[gusopol3]

thank you very much, I’d never read the whole version ; what a great quote from Baum.

[Richard Kimball]

Yeah, and a lot of it fits. The characters themselves are a very odd combination. I just tend to get a little skeptical when others create an entire philosophy that the author never claimed. Baum was politically active, though, and so it's possible some of the allegories are correct.

When I read through the account, I found it pretty interesting. I'd always considered myself somewhat well read, I was totally unaware of the battle over monetary standards that raged, well, almost unabated from the time of reconstruction to today.