(1) Money that is “redeemable” in other money is not my idea of money. A dollar is not redeemed by swapping another dollar for it. The only redemption of the dollar which amounts to anything beneficial is when a debt, public or private, is redeemed by paying it off in legal tender. I redeem my promissory note by paying the amount of money it calls for: I redeem all my other dues and debts in the same way. Nothing is redeemed when a gold dollar is given for a silver dollar, or a metallic dollar exchanged for a paper dollar. That method of fooling the people will go out of fashion as the people become educated. All money is absolute fiat money. That is, the law makes the money. God made no money. Nature made no money. Evolution made no money. The law takes raw material and makes money out of it, just as the lumberman takes a log and makes plank or shingles out of it. The Government fiat makes gold money, makes silver money, makes nickel money, makes copper money. It would with equal ease and certainty make iron or paper _money_. Whenever _the law_ says that a paper dollar shall go just as far, as _a legal tender_, as the gold dollar goes, the paper will suit me and you just as well as the gold. (2) Yes. (3) No. See page 275, January issue of this Magazine. (4) I do not clamor for gold and silver only. We demand the money of the Constitution which has been taken away from us by venal Congressmen who were bribed by Wall Street and the European financiers. How could you get some of the fiat money? This is but another form of the old question of getting the paper money into circulation. There are several ways. (1) The Government could pay off the National debt. (2) The Government could build new railroads, or buy those already built. (3) The Government could pay current expenses with it. (4) Could build the Panama Canal with it. (5) Could establish a Department which would lend it to the people, direct, at a low interest, as is done in Europe. In Norway and Sweden the Government lends money to the farmers on their land, on long time, at low interest. These banks have been most beneficial and successful. In France and in Russia the Government makes loans upon produce. In Germany the Government bank lends money on land security, directly to the land-owner. In Greece, the farmers can get money from the Government banks. In Great Britain, the Government lends money to the citizen to buy land. The only reason in the world why our people cannot secure similar advantages, is that we are cruelly oppressed by corporation tyranny and greed. _In Passing_ BY LURANA W. SHELDON A nod, a smile, perchance a word, Where road meets road on life’s broad way; The pilgrim’s heart with joy is stirred; More brightly glows the weary way. A word, a glance, a subtle thrill Of sympathy for brother woe, And from the fount of human ill The sweetest drops of pleasure flow.