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Show LOOK At' III) I II Sllll.S. Now comti the Lincoln (Neb Journal with an Idea not peculiar to Itielf but peculiarly txpreiiod, regard-lug regard-lug the financial altuatlon. It thlnkt, orolalmito think, that "a man wliu hat borrowed money to build a iWM bouie on a $2000 farm ought to bo willing will-ing to pay thodobtlnaagood money m he received. Hut Ihe Jim Weaver llnancotheorlata aru calling for cheap money, that delta may be i aid In Hat Initead of fact. Thli form of partial repudiation will nevor be accepted by thoao who bellevo lu the golden rule anda aounJ currency." Without being favored with any knowledge aa to what tho "Jim Weavir finance theory" I a, If Indee J It la nuj thing at all.lt la only neci'-aary In order to dlnect the foregolug extract to aik a faw iolnled queitlone. Huppoto the J5000 houio wai built at a lime whon allverwaaat a premium over gold-only gold-only a few year, ago and there who furnlihtd the material, and la. bor would naturally rather have bad the white than the yellow metal; meaiured by gold and paid ulth gold, the owner would havo reojcod In the poiaeailou of u domlolle whloh to tho world -ot him $5000 but to him lu reality ot a few hundreda leu, wouldn't hi? Then, tuppoao agalu, coming down a little later, wo find tho law-making pewir by an In-ftmoua In-ftmoua IrlcL etrlklng out the money function of tllver and declaring gold to be the only meaiure cf valuea In tho country, to that gol I not only overtook but paaiod and dlatauced the other metal, caualng the latter lobe-oorue lobe-oorue a eubjeot of dicker and trade-that trade-that would rovorio tho owner't altuatlon altua-tlon altogether, wouldn't It? 1 much to that hit J50M realdence, Initead of coating him Iraa than that would coat lit in conaldirably mora when tho pa) men's) wiro nude, whllu tho building itielf haa ihruuk In value proportionately with Iho alulukage lu allver. lie thua loaea nt both uuda ol the tmuaactlon, tlin result being that Imtiadof having a $30 )t) houia lot $IVI0 actual outlty, ho liai a JISJJ houiofor a $00ii0 outlay liaau'l In? That la about Iho way tho demouetlzi. tlon nuliemo lia workel throughout through-out and whllo wo aro euppii-lug euppii-lug casta let ua auppoio It aa wo have presented It, thla being rouclimarrr tbo way the ntu actually ac-tually It than any other. T.io "re. ludlatlon" la the other way around, tho act of Injuitlca thlflod from the people, to tho government where it belongs. AnoiaUrnpipcrfrlen lly to allver i raro bird Indeed oomxientlug upon tho above extract eayi: f'lly tho eono token the men who bought govern mvut bondt to puiu-uto Iho w ir ought lo bo aatlilled to havo the Icmli rt- deemed with tho samo sort of motey that purchaerd them, "-that Is, groen-I groen-I acka, but Ilia very auggcatlon of tuch a thing would bepronouucol a phaio of dlelnralty. Thtre It a little too much onc-tldrd cnlntl omor.elarjl I uitlou. |