Show THE CAUSE The British co consul su at at h reports of tf altered t trade methods th the tho gre greater ter u use e of a adt by business hou houses es an and the growth of luxury lT and restlessness in in private life At the time ho he comments on the mounting l cost of living in G Gor- Gor I- I many and the suggestion g stion of oC the imperial chancellor Chal r that it must b be lC ac accepted as part of the new conditions condi condi- It is natural that Germany as as it increases in 11 wealth shall sl increase se in luxuries jes It is natural too that wh when l men then and women are not forced to work such men nien and women as have hae worked all their Ii lives s when the strain is t taken lien off thc a more and more restless of those over thc there c care are are bewailing the thern fact et that Germ Germany ny is be becoming mi g moie and more Am Americ Americanized ric zed n in its habits in hi it its ibm thought But t to charge the increasing prices to thc the in increasing in in- creasing pro prosperity is s not not more mol than half half tI true tc c. c Long ago aoA Adam J in S Smith 1 t wrote that t prices would ouid pl- pl al always l- l I ways be r regulated ed by the time an amount of money in ill circulation circulation Circulation Cir Cir- cir cir- j I among the people That is the tile more money mon cy ey that is i the less potent is its purchasing chasing 1 power and that thatis is one oue great cause of therise the rise i in I prices especially prices prices- especially y food prices prices prices-in in the United States The trouble with us is th that t the inere increased sell money Hu is is s all go gold g and l irl it-is it in rn great part h r f 1111 th the ir treasury of the United States an and andin ill in the tie va vaults ol of banks and it is used simply as a material to speen- speen i late with late with by the high plungers g rs Had not silv sil v I been demonetized or could it be today n so o that there would be a great surplus of mon 1 not drawing interest and not of the kind which tho i ig g great eat money men like t to in fn th tho poor people i would have haye a a stake and thid work would go on he be because lC- lC I cause there would be instead f f the sole reliance t f getting mon money y from froin bankers baers arid and p interest interest in in- imm- imm terest this great bod body of money on de deposit le- le posit would make 1 panics impossible which would roul western wester bankers from the lime fear of trouble from froin time the east cast and null change the tile i I whole ole face of business Us ness in ou our c country in itt six I months Then Thc it would vastly increase our exports and amid it would the imports from countries from n which we need eed no imports Y b would be ill io in fc perfect f ct a accord c r rd with all a southern and Metern A. A Asia ia the whole financial situ I would be bc changed and aul our country would b be elijo enjoying enjo an un era of oi such prosperity as it it never has has' enjoyed si it its constitution n was trained framed |