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BOOK 2 CHAPTER I.
Having, as I trust, made clear the
origin, the nature, and the functions
of that device which is "a money," we
will now endeavor to discover the rea
sons which have caused governments
to "coin" that "money."
The power to coin money has from
remote tlme3 been the high, exclusive
and sacred prerogative of the sover
eign, governing power.
By the constitution of the United
States the states granted to congress
the exclusive power "to coin money."
Any citizen who attempts to "coin"
our "money" commits a high' crime
and is subject to imprisonment in the
penitentiary. Kings have risked their
lives contending for the high prero
gative and right to coin money. The
states of the Union are, by the con
stitutlon, deprived of the power to
coin our money, and congress alone
has that prerogative.
The circumstances which have al
wara surrounded it, and the vast im
portance always attached to it, prove
that it is a power of vast and mighty
import.
Notwithstanding It has been the
most precious and highly prized pre
rogative of kings and is exclusively
committed by the constitution to the
congress of the United States, numer
ous "authorities" assert that no more
important function is involved than
the mere act of "certifying the weight
and fineness of the metal used."
Were this theory correct, and noth
ing more important were involved than
the mere act of certifying the weight
and fineness of the metal, it is at once
apparent that the importance of the
function has been foolishly magnified
by kings and by our constitution, and
(hat the magnitude of the service in
volved would correspond more nearly
with. the dignity of a notary public or
justice of the peace, than with that
of a king or a congress.
Moreover, the purpose ascribed by
these same "authorities" for the ex
ercise of the power to coin our money,
is to "furnish the people with a cir
culating medium," the paramount duty
of the power having control being to
see to it that the "circulating me
dium" shall be "sound and stable."
The authority of the "Professors of
Economics" is a good deal weakened,
in my estimation, upon all these
points, by the discovery, already set
forth, that their opinions upon every
matter heretofore involved in the in
vestigation have been shown to be
monstrously erroneous and generallj
absurd.
It is to be observed that congress
is clothed by our constitution with the
exclusive power to coin our money.
Now, we have found in our preceding
investigation that the sole purpose
of governments in instituting the de
vice properly called a "money," is to
enable those governments to exer
cise the, taxing power, and that its
use to "facilitate exchanges" is a mere
voluntary adaptation of it to that
use. History forbids us to expect
generosity or consideration for the
welfare of the people as a motive for
governmental action.
Accordingly, having discovered that
the device called a money was not in
stituted for the purpose of enabling
the people to easily and readily ex
change their commodities, but on the
contrary that the device called a mon
ey was created to enable the govern
ment to support and maintain itself
by the exercise of the taxing power,
we are prepared to expect that when
the government "coins" that "mon
ey," it is. for some purpose beneficial
to itself and not for the disinterested
purpose of "supplying the people with
a sound and stable circulating me
dium." .
Finding that the device which is a
money was instituted as a necessity
in exercising the taxing power, the
presumption arises that every govern
mental dealing with that device (in-
1 eluding the act of "coining" it) is in
some way connected with the process
of exercising the taxing power. A
presumption arises, therefore, thai
when government coins our money,
the process is part of the machinery of
taxation, and stands in some relation
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to the raising of the public revenues
That such may be the fact, and yet
have remained hidden from the au
thorities" upon money, will not be
more strange than the incontestible
fact that the "money" symbol, which
is to be "coined," was never suspected
by those "authorities" to have found
its origin in the necessities arising
out of the process of taxation. And yet
such ,was beyond question the cause
of its institution; and not any imag
inary necessity arising out of the dif
ficulties of exchanging commodities
for each other.
Indeed it is manifestly too flattering
to the "authorities" to concede even
this; for the real truth is that those
"authorities" never suspected the ex
istence of that which is truly a "mon
ey," but erroneously applied that word
to the material substance upon which
the symbol constituting money had
been stamped. .
Let us go again into the public of
flees of present and past ages and fur
ther inquire there into the processes
and mechanism employed in the exer
cise of the taxing power, and see
whether we find there the origin of
"coin" and the true purpose of exer
cising the power to coin money. If
we carefully investigate in those pub
lic offices, we find that in every na
tion the tax levy therein expresses the
appraised or estimated quantity of de
mand for the taxable things included
in the lists; and that appraisal is ths
value ' of all such taxable wealth
for purposes of taxation, uttered in
the term of money .aided by the num
erals.
Before there were any "coins," and
when the tax was paid in the specific
things taxed, it necessarily would b?
the rule to give to the taxpayer, upon
payment of his taxes, a certificate or
token in the nature of a receipt, show
ing that he had delivered to the gov
ernment the quantity of value ex
pressed in the tax levy, as his share
of the public burden. It would also
necessarily be the rule that such cer
tificate would set forth or express
upon its face, that quantity of value
in the money symbol, aide.d by the
numerals, identically as expressed in
the tax levy.
No person even now thinks of pay
ing his taxes without demanding and
receiving such certificate that he has
paid the quantity of value therein ex
pressed, for the year named. The dif
ference is that the governments in oui
day compel the taxpayer to give to
the government, not the things which
are taxed and which the government
needs to carry on its operations, but
instead thereof "coin," which has be
come the ' means, employed by gov
ernments to procure those things;
and when we now thus pay a tax levy
against us, although the records are
vastly more perfect and" accurate than
anciently, yet we carefully take from
the collector a certificate setting forth
the payment of a specific quantity of
value,1 expressed in the certificate or
tax receipt, as in the tax levy, by th
use of the money symbol and the
numerals. '
It cannot have been otherwise, than
that in some form the same character
of certificates of payment must have
been anciently given when the tax
payer delivered to the collector the
specific articles which the king need
ed to maintain his state, and in which
all taxes were at that time paid. If
an attempt should be made by thd
taxing authorities to collect the tax
for the same year a second time, the
taxpayer would present his certificate
or tax receipt, which would be con
clusive proof that he had already paid
that tax levy by delivering to the
government the quantity of value as
sessed against him.
Now, history informs us that it has
been the almost uniform and invaria
ble rule with all governments, ancient
ztA modern, to cause, or at least to
permit, what is now called a "de
ficit" in the revenues. By this term is
meant that governmental expenses
have exceeded the revenues.' There
has been employed to remedy this, in
all ages, and in nearly all cases a
process called "anticipating the rev
enues." (Continued in Two Weeks.)
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