22 MUTUAL BANKING. 



medium of exchange should be sufficiently difficult of acquirement 

 to keep it within just limits. 



Can a currency be devised which shall fulfill all these condi- 

 tions? Can a currency be adopted which shall keep money always 

 just plenty enough, without suffering it ever to become too plenty? 

 Can such a currency be established on a firm, scientific foundation, so 

 that we may know beforehand that it will work well from the very 

 first moment of its establishment? Can a species of money be 

 found which shall posess every quality which it is desirable that 

 money should have, while it posesses no quality which it is desir- 

 able that money should not have? To all these questions we 

 answer, emphatically, YES! 



