THE SOVEREIGN.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 22 July 1920, Page 3

THE SOVEREIGN.

It is often said that money is a curse — even Shakespeare said it is trash — but we think this opinion is a long way off the mark : if; is a mere illusion (says h winter in a contemporary). If there is any curse at all it is the unpleasantness of. being ■without money. It makes the world move aud tho pocket jingle. Tt makes one fee! as though life is worth living, but fake it away and it leaves one poor aud miserable indeed. Some will tell'you that gold is muck, and still these very people are always hunting for it by fair and foul means alike. They have no scruples whatever in annexing the mighty dollars. .We have these men everywhere ;we have them here, and will have them till the «nd of the world. The so called socialists pretend, that money has no value ; still they are clamouring for it by striking for more and still more. If there is anything in the dictum that evil things perish by their own rottenness, there would be something substantial about th<i *2fcwion. Thut formidable array of iatfts and ngures contained in the •'Monthly Abstract of Statistics grinds out the deduction that the purchasing power of tho sovereigu has declined to Us 8 Ad, by comparison with the"2os value during the years 1903-193. At this rate of decline tho sovereign will soon havo no purchasing power at all, and then no will want sovereigns. Hoy ! Presto! The milleniuin will have arrived.