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More startling chapters
of the exeiting serial.
“The
Lion’s
Claw.”
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The episndes
to be exhibited
surpass
all previous
ones
shown.
A big
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night in store for all.
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Episode
11 Chapters
21 &22
“CAUGHT IN THE COILS”
Episode
12 Chapters
23 &2}
“THE SPIES CAVE”
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Comic.
Wise
Wives
ADMISSION
ADULTS
Reserved
Seats
40
cents,
General
Entrance
20
cents.
CHlLDßEN—Reserved
Szats
20
cents,
General
Entrance
10
rents.
the remotes®
parts
of
the earth,
to
wcrk
there for human
progress;
for
better
or
for
worse.
)
We
saw
how
the
monetary
system
workad
like gigantic
machinery,
with
migh'y
stecl-cylinders,
where
pistons
moved
up and
down.
according
to
the
pressure
inside;
noiselessly,
pitilessiy,
confcrmable
to the laws of nature.
W
saw how
the
credit
influenced
the
pressare
in
the
cylinders;
how the
cre-
dit would lift the price-piston
if the
bot-
tom
¢rea of :he cylinder was not incre:
s-
ed proporiioaately,
1.
e. if the production
and volumz
Hf trade
was not
augmented
corre ;pondingly.
We
saw
how the
velocity of
the water
in
th2
monetary
river
was
equally im-
portaat-to
the
volume of the water;
how
the
p-eseure
could
be
rezulated
by
the
spring-coil called
the
rate
of interest;
by
the g.s-bag
of Creait;
and
by
the
valve
that is called the rate of Fxchange.
We have
seen
how this
mighty,
sonsi-
tive,
and
highiy
developed
machinery
was harnessed
before the heavy
wagons
of wa';
how
it was
spzeded
up and
ran
smootaly
and
will.agly along the
trails,
drawing everthirg
along.
Ever greater
becanie
the speed.
The engineers
became
serious
but winnin.z the war was
the sole
aim.
Therefore
more
pressure
was
put
on—with the helpor the combustible
ered-
it-gas
Then
Arm stice
zame—but
the
speed
aid not slacken,Futon
the contrary.
Forwardit want
along
unknown
trails;
althouzh,
it was
not
even unknown traiis.
The
old engireers
on_ the
engine,
they
kpew
they
feit imstinctively
what
was
ahe~d.
Therefore
they sounded
thzir dan-
ger-signals,
time after time; waether
you
call
thase
danger-sighals
high
interest,
nigh or low exchanges
contraction
of cre-
dit ete.
ete.
They pr;tested
every
time,
talk
was of putting
pn
further
speed.
But whenever
they
attempted
to
aoply
the brake.
or slow
down the speed,
then
the passenvers
in the train heotedat them;
those
passengers
who id not understand
where
it
lead
to, and
who thought
that
everything
was
wvorking just
fine.
And
foremos:
among
the hooters
were
found
the uncanny
fizures which
we
call
War
Profiteers.
;
-
What
do yon
r ally believe
has
arcated
the
War Profiteer?
Well. I do not
see
him entireiy
as
he is
commonly
considere¢
asa
kind of
hu-
man
hyena
who
is
prowling
around
everywhere
looking
for
‘‘money’’ and
ready
to
commit
anything
in order
©o
gain
his poini;
to betray
his country;
10
rob
it
of
iis
foodstufis
and
means
of
mainienanee,
thus sucking its
strength,
and selling it away:
the
interior foe
who
was
playing
hand
and
glove
with
the
outside
enemy,
with
only one object
n
view: personal
gain.
No,
i do
not consider
him
ent rely
so.
In
the final make-up
I see
1n the
War
Profiteor
ihe direct product
and
ou.come
of the time
waich
went before,
anu
¢re-
ated
the
Great
War.,
T'h-
entire
human
Society
was
kepr
togetner
and
kept
working
by
a ceriain
kind
of fear.
By
one
great
fear;
the
fear
of
becoming
poor
to
be
irodden
down
when
one
could
not
earn
more,
o
NoL earn
enough.
Hence
one
had
to
sarn
while it was
possi
ble,
and
everything
which
was
possibie
by
any
means,
‘o be
secure.
Hence
it
came,
that
men
considered
each
other
as
compet tors.
Has
ine
War,
which
killed
so
many
men,
made
any chanee
in this?
Has
it
made
it easier
t 0 live?
No, assuredly
not!
On
the
contrary!
But
why?
If there
was
not
work
enough
for all
of us;
if
there
was
not
wealth
enough
for all
of
us;
then
one should
think
that when
so
many
peopie
were
Killed,
then
there
would
Be
left
so
much
more
for
the
others.
But
that
is
just
the
mistake.
Every man
(who deserves
the
name of a
man)
is a prodacer
as
well as
a consumer.
And he produces
more
than e consum?2s
that
is
how
a
surpius
came
into
the
world:
and
that
1s
why
we
are
all
poorer
now, and begin
to realize
it.
Somewh=re
in the
Old Edda, the
cld
Vola
sees
out
of the conflagration
of
the
old world a new world emerging:
:
““‘More fresh,
more
verdant
that the last,
_with fruits
“Seif-springing, and
a
seed
of man
pre-
served,
““Who then
shall
live in
peace,
as
then in
war.'’
Someone
has
meant
that
this
was
ap-
plicable
to our cime.
But
1l do
not
con-
sider
it
so.
I see
no
sun
shining
ovcr
selt-springing
fields..
I
see only ‘‘sword
time
aud wolf
time’’
ahead;
‘'darkness
and bloodshed,
brother against brother.”’
It seemns
to me tha
. ali of the oid forces
of society have given up,—that
it is lead-
ing
towards
the
worse
of
all,
towards
anarchy
where
there is no
order, right,
Bankdirector
Holst Lectures
°
on Finance.
Concluding Remarks.
And thus
we
have
come
to the end
of
our journev.
We have
passed
through
a
Country which
otherwise
has proved
of
but slight
attraction
to
travellers.
The
question
is
now,
whether
the
journey
has
been
worth
the
trouble
?
We
have
been
sight-seeing
like
tourists,
without
settling down anywhere
long enough
to
know and undevstand
the rules
and
laws
of the Country thoroughly.
But yet,
we
have
seen
something.
We
saw
the function of Money
prima-
rily as
a medium
of exchange,
as
a
cor--
mon
measure
of value,
as
a
standard
of
deferred
payments,
and
as
a
store
of
wealti.
We
sav/
the evolution of Money;
spoke
of codfish and tobacco
money.
of
Wam-
pum,
Metal
and
Paper
money,
and
of
Deposit
Currency:
saw,
how the
Banks
were
the
large factories of Credit.
We
discussed
the
Equation
oi
Ex-
change,
that the level
of prices
will vary
with the quartity
of
money
in use.
We
spoke of productive
and
non-productive
expenditure,
of the Foreign Exchanges—-
the Gold Points-—the
exchange
between
two
towns
-the
inflation of
credit—the
issue
of paper
™omey
and of
inconverti-
ble.
Notes
whose
value will depend
on
the
price
which
the
principal
exports
feteh
in Gold in foreign markets,
as
cot-
pared
with the price
‘which they
fetch
in
paper
in the home
market.
We dwelt jwith pa-ticular
interest
on
the General
Level of pricas.
We
saw how
the
money-currents
flow-
ed towards
the
large
monetary
centres
of the world,
from
thence
to
circulate,
as
the
blood from
a
large
heart,
out
to