THE VICIOUS CIRCLE.
“We harvested bumper crops last year, you remember. May wheat at Chicago is worth ten cents a bushel less than a year ago; corn and
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The bumper crops stimulated trade in many lines—and that usually brings higher prices; while wheat went down, iron and
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job bank canada hrdc as well transportation. This higher cost must be offset by higher prices, to overcome which investors must demand still more interest.
Meanwhile labor, so to speak, chases its own tail, demanding higher wages, which result in higher prices that consume the increased wages—which naturally induces a demand for still higher wages that result in still higher prices.”
Every farmer knows that a difference of ten cents a bushel between the price a commodity brings in one year and
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iron bank and the railways charge full price for shipping every bushel, and
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Under the present practice all value in excess of what gold is actually worth as
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The whole problem simply reduces itself to a question of how long the people desire to remain industrial slaves to a false system. The gold owners ridicule fiat green backers, yet they themselves are fiatists. If they are not, why do they object to gold circulating on its own commercial merits ? Why do they wish to coin it with any other designation than its weight and
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