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 2 always observed that you may do almostany thing with people If you treat them all alike 3 but the moment preference Is shown to ont ) over another, that innate sense of justice i'm l planted Ill the heart of man prompts him te indignant resistance.

 UNCLE SAM called his family together, and made a considerable lengthy speech on Polit- 1cal Economy, n which he laid himself out

 10 prove, that the most infaliibie way to make

 things cheap, was to raise their prices, and that no people could be independent who

 did not make their own buttons, pipes, pins.

 and bobbln. Finding they were not eonvinc-

 ed by this reasoning, he, as usual, fell into {, towering passion, and called them all sorts

 ot hard names. Body O me- cried he, ss l

 might as well whistle jigs to milestone, and

 expect 1t to dance, as to teach reason 10 these lllterate Cyclops. Never was man pestered

 with such undutiful children as l am with

 these conceded varlets, who pretend to know

 what IS best for their own happiness. But never mind, l'll beat 1t into them al lastn So he continued to persevere, and whenever his family was getting little quiet, threw new hrebrand among them, and set them iii blaze again.

 bDu, ulasler-piece, lile climax of UNCLE SAM's policy, was what he called his great "CREDir SYsTEM,o which he valued himself on more than all the rest of his political econ omy; which, will take this opportunity to observe, was exactly opposite To domestic economy in all respects. It consisted in running ln debt for more than we were able to pay, and making promises to supply the deficiency. By perpetualy appealing, ill all his measures, 10 the sordid selishness of diff ferentportions of his family, filling the pockets oi a few, and emptying those of the many. he had engendered and nurtured a despicable money-making propensity, which seemed gradually absorbing all their better feelings. This love Of money, in most cases, did not arise so much from d desire to accumulate as to dissipate wealth, and soon became the pa rent of luxury and extravaganza. Those who spend more than they earn are always poor, whatever their earnings may be; and, accord ingly, these prodigal rogues began to cry out Justify about the scarcity of money, only because they had no more 10 throw away in foolish extrayagance or wild speeulations UNCLE SAM, too, though he managed, as I before observed, to make portion of his family pay the piper for the others to dance, being somewhat infected with the prodgai- ty of the times, began to be little pinehed for poeket-money himself, and one day CO., gltated with himselfto the following purport: ss Money IS the root of all evil, and why Because it is so hard to get, that people will lie, cheat, steal, and murder to come at it. Now if l can make 1t so plenty that every one may have as much as he wants, there will no longer be any temptation to these crimes, and every body will become honest Certainly it is the duty of the head of a patri- arehal system to do every thing he deems best for his family, and think for them while they work, which is their proper business. Body O me p cried he, skipping his thigh, 'sbut have 1t ! Nothing more is necessary than to discard this pestilent money, this sil- yer and gold, which is the source of half the crimes of the human race, and make money out of nothing, sufficient to supply all our wants, vanities, and wishes By substituting promise in place of silver dollar, it will be, to all lntents and purposes, as good as a silver dollar, until the promise comes to be fulfilled, and then all that is necessary is to pay with another promise. As long as my children continue to believe in these prom ises, they will be of equal value with silver and gold and if they should at any time lose their confidence in them, why then they must suffer the penalty of their own incredulity. It is their own fault if they won't take them, and will be only another proof that they don't know what is best for their happiness.p Accordingly, he directed, or authorized, a certain number of the most slippery of his boys, who were good at making promises. to send out as many paper dollars as the oth- CTS would receive for the products of their labor, and at the same time endeavered, by plausible arguments, to prove their superior ity to silver and gold He swofe that in d little while they should all live without la- Dor, and become as rich as Stephen Girard. portion of the most sensible of his chil- dren remonstrated against this measure; but UNCLE SAM soon put them down with his old argument. " "Avaunt, ye illiterate block heads!" exclaimed he. t ' ou know no more what is best for you than pig, who is doubtless profoundly ignorant of the reason for putting ring in his nose"

 By degrees, even those originally opposed to being paid in promises, seeing how the others all of a sudden waxed rich, built new houses, boughtnew lands, rode in their coach- es, and hired French cooks, became anxious to partake in the gale of prosperity, and grew ashamed of their homely way of living, but most especially ofworking, as they said, like horses. Accordingly, they scrambled with the rest for as many paper promises as they could get, and being seduced by the exam pie, did not mind making promises any more than their betters. The more money people have, the more they want and the more mo- ney there is in circulation, the more people must pay for what they want. UNCLE SAM was resolved they should have fuii swing, and allowed these promising boys of his to prom ise away, until at last some of the more re- Aecting of his family began to think it worth while to ascertain whether these promises were ever likely to be performed Accord ingly they tried the experiment, and demand ed payment, whereupon these impudent var lets, not being able to mustera shilling of sil- ] off Il.