The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-05-12


blood represent money.
IF the circulation of the blood should cease,
the man would die. If the circulation lie lrreg-
Mar or deficient, the man is sick.
The Geographic wires correspond to
THE NERVES
f the human body-the conveyance of intelli-
rence to sensation. If a mans foot is wound
cd, his head receives dispatch instantly. con-
yeving the intelligence, and the radiating
nerves convey the sensation to every other
part and if one par tsuffers, all parts feel the
pain sympathize and put forth efforts to re-
pair and heal. As it is thus with a healthy
man, SO must it be with healthy society. All
parts must be III intimate relation with every
other part all must cooperate for the COM
mon good. 1t must be realized that if one
part of the people are in want and ignorance
all parts of the body polite must suffer. We
must also remember that as every body has
many parts, each adapted to its especial work
and function, and happy in that work. so there
must be various parts and organs to the body
polite or social feet, head, hands, heart,
lungs, limbs, muscles, nerves, veins-all of
which are especially fitted to perform special
service for ALL and for which all are performing
reciprocal services Such is not the present
state of society in any country, but we are
slowly approaching it. | said you had reached
the third stage of
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS AND EDUCATION
The first stage of industry Is that III when
war alone is considered the proper vocation OF
a free man. Women and slaves must do the
field work, and weave spin, knit and sew for
the soldiers.
Many small tribes or nations are, by con-
quest finally consolidated and held within
natural boundaries by the strongest then the
second stdqe of industry is reached, life being
comparatively secure, wars less frequent, and
only portion of the men required for the
army.
Men now engage in industry and trade. ST first
reIuctantly however then comes division of
labor the second stage. The division of physi-
cal labor among uneducated men, people whose
brains contain no pabulum, nothing to digest
while at work, is stupefying and degrading. A
man who is occupied all his life in making the
thirteenth part of pin, with nothing to think
about. is evidently not living as he ought.
Though Spinoza, while engaged III earning
scanty living by polishing spectacle glasses,
worked out in his head his wonderful system of
philosophy. he was educated before he went to
polishing glasses.
The third stage of industry is that in which
the hand-worker has received some education,
so that while he works with his hands he builds
in his head a machine to do what his hands are
doing he becomes an inventor, machinist,
and manager of machinery. This is the stage
IN which you are to-day, for every farmer Is
machnist
EVERY FARM HAS IT'S WORKSHOP.
great or small. Many an intelligent farm lad
can run the steam engine that drives his fathers
threshing machine and all have at least COM
mon-school education, the tools for acquiring
all human knowledge.
You all use complicated machinery you all
know when it is ont of order. If you hear some
unusual rattle or squeaking, you stop your ma
chine instantly, ascertain the cause, and apply
the remedy.
You have found that the governing machine
~ OF your country and its
FINANCIAL MACHINERY
is continually out of order that ii does not
perform its work that it is continually either
breaking down or rafting and iingling. indicat-
ing arrangement You have been told that
these great machines are too complicated for
you to understand or handle. You say, if it is
not more complicated than my threshing ma
chine, or my harvester, / can understand it
YOU examine it, especially the English financial
machine; you study its construction, and its his
tory, and its work you find it is machine sys-
tenn that promises to pay gold when it has no
gold to pay and cannot get it; it Is system
under which, while the nation has become
nominaly rich, the people have become CORE
spondingly poor and deformed in body and
mind; that more and more of the children of
each oyerworked generation become too weak
to snatch living in the midst of fierce compe-
tition. and drop off into
POOR HOUSE OR THE PRISON
you find that under that system trading and
professional callings are deemed more honor
able than the labor OF production {; that pro-
share they receive of what they produce that
undue competition between the members of
an overcrowded commercial class has caused
business to become a system of war or a
game of chance you find that the best mer-
chants and the candid students and writer's of
England declare their financial system fail
IRE, and the Bank of England an overloaded,
overworked and inefficient machine. That the
continual raising and lowering of the rate of
interest in order to keep coin in England is
continually changing the market value of all
commodities, so that he who carries on a
legitimate manufacturing business Is subjected
to all the uncertainties and risks of gambling.
That of those who engage in trade and COM
merce, a large majority die after a career of
labor and anxiety, leaving no provision for
their families, and it is exceptional to find a
merchant who has not failed at some time. As
you investigate, you wonder that the mercan-
tile classes have not discovered that the
PRIME CAUSE OF THESE EVILS
is in their financial system. You become doubt
ful OF the correctness of your own conclusions
to the cause of these difficulties social de-
rangements, and suffering you inquire of
merchants WHETHER. they have examined the
matter most of them say no, that it is to-
complicated. that they cannot understand it :
you accompany merchant through his great
establishment; you admire, understand. and
are interested in the steam engine which is used
to elevate or lift his goods; you are quite likely
to lind that he does not understand the parts
or the workings of his own steam engine he
tells you, perhaps, that it is too complicated,
that he cannot understand it, that he leaves
that to his engineer, as he leaves the subject of
FINANCE TO THE RoTHsCHLDs.
The fact is, that merchants and business men
are very acute, and very quick. and are intelli-
gent i'll certain ways, but they make pack horses
of their brains in their everyday work, so al
night when they put the tired pack-horse IN its
stable, they do not care to study the steam en-
CINE or any other machinery.
Professional men, in cities at least. are so en-
crossed with their special lines of thought and
effort that few give much attention to the
grand machinery of society they do not real
lie, like Emerson, that . Our state of society
is one in which the members have suffered am
putation from the trunk, and strut about SC
many walking monsters-a good finger, neck
stomach, an elbow. but never man. The
priest becomes FORM the attorney statute
book the mechanic machine, the sailor rope
Of the ship
YOU EXAMINE AND FIND
that there was system of finance practiced
in the Middle Ages the Dark Ages under
which Government debt supplied the circulat-
ing medium that the Government debt evil
dences were for centuries worth premium over
coin that for centuries there was nothing in
Venice corresponding to a suspension of specie
payment. financial crises. and the troubles and
Ficlssltudes which are experienced now in bust
ness hfe you discover that what is familiarlv
called the greenhack is a Government bond :
that ITS delivery transfers shares in the national
debt, which. by law. is made legal payment
You ind that the Government itself now dis
credits these notes and makes them worth less
than com, because it refuses to receive them
Tor custom dues, for which il demands gold in
stead and YOU find. further, that the Govern
ment has rendered these notes mredeemable by
repeating the provision of law under which
they were issued, which provided that they
shoalo oe receivable by the Government at par