On the one hand, he always stands a chance of failing to receive what rightfully should be his, a situation which does not represent good business. On the other hand, he also stands a chance of receiving what he does not earn, a situation which does not represent good business either. It should be possible by means of having a stable price scale to make it practically sure that every person concerned in the process of production would receive his due. Naturally the highest reward would come to the man of greatest earning power. The result would be the placing of a premium upon industry and efficiency. Until we do so we shall have no oversupply of either. Uncertainty of prices has one serious social tendency. It produces a certain spirit of unrest on the part of the consumer. It may be true that the average person overdraws some of his conclusions on this question. It may be, too, that he bases some of them upon insufficient reasons. At the same time, however, his attitude is a fact which must be met and reckoned with. What the consumer thinks is no inconsiderable matter. He is not a small minority without power or influence. He is a vast majority, swaying the very life of the State as he will, for in one way or another we are all consumers. Moreover, the consumer has the last word in every argument. He holds the purse-strings, and when he is tired of talking, he can stop buying. It does not bode well when he conceives the feeling that undue difficulty attaches to trying to exist on the planet. He is not unreasonable. On the contrary, he is quite reasonable. He wants the other party, as well as himself, to have all that is his due. He has no objections to meeting the real cost of an article. He has some notions, however, as to what that cost should be. If prices go up, he expects them to have some proper reason for doing so. He works for his living, and he expects others to do the same. When he cannot count on what a day may bring forth, he cannot plan his financial future, for he has no idea one season what it is going to cost him to live the next. He has a feeling that it is time to get prices adjusted as they should be in fairness to all concerned, and then keep them so. One of the worst difficulties with our fluctuating system of prices is the fact that it does not make adequate provision for the economic life of the country. Our commercial system has the same function in the service of society that the blood has in maintaining the life of the body. Its work is to carry supplies promptly, effectively, and regularly to all the points where they are needed. The body is not in good health when the blood overfeeds it part of the time and starves it the rest of the time. It is not proper, either, to have congestion at one point and anaemia at another. The function of circulation must go on with uninterrupted constancy.