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10 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT JUNE 18, 1903. mist u mi SEARLES & SEARLES "specialists in Nervous, Chronic AND . Other Dlwates of Men and Wowb we iir1- moo 1 "N.-. av JJ L W' Iall MEN'S Or. F. L. Searles. v CURES GUARANTEED. Yea, we guarantee to cure all curable cases of the No-e, Throat, Chet, stomach, Liver, Heart, Paralysis, Bowel?, Bladder, Pimple on face. Blood, Skin and Kidney Diseases. Pile, Fistula and Rectal Ulcera. Diabetes and Brighfi Disease. $100.00 tor a caae of CATARRH, RHEUM A T8M, DYSPEPSIA OR BLOOD POISON WC cannot cunc, ir CuftaaLC. y HOME TREATMENT BY MAIL. '.lamination and consultation free. Call or addreas with. stamp, P. O. Box 224. Ofs, Searles & Searles LINCOLN. NEBRASKA. , TIPPANY'5 Sure Death ta Lice (Powder) sprinkled in the nest keeps your fowla free from lice. Sprinkle hen and the little chicxa will bare nolice.Tiffany'sParagon "Liquid" kills mites instantly. Sprinkle bed for hogs, roost for fowls. Box powder for lit tle turkeys and chicks post paid 10c. We want agents. . THE TIFFANY CO., Lincoln, Neb. LlYI Stock CATTLE SHEEP tSS Com mission Nye & Buchanan Co., SOUTH OMAHA, NEBRASKA. Best possible service in all depart ments. Write or wire us lor markets or other information. Longdistance Telephone 2305 COLORADO RED MINERAL-PAINT Use No Oil-Mix With Water A 12 year old boy can apply thU palntsuccessf ully. aatUfaetlon guaranteed. We pay the freight. Paint your houses Inside and outside. Your barns, fences and agricultural implements. This Klrh TascanKedM literal Paint is shipped dry in 100 lb. packages. 100 lbs. will cover 1000 square feet or rough surface such as rough boards and on dressed stone and 20U0 square feet of smooth surface such as walls and ceilings. This paint will not wash, rub or peel off and can be polished like hardwood finish. PRICE $3.00 PER 100 LBS. delivered In Iowa, Kansas or Nebraska. We pay all freight charges and guarantee safe delivery. Re mit by Draft. P. O. Order or Express Order to B. M. a PAINT CO., Railroad Bldg., Denver. Colo. Paid up Capital $ 150.000. ' A BONUS AS AN UNDERWRITER you are given a liberal stock bonus for each share of stock you have underwritten. . . A new prospecting company, recently organized, is offering through us, a limited amount of underwriter's stock. WE RE COMMEND this stock to our clients: the company owns val uable mining properties and has no liabilities. Write for particulars. THE MINES EXCHANGE, Ltd. Fiscal Agents, Box E 1006. V A 112 Clark Street, Unicago, ill . ' I mill III r -1 n Save 25 per Cent by purchasing paint of us. We sell direct from the factory, avoiding the middleman's profit Color cards free. Drop us a line. at t Farmers Grocery Co. V V 220-210 N.: 10th St.,J Lincoln,: Neb; ' f : 1 Money and the. Taxing Power BY W. II. ASIIBY. All Rights Reserved. BOOK 2. Chapter VI. '. Coin and commodities are held up as if they were the antithesis of eaca other; whereas coin is itself simply a commodity. Coin is merely one ar ticle of wealth, made such by statutes conferring upon it the power to ben eficially serve man. What its value may be depends upon the urgency of men's need3 and the strenuousness with which they struggle for its ex clusive possession; for the more Rirenuous the struggle, the more in tense is the force of demand and th? greater , is Its value. But this cannot be shown in a change of its "price,"' which, is fixed and stamped upon it, and the increased intensity of the force of demand for it manifests itself in the greater sacrifices of services or wealth men must make to obtain its possession. This results in lowering the "prices" of all other things that have not their prices stamped upoa them and in putting at a discount such things as have their prices stamped upon them, but which are not armed with the power of tender. The relation of coin to other com modities fluctuates with the varying degrees of intensity of the demand for each relatively; but the value of coin in its own sphere as relating to tax levies and judgments, remains always the same. Hence, the greater the sup ply accessible, the less the sacrifice of service or wealth required to ob tain it , - The absurdity of saying that "goods are demand for coin' and "coin is demand for goods," becomes more clear when it is thus seen that it in volves the proposition that "coin is demand" and that "goods are de mand." Mill seems to have labored under the delusion that coin is endowed with some magical power, and was blind to the fact that in its relations to ex changes it differs in no respect from any other commodity. He says that decrease" of value ac companying increase of quantity, and increase of value accompanying de crease of quantity, "is a property pe culiar to" coin. Now, every one knows that the same rule, with the limitations stated by him, applies to every commodity. Coin is not demand; but the urgent and universal need of men to obtain possession of it, to save themselves from ruin at the h-ads of the tax col lector and the sheriff, drives them to put forth strenuous efforts and to sac rifice wealth or service to obtain pos session of .it, as the sole means of rteliverance from tax levies and judg ments; and the struggle thus made intense, produces an intense force of demand for the coin, which alone of all commodities has been given the. power of "tender" against those tax ltvies and judgments. This is what creates the force of demand for coin; and it is that force of demand which produces value, in the sense employed by Mill. It is struggling men contending for dominion over things, which always and everywhere produces the force of demand, without which there is no "value." - The demand for flour is not pro duced because grocers deal in it as a means of making prc"t; but grocers deal in it because men struggling tr obtain it, to supply an imperious hu man need, create a demand for it No more is the force of demand for coin produced by its being received so free ly in exchange for other commodities. On the contrary, it is freely accepted in exchange for other commodities because of the intensity of the force of demand for it, .-rising out of the strenuous and universal struggle of men against each other to obtain pos session of it, in order to have it per form for- them an urgently needed service which nothing else on earth h:.3 power to perform, namely, to sat isfy tax levies and judgments. The total absence of any knowledga of the nature of value is manifest in the quotations made and by Mill's further statement that the "value of a thing is what it will exchanee for." A cow for example might exchange with equal facility for a hog or a gold ea gle. Then its value, upon his theory, would be a hog in the one case and an eagle in the other. Hence, it fol lows that a hog Is "Value" and an ea gle is ""value." , The fact is, the value of the cow in such case might be ex pressed in money as $10; by which would be meant that the quantity of the force of demand for the cow at the given time and place is ten times the quantity adopted as the "unit;" and not that a certain weight of metal is its "value." This is to say that metal IS "value." ' . i , 5 If the urgency of men's needs drivJ them to expend their energy to ob tain "gold coin, by the sacrifice of a great quantity of services or commod ities, it is because that gold coin is endowed by statute with i exclusive power to perform for them an urgent, beneficial, statutory service, - which nothing else can perform; and be cause the force of demand for it I J tnercby made intense. It i3 its ex clusive endowment by statute with, that power to do beneficial statutory service, which causes the force of de mand for it It is rot because the metal, gold, may be used to fill de cayed teeth, nor because of its density or beauty; but because by statute it i made the only vehicle to carry about a governmental certificate which is endowed by law with the exclusive power to perform a beneficial statut ory service for men, the performance. of which is imperious and its need universal, that there exists the enor mous intensity of the force of demand for it, everywhere in action. The quantity of value placed upon everything, "under the conditions ex isting among civilized nations, is de termined In every case by the quantity of the force of demand for such com modity endowed with utility and cap able of exclusive possession. It is to be observed now that the use of "the standard of money" which k ; the "money symbol," is by the statute made mandatory "in the pub lic offices" as an essential part of the mechanism for the .exercise of the taxing power, and is also mandatory "in the courts," as part of the mechan ism for the formal administration of justice. "In the public offices," tax levies must be made by the use of that symbol as a means of expressing quantity of valuation. "In the courts,' judgments nmst be rendered by the use of that symbol as a means of ex pressing in judicial proceedings quan tity of valuation. Its usejs not mandatory in any other place. Wher ever else it is used, that use is volun tary and incidental merely. When that symbol, aided by numer als, (which is our "money") is coined or stamped upon any chosen sub stance, . the- resulting coin emanates (or at least should emanate) from the public offices and go in exchange for services or commodities needful to o.rry on governmental operations, and which are paid in advance of a tax levy by the taxpayer; and its use is by the statute made exclusive and mandatory "in the public .offices" as a conclusive receipt, by its tender, against tax levies; and in the courts as a conclusive receipt, by its tender, against judgments. Its use is not made mandatory any where else, and any use made of it elsewhere is voluntary and optional. It has conferred upon it by statute an office to perform ' in those two places, the performance of which is beneficial to men; which nothing else can perform, and it "Is not appointed to the performance of any office else where. ' - Its official function is to perform the office of conclusive proof of previous payment, and as a receipt by its ten der in those two places and not else where. It is (or at least ought sto be) is sued by the government in the exer cise of the taxing power, as a means to anticipate the revenues of futura years, when government is for any icason in distress. This is the sole object in clothing governments with the power "to coin money." No consideration of the in aginary duty of "furnishing the people with a circulating medium" had any part in its origin. It per forms no office when thus voluntarily used. In all such uses it is voluntarily employed as an imperishable and con venient commodity in which to store up evanescent wealth subject to van ish with perishable commodities. . v (Continued Next Week.) mm Stroke Shattered My Nerves. Gave Up Preaching For Two Years. Dr. Miles' Nervine Put Me On Active List. Are yon well? Do you sleep well? Do you get up rested, fresh and vigorous? Is vour mind clear and active? If not read the following. See what another has suffered and how he recovered. : , - "Some years ago I was afflicted with sun stroke which left me with a shattered nerv ous system and exceedingly poor health. I suffered terribly with pain in my head, the top of my head would feel hot I cou!d not study, and after striving for two years to -wear the trouble off, I was compelled to give up my pastoral labor and retire to my farm where I spent nearly two years trying to re cuperate.. It was all of no avail. Physicians treatment and patent medicines failed to re lieve me. 1 was exceedingly nervous and irritable and sometimes would shake terribly. I could not bear any noise. At the least ex citement the blood would rush to my face and head. Two years ago I was induced to try Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine. After using one bottle I could see improvement in my condition so I continued taking it for nearly a year. I am happy to say I no longer have those pains in my head or nerv ous spells. My appetite is good and I am able to preach three times on Sunday with out fatigue. I consider Dr. Miles' Nervine the most wonderful medicine ever discov ered." Rev. D. Alex. Holman, Pastor U. B. Church, Marion, Ind. All druggists sell and guarantee first bot tle Dr. Mites Remedies. Send for free book on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address Dr. Miles Medical Co.; Elkhart. Ind. For jour Farm, Bualnaia, Home, or property of any kind, no matter where lo cated. If you desire a quick sale, send ub deacription and nricn. Northweatern Busi ness Agsncy, N 313 Bank of Commerce Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. SEVEN GREAT Chillieotbe Normal College Chillicothe Commercial College Chillicothe Shorthand College Chillicothe Telegraphy College ChillieothH Pen Art Col W Pfll I CRCC Chillicothe Musical College UULLLUL.0 Chillicothe College of Oratory For free catalog address ALLEN MOOB3 Pres't, Chillicothe, Mo. 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