Year: 1876

Vl0cd lsTand aTTaCkIng De1OnglnT
the association, rendered her unable to give milk
Then such piteous cry from every household
where there were babies as carried pa the stout
est hearts. There need OF any concerted ac-
tion for the people assembled spontaneously and de-
manded action An immense public meeting was at
organized highly popular and humane man, a
special friend OF children familiary known as Uncle
Dick. was called to the chair. He supported by
long list OF leading citizens vice presidents and
secretaries none OF whom, however had had any prac
tcal acquaintance with milk since their childhood, ex-
cept in the form Of punch. The chairman made an
most agitated by pity ndgnaton-pty for the poor
babies whose sufferings had become intoerabe; IN
dignation at the cruelty OF the chartered monoposs
who had wantonly refused issue tickets at the
tive


MrtLENNIAl MILK.


The assembly was OF one mind with the chairma n,
and unanimously resolved that the Lacea Association
should Immediately increase their supply OF tickets,
and that default thereof their charter should be
altered and amended Unable 10 resist the storm o:
popular Indignation the association at once complied,
and every patriotic citizen went home 10 the bosom OF
his afflicted family carrying an abundant supply or
milk tickets and feeling conscious that for
least he had the level Of the occasion. That
night the babies all supplied with milk tickets in
the place o milk. MIX tickets hot, milk tickets cold,
milk tickets sweeened milk tickets PLAIN, milk tickets
with their backs printed green and interchangeable
with milk tickets drawing cream skinned from
babies, one and ALL with that same sort OF instructive
perversity which induces children OF a larger
growth refuse to accept shams for reality, and be
grateful in addition, refused TO take to milk tickets
The uproar OF the night preceding was as nothing To
the disturbances oil the night following,
dawned upon unreireshed and troubled population.
MOUTHS OF sucKLINGs.
AS soon as the necessary arrangements couiu DC
made another meeting assembled But the meeting
this time was composed of babies, backed by their
mammas and nurses. There was no theory In their
sentiments; and. though young in years one and all
felt that they had lived long enough TO know what
their fathers apparently did not know-namely, the
difference between milk and paper The resolutions
voted BRIEF but TO the point ana were suDstan-
TALLY foows:-


First that the exigences of the times demanded
mo m and second
way to get more milk was to have more cows; third,
that the way to get more cows was to go to work and
RAISE them something else equally valuable,
and then with this something else buy cows; fourth,
that there certain eternal verties against which 1t
Is useless for either babies or men TO contend CON-
mttee appointed to procure mill OF the gods to
grind up those who dsbelcved in the last resolution,
and the meeting then adjourned


POTS


This the first indication OF anything like popular
dissent from the views OF the Friends of Humanity
Others, however, soon followed. Value having been
declared to be an ideal thing and ideal measures of
value having been substituted IN the place of the real
and tangible measures formerly IN use, 1t had been
deemed proper to substitute ideal measures OF length
weight and capacity in the place OF the foot rules yard
sticks pound weights aud bushel formerly
ployed. Shopkeepers plumbers charcoal men, gas
corporators and all others who mad anything to sell
accordingly provided themselves with slips OF paper
upon which printed respectively This loot
'rhis is bushel ''Ths is pint 4" This pound;n
and the services OF the arithmetic nun were again
called ior to prove how much more CLOTH beer char
coal gas and all other measurable things the commu
nifty would certainly have by the saving OF labor and





further manufacturing purchasing and using the old
measures. But the new system did work smoothly
There harmony OF sentiment between buyers
and sellers, and what mans ideal OF what he
should give or receive in trade was always different
from every other mans, ard before the community
were well aware OF what they were about they found
themselves drifting back to the adoption OF the old
system of barter which had been tried and abandoned
In the early days of the islands history,


SCALES EXCHANGE


Instead OF one price, every one who had commodi-
ties or services to sell adopted scale OF at least TOUR
prices :-"Pay price, B." 'money price, 'pay money
prce' and ''trustng price;' and the seller, before
liking his price, invariably asked his customer how he
would pays "Pay price" barter;n money
price, was payment in foreign coin; pay in money"
was in the idea money OF the island ''trustng" was
an enhanced price, according to time Thus supposng
a customer wanted knife, its price in pay" would
be bushel of corn; IN money price" hty cent
gold silver coin in pay as money" sometimes as
much he could bring in basket, at other times
he could bring IN wheelbarrow; and before
the ultimate abandonment OF the use OF ideal money,
a cart had TO be employed to bring the money. Trade
in this way became 'most intricate" )"


THE TAXATION TALIsMAN


News also, about this time, that the heather,
being able stomachs with the
of cattle that had been abundantly sent them
and considering themselves humbugged, were prepar
ing 10 declare To meet threatened Increased ex
penditure this account the government therefore,
levied and the valuation OF the property
of the island, under tho influence OF the new hs-
cal system, had, as before stated, enormously in
creased, II was anticipated that small rate would
yield a large revenue. But Scrapehem,
Double and their friends, who had been multiplying
their property by multiplying titles, found
out that the titles were to be valued and assessed
wealth equally with the property which the titles
represented they hasted swap back cancel their
mortgages; and Immediately half the reputed wealth
OF the island disappeared


TlGnTENED REALITIES


All who had loaned valuable commodities desired to
avoid tapping, and consequently fastened TO demand
repay ymeht before the ideal money could be
svely issued and put circulation, and having
obtained payment very cautious how they lent
II again All this contributed, the Language of the
day, TO make money very tight; but this language
had, TO great extent, no meaning. The only money
that was tight WAS good money, and this had been
gone so long that the younger part Of the
population didn't know how it looked
wne of the bad money there was continu-
ally increasing quantity Besides good money,
all real capital timber Tor building ships factories
and houses iron for the construction OF machinery,
cloth Tor clothes and grain for ood were tight; not
because there was any lack Of all these useful things
but because the had all become afraid that II
they once loaned or parted with them they would
never receive back an equivalent SO the island, in
stead OF being lifted up TO great prosperity, was
plunged into the depths OF adversely. There was a
general lack Of confidence societary activity was
ing industrious had no opportunity OF following any
industry.


BAsE ACTION OF FoRnGS CAPITALISTS


Gold had long disappeared from circulation. Al
though produced in large quantities on the island,
OF II would stay there but flowed on foreign
countries In steady stream. The common cxplana-
ton OF this phenomenon was that gold had become the
cheapest thing the island produced and was therefore,
said ard heard this did not clearly that the
erage purchasing power Of gold the world had not
varied IN degree, but that the price OF almost every
other thing produced the island had varied and
atvcly increased by reason Of domestic fiscal circum
stances that far better for the foreigner to take
pay in gold for all the commodities he sold to the
island and then, with this gold, purchase In other
countries the very things which the island specially
produced and wanted to SELL As already ntmated the
Islanders found great difficulty in understanding this
little arrangement but the foreigners understood 1t
by intuition, and never failed TO act upon IT, All OF
this further contributed TO turn upside down and inside
the Industries OF the island; and while the friends
OF humanity continued to loudly proclaim that the is
sue OF more money would cure all difficulties, the
people sorely distressed and ready to accept relief
IRON any quarter, began to loudly murmur IN turn
what seemed unnecessary delay making the
issue; the TACT being that although public opinion
nearly unanimous the subject the regular time for
the Congress OF the island meet aud laws had
not come round.


STILL MORE MONEY WANTED.


At last the long expected day arrived, and Congress
assembled All the special and immediate friends of