The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-11-19
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
WHEN NORMAL
TIMES WILL COME

Editor Star: You say in your three
columns, "Will Mr.. Stuart please tell
us when normal times will come? And
what they will look like when they do
Gomez"
] had intended to leave discussion
tn more fluent writer's, but you ask a
fair question. l will answer it. We
have the highest prices on record
throughout the world now. Because
supplies have been depleted by the
most devastating war in the history
of the world. You remember it, no
doubt. Stopped fighting a year ago,
Tuesday; treaty of peace has not been
signed up yet. The reason we have
high prices on everything is because
the man who consumes things that
are depleted like food-stuffs and man
ufactures must get the money to buy
them. To get it he must raise the
price on what he sells whether it is
depleted or not, making an endless
chain of inflated prices which must
break down when the supply of de-
rleted articles is repleted. TRY and
ScJ JhCSC "OIOS ~ PC 4lSA1
time.) The supply of food stuff will
be repleted just as soon as the war is
settled and the farmers of the world
can grow the crops The supply OF
manufactures will be repleted just as
soon as the war is settled. the Reds
in the United States and Europe
silenced and the mills and factories OF
America and Europe get back tt
normal working conditions and begir
producing a surplus instead of {
rainus.
Now then. if you buy that twent!
years supply of paper and give you
notes for it, you will know "what the!
look like when they get here"
A little price history: After thu
civil war closed a lot of fellow
thought like you, that prices woult
remain inflated, but when they start
ed down they went much faster thar
they had risen and when the fellow
who thought they would keep up hat
to pay lot of them bankrupted on
of it-that was the panic of .73. AM
what caused it? Just before the pani
of '93 we had another period of risin:
prices. We ought to avoid it thi
time, having learned by experience
but you need to be reminded, it seems
You say, "Coin Harvey and the so
cent dollar" to me- Silver was quot
ed last week at $1.30-there you are
measured in gold. That settles it.
Don't worry about the school ia.
ard the next set of commissioners
that's voted, but you say you are sup
porting bonds because you regard
as an investment. Of course it is. Tha
: is what | have been telling you an
preachin' to you. | have been telling
you it is bad investment to pay tW
or three times as much for roads nov
as you would have had to pay tire
or four years ago or three or fou
years hence / am in favor of goo
roads but | want to make it an IN
vestment instead of a misSlnvestmen1
When you get the So day corn husk
ers and SIS skilled road workers here
you will understand what | mean.
The interest on sinking fund-tha
is the same in normal times as now
but money in small amounts is wort
eight per cent. / borrowed money t
pay my taxes last year and paid eigh
per cent for it. The creation of
sinking fund takes the money out o
taxpayers pockets and banks it unit
the bonds are due. He loses the eigh
Ter cent during the wait and pay
five. per cent besides, making IL pc
cent, the actual cost, and the sinking
fund must be loaned to cut it down
That is the real economical statemen
of it. The interest is payable seml
annually, one payment during ia
laying time, the other after the close
We want you to see that the commits
sioners don't have to borrow none