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to ensure abatement; while idleness, more hurtful, and yet remedial by legislation, for ages has been overlooked.

The Remedy is a Wider Consumption.

The real want is a wider range of consumption among the whole people everywhere, so as to open large markets, by the most active interchange of their diversified labor. Great broad channels of consumption are needed, in which to pour exhaustless streams of production, until all the people are supplied with the necessities and comforts of life.

Millions fully employed increase largely their purchasing ability, and by their moderate consumption are created wider and more stable markets than are furnished by the most wasteful extravagance of the few rich. Assume our 45,000,000 of population are comprised in nine million families, whose weekly earning are each increased ten dollars. Here is annually 4,680,000,000 of dollars of increased power to purchase the enlarged products of industry!

If man will continue to improve labor-saving machinery, he must find a way to dispose of its increased production, by larger general consumption, or else stagnation and distress will be more and more frequent.

How to Create a Wider Consumption.

By simply allowing labor the unrestricted use of money to accomplish its exchanges, a universal stimulus will be infused, both to create and to market the product of man's energies. This free supply will cheapen interest, and low interest, by adding to the profits of producers, will lessen that of capital, thereby encouraging the activity of production.

This needed encouragement will cause more acres to be tilled, more metals mined and fashioned, more good manufactured -- in short, will absorb mans wasted faculties in producing wealth and prosperity. Millions of idle people will then be able to earn the means to purchase the products, both of machinery and human labor, and generally to supply the increasing necessities of civilization.

The vast stimulus to increased production from the earth, some may call inflation; but an inflation which fosters industry, and creates universal happiness and comfort, by utilizing more largely the crude wealth of the earth, is just the kind of inflation the country requires.

Money has been compared to a bridge, built and maintained