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much scrip. One of tlie men was a blacksmith, one a doctor, one 

 a miller, one a soap maker, the other two were farmers, t'lntl they 

 liad $300. issvied between them. As these parties are well known, 

 their word being as good as their note, the xtore-keeper agrees to 

 take the scrip and locks up the securities in his safe, until the first 

 of the montli, when a statement and a clearance is made. Soon, 

 others start a warehouse for deposits, and their receipts are trans- 

 formed into certified checks, indelibly perforated with certain defi- 

 nite amounts. They issue a currency on real estate, also bonds for 

 their department store, for illumination, and for water. These are 

 in denominations as low as -fo., and are paid for in work, materials, 

 or money. In return, they are redeemed in service, meanwliile 

 passing as currency. 



With this three-fold organized exchange, we not only are able 

 to make one labor exchange free from the tolls to monopoly but we 

 have a stereotyped organism which will forever establish all exchan- 

 ges on a labor basis. Then will the pool and its machinery become 

 mero-ed in society, where riches are alone the reward of merit, and 

 poverty only the consequence of indolence. Then there will be an 

 ethical yard- stick with which to measure ])rices, and the variations 

 of supply and demand so vvell regulated, that their influence will 

 V)e almo.st imperceptible in modifying the first cost. 



We therefore, as consumers, call a halt on all the tolls to capital 

 of whatever description. We aflirm the utmost freedom for the 

 exercise of equity, knowing that it has the power to banish all dead- 

 headism. We constitute a power before whose gaze there is neith- 

 er sufferings nor martyrdom, but a veritable bonanza. Nature, in- 

 vention, association, all pour their treasure into the lap of labor. 

 Has any one any doubt that the only way to prevent being defrauded 

 is to stop dividing ? The only way then to do this is to form a chan- 

 nel where an integral exchange can take place. Is it possible to 

 con.;eive how labor can be otherwise emancipated ? It is not a la- 

 bor or class movement, l)ut a societary one. It takes in all classes 

 equally but the most obtuse, and these will be finally compelled to 

 come in. It is limited to no j)articular country in its application ; 

 It is capable of immediate introduction, and of conferring immedi- 

 ate ben fits. 



PROPA(iANDA. 



So our (trganization is ripe, oven though education has not begun. 

 We do not exp(!ct the tin pail brigade, or the farmer, weary with 



