“Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.”
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No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.