Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-03-29
Fer the Portage Sen tinel.
Poor Richard S Second Thoughts.

/. There are two classes in society; those who
are paid more than an equivalent for their labor
and those who are paid less. The largest is the
latter class, whose hands are rough, and who eat
bread in the sweat of their brows I
g 1t is not the love of money, but the love Of
the interest money that is the root Of all evil
3. Rent and interest are contrivances to control
mans labor without laying hands upon him.
4. There are more buildersaof houses than
owners of houses, and vastly more families than
free holders.
$. If forty hatters should combine to work for
one another and share the profits justly, this
would be Socialism" If forty bankers should
combine to manage Bank, and share the profits,
that would not be Socialism,
6. Pare profits are what the mercantile COM
munity are paid orer and above an equivalent for
their labor These pure profits create interest.
7. When the working-classes become their
own merchants they will be justly paid for their
labor, mot before.
8, Our statesmen pretend great anxiety about
occasional scarcities of money. Have they got
any remedy for the p.rmaneas scarcity of it?-
There is one but it is their interest not to see it.
9 The Politicians teach the people that great
prices are the greatest good in politics. When
a dozen boys scrambling for one marble can each
get it, then great prices will be benefit to oil
Trades and Employments.
10. The wheels of Trade and Commerce to-day
are oiled with distrust; as if teamster should
put oil of vitriol ON his axles to make the Wagon
run better,
II. Ifthe s'collection laws" were abolished the
money handlers say that it would destroy conf.
dence. But it is because they have no confidence,
that they take bonds and notes
H. Democracy in Politics -and Despotism in
Trade. But some day it will be-Democracy in
Politics and Justice in Trade.
l3. The Majority rule in the Ballot-box- the
Minority in the Market and the Bank. Then
what is the Ballot-boxa A Ieuer; with the long
arm in the Bank.
IA. "a false balance is an abomination to the
Lord" to the Merchant it is equal to the Urim
and Thummim. +.,
Is. The Over paid AMI the Under-paid, it is
between these after all that the strife of Poll.
tics lies. When will the Under paid find it outl
l6. Why don't the Merchants take simply so
much profits as will justly pay them for their Ia.
bor? Because they prefer pure profits.
~. Is there no limit to Mercantile profits but
the productiveness of the soil Yes. Make
your own merchants NTH fired salaries.
lS. Competition brings down prices does il
| not? Yes. And among other things the price
! of iabor.
49, Competition is the life of business-and-
the snare which the Sons of money set for the
People.
90. Money will be plenty when all the Peopl.
| join to mrke it. That art they have not learned
nor will they, till they salary their Merchants
81. That is cheap to me which ] get by the
least labor without cheating another. That viii
be true of Merchants, when the People have put
| their brides on.
%. Give me a thousand dollars, and in twelve
years without doing stroke of work, l will be
come master of another thousand. Ought this tt
be possible among Christian men?
%. There is one kind of paper money which
would be better than Gold or Silver, and les
liable to fluctuations certificates Of labor per
| formed .sss
"a Money has value that can be bought fol
other money, because Society allows the Mer
chants pure profits.
25. The Bankers ask the privilege of making
j the Peoples Money. When they have got it
they pay the People for the privilege obtained
by taxing them six or more per cent at compoun,
interest for, the use Of it. That may be .callet
i driving great bargain, ON the Peoples part
4 POOR RICHARD.
Ravenna, O..