Can money be measured so that the same fixedness shall attach to it that attaches to everything else with which we have to do? Money itself has always been considered a measure of value; and it is this false stoppage and foundationless position that has made possible all financial discords, irregularities and inconsistencies. Does it appear to be a strange proposition that money should be measured? Why should not a dollar be just as absolute as a dollar as a pound is as a pound; or as a foot is as a foot; or as a gallon is as a gallon? A cord of wood contains one hundred and twenty-eight solid feet, or eight cord feet. It must _always_ be _eight_ feet in length, _four_ feet in height and _four_ feet in width, or some other multiples of one hundred and twenty-eight. A cord can _never_ be any more, _never_ any less than just that measurement. And the same rule holds of everything else with which we have to do; with quantity, time, space and motion. All these have fixed and unvarying modes of measurement. But money, the lever by which all these are moved, has been left to fluctuate as it would—to be moved by every different influence, so that in _many instances_ what should have brought contentment, peace and continuous prosperity, has bequeathed the direct reverse. It does not concern us that there are _more yards of cloth_ at one time than another, provided that _yard-sticks_ are all of the same length. But what _would_ concern us would be this: That if with increase of the _quantity_ of cloth the _length_ of the yard-sticks should increase proportionately; or with the _decrease_ of the quantity of flour the _pound_ should decrease in like proportion therewith. Now this is just what has always been true of money; its _real_ value _increases_ and _decreases_, just in proportion as those things which it professes to measure have increased or decreased in quantity. Instead of these things being exchanged or converted into something measured by as _fixed_ a _standard_ as they are, the attempt is made to measure them by _something_ which _constantly increases_ and _decreases_ in representative capacity. In other words, a dollar is not at all times one and the same thing. Sometimes it is but seventy–five cents, and sometimes a dollar and a half. That to say that seventy–five cents at one time possess the same representative power that a dollar and a half does at another time, which is in substance to say that money has no measure.