Show SOME HARD FACTS ABOUT SOFT MONEY dy by JOHN OAKWOOD whon when a farmer takes his product to market and solis sells it tori for say eay a dollar a bushel he la Is dependent upon tho the honesty of two measures tho the dollar and the bushel the other day a crossroads storekeeper got sent to jail tor for manipulating a trick bushel basket with a false bottom that would slide up rip and down in a way that was grand gloomy and mysterious when using it to measure stuff ho he bought from a farmer hed secretly shove the bottom down until it hold held at least a bushel and a quarter but ho he would only credit him with a bushel the buying power ot of the farmers product was thereby depreciated by about twenty per cont cent finally the farmers thereabouts got wise to the tact fact that tho the only way they could got what was coming to them was waa to enforce a reliable standard of measurement so they put a good stiff jail penalty on using a take fako measure laid for that storekeeper with tho the trick basket and sent bent him to prison 0 0 politicians in europe havo have boon been manipulating the other measure the money measure in much the tha samo sami way some of them in aj A want to tamper likewise with tho the dollar here I 1 Is a about the way would work out suppose Bup poso when the farmer brought his product to market the basket measure was honest enough and ho he got a dollar bill tor for each bushel hed fled take his dollars home and save thera them perhaps ho he planned to buy somo some land next hla his own tor for a thousand dollars and figured that in a year or so ho he could make it but mean meanwhile child the politicians start to manipulate the base of 0 the currency they would change it from the gold standard to a f atiat I 1 at money plat plan from a gold guarantee to the more mere say so of the government that a piece of paper ras worth a dollar the farmer bo be watching the mono money y politicians ti clans lie ho would bo be too busy raising things at tho the end ot of tho the year he has his thousand dollars lie he takes them to the tha landowner and says ill buy your land now heros heres a thousand dollars 0 0 dut but the landowner would say isay that la is paper money my land la ia worth orth ono one thousand dollars gold the government has hag printed so much paper pacer money folks much confidence in it IL but I 1 am willing to take a chanco chance it if you will sire give me a dollar and a quarter in paper money for each gold dollars value of my land in other words ill give you my land tor for 1250 dollars paper 0 4 sott soft money would be ba only another way for or tho the money clans to hand the farmer the same dirty deal as the basket manipulator in the first case tile tho farmer unknowingly gave a bushel and a quarter of his bla product and in the second case he would have to give a dollar and a quarter of his money for a dollars value in return in germany they have carried the manipulation of tho the mark so far well wall it seems hardly believable but if 11 they did tho the same earno thing to tho the dollar it would take over ton million in paper money to buy that land the primary producer can raise his prices but not fast enough to equalize this drop in the gold value of 0 unsound m money that Is whore where ba iba i catch comes la in |