Show THE POUND OF FLESH the other oilier day mr ir moreton llo reton frewen arote to the washington post regarding tho the difficulty dini culty ot of making great britain larit aln arc agree on the bimetallic system an extract from rom the leuer letter Is ali tol col lows biot me inc allow the effect of the fall in prices upon our emilton relation alili A ith for eign countries our foreign loans and in est ments are up ard 0 of tw 10 tho the interest lin ercal on khith la is supposed to tl arago 4 per pel cont cent or kwo alv U a 5 ear car chiq litterest interest reaches us in the form of heat beat cotton wool and other produce wheat lini falls in III tile tho fow few fallen moro more than one half bait translating then our entire cn receipt of interest In into bushels of ft heat it my may be said that instead of to rc cel inte bushels Iun hela of wheat as aa tile tho equivalent of tWO wW of interest we bro are rc at the over ivorio iv orao age pt pi tee ice ot of the punt past four years over As our total consumption eption or cheat heat Is less than bushels a year ZI per capita capa the be fall all in p tareq lc iles 13 elnen ilc n un ui in lie hie r form orm of 0 increased interest on our foreign investments invest monts more than tho the entire broad bread supply of our people it Is little onder der then that wo reformers reformer 9 fighting this battlo battle in england make little hooi bend vay those who say better free bread than free silver the cmunT com mirt rt vt of tire tile springfield re pub loan ilvan on the foregoing Is as follows lato late gon gen volker was wont to lo pay eay that babiy as aa the fall or of prices affected the united states Sla teat it must hurt more mor and in time bring brine that nation nahon into position ot of chief petitioner for bimat allam thin was waa also at one time mr Fre 1 freiens rew cna blew but lie ho lina has gotten cotton over and nd for very ol 01 oln lous loua reasone 1 kin of the losses knit I 1 v 0 n account glish investor muot suffer buffer through the th more numerous of debtors caused by tire tho fall of cricos yet it 1 Is evl e vl rient dent that tho the app reel ut ion in the burchall ing ne power r of 0 f we the debt and interest which rm remain 1 Is sufficient to come como an amount of losi through bankruptcy not yet realized and probably iro bably never to bo be realI zvI it will te be seen by that that thai tn massachusetts patter caper in effect takes tho the sumo same pos position as does docs the creditor class clasa if an fn great britain that though the agricultural ri ot of great britain have beni been ruined and though there Is 1 danger ot of losing much through tad bad debts they prefer to dine cling to that system value 0 of their because bec mso the appreciated money buys twice twloa as much as it lid did before Ite because tho the money that they r collert in interest and dividends has been doubled in value so the republican though abari aware that the tall foll in prices has haa brought ruin to production in this caunt country rT and d though it 11 Is 1 squeezing the very I 1 tte fe out of a 11 91 great eat majority ot of the people it Is 1 the attorney for the creditor class cla ss in little tile ing amid ill that Is in the now new england anil and briddle states slates and they are bound to 10 have it their nay may they may bulldoze the administration and tho the country another four our years yeam but they are arc infinitely shortsighted short sighted if they try it because 80 50 sure as aa the world all it nals in to keep up that spirit long lone enough to flin aliv turn tho the government over to the populists lists which would be b succeeded by such auch on an inflation Inn atlon and such a financial drunk oll all over this country as 03 would TV id leave leav the country with a dreadful drtad tul headache for or many a year to corn come e |