We have heretofore shown that gold is a purely arbitrary standard which has no scientific relations whatever to the product of labor which it is required to measure, but that it is itself a product, and as such requires to be measured.
Woodhull critiques the arbitrary nature of gold as a standard for measuring labor value.
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In this way, labor may hope to arise from its present position of degradation to sit side by side with capital in all public and profitable positions and those of honor and trust.
Being so vastly in the majority, every office should be filled by them.
Every thinking person knows that no such persons or principles are in authority now, and that they have not been these many years.
In such a condition of things, courts of justice, with all their attendant judges, bailiffs and attorneys-at-law, would find their occupation gone.