title deeds; the milk; when you can have
it means that your creameries more cloth by decreasing your
will yield a better product if yardstick one-half; when you
you water the milk; it means can sell more tons of merchandise
that when the housewife shops by shortening your pound
she will buy more linen, or one-half,--then, and not until
gingham, or calico, if the then, can you increase the value
merchant moves the brass tacks of your property or labor by
of his counter yard measure decreasing your standard of
nearer together." values."

CALVIN ROSS SHELBY. JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD,
Faneuil Hall, Boston,
September 10, 1878.

"These fanatics say that if "But this is the first time I
foreign nations don't want the ever heard a financial philosopher
sort of money we choose to express his gratitude that we
coin they can go without, and have a currency of such bad
that we should be glad that repute that other nations will not
they don't. We've some receive it; he is thankful that it
other things that foreigners is not exportable. We have
don't want. We've peaches a great many commodities in
with the yellows, and weeviled such a condition that they are
wheat, and rancid butter, and not exportable. Mouldy flour,
ancient eggs, but I've yet to rusty wheat, rancid butter,
meet a farmer who wants to damaged cotton, addled eggs, and
corner the market. They spoiled goods generally are not
remind me of a town that was exportable. But it never
moved to build a gallows occurred to me to be thankful for
because all its neighbors had this putrescence. It is related
them. I don't need to add in a quaint German book of
that it was not an American humor that the inhabitants of
town. And one of the wise Schildeberg, finding that other
city fathers was so carried away towns, with more public spirit
by his patriotism that he tried than their own, had erected
to make the council pass a gibbets within their precincts,
resolution that the gallows be resolved that the town of
reserved for that town's Schildeberg should also have a
inhabitants exclusively."