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(34) IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU LOOK THROUGH.

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"COIN"-"But just see how the country improves when you look through this free silver glass."

(35) HOW DEPRECIATION WOULD WORK.

FINANCIAL BUILDING

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The prices of what wage earners have to buy respond far more promptly to changes in the quality of money than do wages-the prices at which labor is sold. Hence, whenever money is getting better, though nominal wages may tend to decrease, wage earners are constantly getting more goods in exchange for the money they actually get for their labor; and whenever money is getting poorer, though nominal wages may tend to increase, wage earners are constantly getting less of the necessaries and comforts of life in return for the wages they receive. Appreciation of the dollar in which wages are paid, and consequently lower prices, is, therefore, constantly and certainly to the advantage of the wage earner. Depreciation of the dollar, and consequently higher prices, is always and certainly to his damage.-Hon. John De Witt Warner.

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How came

MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, IV, i. Titania (coming to her senses) * * * What visions have I seen! Methought I was enamoured of an ass. these things to pass? O, how mine eyes do loath his visage now!

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MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, III, iii.-Mrs. Page to Mrs. Ford. Go to now; *** we'll teach him to know turtles from jays.

Falstaff. Have I lived to be carried in a basket like a barrow of butcher's offal, and to be thrown in the Thames ?

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Business activity depends in large measure upon a low rate of interest, which is the most conclusive proof of plenty of money to be loaned. How are we to have interest cheap and money abundant? Capitalists are no worse than other men. But they are no better. They are just like yourselves. What would you do? Supposing that there were a lot of men who advocated the passage of a law that after you had loaned out money on gold values would force you to accept silver values in return. Would you be in a hurry to lend money? Would you not rather keep it locked up in a trust company or else loan it only at high interest and for short terms? Of course you would. Free silver would not add a dollar to the real wealth of the West or South. But the apprehension of it has kept from those sections of the country the millions upon millions of capital that, had they been invested there, might hav. ade such prosperity as the world has not seen since the sun shone upon Eden.-Hon. John De Witt Warner.

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