Show WHICH IS RIGHT ONCE upon a time there was a farmer who was in great need of a thousand dollars but he did not have a single dollar A friend came forward and said to him 1 I will let you have the money if you will give me your written obligation ta to deliver me a thousand bushels of either wheat or rye after next years yearns harvest this proposition was accepted notwithstanding the fact that at the time both wheat and rye were selling at a dollar and a half a bushel the farmer had neither grain but he knew he could raise both on his farm and the contract gave him the advantage of two harvests in which to raise the necessary amount so the contract was plainly written and signed binding the farmer to deliver one thousand bushels of either grain at his election at the appointed time when the time of payment arrived it was found that the market price of wheat had goue gone up to two dollars per bushel and the market markel t price of rye had gone down to one dollar per bushel and the th e farmer of course elected to pay pa y his obligation in rye but what was his surprise to find that the man who held his obligation insisted on having it discharged by the delivery of a thousand bushels of wheat instead of rye and all the friends and neighbors b ors of his creditor arose as one man and said why this man came to your rescue when you were in trouble and now he wants to be paid in the most valuable grain and it is really dishonest in you von to even want to pay in rye J but 11 says the farmer did he not agree to take either gr grain at my option they could but admit this fact but still they insisted t that hat the bushel of rye lia 1 dishonest bushel and are still so insisting and demanding that the farmer shall not exercise exercise the option given him in his contract t and that good faith requires that he discharge his obligation in in wheat and the creditor and his friends even insist that all men of brains wi will 1190 so say the case is ia not yet decided which party is right the farmer or his creditor wi republic republican can the golden wheat and the silver represents the legal tender products d rye ts of the present the banker or moneylender money lender who hd refuses to take the legal tender amo money ney of th the e land in payment aj 0 his notes is worse than old S shylock chims he only exacted the pound 0 es the as asper per S hyl ock dem tv flesh esh c the 30 above ya 1 ys v 7 ropp rop P the case is in the hig highest za liest court that of public opinion and will be decided november 3rd ard |