Revolution and Exhaustion
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In this country, too, the chief method in combating the dearth is to increase the distribution of money rather than to control and limit prices and profits. The British workers have many times declared that they would like to see an effective check to the rise in prices, rather than an increase of wages. But the Government will rather tolerate the dangerous rise of wages than intervene drastically in the sanctuary of private property. In this country, too, the vicious circle of reciprocal action between raising of wages, increase of prices and inflation of currency has begun.
