The Labor enquirer., 1888-03-03

you. If they. conclude on ''fre<
trade" you will have less emigra'
ton; If you. If they. conclude or
protection" you will have more
emgration-that is all there isto i,
-and whether the starved me.
chanic comes here to work and
starve, or stays where he now Is
to starve and work, the resulting
condition of both of you will be
found the same. .
Let the false democratic party
and the equally false republican
party. fix and maintain if they can
their cunningly contrived tissues"
Let them find in each others arms,
as in New York and Chicago they
united to defeat your just de.
mands. all the comfort and sup
port they can, and no other. Your
absence from the fight they have
instituted to amuse you. will cast
CONSERVATION among them and il
is possible they may fall upon
each other. This will be your op-
portunity If you are prepared.
l now return to the main subject
of these papers:
The abolishment Of capitalism
will of course destroy every law
by which is now protected, and
will now bring into prominence all
laws relating to that power or
force which must replace it in the
economy of the world.
Now what is money! or. before
we inquire what it is, let US ask
what was its origin1 and how has
it become changed from its orig
inal purposes and has the change
(if any resulted to the benefit Of
mankind1
The time of its invention, and
the necessity for its invention, are
of course lost in the mist of ages"
but all who have ever written,
thought or spoken upon the sub
ject agree that when it was in
vented. it must have been invented
as measure Of a Ladwsy,s sUork.
Thus If to-day we stamp upon a
silver dollar, instead of the usual
"guff" we find there. the words.
Zone Days Work" and on the
lower or higher coins the words
to correspond to their present diff
ferent values. on FIVE dollar gold
piece, Five Days Work." on a
ten cent colt "One Hours Work"
we shall probably be as near
guessing the origin of and the ne
cessity for the invention of money
as any of the philosophers.
We can guess pretty closely by
imagining what we ourselves
would do circumstanced as we
people were who found first that
money was a necessity.
l imagine if 1000 of US should
by some convulsion Of natural or
other process find ourselves sud-
denly isolated from our present
surroundings and resources and
cast upon our individual efforts to
produce the means of sustaining
life, it would take more financial
talent than all the Goulds and
Vanderbilts possess to convince
the stupidest among US that they
should not only be allowed to live
upon the proceeds of our work.
but to live better and even longer
than any Of US. for the reason
that they had found strange
metal among the rocks or picked
up a glittering shell upon the
shore. Yet we do. or submit to
this thing to-day. and thousands
of US even fght and die to sustain
these men in their demands.
Admitting then that money was
invented as measure OF the Ia
borer's work. there can be no valid
reason produced to sustain the
present state of affairs. namely:
that money is. shall or should be.
the labsrer's master. But I am
aware of the fact that here ! am
upon ground which has been trod-
den before me.
Money is the laborer's master.
simply because Of his suPineness
arising from his ignorance. Hei
so saturated with this ignorance,
instilled into him from the tender