Yours very truly, ⸺ ⸺. ANSWER (1) No. (2) You can get the Census Reports of 1900, by spurring up your Congressman. (3) The “encumbered” homes show an increase, as do the “hired” homes. (4) No. Concentration of wealth in the hands of a few goes on at a more frightful rate than ever. _Five thousand men_ now own one-sixth of the entire wealth of the Union. One man, J. D. Rockefeller, could buy the State of Georgia, give it away, and then have enough to buy it back. * * * * * COOLEDGE, TEXAS. _Hon. Thomas E. Watson._ DEAR SIR: I received your August number of Magazine. I don’t know exactly what it is you propose. It is perhaps the dull apprehension of an old hayseed from down at the fork of the Creek. (1.) Is the money you propose for the Government to issue to be redeemable Treasury Notes, or is it to be absolute Fiat money? (2.) Do you propose the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at 16 to 1? If not at that ratio, what ratio do you propose? (3.) Is it not a fact that from 1792 to 1834 we were practically on the silver standard and that after 1834 we were practically on the gold standard, and that this change was the effect of the change of ratio, made by the act of 1834? Why was it that in 1853 the Government coined fractional silver of lighter weight in proportion to value than the standard dollar? (4.) You claim for the Government the power to create money. If that be so, why clamor for gold and silver only? Let us suppose that the United States Treasury is now full of such money as you propose, Gold, Silver or Fiat. I want some of it. How am I to get it? I agree with you heartily that the making of our Federal Government is all out of joint, and I think that it is the unwarranted meddling with affairs over which it has no rightful control. The remedy, as I think, is _not_ in enlarging and extending its powers, for every step taken in that direction makes worse conditions possible. Let us say to her in plain language: “Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther. Get back to the track marked out for you and stay there.” What is here written is in all honesty and in a controversial spirit and should you see fit to refer to them, I will be glad to have the number. I am not a subscriber now. May be soon. Best wishes. ANSWER