CONTENTS

The A B C of Finance
Preface
Introduction
LESSON I. What Society Does for the Laborer.
LESSON II. Capital and Labor.
LESSON III. Starvation Wages.
LESSON IV. One Dollar.
LESSON V. Value Cannot Be Given By Government.
LESSON VI. The Value of Paper Money.
LESSON VII. Why Has the Greenback Any Value?
LESSON VIII. The 3.65-Bond Plan
LESSON IX. The Mystery of Money
LESSON X. The Evil of a Depreciating Currency
LESSON XI. A Few Facts
LESSON XII. The Lessons of History
LESSON XIII. The Public Faith
LESSON XIV. The Cause and the Remedy
The Cause
The Remedy
LESSON XV. Some General Thoughts


A part of these "lessons" appeared some time since in Harper's Weekly. The unexpected favor with which theywere received, by being reprinted, in wholeor in part, by newspapers in various sections of the country, has suggested theirreproduction in a more permanent form. They are now completed, by the additionof several chapters bearing on the laborquestions of the present day.