Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-02-24
DOLLARS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

This is the first of a series of ar
ticles by a contributor, leading up to
the question of cooperative banking.
The next installment will be printed
next week.
News Item: A New York judge
admits that the judiciary favors
Capital.
Another News Item: A U. S. SEN
ator confesses that some members of
the senate represent the Manufacture
ers' Association.
Would it not have been more fair
to every one, even to himself, for the
Judge to have plainly said that Cap
ital" owned him, or rather, the Ju-
dietary?
While the senator" was not quite
so frank as the judge in his admis-
sion yet he displayed a very guilty
knowledge of who the owners of the
senate are.
You may wonder what these items
have to do with the subject. They
have this: Capital means Dollars,
and Dollars are what men are con-
tending for when they go before the
judiciary. If not Dollars directly
| it is something the value of which is
measured in Dollars, and when n
Judge admits his favoring Capital he
means Dollars and nothing else.
When a senator says his colleagues
represent the manufacturers he
means that they represent the manu-
facturers' Dollars, for Dollars the
hidden springs that make the mon
key dance and in order to attach un-
A. nf
they do their owners bidding.
Everybody agrees that the dollar
has very important place and per-
forms a necessary function In car
rying on barter and trade and is APP
parently indispensable as medium
of exchange, but most people over
look the fact that the value of the
dollar is based upon metal that is
scarce and hard to procure, usually
requiring extreme hazard to be IN
dergone in its procuring. We haz-
ard a guess that were constituted au-
thority inclined to change the basis OF
valuation of the dollar from the in
trinsic worth of value of the metal
used i'm its coinage to the labor re-
ouired to produce an article of COM
merce, you would Immediately hear
a howl go up from they who admit
by word of mouth that they as
Judges favor Capital when rendering
Judgment between those who have
and those who have not, or that they
represent in our lawmaking bodies
the ones who invest Capital in an en-
terprise against the ones who invest
their brains as well as Drawn, yea,
their very lives, in the same enter
prise. :.
Yes, we must have some medium
of exchange for our services to 9TH
ers. but let us base it on something
more substantial than a metal that
can be lost, stolen, destroyed, or the
supply exhausted. Let us base it on
labor, the supply of which will never
become exhausted so long as the
world stands.
We believe that to base the value
of our medium of exchange, whether
it be gold, silver, copper, lead or
what not, on labor, or rather, the ser
vices rendered by each to each other,
we can solve many of the problems
that confront the country today, not
only industrial problems, but social,
educational and religious. Working
with the thought in mind that each
one is entitled to just as good a iiv-
| ing, just as good home, and just
as much of the pleasure of life as
anyone else, so long as they are will
| ling to contribute their share of the
toll necessary to create their part.
Then we could dispense with a large
number of the judiciary that is re-
quired to interpret and enforce the
| laws that are made by the fellow
| that represents Dollars, as their
usefulness as protectors would be
taken away from them, for each con-
tributor would become the protector
of his part or contribution. In fact
| if he did not protect his own II
would be useless for any one else to
attempt TO protect it for him. We dc
not intend leaving the impression
that one would have to resort to force
of arms or brute strength to protect
| his own. We have too much of that
way now, and some of our people are
continually preparing to use force OF
arms to protect things 1.-THE value OF
which is measured by Dollars) that
do not rightfully belong to them, but
have been given them by the law.
makers that represent Dollars and
not Justice.
Buy union made bread.