Excerpt from Plain Economic Facts, for All People

The reader will notice that this book manuscript was written in the Winter Of 1893-4, and deals with all available statistics up to that date. For many reasons, not here and now relevant, but the reader may divine some Of them, it was not published until now But as monetary mat ters are Older than history, and even Older than well founded tradition, and also that they will be ever new as long as mankind inhabits this world, then it can be undoubt edly seen or understood that the conditions existing in one decade or so will have their relative influence on a near succeeding one, and also that if all statistics were brought out down to date, they would only corroborate strongly, tend to certify the prophetic sayings and warnings, and more appallingly describe and prove the social bane and blight Of our present and past financial system, than those feebly and scantily, laid down in these pages. As many Of the public characters or seryants have passed over the range requiescat eu pace vel hades - since these pages were scribbled, and as we try to hold to public view their divers public sayings and actions, as we have every right to chas tise or criticise our servants whom we pay from our hard earnings to legislate and administrate for us and never promise to present them with plenary packages Of putrescent praise, but proudly permit no one to trespass on the private or sacred precincts Of personality or real prince pater familias, yet we' are aware Of the fact that whomsoever advances or defends a fixed fiat or a fleeting fad will find followers flocking to flay the adversary of their divine theories. N ow, if any such there be upon whose corns we have too severely trod, or whose finest sensibilities we have wounded, we will only use now the trite saying, Cap fit him, cap wear him, and will only ask, not for commendation, but for loud and public condemnation or criticism, for of all the 1mps we despise the most the silent or sly imp, or angel, as we believe that discussion and dissatisfaction are the two tangefit tracks leading at their apex or junction to the haven of perfection. Respectfully.

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