The record-union., 1897-09-11

and no chance for any but herSelf 10
draw the yearly stipend. The policy
would be kept in force by such monthly
or annual payment as the insurance re-
CURED
The life insurance man who devised
the scheme would no doubt be glad to
throw in the bride in consideration of a
policy calling for a $3.50 annual pre-
MUM. and he could no doubt arrange
with Mrs Smith for a supply Perhaps
he would even engage to buy the marrl-
age license and compensate the officiat-
ing clergyman. A matrimonial depart
ment store of the kind ought to pay
Well
| AS a usual thing, however, any young
man who can afford to pay $3.50 year
in insurance premiums can provide a
home for a wife and children. He would
| probably get insured, but he would not
consider it necessary to put the cart
before the horse.
KANSAS GAINS.
San Diegan Sun: One estimate is
that the State of Kansas will receive
! $700O0,0 900 this year. That money will
come out of Eastern banks and safety
deposit boxes, and will spread, as from
a seeder all over the State of Kansas
Gradually, Of course, the money viii
get back into the banking centers
| again, but between the time of scatter
ing and returning to the banks that
money will pass through many hands
will pay off numerous debts, and will
add to the prosperity of a great many
people. That is the way good crops
and demand for the grain combine
! to bring good times 10 the people.
PHENOMENAL DELUSION.
The Oregonian: Notions about
money. trade, values and prices that
lie in the f1atist mind are we'll illus
! trated by a dehverance given out &c
the world by W. j. Bryan. AS re-
suit of his travel and observation, he
says: The joy over the increase o1
money from wheat is evidence that
we have too little money" and that
IF the farmers were benefited by the
| rise of one of their products, it is clear
| they would profit more if the rise ex-
! tended to all products, which would be
the case if we had money enough" The
confusion of such a mind is hopeless Il
makes no account whatever of the
laws Of trade or supply and demand
money" can be created by the fiat
government, and it will make things
valuable, whether there is any demand
! for them, or not.
AS a matter of fact, most other pro-
ducts have risen in price as we'll as
wheat, though not to the same extent
Livestock, lumber corn, wool, leather
metals, oils, and many other things, are
higher. Whenever there is a demand
and for whatever there is a demand
there is always money enough. The
cry for more money is always a cry
for base money. This would result il
rise of prices at home without rise OF
values, which are made in the gold
markets of the world, where alone We
can sell our products. The life of Ore
gOn consists in shipment of it's products
to Europe. What would it avail tC
lower the standard of our money a
home, when we must sell in the gol(
markets of the world? Exchange
would be against US, our own money
would be subject to traffic, and its val
ue, as we'll as the values of our pro
ducts, would be quoted for US in the
markets of Europe.
The idea. as it lies in the Bryan mind
/ involves a miracle, the greatest ever
| seen or imagined among men. 1t is
not merely that all the silver in the
world is to be raised in value from 0t
cents an ounce to 81 % an ounce. and
our silver dollar from 40 cents to 10t
cents, but that all the values of all the
products of the world are to be con-
! trolled by our edict of Is to /. The
| time will come when men will be-
| ashamed to say thing so irrational
! inconceivable and preposterous, unles:
they would straightWay be deemed idi-
otic or insane. Yet we find such {
man as the editor of the Salt Lake
Tribune" saying there would be no 40
cent dollar; silver would be as good as
gold; the average of prices would have
advanced, wheat by this time would
be worth 81 40, and our country
would be the most commanding natior
of the globe" Wheat worth 81 40, il
what? in gold at Liverpool, where
we must sell it, or in debased silver a
home? This conception of money i:
the most fatuous thing that has foun(
lodgment in the minds of any large
number of men since the darkness O.
the Middle Ages.
RESULT OF A SCARE.
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