The Washington times., 1920-11-27
Today
Money Is Needed.
Any Kind, But Money.
An Irish Mistake.
II Must Please ENGLAND
; ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. is2s).

abolished already. NOW the money
itself is TO 70. This probably is
intended as a blow at "plutoc-
racy," "bourgeoisie," etc. Yet
moneys, as men ordinarily use it,
has nothing to do with the social
ed money power" 1t is simply
a convenience, a token represent
Jog value, goods, or labor. 1t is
a great invention, simplifying re-
iations among men and nations.
Throughout the centuries men
have used many queer things as
money, sometimes hides Of cattle.
Pecuniary comes from Pecus- Cat
tie, oxen, and sheep were used in
Rome and elsewhere in place of
money, ten sheep equaline one OK
as with us ten dimes equal one
dollar.
Homer in the Ilihd estimates
the difference in value between
two sets of armor by giving the
value in oxen.
Mr.. Lenin will find it difficult
for the Russians to figure the
value OF an American cooking stove
with a hot water boiler or Amer
lean tractor or threshing machine
in oxen, goats, or flax. In plati-
mum. yes, for platinum would
make excellent money.
Many have been the kinds of
money, sea-shells in many places,
whales teeth in the Fiji Islands.
red feathers of birds in the South
Sea Islands; iron, copper, silver,
gold.
In Central Africa iron spikes
are used for money. In Burma
they used lead. The first Hebrew
coins were copper. Corn. wheat,
olive oil, coccanuts, and tea have
been used as money, and in this
country among the early colonists
the regular legal tender for a long
time was tobacco.
Anything can be used for money
that people want or think they
want and of which the supply is
limited.
In Russia there are more than
hundred thousand villages.
These might get along fairly we'll
without money. as they make
practically everything they use.
But cities cannot exist without
money. The statement that Lenin
intends to have the nation supply
the necessaries of life without pay
70 oil
give nothing to the others is in
teresting. 1t probably won't work.
Lenin is intelligent. Trotzky, his
associate, is also intelligent, and
their plan hrs sprobably been mis-
represented Not to abolish their
money but to give it buying power
is the problem Of Trotzky and
Lenin.
Wheat drops, and March wheat
sold as low as $1.47. The price
Of window shades has been re-
duced one third.
Tuxedo" suits are advertised
at $45 and less. Sugar in cubes
in some places sells for less than
granulated sugar. Steel prices are
lower and not much steel is bought.
The drop evidently is beginning.
Sim Fein demonstrations in the
United States against the British
flag are not good for the Irish
cause. Just why Americans
should want to hoist other flags
than their own, it is difficult to
understand. One flag ought to be
enough for one country.
However, it is the RIGHT of
American citizens to hoist differ
ent flags on their own premises
if they choose, the flag of the
Irish republic, for instance, the
French flag, or the flag of the
British Empire.
When members of the Sim Fein
forcibly tear down the British
flag in this country, they say in
substance to American citizens
who have hoisted it: I'VE will
not allow you, in America. to ex-
orcise your legal right, because
we do not approve"
That is not the best plan for
making Americans interest them
selves in securing the rights of
Irishmen in Ireland. The Irish,
whatever their personal feelings,
should set the example of recog-
nizing the rights Of Americans in
America.
When the mob smashed the win
dows of the Union Club on Fifth
avenue, New York city, it did not
help Ireland. But it did please
England.
The Irish in Ireland should
have their rights, but for enthus-
iastic Sim Feiners to tell Ameri-
cans what they may or may not do
in America is not helpful. II would
please the Irish if they read about
Englishmen smashing Fifth
avenue windows and giving or
ders to American citizens. 1t
pleases Englishmen, naturally,
when the Irishmen do the smash
ing.
Another effort will be made to
limit the President to one term of
fo,r yaare Thic prohahlv will NOT