The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 69
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These are the two Teas
that the thimble-riggers of finance will continue to play in the game of picking the pockets of the public, and of keeping bread from the mouths of the poor, until the regulation of the currency passes out of the hands of private persons and becomes a matter of public policy.
I will now refer to the dynamics of money, as exemplified in modern times by "moving" food, as the Americans call it. In 1847-1848 there was a famine of potatoes in Ireland, but was no food produced there? Certainly there was. Why, then, did it not reach the famishing Irish poor? Because the power of the marked pebbles was exercised by a class who "toil not, neither do-they spin."