlAlhn'hfBerttt., 1 r!??7T?ir' KOWTHfi fOU ft Dealer to S BEFORE. YOU BUY. MANUFACTURED By WHAM BROS.CO. Lincoln. Neb. Always mention The Independent J fhen writing to advertisers. Money and the Taxing Power All Rights Reserved. BY W. H. ASJJBY. CHAPTER XVL A commodity whose price is thus expressed (in the money term) may be exchanged for anything of identical price," whether that thing be a coin or any other commodity of the same price. : If the force of demand for 1,000 pounds of wheat and for -5,000 pounds of corn be of equal intensity, and the "valuation" of that force be ex pressed by the formula :$10," then their "price" is identical and they are the exchange equivalent of each oth er; but they are not the "price" of each other. Two hundred and thirty two grains of fine gold, coined at our mint, has the sama price, "ten dol lars;' stamped upon it, and it is like wise the exchange equivalent of those commodities; but that coin is no more the "price" of 1,009 pounds of wheat than i3 the 5,000 pounds of corn, which bears the same price. Coin is a commodity in exchanges; and when the price of wheat or corn is expressed it no more implies a "coin" of like price than it does any other commod ity of like price. . So absurd, when once analyzed, is the proposition that a piece of metal could perform the function ascribed to it, that having attributed that non sense to the "Authorities," it seems proper to prove that they have not been misrepresented. Having charged them with teaching such a ridiculous ly absurdity, it seems proper to forti fy so grave a charge by unassailable proof. Here is the testimony: The British Encyclopedia, summing up the conclusions reached by the au thorities, and accepted ,as the settled doctrine, quotes Prof. Jevons as voic ing the conclusions reached, and this is what that eminent authority says: "In a state of barter, the price-current list would be a mest complicated document; for each commodity would have to be quoted in terms of every other commodity, or complicated rule-of-three sums become necessary. , . . All such trouble Is avoided if any .one commodity.be chosen and its ratio of exchange, with each other commodity, be quoted. Knowing how much corn is bought for a pound of silver and also how much flax, for the same quantity of silver, we learn, without further trouble, how much corn ex changes for so much flax. The chosen commodity becomes a common denom inator, or common measure of value, in terms of which we estimate the value of all goods; so that their val ues become capable of most easy com parison, . . . Without some common commodity, as a standard of compari son, this would be almost impossible. . . . The adoption of some one com modity, readers the comparison of val ues easy." Now, whoever has followed the course of the foregoing investigation, must be astounded at the stately non sense thus coolly set forth by this professor, as constituting the deliv erancs of science. The whole ques tion is simply a. collection of words that constitute incoherent nonsense. Prof. Jevons seems to have been impressed with the paramount im portance of avoiding what he calls "trouble." He twice refers to this matter of "trouble" in the short quo tation made. It is evident that he took his own advice and avoided "all such trouble" as is required to delve into the depths of this matter and discover and declare the truth. It seems incredible that a man pre tending to scientific training and at tainments, could have deliberately written that "the chosen commodity becomes a common denominator or common measure of value, in terms of which we estimate the value of all goods;" and that "without some com mon commodity, as a standard of com parison, this would be almost impos sible." First of all, observe that "es timates" are not made "in terms" of anything; estimates are made with the mind and expressed In a term pro vided for that purpose, after they have been made, find cannot be ex pressed in another commodity. How can anybod, with even small intellectual training, be stupid enough to pretend to believe that a com modity may be a 'common denomi nator?" A "common denominato" is a "common name." Did this man who thus "darketi3 counsel" ever pass through addition ol simple fractions in a school arithmetic? If he did, and understood the principles In volved, it 'will puzzle posterity to de termine how he came to write about a "commodity" that "becomes a com mon denominator." We cannot intel ligently add together 1-2 and 1-3 with out possessing knowledge which de stroys Prof. Jevons' whole theory of economics. Only things which may be expressed by the same term can be compared with each other, and only things capa ble of being compared with each oth er, and expressible in a common terra, can be added together. Before we can add together 1-2 and 1-3," we must find a common term thiough which both are able to speak; that is, wo must find a "common denominator." Can any commodity be a common "term" for two ether commodities? How is it possible for a commodity to become a term? Such a statement, when looked into, 'is too absurd for serious discussion. One-half and one third may be brought to a "common denominator," as we perceive that 1-2 is equal to 3-6, and 1-3 is equal to 2-6. We here express the quantity of each in "sixths;" and perceive that the two amoun; to five-"sixtbs," and that their Qinerence is 1-6. But if we attempt to analyze Jev ons illustration of a lump of silver chosen a3 a "common commodity," as he expresses it, the absurdity of the thing becomes manifest. Why did he say a "pound" of silver? He did not know. Why did he not say a pound of gold? v The secret of his delusion is dis closed when it is remembered that he is an Englishman, with his mind sat urated with ancient superstitions on this subject, and that the term which stands as the symbol of the fixed quan tity of value adopted as the standard unit of value, and which is the "mon ey" of England, is pound of silver." Not a physical pound of silver; but the term, "pound sterling." Had he said a ton of silver cr a pound of gold, it seems that he must have perceived the absurdity of what he wrote, v ' But when he savs "pound of sil ver," it was for his English mind a symbol merely, by. which he ex pressed to himself, unconsciously, the price of a quantity of corn; and look ing at that price of flax, expressed by the same term, he discovered what quantity of flax would be of the same "price," and perceived ithat to be the quantity of flax which is the ex cnange equivalent of the quantity of corn which he assumed. Corn and flax are not reducible t silver any more than they are reduc ible to iron or wood. Neither corn nor flax are capable of being reduced to "pounds sterling" or to "dollars." They remain corn and flax through out the process of exchange. It is nt corn and flax that are brought to a "common denominator " It is the quantity or the force of de mand for each the estimation of which constitutes what is called ouantltv nf value, that may be expressed by a common denominator, and which re quires expression. The corn and flax are measured or weighed to determinfi quantity. But equal quantities of corn and flax by weight or measure are not necessarily the exchange ecmivalents of each other. When a "valuation" of the fomA nf demand for each has been marlo nn.i the quantity of that valuation ex pressed m a common term, aided by numerals, that expression is the "price" of each; and when the price of a fixed quantity of anv twn mm- moditics is known, their exchange equivalence is at or?ce manifest. it Is not the two commodities that call for a third commodity to act as a common denominator for them. It is not the corn and flax that is trans muted into silver and thus finds a com mon form of expression as "silver." Corn and flax cannot by any known alchemy be transmuted into silver; they remain corn and flax thrnntrh- out the transactions. But the auantitv of the fmve nt de mand for a fixed quantity of each com modity, When valued, is a differing quantity of value foi each; and what is required is not a commodity, but a symbol standing for a fixed quan tity of abstract value, through which to utter the quantity of the Valuation of each commodity. The symbol in England is the "pound of silver," used, not as thejname of a metal, but as the name of a fixed quantity of the force of demand, which it symbolizes. (Continued Next Week.) Onra bare stood the test of SO year. send tor Catalogue. 600 Acres. 13 Greenhouses. Established 1852. PUOEMI NURSERY COMPANY, M60 Park Sfc, Bloomlntfon, Illinois. From Inflammatory Rheumatism Would Have Killed Our Son. Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills Saved Him. "We began to i:?e Dr. Miles' Nerve and Liver Pills six years ago. 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