CURRENCY, 

 AGRICULTURE, & FREE TRADE, 



THE CURRENCY QUESTION has generally been 

 spoken of as a very difficult one. Englishmen have, 

 however, long been in the habit of considering difficulty 

 as something to be overcome ; and if the common sense 

 of the country be fairly applied to this subject, there is 

 no fear that it will soon be well understood. 



The Currency Question, as it is called, relates to the 

 laws which have been made about money ; and as every 

 man has more or less to do with money, every man is 

 interested in the Currency Question. If unwise laws are 

 made about any article of trade or commerce, such as 

 timber or sugar, all those who trade in these articles are 

 directly and injuriously affected, and other persons are 

 indirectly sufferers, though to a less extent ; for unwise 

 laws, ultimately, benefit no one, and injure every body. 

 But if unwise laws are made respecting money, every 

 individual and every interest in the country is immediately 

 affected. And though unjust and unwise money laws may 

 appear for a time to benefit some as much as they injure 

 others, yet in the end, it will be found that all suffer from 

 them. England, with her dense population, her widely 

 extended commerce, her expensive and artificial system 

 of agriculture, and her immense load of debt, is more 

 susceptible than any other nation of tke effects of unsound 

 legislation respecting her monetary system. 



