Show A DIFFERENCE r The Sioux CityJournal has this item Missouri mined 11000000 worth of zinc last year and the St Louis GlobeDemo crat clalma that those figures exceed tho value of the Klondike gold output While making comparisons lt might be well enough to maka t note of tho fact that ot the corn crop oL Iowa foe the same year I was worth more than three times as much hs Ibo combined value of the Ala ka gold crop and the Missouri Inc crop > 1 That Is all right but will the Journal slop a little bit and consider why tho Iowa corn crop was worth about twice as much per bushel this year as It was five years ago Did it ever stop to think that it Is because some O 000000 has been added to the standard money of the United States in that time and that it is not the corn crop which regulates the price of corn but the volume of precious metals In a country Hence 11000000 worth of gold Is a great deal more in a country than 11000000 worth of corn One Is a product or commodity the price of which Is regulated by the amount of money in the country The other isa measure of values and values advance and recede Just as that measure of values Increases and decreases Hence the man J m Iowa who raises corn should be the very last man on earth to discount the mining of gold In the Klondike That volume of money goes beyond the corn crop There hstve been fewer murders In Iowa fewer prisoners prison-ers committed to l the penitentiary commited penitentary ewer ew-er suicides since corn advanced In price than before and that Is all due to this same volume of money Among civilised peoples the amount of mono in circulation regulates the enlightenment enlighten-ment of that people Hunce there is no other work on earth so legitimate as digging gold There is nothing that 1 003 so directly to the pockets and t the morals of the people as the status of the money supply of the country Were the corn crop of Iowa to be a failure for five yviuH to come while It wpuld be r a Hulo hard I on the men of Iowa it would not affect the outslde States at nil Were the gold supply from the mines of the world to be shutoff shut-off for five years there would be panic and trouble In every civilized country on earth |