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areThen it is not the weight o taxes paid out of ?”"The earnings of the country.”" What are earnings ?”" The wages of work.”" Ought not the taxes then to be easier paid when there are more workers ?”" It would seem so.”" f taxation that fifrces you away; for it is not the part of a heavily burdened community to push out those who help to carry the loa”" We are tired of helping to carry the loa”" And you come to the State to ask it to spend money on weakening itself by sending you to the uttermost parts of the earth ?”" We should not want to quit our country, if our country valued u Our country ought not to see us starve!”" Why do you starve ?”" Because work is very bad to get, and when we get it the wages will hardly keep u”" Why dont your employers give you more work and better wage”" They tell us taxes are very heavy, and money is very scarce ; they cant get anything like a fair price for their good Besides, they dont get ready money for their goods, but bills at long date j and they do say the discount off the bills eat up all the profits; so they stop their works, or any way knock off hands and time, and then we starve by million”" But why shouldnt their customers give them ready money for ready goods ?”" Why, sir, I dont suppose there be ready money enough in all the country for that.”" What is money made for ?” ” To pay wage”"What for?”" For making good”" Who are wages paid by ?”" By them that sell good”" How are they to get it ?”" From them that buy the good”" Then money is made to pay for goods ? How much money should be made ?”" Well,should think enough to pay for the goods that are mad”"If there was ready money enough in the country for every dealer to pay ready money for his ready goods, wages would be better and work easier to find ?”"Most likely.”" When flour is very scarce and dear, how do you manage to fill your bellies ?”"We eat potatoes?”" Are potatoes as nourishing as bread and pudding ?”" No ! but theyre a deal better than nothing.”" Tou consider it a sign that bread stuffs are scarce when you see operatives wives cooking great mashes of potatoes as a substitute for loaves and puddings ?”" Certainly!”" Are bills money ?”" I dont know.