The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-09-16

stratified BY UNIONS sailing under diff
fefent cognomens and all organized for
base and selfish purposes. graft, instead
lof being organized for social ADVANCE
ment and the common good. Our (the
world's) social system is rotten with
graft from bottom to top and the high
er up we get among The so-called bet
ter class c } the ranker the compound
of Mllainous smells (''Truth una
dorned is adorned the most. Gov
ernments are exclusively Of, by and for
big business unions. We have spent
many millions Of dollars in Investigate
ing and prosecuting the Standard Oil
Union, steel (steal) Union, Beef Union.
Lumber Union. Coal Union, Railway
and other unions, with large return to
the public in expense and experience,
to the silent amusement of the 'crimin-
ais of great wealth. Daugherty is now
tickling the public fancy BY telling it
what he is (not) going to do to the war
Profiteers, AS these big business UNI
ions are the government, they fully re-
alize they are absolutely immune from
infection by Flaw and order germs.
!! Gun men, thugs. detectives, marshals,
state and national troops are never or
dered out to subject these great GRIM
inals to law and order observance.
Try to buy an ice-cream sundae, bot
tie o.. patent medicine, overalls or shoes
of certain type. tractor OF tin-Liz-
zle, and you run up against an IRON
clad union and scabbing on price is not
allowed.
A little town here Of 500 population
has grocery union Of ten members.
No scabbing! Why not have ten pos,
officesp Farm anil other labor must
buy in closed shop and sell in com.
petition in open" shops. If it protests
thugs and plug-uglies are deputized
and armed to make mock of decency
and social order.
The Banking Union is the fountain.
| head of all graft and profiteering. Sta.
tutes inform us gold is the only rea
debt-paying medium. The Literary Di.
gest quoted the London Statist as say
ing the worlds entire volume of COLE
is less than $8,00O,OO0.000. At leasl
half of that is used in mechanic arts
jewelry to ornament fools and in plug
ged teeth. Its real social value for use
full service is practically nothing. Fran
els A. March, in World War History,
quotes the Federal Reserve Board a
giving gold and silver production 70
all time at about $30,000,000,000. A
reported officially our vaults now holc
I nearly all of the worlds supply of mon
etary gold, over $3,000.000,000. Tha
geld is worthless to us or anyone else
has bred the present vicious social eli
max. Money is merely token; it rem
4 ders no social service; It's possession
is evidence that Its owner has rendere,
i social service of the volume indicate,
BY the token and entitled to the sam
i volume of social service in exchang
for it. What the public demands is no
i gold but food, clothing useful pro
ducts of all kinds that will cater to it
Il human needs. If Russia will inteIli
gently employ her labor and resource
she will not need credit and worthless
gold. Bankrupt Entente allies offe
Russia despotism and hot-air financ
I for the privilege of employing her labo
and resources for their own base pul
poses.
Our entire volume of currency a
reported is less than $6s000.000, 00(
and at least one-third Of that is in tn
channels of trade.
| use the term currency discretel!
No nation to-day dares employ gold
internal affairs. There's reason.
why doesn't the government use i
more than three billions Of gold in liqu
dating its obligations instead Of hawl
ing its securities around like chea
street vendor? 1t had a costly flu
page ad in The Saturday Evening Pc
a lof July s, $500 to mature into $500
Il lin five years. | suppose that ad. az
peared in other high-class journal
H The rich and prosperous U. S.. II
4 greatest country on Earth. occupies ii
anomalous position Of borrowing
own notes. debts, with interest and a
d costs charged to the public. while holc
ing $3.045, 100000 Of idle gold in !
+ vaults. A 500 share in one-hor'
country bank is worth more than
HI 500 share in our great government
the U. S. A. A treasury ruling in ii
'90's was that gold only would be gi'
Il en- and received in exchange for go
eminent securities. lit is the policy ,
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