Show then mr reed heed grows foolish ile ho says evort it if we coun could raise the CO 50 cent dollar up to par and ami keep it there why should we want to suppose you havo have a house Is it worth any more Is it any different house whether it Is n oi of th ill two thousand silver dollars or one thousand gold dollars dolera s we say that lie he talks foolishly because in that sentence lie asserts in ili effort effect that to open on ln unlimited demand for or sliver silver would not advance its ILI value fit at all ask him film about any other substance on oil earth and lie he would say that that operation must necessarily advance it the ideals not to have a house worth one thousand 5 dollars in gold or two thousand d ollars dollars in silver it Is to have a house worth two thousand dollars in g cold id or 0 sliver silver again he says if I 1 remember my arithmetic right your house Is the sarae same your farm arm Is the same it produces rop the elie same results does it suppose P se same borne farmer in the audience had said raid mr reed d fifteen years ago I 1 had a farm of acres it was worth 10 an acie 1 I owed upon the farm 10 for cent of 0 its it 1 value 1 I could havo have sold it 11 paid the mortgage and had remaining 1 I I 1 brot ked very haru bard I 1 made mada a little money which I 1 invested in on th the house the varn barn and the fences but div live C years ago aco I 1 could no n longer longar pay the interest because all I 1 could balte on that farm arm brought nic only halt half price my interest was 6 per cent per ear in three years it got cot to be MI and with the added to it amounted to I 1 the met age was foreclosed nil my farm brought brou slit only 6 0 O and I 1 found that tor for Uil thirteen years work starting with good money I 1 had given my if time me my labur labor thirteen years of the best besl of my life still anil then hud hail lett left and WE all the comfort I 1 pot got was to read that the very host bost financial adjustment pos possible had bad been made but I 1 never coull could got get any one on to explain plain to me why during the time that hat the ho state of increased in population 25 15 per cent the value of my farm and all 11 that I 1 could id raise from it had shrunken Eh 60 50 per cent what would mr reed need have answered |