Show THE ON INTEREST 9 as tho the Finan clit news A 10 cent silver piece put pot out lit at 6 per cent compound in the iho days of PI plato plate mou loulu d today aggregate a 11 suin eum mull clent to atly at ilko ours ouri oil lia property properly at leu IM pot poi cent above tin lin value und sibly it a dozen more several of the descendants of the gentlemen ho surrounded ri mates lates council chamber on that ocen occasion slon when old pontius was brought into hobt prominence about a hundred years ago aco borrowed and put the dime out at interest terest for the mot fust eight years acara no interest vas mas charged on the oti original ginal loan but after that 2 per cent was allowed it was waa turned over and continued to grow crow until ahon hen tho the it money becoming too plenty tho the parliament of great waa vua prevailed upon to make all debts ray pay ablo jai in gold and though this brought untold distress upon ingland england it enabled tile gentlemen to loan their savings till over ever Inc increasing profits and in 1873 the governments of the united states and continental europe were likewise persuaded to decree that what had been borrowed in sliver silver must be paid in gold arid and the result is 13 that the few gentlemen who sire in the business of 0 loaning the surplus from that lime aci ar nearly on effii it the planet and by another century they will take it nil all in either cither by deed or in the bhame 0 oc f col collateral in t C r a the matter of inter interest e t k in skillful hands la Is the biggest tr irack le on oil earth |