| Show LOOK AT BOTH SIDES now cornea comes the be lincoln neb bout journal nal with an idea not pecullar peculiar to itself but peculiarly expressed regarding the financial situation it thinks or claims to think that a man who has bas borrowed money to build a house bouse on a 2000 farm ought to be willing to pay the debt in as good money as be received but the jim J im weaver finance theorists are calling for cheap money that debts may be paid to in flat fiat instead of fact this form of partial repudiation will never be accepted by those who believe to in the golden rule anti anil a sound currency 11 without being favored with any knowledge as to what the Ji finance theory 9 is if indeed it to is any thing at allsie to is only necessary in order to dissect the foregoing extract to ask a few pointed suppose the tb house was built at a time when silver was at a premium over gold only a few years agnand ago and chope who furnished the materials mater iala and labor would naturally rather have had bad the white than the yellow metal measured by gold and paid with gold the owner would have rejoiced in the possession of a domicile which to the world oost cost him but to him in reality cost a few hundreds leas law it he then suppose again coming down a little later we flud find the lawmaking law making power by an infamous trick striking out the money function of silver and declaring gold to be the only measure of values in the country so BO that gold not only overtook but passed ard ai d distanced the other metal causing the latter to become a subject of dicker and trade that would reverse the owners situation altogether M it so BJ much so that his residence instead of costin costing ghim him lose less than that would cost aim considerably more when the payments pay mentel were made while the building itself has bee shrunk in value proportionately with thre the shrinkage in silver he abu loses losee at both ends ot tb the transaction the result being that instead of having a house for actual outlay he has baa a H house for a outlay he be that is about the way the scheme has worked through out and while we are supposing cases let us suppose it as 86 we have presented it this being much nearer the way the status actually is than any other the re tion lie la the other way around theace the act of injustice Justice ID shifted from the people to the government where it belongs an eastern paper friendly to silver a rare bird indeed commenting upon the above extract saye by the same sam a token the men who bought government bonds to prosecute the war ought to be satisfied to have the bands redeemed with the same sort of mot moi ey thai purchased them 00 that Is ie green bamks buethe very suggestion of euch a thing would be pronounced a phase of disloyalty there to is a little too much one sidedness in the monetary situation |
