We can easily understand the true meaning of exchange, and
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Suppose the Government should issue its legal tender notes to those performing services or
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jdcu bank and they would be legal tender. A person who performed a service for which the Government owed him $50 would get this legal tender in payment. It might be a $50 certificate or
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services, but
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jdcu bank as well circulate it (but without the necessity of indorsement), according to the present manner of the passing of checks between the customers of banks and
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THE GOLD STANDARD.
On March 14, 1900, the Money Trust, after
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The dollar is worth less now than it was in 1900, that is, it will buy less. That fact, particularly, does not satisfy the creditor class. They have had enormous interest returns, but
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fewer of these than there are of those who seek a reform which will better the conditions of all. Such a remedy would not satisfy the Money Trust.
We have seen many comments in the press lately in regard to a plan devised by Professor Irving Fisher of Yale University. Mr. Fisher is no doubt an honest and
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