Show I THE OMNIPOTENCE OF MONEY The Boston Globe has a dissertation on the Hand mines Here is an excerpt ex-cerpt Out or these vast caverns comcK moro than onequurtor of all thegold mined on tne planet Wo in America KometlmeB boast of our gold production but the o mines produce about 0000000 a year more than all America They produce 11000000 a year moro than all t hp glided SllIOCo Australia They produce twice 1 as much as all the Russia al RUIla Those mines are on tim very edge of JohanncHburg Within a few years It IB bollovud that tho Rand vlll yield the fabuloup annuity of MOtxy > J jJoro are githt > rwl the tlOo brains and enterprise of tho world all In i the frantic march for Qhl What a pie ture And yet the accumulatod product < would not of ltnclf save n dying pilgrim lll I from slarvalloM I That is nil right except the elofilng paragraph The Globe saytime accumulated accu-mulated product would not of Itself save a dying pilgrim from lyInG pigrim starvation That Is true men cannot eat Jol < hut Jt there was just food enough for two and there were two dying pilgrims the one that had the gold would get the food And that has always been so since man made gold tht medium ore or-e A 1 the world Is working for it all the world Is giving Its I gllnr Is most earnest thought and best energies in accumulating It I Is the great engine that moves this world The standard money of civilization fixes the cvllzalon very status of civilization itself We had four years of awful depression and since that passcd away amid slnce the standard money of this country ha been increased by 500000000 the ef feet upon the moral status of the Na tion haw Income plainly manifest There arc tower fJwet murders fmver cons Ic tions fexvi J urjnes of all grades Theix J I are fexvpr paupers fewer suicides Tliciv are mure children In school and the divorcee have d1orC fallen off falen measura bly It baa been the habit with some people alnco the beginning of time to decry tho value oC gold and silver They oUght to ctop because they are not only at the bottom of all material progress but they in a measure at least fix tho moral status of the peoples I peo-ples of tills world |