SECOND ADDRESS TO THE 



MEKS OF ENGLAND. 





" A decrease of the quantity of Money produces the same effect on the 

 u price of a commodity, as an increase of the quantity of the commo- 

 " dity itself; if CORN be that commodity, an addition to the value of 

 " Money, such as the diminution of its quantity occasions, ensures at 

 11 effectually a fall in the price of Corn, as the Opening of the Ports 

 " and Free Importation," Sir James Graham's Corn and Currency. 



EVERY man ought to know something, and to know it 

 correctly, of the laws which govern Money^- the circu- 

 lating medium of exchange in his own country. Many 

 may be inclined to say that the Currency Question can 

 have nothing to do with the Farmer. The Currency 

 .Question is often called a banker's question. Men of 

 business, commercial men and traders, may be interested 

 in it ; but what, it is said, can farmers have to do with 

 monetary science ? Now consider for a moment what 

 the business of a farmer is. He raises crops ; he breeds 

 cattle ; it is his business to cultivate his land in the best 

 possible manner. And what is the best manner ? Why 

 it is the most profitable manner. That is the best manner 

 for his landlord, for himself, and for his labourers. And - 

 how is his profit to be ascertained ? Why, by the money 

 which he obtains for his produce. He sells his produce ; 

 that is, instead of bartering away the part of his corn and 

 cattle which he does not want to consume, for clothes 

 and the necessaries of life, he buys money with it, knowing 

 that money will exchange for every thing which he wants.- 

 A farmer has also many fixed money payments. H^s. 

 rent, his taxes, his tythe, his rates, all these he is obliged 

 to pay in money. Money is, in short, one half of every 

 bargain made by the farmer, as well as by men in trade. 

 Is it not, therefore, of the greatest importance tq the 

 farmer not only to attend to his crops and his cattle, but 

 also to the laws which regulate the supply of that in 

 which he is paid for both ? Suppose that, just at harvest 

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