How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

--he, indeed, who gave fewest pledges to Fortune, has yet suffered her heaviest visitations.

The same rule of self-destructive financial calculation governs every walk of life. We destroy the beauty of the countryside because the un-appropriated splendors of nature have no economic value. We are capable of shutting off the sun and the stars because they do not pay a dividend.

With the breakdown of money economy the practice of international barter is becoming prevalent.