Show THE DECISION AGAINST USURY The whole community Is interested in h that recent by Judge More against the usurious money lenderS It fe 11 not to the Inter Interest st of the community to permit the loan shark to interfere with the activity or lessen the resources resource of tits wage earner The IncIdents are familiar enough A 11 Aman man borrowed a 11 small sum of money from a mo money eY lender and assigned hi hIs wanes until the Principal and an llIe ille interest were paid pard The Th principal and more than any legal or reas reasonable interest was repaId and then the borrower bor rower asked the court to enjoIn the thel l lender from collecting more And the court herd held hat the borrower had die charged the debt The court held that r h pito or of the fact that by the papers l he borrower having paId principal and int est still owed more than ho ad d borrowed In the first place That ot or trAnsaction js is directly fit Apposition to public policy polley The Thew bole w le communIty is is Interested in hay hav hayn n borrower pay his debts and tb and anit inter r com un t ls is e ven en more morer fl tI O t i interested in o t to tomake t make hIm pay more than that It might be a good thIng to supple supplement supplement ment the of courts and the enactments ot of legislatures with vIt banks I that would lend money to wage earn eam earners ers taking assignments of wages as a se securIty security collecting lawful interest and andI I giving them clear discharges of debt when t the e debt is honestly dIscharged That is done in many cities and it has the effect of making ann an end of the loan shark of making secure the post position tion of tile the wage earner and of relIeving relieving ing necessIties when they should be relieved re relieved |