Labor As Money: A Story With a Purpose. Presenting a Practical, Automatic Currency of Stationary Value, Contracting and Relaxing According to the Demands of the Country for Exchange

Yeiser, John O[tho]. (1866-1928). Labor as Money. A Story with a Purpose. Presenting a Practical Automatic Currency of Stationary Value, Contracting and Relaxing According to the Demands of the Country for Exchange. Boston, MA: Arena Publishing Co., 1894. iii-viii + 212 pp. Versions of the same argument were made in Automated Elastic Currency. Omaha, NB: National Magazine Association, 1915; Exp. as My Country! My Congress! Omaha, NB: National Magazine Association, 1917. 69 pp.; and Debts of Today and Hell To Pay. Illus. Maps. Omaha, NB: National Magazine Association, 1918. 88 pp. An extract had been published in Successful Farming (Des Moines, IA) (February - March 1915). Hathi, MH, NbOU

 Fiction with Chapter 10 devoted to a speech designed to get a bill passed in Congress that represents the argument of the book (92-194). Includes a proposal for Labor Certificates replacing U.S. currency that is expected to lead to a eutopia. The Appendix (202-12) includes the proposed legislation. The author was lawyer and a member of the Nebraska House of Representatives (1897-99) and of the Nebraska State Board of Pardons (1912-15).