From: "John Zube" To: "Larry Parks" Subject: Your e-mails of 6 & 9/1/2000 - Monetary Freedom, including Free Choice of Value Standards in ALL contracts Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 21:03:10 +1100 Organization: Libertarian Microfiche Publishing MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0007_01BF5C77.4412A740" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01BF5C77.4412A740 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable John Zube, 35 Oxley St. or PO Box 52, Berrima, NSW 2577, Australia Tel. (02) 48 771 436 =20 RESEARCH CENTRE FOR MONETARY AND FINANCIAL FREEDOM, MONETARY FREEDOM = SERIES, PEACE PLANS, ON PANARCHY, SLOGANS FOR LIBERTY etc., all = published by LIBERTARIAN MICROFICHE PUBLISHING Dear Mr. Parks, I still think that I came across a website that = offered something like hundredthousands of monetary freedom pages, over = 300,000, I believe, but only to people who had subscribed to it. That = was at the beginning of my Internet browsing. I intended to e-mail this = organization later - since by then I had not even mastered e-mailing = yet, and was very impressed by the fact that someone else had finally = got around to publish more on the subject than I had. I thought that it = was a FAME website, but, apparently I was mistaken. Usually, I am not = likely to engage in as vivid day or night dreams. So, I still do hope to = come across a reference to this site in the numerous notes that I made = on websites to be explored further or contacted. About 200 monographs = are impressive but not quite as impressive, unless each of them has over = 1,000 pages. But you mention "some full length books" separately, which = seems to imply that the monographs were not as long. I have never as yet = added up all the articles and books on monetary freedom that are so far = reproduced in my series. The closest to such a listing is a 124 pp = bibliography I compiled, over 10 years ago and have still not got around = to update. I enclose it in PP 1022 in my air mail letter. But that = presumes that you have a microfiche reading machine or access to one. I = could also send you this bibliography on disk, if you are interested and = can convert it from the word processor I used: Sprint. Possibly, I have = also an ASCII version of it. Someone had, years ago, put it on the = Internet. But it disappeared there and never led to a single response. = That is somewhat typical on such subjects. This list does, as a = bibliography, include not only my own titles but all others I heard or = read about somewhere. A few are titles that merely sound like free = banking ones but, in reality, may not be such titles but deserve to be = checked out and listed. For instance, I once came across a book on = Mutualism in the library of Robert Carnaghan, also a monetary freedom = advocate, who knew Henry Meulen, but this particular text had nothing to = do with the historical school of anarchists, who called themselves = mutualists and advocated monetary freedom, among other liberties. There = are other texts that seem to advocate monetary freedom in the title - = while in the text they promote central banks of issue! I bibliography = should include warnings against such titles. A leaflet on my other hat, the "Research Centre...", and a short one on = the German Monetary Freedom School will be sent to you by air mail. 2 = of my own monetary freedom articles you can find appended to my website. Precisely because I do not consider myself to be an expert on the = subject have I postponed, for many years, writing a handbook on monetary = freedom. As a preparation for it I wanted first access to many more such = freedom writings and to put all the very extensive Beckerath writings on = this, apart from his 3 monetary freedom books, onto my series and index = them. Naturally, such a work could also be made to grow otherwise, if one = could get enough collaborators and agreed that one would accept from all = of them their viewpoints on all aspects of monetary freedom for a single = encyclopaedia, no matter how divergent their views still are. = Alternative media have the space for all of them. Later discussions, = retractions and amendments would reduce their remaining disagreements. = But whatever disagreements remained, one one point they would have to = agree between them, namely: monetary freedom. No one's supposedly = optimal system would have to be advocated as the only one which could = and should exist in a whole country or the whole world, contrary to the = views of all dissenting minorities or majorities.=20 Between them, their historical studies could most likely reveal that = almost anything possible in this sphere has already been tried by some = people, in some places, for some time, more or less successfully. And = from the failures they could learn almost as much.=20 Someone should write a book on monetary crises, that would point out how = much worse they would have been if various truck payment, clearing and = emergency money issues had not taken place during them, in spite of all = contrary prejudices and legislation or customs. You are invited to reproduce any of my own, my father's Kurt H. Zube, = also writing under K.H.Z. SOLNEMAN, or Ulrich von Beckerath's writings = on this subject (officially, I am the latter's literary heir) and = neither Prof. Heinrich Rittershausen's nor Dr. Walter Zander's heirs = would object, as I believe, to the reproduction of any of their monetary = freedom writings, The less explicitly (for monetary freedom) econmic = writings of Prof. Rittershausen are still under copyrights and of less = interest to you. Some of his most important ones have never been = published outside my series. Alas, I cannot recommend my father's = monetary freedom writings beyond short general statements that he = favours such freedom. In detail, he was engaged in advocating and = further developing a private clearinghouse system, which he believed = would still be legal and remain so and would even be, via various = discounts and premiums for the participants, better than free ordinary = clearing transactions. On this he, Beckerath and I never came to agree. = He was also much more interested in the exchange medium and clearing = approach to facilitate transactions, rather than mainly in reliable, = sound and honest standards for free transactions. Beckerath, Zander and = Rittershausen dealt with both and their interrelationships. If the government's paper money (like many paper monies of the 19th = century) were to apply at least the classical gold standard and if they = were not legal tender, then the situtation would be much improved but, = as long as private means of payment alternatives would still be largely = legislated against, the monetary problem would not be solved. On the = contrary, gold redemptionism, under fractional covers and the legal = authority of all creditors to demand, instead of clearing and paper = money, gold coins, could lead to monetary crises, as it has in the past. = Nor would 100% redemptionism, 100% enforced, be able to avoid all = monetary crises - in spite of the teachings of e.g. Rothbard on the = subject. That is still one of the major points of disagreements among = monetary freedom advocates, a disagreement that is not systematically = tackled by confronting all contrary views on this subject. On the one side, you make a good point of not wanting to overwhelm = people with reading matter. But any catalog of any large library does, = seeing that almost no one, in a long and active reading life, can manage = to read more than about 20,000 volumes. And no user of phone books = intends to ring everybody listed there. But if everybody were not listed = then phone books would be only of limited value. Too much material can be a turn-off - but comprehensive bibliographies, = abstract and review compilations as well as alphabetical indexes can = also be a turn-on - at least for scholars and students and so can = surveys which do not leave out all too much, often some of the most = important writings and ideas.=20 There is also a limit for popularizing monetary freedom ideas and = techniques, as there are a limit to popularizing e.g. the technique of = brain surgery. It would be enough if enough potential issuers were aware = of their monetary rights and sound issue and reflux as well as value = reckoning systems, to produce sufficient sound exchange media and value = standards that enough people would readily come to use them - without = understanding the theories and techniques involved. Few people know the = theories and techniques of radio, tv and computers - or of electric = power production and distribution - but they are capable enough users of = such technologies. How inaccessible many monetary freedom writings are is exemplified, = anecdotically, by the example of Ulrich von Beckerath, who searched for = such writings in English, French and German, for most of his life. = Nevertheless, of all the issues of the journal SOUND CURRENCY, during = all his life, he managed to obtain only a single issue, that of 1895. In = our times, I believe Brookhaven Press, made it available, almost = complete, except for one monthly issue, if I remember right, my order = for this set, some years ago, which set me back ca. $ 60. I have still = to either print-out and fiche or transcribe many of its essays that = interest me. Another example was given by Friedrich Hayek, who still believed in 1975 = that he was the first economist who ever considered monetary freedom. I = once photocopied some of these older monetary freedom texts in the = economics library of the University of Freiburg, situated under his = office and had a 20 minute talk with him, in which he was still unaware = of the other German montary freedom advocates and their writings. He = even managed to misunderstand Prof. Rittershausen in a short reference = somewhere, as an inflationist. That's like calling a pacifist a war = monger. Perhaps that misunderstanding was due to R.'s thick volume on = the central bank (Die Zentralnotenbank), in which he tried to suggest = that as long as we have this kind of institution, we should at least = make the best possible use of it, within its inherent limitations. One = has to read very much between the lines to see his own freedom stand in = this work. Until the middle 70-ties no monetary freedom book could be = published in Germany. Almost by a miracle a single article appeared ca. = 1947 that took such a stand in a German academic journal - but did not = lead to a breakthrough, either. Rittershausen had a monetary freedom = book prepared, to appear just before the German monetary reform of 1948 = but there were delays and the reform occurred, establishing the DM. = Afterwards, there was again no demand for such a book or a publisher = willing to risk putting it out. So it appeared only in my own series, = much later. Most of the modern monetary and academic writers for monetary freedom = are unaware of most of the older literature on this subject and so they = have mostly adopted only a rather limited monetary freedom position. = Even when I pointed out to some of them some of the other writings in my = series, did they, usually, continue only their limited discussions of = their own recent writings and ignored pioneering writings by monetary = freedom advocates who had passed their positions by decades before them. = Some even adhered to ancient wrong views regarding e.g. the real bills = doctrine, which had been often refuted in literature since they were = uttered almost 200 years ago. Well, the Malthusians are with us still and so are the modern = protectionists and interventionists, essentially centuries behind the = best economic insights, even when using modern academic jargon and = camouflage terms. Academics are under pressure to deal with all the relevant writings of = their contemporaries - and since they have only limited time and energy, = they do inevitably tend to ignore many of the prior writings on the = subject. Thus they are also victims of economic theory fashions of their = times. When they study older ones - or try to - they confine themselves = largely to the discussion of some famous classics, like Adam Smith, J.S. = Mill and H.Spencer. One reason for this is that most of the other = monetary texts are extremely scarce. I believe I saw not a single of the = older and less famous ones in Henry Hazlitt's library, attached to the = FEE library. Perhaps you can get FAME to post a search request for all kinds of = monetary freedom titles, can point out that I would gladly fiche them, = if they would not be willing to do so themselves, on fiche, floppies, = CD-ROM or online, and that I do work towards a complete library on such = subjects, that would sell all titles in cheap duplicates in alternative = media. Exchanges of literature between all people interested in such = subjects, in form of photocopies or fiche or floppy disk editions, could = greatly increase the reference collections of each of the participants. You could also publish a bibliography of such titles and invite = additional entires to it. Likewise, abstracts and reviews of them, = indexes and combined indexes.=20 Collaboration among monetary freedom advocates, using e-mail, could = achieve so much. They would not have to be formal members of any = association. But if costs were involved and a centre or individual = coordinator could not finance them, then only very small contributions = would have to be asked for, per page, if alternative media are used. Among my many projects for myself or others in this sphere are 2 = tabulations: One dealing with all kinds of exchange media, all their = rightful and necessary features and all the wrongful and unnecessary = features they have been given by writers, practicioners and legislators. The second would similarly deal with all kinds of value standards of the = past and present or produced for the future, all their good and bad = points. Both tabulations should also point out some to all references in which = these features are either proposed and defended or attacked.=20 Perhaps the same kind of job should be done on all the fundamental = monetary concepts, like legal tender, fiat money, fiduciary issues or = tax foundation, free market rating for exchange media and value = standards, the right to refuse acceptance at par or altogether of = exchange media and value standards that one has not obliged to accept = oneself, acceptance or shop foundation, debt foundation, the real bills = doctrine, redemptionism in rare metals or debts or consumer goods and = services, etc., and all these could and should be combined in a handbook = on monetary and financial freedom - one that would abstract the economic = science on this subject altogether from the host of wrongful and harmful = legislation on this subject. We should also advocate, I believe, the renunciation of all copyrights = claims for such titles, at least until full monetary freedom is = attained.=20 I feel as strongly about this as about somebody, who believes that he = has the answer to war or all kinds of sickness but is prepared to = publish it only if royalties are paid to him. One should perhaps distinguish between a website that tries to = popularize monetary freedom ideas and one that appeals mainly to = scholars and students on the subject. Sorry, but I cannot identify the N.Y.C. public service union that was = considering value preserving clauses in their salary contracts when the = U.S. dollar was fast inflated. I read only a short notice on this, = either in my own public service periodical in Australia or in one of the = major papers, like THE AUSTRALIAN or THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. The = reference is currently probably buried in boxes and boxes of as yet not = sorted out clippings, photocopies and notes. A letter to the Public = Service Union of N.Y.C. might not go amiss. In this case they had = nothing to be afraid of, for as far as I know there is no law against = such clauses in the U.S. Here one monetary freedom experiment, in which = unions were involved, in the 60's, was hushed up, because of the severe = penalties involved. Their camouflage term for this, when I asked for = details on this experiment, which I described as far as I could in my = series, was: "For reasons of industrial security we cannot reveal any = information on this". (John Ducker, of the Labour Council of N.S.W., to = me, some time after 1964.) As for legal tender legislation supposedly being necessary, according to = "experts" at the German Bank Enquete of 1908, to conduct Germany's next = war, an enquiry that led to the formal introduction of legal tender in = Germany, by a law that came in force on 1.1.1910, I can only say that = Ulrich von Beckerath had a copy of this report, had marked the passage = there, showed them to me, and referred to this point several times in = his letters,. Alas, it was not one of the books I was able to take along = to Australia in 1959 or obtain from the heir of his library lateron. In = my last attempt only a fraction of his library was accessible, and his = remaining correspondence, the rest was stored in one room literally = filled with boxes of books - and there was no room in the corridor or = other rooms to take out these boxes and go through their contents. Maybe = one day I will get this option. But in the meantime, I suppose you could contact one of the large = Reserve Bank libraries and would find that reference there. If I had already got around to reproduce not only a good portion but all = of the remaining Beckerath papers accessible to me and to index all of = them, then I could give you, probably, the page reference, the quote and = the expert or experts concerned after a short search. But that may be = still years in the future. I am very glad to hear that you are not a "gold bug" or authoritarian = advocate of one classical form of the gold standard for all people, = whether they like it or not. Beckerath's view on the subject was that a = gold weight unit, merely as an accounting and clearing value standard, = was objectively the least evil or most reliable - but that even it = should not be forced upon any dissenter - since there are so many value = standard sectarians with contrary beliefs, a condition which requires = the equivalent of religious freedom or tolerance. The "fight for honest monetary weights and measures" must include, to be = consistent, full monetary freedom, for exchange media, of whatever kind, = if they are not themselves to effect a value standard by e.g. monopoly = supply conditions, must be competitively supplied and competition in = exchange media, expressing value standards, requires also free choice in = value standards and publicity of all aspects of these value standards = and issues. If, for instance, only gold coins or silver coins or a = prescribed proportion between them are exclusive and forced currencies = in any country, then this exclusiveness and forced acceptance and forced = value will give them an above free market value rating - compared with = the condition of full monetary freedom. In other words, a legislated = dishonesty would be involved, one than lead and has led to monetary = crises. The same applies when fractional reserves or 100% redemption are = not voluntary contractual arrangements between issuers and acceptors but = legislative prescriptions for paper substitutes for what is considered = by some as the only honest money, namely rare metal money. Remember = Henry Ford's famous remark: You can have your car in any colour - as = long as it is black! Some goldbugs take a similar stand. And this in = times when some people have something like an almost religious aversion = against gold. In this they are like many anarchists, who insist upon = using this term in times and places and among vast majorities of people = who connect quite opposite notions with this term. Capitalism and gold = only among consenting adults! - is a tolerant stand that does not = provoke as much opposition among the less informed. If, without coercion and deception, some people readily accept even the = worst kind of exchange media and value standards, then dishonesty is not = involved but, rather, an extreme kind of ignorance, prejudice or apathy = towards the own rightful and rational interests. Most people and even = most monetary experts are still very far from being monetarily = emancipated. Ulrich von Beckerath used to speak of a popular monetary = religion among the people and of most of the academic and the = government's experts on this as its priests.=20 You are at liberty to post any of the LMP publications that are not = under prior copyrights by others, like e.g. many of the modern monetary = freedom essays in academic journals, especially since Hayek wrote his = first two and essays on the subject in 1975 and 1976. I would hardly know where to start with my recommendations. Among the short and popularly written ones are Beckerath's Berlin = Program of 1952, in PP 41, The Four Law Drafts, by several authors, in = the early thirties - which came very close to being introduced as = emergency legislation by Chancellor Bruening, whose right hand man was a = Dr. Munzer, one of the co-authors, who had placed this proposel already = on Bruening's desk. But then B. was overthrown. This draft would have = ended the severe monetary despotism which led to the Great Inflation and = Great Depression in Germany and with them to the Hitler Regime and W.W. = II - and its aftermath. Another case for history as if or history if = such and such seemingly minor thing had happened or not happened or had = happened a little earlier or later. Since the conception of many to most people has not been planned, one = should think that such suppositional alternative histories would have = been frequently written. But even history from the monetary point of view has so far received = only all too few sensible titles. You might also like Dr. Walter Zander's short pamphlet: A Way of the = Monetary Chaos, 1935, 14pp in PP 9 and in an appendix to a book by Prof. = Edgard Milhaud, 1936, 21pp, in PP 770. Look in my catalog under monetary freedom and free banking, especially = under Beckerath, Ulrich von Beckerath's extensive draft of monetary = freedom rights is contained in PP 428ff, on p. 1651ff, also in my = collection of human rights drafts in PP 589/590. I do not yet have learned how to maintain and supplement my website. = With the current server, limiting me to 5 MB, I have only a few KBs let. = On 21 Feb. I will attend a course on how to handle websites and I do = intend to open another website with one of the free suppliers for most = of my intended additional material, among them an Australian Freedom = Address Directory. The latter will be supplemented also by international = addresses, that are through the Internet even easier to access to many = Australians than are Australian freedom addresses by mail or personal = contacts. Until then, I will ust mention many websites and e-mail = addresses in the contents listings of each of my editions, which are = later embodied in my literature list, of which supplements and = integrated lists will appear online. I have already joined, in my own way, the fight for honest monetary = weights and measures, as well as for freely competing exchange media and = clearing options, - since I met Ulrich von Beckerath and joined his = small associations in 1952 and have not ceased working in this direction = since then, By formally joining some other association, like your own, I = could not do or spend more in this direction. I welcome you to this = struggle, which does not depend upon associational affiliations but upon = sufficient collaboration among interested groups and individuals, = utilizing all the affordable and efficient media that are now accessible = to them, after they have experienced a vast neglect of monetary freedom = writings in print on paper - for centuries. Even most such writings that = had temporarily reached print, usually in small editions and one = language only, are inaccessible not to most of those interested, in most = countries and most of even the largest libraries. Writers, publishers and editors like Henry Meulen (with his own and all = too limited free banking scheme), made the mistake of passing on their = references to the Goldsmith Library, within the British Library, where = professional librarians guard these rare titles like dragons against = photocopying. I had the same experience with some other libraries. So far I have downloaded over 50 pages from your website and do intend = to reproduce them in full in one of my upcoming LMP microfiche,=20 My series contains many issues dealing exclusively with monetary freedom = but lately I have also interspersed some such contributions among = general libertarian texts. Sometimes I have entered a reference like: a monetary freedom or a free = banking titles to my listings and via such references at least these = titles can be found. I have also reproduced on microfilm the contents listings, by PP numbers = and do intend to digitize these listings and put them on line. They will = then also make the search for some titles easier, via the automatic = search function. However, my website had to have a-z subdivisions (even = these are already too long) and searching the complete list easily would = perhaps require downloading all of them into one large file, on a = CD-ROM. In the meantime, I can only refer you to the free banking bibliography = compilation in PP 1022 for PP titles on this subject to this issue - and = other such literature I heard or read about. To my knowledge there exists nowhere a complete collection of all = monetary freedom writings. My own may still be the only effort that at = least tries to approach this target, as far as one individual, with = several other commitments, can try to do. I not only try to archive such = texts in my library, where they would be largely inaccessible to most = people in the world, most of the time, but to share many of them with my = microfiche editions. A few such activists could solve this task in a = reasonable time, with moderate expenditure of energy and funds.So far = the freedom of exchange and sound value standard advocates, who are also = naturally in favour of freedom of expression and information, have not = yet got around to do so. Why not? I do not know. So many other problems = would be solved or would be much closer to their solution once the = monetary problems are solved.=20 Can you explain to me why your association shows no obvious interest in = the alternative exchange media and clearing options - in spite of their = close linkage to sound value standards? 1022, German School, RCfMaFF leaflet: sent by air mail. = PIOT, John Zube ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01BF5C77.4412A740 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
John Zube, 35 Oxley St. or PO Box 52, Berrima, NSW = 2577,=20 Australia
Tel. (02) 48 771 436  
RESEARCH CENTRE FOR MONETARY AND FINANCIAL FREEDOM, = MONETARY=20 FREEDOM SERIES, PEACE PLANS, ON PANARCHY, SLOGANS FOR LIBERTY etc., all=20 published by LIBERTARIAN MICROFICHE PUBLISHING
 
Dear Mr. Parks,
          &nbs= p;            = ; =20 I still think that I came across a website that offered something like=20 hundredthousands of monetary freedom pages, over 300,000, I believe, but = only to=20 people who had subscribed to it. That was at the beginning of my = Internet=20 browsing. I intended to e-mail this organization later - since by then I = had not=20 even mastered e-mailing yet, and was very impressed by the fact that = someone=20 else had finally got around to publish more on the subject than I had. I = thought=20 that it was a FAME website, but, apparently I was mistaken. Usually, I = am not=20 likely to engage in as vivid day or night dreams. So, I still do hope to = come=20 across a reference to this site in the numerous notes that I made on = websites to=20 be explored further or contacted. About 200 monographs are impressive = but not=20 quite as impressive, unless each of them has over 1,000 pages. But you = mention=20 "some full length books" separately, which seems to imply that the = monographs=20 were not as long. I have never as yet added up all the articles and = books on=20 monetary freedom that are so far reproduced in my series. The closest to = such a=20 listing is a 124 pp bibliography I compiled, over 10 years ago and have = still=20 not got around to update. I enclose it in PP 1022 in my air mail = letter.=20 But that presumes that you have a microfiche reading machine or access = to=20 one.  I could also send you this bibliography on disk, if you = are=20 interested and can convert it from the word processor I used: Sprint. = Possibly,=20 I have also an ASCII version of it. Someone had, years ago, put it on = the=20 Internet. But it disappeared there and never led to a single response. = That is=20 somewhat typical on such subjects. This list does, as a bibliography, = include=20 not only my own titles but all others I heard or read about somewhere. A = few are=20 titles that merely sound like free banking ones but, in reality, may not = be such=20 titles but deserve to be checked out and listed. For instance, I once = came=20 across a book on Mutualism in the library of Robert Carnaghan, also a = monetary=20 freedom advocate, who knew Henry Meulen, but this particular text had = nothing to=20 do with the historical school of anarchists, who called themselves = mutualists=20 and advocated monetary freedom, among other liberties. There are other = texts=20 that seem to advocate monetary freedom in the title - while in the text = they=20 promote central banks of issue! I bibliography should include warnings = against=20 such titles.
 
A leaflet on my other hat, the "Research Centre...", = and a=20 short one on the German Monetary Freedom School will  be sent to = you by air=20 mail. 2 of my own monetary freedom articles you can find appended to my=20 website.
Precisely because I do not consider myself to be an = expert on=20 the subject have I postponed, for many years, writing a handbook on = monetary=20 freedom. As a preparation for it I wanted first access to many more such = freedom=20 writings and to put all the very extensive Beckerath writings on this, = apart=20 from his 3 monetary freedom books, onto my series and index = them.
 
Naturally, such a work could also be made to grow = otherwise,=20 if one could get enough collaborators and agreed that one would accept = from all=20 of them their viewpoints on all aspects of monetary freedom for a single = encyclopaedia, no matter how divergent their views still are. = Alternative media=20 have the space for all of them. Later discussions, retractions and = amendments=20 would reduce their remaining disagreements. But whatever disagreements = remained,=20 one one point they would have to agree between them, namely: monetary = freedom.=20 No one's supposedly optimal system would have to be advocated as the = only one=20 which could and should exist in a whole country or the whole world, = contrary to=20 the views of all dissenting minorities or majorities.
 
Between them, their historical studies could most = likely=20 reveal that almost anything possible in this sphere has already been = tried by=20 some people, in some places, for some time, more or less successfully. = And from=20 the failures they could learn almost as much.
 
Someone should write a book on monetary crises, that = would=20 point out how much worse they would have been if various truck payment, = clearing=20 and emergency money issues had not taken place during them, in spite of = all=20 contrary prejudices and legislation or customs.
 
You are invited to reproduce any of my own, my = father's Kurt=20 H. Zube, also writing under K.H.Z. SOLNEMAN, or Ulrich von Beckerath's = writings=20 on this subject (officially, I am the latter's literary heir) and = neither Prof.=20 Heinrich Rittershausen's nor Dr. Walter Zander's heirs would object, as = I=20 believe, to the reproduction of any of their monetary freedom writings, = The less=20 explicitly (for monetary freedom) econmic writings of Prof. = Rittershausen are=20 still under copyrights and of less interest to you. Some of his most = important=20 ones have never been published outside my series. Alas, I cannot = recommend my=20 father's monetary freedom writings beyond short general statements that = he=20 favours such freedom. In detail, he was engaged in advocating and = further=20 developing a private clearinghouse system, which he believed would still = be=20 legal and remain so and would even be, via various discounts and = premiums for=20 the participants, better than free ordinary clearing transactions. On = this he,=20 Beckerath and I never came to agree. He was also much more interested in = the=20 exchange medium and clearing approach to facilitate transactions, rather = than=20 mainly in reliable, sound and honest standards for free transactions. = Beckerath,=20 Zander and Rittershausen dealt with both and their=20 interrelationships.
 
If the government's paper money (like many paper = monies of the=20 19th century) were to apply at least the classical gold standard and if = they=20 were not legal tender, then the situtation would be much improved but, = as long=20 as private means of payment alternatives would still be largely = legislated=20 against, the monetary problem would not be solved. On the contrary, gold = redemptionism, under fractional covers and the legal authority of all = creditors=20 to demand, instead of clearing and paper money, gold coins, could lead = to=20 monetary crises, as it has in the past. Nor would 100% redemptionism, = 100%=20 enforced, be able to avoid all monetary crises - in spite of the = teachings of=20 e.g. Rothbard on the subject. That is still one of the major points of=20 disagreements among monetary freedom advocates, a disagreement that is = not=20 systematically tackled by confronting all contrary views on this=20 subject.
 
On the one side, you make a good point of not = wanting to=20 overwhelm people with reading matter. But any catalog of any large = library=20 does, seeing that almost no one, in a long and active reading life, can = manage=20 to read more than about 20,000 volumes. And no user of phone books = intends to=20 ring everybody listed there. But if everybody were not listed then phone = books=20 would be only of limited value.
Too much material can be a turn-off - but = comprehensive=20 bibliographies, abstract and review compilations as well as alphabetical = indexes=20 can also be a turn-on - at least for scholars and students and so can = surveys=20 which do not leave out all too much, often some of the most important = writings=20 and ideas.
There is also a limit for popularizing monetary = freedom ideas=20 and techniques, as there are a limit to popularizing e.g. the technique = of brain=20 surgery. It would be enough if enough potential issuers were aware of = their=20 monetary rights and sound issue and reflux as well as value reckoning = systems,=20 to produce sufficient sound exchange media and value standards that = enough=20 people would readily come to use them - without understanding the = theories and=20 techniques involved. Few people know the theories and techniques of = radio, tv=20 and computers - or of electric power production and distribution - but = they are=20 capable enough users of such technologies.
 
How inaccessible many monetary freedom writings are = is=20 exemplified, anecdotically, by the example of Ulrich von Beckerath, who = searched=20 for such writings in English, French and German, for most of his life.=20 Nevertheless, of all the issues of the journal SOUND CURRENCY, during = all his=20 life, he managed to obtain only a single issue, that of 1895. In our = times, I=20 believe Brookhaven Press, made it available, almost complete, except for = one=20 monthly issue, if I remember right, my order for this set, some years = ago, which=20 set me back ca. $ 60. I have still to either print-out and fiche or = transcribe=20 many of its essays that interest me.
Another example was given by Friedrich Hayek, who = still=20 believed in 1975 that he was the first economist who ever considered = monetary=20 freedom. I once photocopied some of these older monetary freedom texts = in the=20 economics library of the University of Freiburg, situated under his = office and=20 had a 20 minute talk with him, in which he was still unaware of the = other German=20 montary freedom advocates and their writings. He even managed to = misunderstand=20 Prof. Rittershausen in a short reference somewhere, as an inflationist. = That's=20 like calling a pacifist a war monger. Perhaps that misunderstanding was = due to=20 R.'s thick volume on the central bank (Die Zentralnotenbank), in which = he tried=20 to suggest that as long as we have this kind of institution, we should = at least=20 make the best possible use of it, within its inherent limitations. One = has to=20 read very much between the lines to see his own freedom stand in this=20 work. Until the middle 70-ties no monetary freedom book could be = published=20 in Germany. Almost by a miracle a single article appeared ca. 1947 that = took=20 such a stand in a German academic journal - but did not lead to a = breakthrough,=20 either. Rittershausen had a monetary freedom book prepared, to appear = just=20 before the German monetary reform of 1948 but there were delays and the = reform=20 occurred, establishing the DM. Afterwards, there was again no demand for = such a=20 book or a publisher willing to risk putting it out. So it appeared only = in my=20 own series, much later.
 
Most of the modern monetary and academic writers for = monetary=20 freedom are unaware of most of the older literature on this subject and = so they=20 have mostly adopted only a rather limited monetary freedom position. = Even when I=20 pointed out to some of them some of the other writings in my = series,  did=20 they, usually, continue only their limited discussions of their own = recent=20 writings and ignored pioneering writings by monetary freedom advocates = who had=20 passed their positions by decades before them. Some even adhered to = ancient=20 wrong views regarding e.g. the real bills doctrine, which had been often = refuted=20 in literature since they were uttered almost 200 years ago.
Well, the Malthusians are with us still and so are = the modern=20 protectionists and interventionists, essentially centuries behind the = best=20 economic insights, even when using modern academic jargon and camouflage = terms.
Academics are under pressure to deal with all the = relevant=20 writings of their contemporaries - and since they have only limited time = and=20 energy, they do inevitably tend to ignore many of the prior writings on = the=20 subject. Thus they are also victims of economic theory fashions of their = times.=20 When they study older ones - or try to - they confine themselves largely = to the=20 discussion of some famous classics, like Adam Smith, J.S. Mill and = H.Spencer.=20 One reason for this is that most of the other monetary texts are = extremely=20 scarce. I believe I saw not a single of the older and less famous ones = in Henry=20 Hazlitt's library, attached to the FEE library.
 
Perhaps you can get FAME to post a search request = for all=20 kinds of monetary freedom titles, can point out that I would gladly = fiche them,=20 if they would not be willing to do so themselves, on fiche, floppies, = CD-ROM or=20 online, and that I do work towards a complete library on such = subjects,=20 that would sell all titles in cheap duplicates in alternative media. = Exchanges=20 of literature between all people interested in such subjects, in form of = photocopies or fiche or floppy disk editions, could greatly increase the = reference collections of each of the participants.
 
You could also publish a bibliography of such titles = and=20 invite additional entires to it. Likewise, abstracts and reviews of = them,=20 indexes and combined indexes.
Collaboration among monetary freedom advocates, = using e-mail,=20 could achieve so much. They would not have to be formal members of any=20 association. But if costs were involved and a centre or individual = coordinator=20 could not finance them, then only very small contributions would have to = be=20 asked for, per page, if alternative media are used.
 
Among my many projects for myself or others in this = sphere are=20 2 tabulations: One dealing with all kinds of exchange media, all their = rightful=20 and necessary features and all the wrongful and unnecessary features = they have=20 been given by writers, practicioners and legislators.
The second would similarly deal with all kinds of = value=20 standards of the past and present or produced for the future, all their = good and=20 bad points.
Both tabulations should also point out some to all = references=20 in which these features are either proposed and defended or attacked.=20
 
Perhaps the same kind of job should be done on all = the=20 fundamental monetary concepts, like legal tender, fiat money, fiduciary = issues=20 or tax foundation, free market rating for exchange media and value = standards,=20 the right to refuse acceptance at par or altogether of exchange media = and value=20 standards that one has not obliged to accept oneself, acceptance or shop = foundation, debt foundation, the real bills doctrine, redemptionism in = rare=20 metals or debts or consumer goods and services, etc., and all these = could and=20 should be combined in a handbook on monetary and financial freedom - one = that=20 would abstract the economic science on this subject altogether from the = host of=20 wrongful and harmful legislation on this subject.
 
We should also advocate, I believe, the renunciation = of all=20 copyrights claims for such titles, at least until full monetary freedom = is=20 attained.
I feel as strongly about this as about somebody, who = believes=20 that he has the answer to war or all kinds of sickness but is prepared = to=20 publish it only if royalties are paid to him.
 
One should perhaps distinguish between a website = that tries to=20 popularize monetary freedom ideas and one that appeals mainly to = scholars and=20 students on the subject.
 
Sorry, but I cannot identify the N.Y.C. public = service union=20 that was considering value preserving clauses in their salary contracts = when the=20 U.S. dollar was fast inflated. I read only a short notice on this, = either in my=20 own public service periodical in Australia or in one of the major = papers, like=20 THE AUSTRALIAN or THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. The reference is currently = probably=20 buried in boxes and boxes of as yet not sorted out clippings, = photocopies=20 and notes. A letter to the Public Service Union of N.Y.C. might not = go=20 amiss.  In this case they had nothing to be afraid of, for as far = as I know=20 there is no law against such clauses in the U.S. Here one monetary = freedom=20 experiment, in which unions were involved, in the 60's, was hushed up, = because=20 of the severe penalties involved. Their camouflage term for this, when I = asked=20 for details on this experiment, which I described as far as I could in = my=20 series, was: "For reasons of industrial security we cannot reveal any=20 information on this". (John Ducker, of the Labour Council of N.S.W., to = me, some=20 time after 1964.)
 
As for legal tender legislation supposedly being = necessary,=20 according to "experts" at the German Bank Enquete of 1908, to conduct = Germany's=20 next war, an enquiry that led to the formal introduction of legal tender = in=20 Germany, by a law that came in force on 1.1.1910, I can only say that = Ulrich von=20 Beckerath had a copy of this report, had marked the passage there, = showed them=20 to me, and referred to this point several times in his letters,. = Alas, it=20 was not one of the books I was able to take along to Australia in 1959 = or obtain=20 from the heir of his library lateron. In my last attempt only a fraction = of his=20 library was accessible, and his remaining correspondence, the rest was = stored in=20 one room literally filled with boxes of books - and there was no room in = the=20 corridor or other rooms to take out these boxes and go through their = contents.=20 Maybe one day I will get this option.
But in the meantime, I suppose you could contact one = of the=20 large Reserve Bank libraries and would find that reference = there.
If I had already got around to reproduce not only a = good=20 portion but all of the remaining Beckerath papers accessible to me and = to index=20 all of them, then I could give you, probably, the page reference, the = quote and=20 the expert or experts concerned after a short search. But that may be = still=20 years in the future.
 
I am very glad to hear that you are not a "gold bug" = or=20 authoritarian advocate of one classical form of the gold standard for = all=20 people, whether they like it or not. Beckerath's view on the subject was = that a=20 gold weight unit, merely as an accounting and clearing value standard, = was=20 objectively the least evil or most reliable - but that even it should = not be=20 forced upon any dissenter - since there are so many value standard = sectarians=20 with contrary beliefs, a condition which requires the equivalent of = religious=20 freedom or tolerance.
 
The "fight for honest monetary weights and measures" = must=20 include, to be consistent, full monetary freedom, for exchange media, of = whatever kind, if they are not themselves to effect a value standard by = e.g.=20 monopoly supply conditions, must be competitively supplied and = competition in=20 exchange media, expressing value standards, requires also free choice in = value=20 standards and publicity of all aspects of these value standards and = issues. If,=20 for instance, only gold coins or silver coins or a prescribed proportion = between=20 them are exclusive and forced currencies in any country, then this = exclusiveness=20 and forced acceptance and forced value will give them an above free = market value=20 rating - compared with the condition of full monetary freedom. In other=20 words, a legislated dishonesty would be involved, one than lead and = has led=20 to monetary crises. The same applies when fractional reserves or 100% = redemption=20 are not voluntary contractual arrangements between issuers and acceptors = but=20 legislative prescriptions for paper substitutes for what is = considered by=20 some as the only honest money, namely rare metal money. Remember Henry = Ford's=20 famous remark: You can have your car in any colour - as long as it is = black!=20 Some goldbugs take a similar stand. And this in times when some people = have=20 something like an almost religious aversion against gold. In this they = are like=20 many anarchists, who insist upon using this term in times and places and = among=20 vast majorities of people who connect quite opposite notions with this = term.=20 Capitalism and gold only among consenting adults! - is a tolerant stand = that=20 does not provoke as much opposition among the less = informed.
 
If, without coercion and deception, some people = readily accept=20 even the worst kind of exchange media and value standards, then = dishonesty is=20 not involved but, rather, an extreme kind of ignorance, prejudice or = apathy=20 towards the own rightful and rational interests. Most people and = even most=20 monetary experts are still very far from being monetarily emancipated. = Ulrich=20 von Beckerath used to speak of a popular monetary religion among the = people and=20 of most of the academic and the government's experts on this as its = priests.=20
 
You are at liberty to post any of the LMP = publications that=20 are not under prior copyrights by others, like e.g. many of the modern = monetary=20 freedom essays in academic journals, especially since Hayek wrote = his first=20 two and essays on the subject in  1975 and=20 1976.
 
I would hardly know where to start with my=20 recommendations.
Among the short and popularly written ones are = Beckerath's=20 Berlin Program of 1952, in PP 41, The Four Law Drafts, by several = authors, in=20 the early thirties - which came very close to being introduced as = emergency=20 legislation by Chancellor Bruening, whose right hand man was a Dr. = Munzer, one=20 of the co-authors, who had placed this proposel already on Bruening's = desk. But=20 then B. was overthrown. This draft would have ended the severe monetary=20 despotism which led to the Great Inflation and Great Depression in = Germany and=20 with them to the Hitler Regime and W.W. II  - and its aftermath. = Another=20 case for history as if or history if such and such seemingly minor thing = had=20 happened or not happened or had happened a little earlier or = later.
Since the conception of many to most people has not = been=20 planned, one should think that such suppositional alternative histories = would=20 have been frequently written.
But even history from the monetary point of view has = so far=20 received only all too few sensible titles.
 
You might also like Dr. Walter Zander's short = pamphlet: A Way=20 of the Monetary Chaos, 1935, 14pp in PP 9 and in an appendix to a book = by Prof.=20 Edgard Milhaud, 1936, 21pp, in PP 770.
 
Look in my catalog under monetary freedom and free = banking,=20 especially under Beckerath, Ulrich von Beckerath's = extensive=20 draft of monetary freedom rights is contained in PP 428ff, on p. 1651ff, = also in=20 my collection of human rights drafts in PP 589/590.
 
I do not yet have learned how to maintain and = supplement my=20 website. With the current server, limiting me to 5 MB, I have only a few = KBs=20 let. On 21 Feb. I will attend a course on how to handle websites and I = do intend=20 to open another website with one of the free suppliers for most of my = intended=20 additional material, among them an Australian Freedom Address Directory. = The=20 latter will be supplemented also by international = addresses,=20 that are through the Internet even easier to access to many Australians = than are=20 Australian freedom addresses by mail or personal contacts. Until then, I = will=20 ust mention many websites and e-mail addresses in the contents listings = of each=20 of my editions, which are later embodied in my literature list, of which = supplements and integrated lists will appear online.
 
I have already joined, in my own way, the fight for = honest=20 monetary weights and measures, as well as for freely competing exchange = media=20 and clearing options, - since I met Ulrich von Beckerath and joined his = small=20 associations in 1952 and have not ceased working in this direction since = then,=20 By formally joining some other association, like your own, I could not = do or=20 spend more in this direction. I welcome you to this struggle, which does = not=20 depend upon associational affiliations but upon sufficient collaboration = among=20 interested groups and individuals, utilizing all the affordable and = efficient=20 media that are now accessible to them, after they have experienced a = vast=20 neglect of monetary freedom writings in print on paper - for centuries. = Even=20 most such writings that had temporarily reached print, usually in small = editions=20 and one language only, are inaccessible not to most of those interested, = in most=20 countries and most of even the largest libraries.
Writers, publishers and editors like Henry Meulen = (with his=20 own and all too limited free banking scheme), made the mistake of = passing on=20 their references to the Goldsmith Library, within the British Library, = where=20 professional librarians guard these rare titles like dragons against=20 photocopying. I had the same experience with some other = libraries.
 
So far I have downloaded over 50 pages from your = website and=20 do intend to reproduce them in full in one of my upcoming LMP = microfiche,=20
My series contains many issues dealing exclusively = with=20 monetary freedom but lately I have also interspersed some such = contributions=20 among general libertarian texts.
 
Sometimes I have entered a reference like: a = monetary freedom=20 or a free banking titles to my listings and via such references at least = these=20 titles can be found.
I have also reproduced on microfilm the contents = listings, by=20 PP numbers and do intend to digitize these listings and put them on = line. They=20 will then also make the search for some titles easier, via the automatic = search=20 function. However, my website had to have a-z subdivisions (even = these are=20 already too long) and searching the complete list easily would perhaps = require=20 downloading all of them into one large file, on a CD-ROM.
 
In the meantime, I can only refer you to the free = banking=20 bibliography compilation in PP 1022 for PP titles on this subject to = this issue=20 - and other such literature I heard or read about.
 
To my knowledge there exists nowhere a complete = collection of=20 all monetary freedom writings. My own may still be the only effort that = at least=20 tries to approach this target, as far as one individual, with several = other=20 commitments, can try to do. I not only try to archive such texts in my = library,=20 where they would be largely inaccessible to most people in the world, = most of=20 the time, but to share many of them with my microfiche editions. A few = such=20 activists could solve this task in a reasonable time, with moderate = expenditure=20 of energy and funds.So far the freedom of exchange and sound value = standard=20 advocates, who are also naturally in favour of freedom of expression and = information, have not yet got around to do so. Why not? I do not know. = So many=20 other problems would be solved or would be much closer to their solution = once=20 the monetary problems are solved.
 
Can you explain to me why your association shows no = obvious=20 interest in the alternative exchange media and clearing options - in = spite of=20 their close linkage to sound value standards?
 
1022, German School, RCfMaFF leaflet: sent by air=20 mail.
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