The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-09-27
A word to Workingmen.

An Eastern exchange, discussing the
labor problem and imitation schemes,
tersely states the live issue of the day,
as follows:
Workingmen who clamor for more
greenbacks, are clamorlng for dollars
which are not worth dollar now, and
which are inevitably reduced In value
i'll proportion, as they are increased
III number. Nothing but real money,
or its representative equivalent, Will
answer the necessary economy OF
those whose only resource is III their
manual labor. Even the slightest in
tatlon is fatal to them. 1hey need
the dollars which they take Tor their
labor, shall be dollars III tact, and have
the purchasing power Of dollars. The
hard times are not caused by scar
city of money. There is plethora
,of money. 1t lies Idle i'll the banks
by the million. 1t seeks invest
ment in vain. Never i'll this couu-
try could money in any amount, be
obtained SO easily and at such low
rates of interest as now. All that is
needed is satisfactory security. WHO
ever has this, can get money by the
bushel, almost on his own terms,
while those who have it not, can not
get ~ ON any terms, so that more
greenbacks would be no help to the
helpless Whoever gets dollar
must give something ior it. Every
dollar that any man gets must be
bought and paid for He who has
nothing to get it with can get none,
and he who has more than he wants
already, will buynone. More green
backs, Therefore, will not heip the
case. Let the government print and
give every man a trunk full, and twen-
" trunks tull wouldn't have power
enough to buy sack of flour. No,
not even issaaour were to stay at is
fair and normal value, instead of fly
ing away up into the clouds and COM
handing thousand dollars barrel.
y or would it make cents worth Of
difference what were the denomna-
tIons or nominal values of these trunks
full OF bills. They might as well be
one dollar as thousand dollars.
They couldn't be sold i'll either event,
for the original cost OF the white pa
per. Workingmen should understand
tlat such remedy would only aggra-
vate their i'll. The opportunity for
every man TO work is what is needed.
Eveav man at work and earning wa
ges. and living within his means, will
| bring a renewal of business prosperl-
". There must be opportunity for
/ all, and then every tlsb standing on
its bottom must embrace the oppor-
tunitv. Work will do it, and moth
ing else. He who works the hardest,
spends the least, saves the most and
invests with greatest wisdom, will ad-
vance the fastest There is no other
law that is worth a copper. Resolu-
tions viii do no good. Speeches will
do no good. There is no virtue in
anything but work, prudence and
brains. In this country, where all
men have an equal chance, these quail
ities will win. Spendthrlfts, idlers
and theorists will go to the wall. The
man who works and does not think,
will always be outstrpped by the man
who works and thinks both. Mind is
superior to matter. Therefore, the
man who would get on in the world
with his hands, when, if his plans are
wise and his execution good, will be
quite sure to succeed. And all the
greenbacks which men get in that
way, have a standard and permanent
value