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Show ECONOMIC RULE IS UNBROKEN The More Money, the Higher the Prices, Has Been the Law Since Earliest Days of World. When the Indians of New England found plenty of seashells out of which to make their money called wampum, the more of it they would give for a blanket, basket, kettle, pair of moccasins mocca-sins or feather bonnet, says Girard in the Philadelphia Ledger. The political economy of King Phillip's Phil-lip's race and time still prevails. Every Ev-ery day this year the rest of the world has dumped a cool $3,000,000 of gold upon the United States. Now we have nearly 1,000,000,000 more gold than we had when the war began. If we had cheap wheat, shoes, overcoats, over-coats, vegetables, or coal after having hav-ing added nearly 50 per cent to our gold hoard, we should be obliged to tear up all those fine spun and dusty political -economy books we were taught in school. But the books stand, and rightly so, for the very- paper they are printed on has been boosted upward by this colossal colos-sal wave of gold. When this unmatched un-matched crest of yellow metal breaks' and recedes after the war well, we shall follow King Phillip and his wampum wam-pum and pay a smaller amount of It for what we buy. |