Show SOME HARD FACTS ABOUT SOFT HONEY MONEY by JOHN OAKWOOD whon a firmer take takes his product to market abd rill sells it tor for lay may a dot dol ir tar a bushel he b li Is dependent upon the of two measures mii ur lb dollar and the bushel 0 0 0 the other day a crossroads storekeeper got ot lent sent to jail for or manupu lating a trick bushel basket with a false lie bottom that would slide ltd up and dowa down ID in a way that was grand rind gloomy and mysterious when using it to me urs stuff be bought from a farm arm or r hed secretly shove th the a bottom down until it held hold at least a bushel blib and a quarter but he would oily credit bim him with a bushel the buying power of the farmer farmers product wn was thereby depreciated by about twenty per cout s 0 40 finally the tanner thereabouts there about gra wise to the act fact that the only way ay they could get t what wai wits coming 1 to theu them waa wag to enforce a reliable stand ard rd of measurement bo so they put a good stiff jail penalty on using a fake take measure laid for that storekeeper with the trick basket and seat kirn him to prison I 1 politician politicians la to europe hare bays been bees I 1 manipulating the other measure the money assure me aurla aa much the fame same way ay some of thein them in a ame america rica want wast to tamper likewise with the dollar I 1 here are to i about the way ay it would work out suppose Bupp oae when hen the th fanner farmer brought his hi product to market 00 the basket moi measure asure wai was honest enough aad and he col got a dollar bill tor for each eack bushel hed take his hl dollars home aid and pays theu them perhaps he planned tj 1 buy some land next text his own far or a thousand dollars do llara and figured that la in a year or ao so he could make it it but meanwhile the politicians tart start to manipulate the bass of 0 the car rency roncy they would change it from the gold old standard itan dard to a t flat I 1 at money plan from a gold old guarantee rua rantee to the mere more la ay 7 to 0 o of the government that a piece place of paper waa was worth a dollar the farmer ke be watch inc the money politician politicians lie ile would be too busy raising thines things at the end and of the year he haa has his hi thousand dollar dollars he take takes them to the landowner and says ay III buy jour your land now nowhere bore a a thousand dollars 0 0 but the landowner would say ay thit that 19 I 1 paper money my land I 1 worth one thousand dollar dollars goald od abs airov OT eminent ha has printed 0 so o much paper money folk folks badent bavent t much confidence in fit it 11 but I 1 am willing to take tak a chance if it you will give 1 me a dollar douar and a quarter la to paper money tor for each fold gold dollar dolla eat value of my land in other word words I 1 it give re you my land tor for 1250 dollar dollars paper soft money would bt only another way for or the money politicians claus to hand the tamer the same dirty deal as a the basket manipulator la in the first case rass the farmer tamer car gave a bushel and a quarter of at its hi product and la in the second case he would hare have to tire a dollar and a quarter of at his hi mosey tor tar a dollar a value la in return la in germany th they hare hay carried the of the mark tar fat well it seems me hardly believable bel lerable but at if t they did the same thing 1 to th the lar tar it would take over tea tallies 1111 te is paper money to bay buy that ual 1 the primary producer can rats his hi priam alo but bot ot fait tut tough t to all drop dro la in the cold value ot t amard neney mosey that la ts when whort the catch aid ce cessna la it |