Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-09-08

pence per hour-eighteen cents of ouI
money. or 81 go for working min,
hours: any difference between S3 >,
and 81 go? Ii strikes me there is
What does "A plumber get Well,
suppose here, rs everywhere else, they
get most all fellow has. Well, il
New York, working eight hours a day
n plumber earns from 81. 50 to 400
The best plumber in England today
whoever crooked his head around a
pipe, gets that inevitable nine pence
an hour 81 .62, and 20 you can safely
say you won't be romapcing at all
you VIII be simply stating u fact
that wages in this country are from
40 to 100 and l25 per cent higher
than those paid for the same work in
England.
"a voice-"What is that?'O
Don't you believe me? Ii there is
man in this audience from a foreign
country-I prefer Great ritain-who
ever received as much money for doing
the work he is doing here, / wish he
would kindly tell me-"
(VJice-"He didn't.")
81 wish he would kindly tell me il he
ever received as much money for
doing the same work. If there is such
man here, would like to know the
country he is from; | would like to
know the work he did; would like to
know the wages he received; | have
been hunting twenty years for that
man; | have been hunting from the
Pacific to the Atlantic; | have not
found him yet, and if | find him |
could exhibit him and make fortune
out OF him. Now, how do | know that
what | am telling you is the truth
about this matter OF wages? Well, TO
begin with, | have within the last six
months asked scores upon scores oi
men in all these trades as to their
wages and | derive my information
from first hand. Somebody may say
they lied to me; well, perhaps they
did. Then have my belief fixed more
firmly.
"One step further. Almost the first
thing William Window did was TO
submit a proposition to congress
authorizing the purchase OF 4 500, 600
ounces OF silver every month instead
OF 2 100000 ounces. That was GER
tainly a step in the right direction.
That furnished a market for nearly all
of the silver product of the United
States at that time. 1t was not Just
what we wanted but it was right in
the line OF what we wanted. There.
fore Harrison and Windom are in the
right direction. They showed their
preferences. When Window died Har-
rlson did not 90 to Wall street for a
gold bug to succeed him. He took
Charles Foster of Ohio, a man known
to be silver man in all his princi
Piles. These things merely tend tc
point out the tendency OF the Renub
lican party. What else OF Mr.. Harri
son? lie has sought to bring about
what you want, the rec coinage OF sill
yer, but in II different way than that
you desire. Now, there are a larg,
number of people in Montana in
| terested in silver. You believe yoI
are right, but you must not forgeI
that there a large number OF peOpl,
in the United States who don't thinl
you are right, and who are inst ai
much entitled TO their opinion in tn,
matter as you are to your opinion
| Silver people are nt t the only peopl
IN the land. They have their views
other people have theirs. Now tn
proper thing to 10 is to see If you cai
reconcile these views and select IA hap
py medium which Just satisfies TIN
entire public; but these leaders of the
Republican party do not believe II
possible to permanently res ore silver
to it's standard as money without al
agreement with all the great nations
of the earth. They do not believ,
that the United States alone can keel
up silver upon n parity with gold l
unlimited coinage is allowed. Is no
the silver dollar Just as good as TIN
gold dollar? Yes, it is here. Why Il
it Just as good as gold dollar
Simply because when the governmen
said it is one dollar at the same tim
it pledged the American people that /
would give gold dollar for it when
ever it was presented. That is tn
reason.
"Suppose a silver panic should tax
place here and every silver dollar j
the countay, or silver dollars enoug
to take out all the gold, were pre-
sented across the treasury counter
and every dollar in gold was take
out and the next day another hur
dred millions of silver was presente
and gold demanded for it, and tn
treasury says Il haven't got the gold
Where would you get n dollar for tina
piece of money? You could not get il
and you silver people of Montan
would be the first people to recogniz
the fact and demand a gold dollar. j
is not the mere dictum of the govern
ment that makes the money, but it
whether it keeps its pledge as to wha
! it promises. Mr.. Harrison promise
that he can call silver conference an
that that conference will agree upon
/ basis between gold and silver for tf
, entire world, and that done you WI
have coinage to your hearts conten
= but until that is done | don't helieN
5 it is possible to do what you wan
: Ny theory is let us take the party al
I the man moving in the right direction
+ Look at the two last platforms. Nc
4 have now market for 4,5OO, ,O(
[ ounces OF your fine silver. have yo
i not? The Democratic platform hf
r Just this to say of silver. It demand
!, the repeal of the act of 1890 in regaI
t to silver. They denounce it as an u
= famous act and fraud. This meal
i that the only market that you hay
: on earth for your silver is to be d
!. ! stroyed. That is all. | believe thi
D the interests of the silver people
= this land are far safer in the hands
t the Republican party and Beniam
/. Harrison, and / believe it because
5 believe their tendency is in the dire
: ton of what We want, and on Il
t other hand / see the tendency OF Il
e Democratic party is to strike dow
t and destroy the steps already tax,
e in the direction OF what you want.
j. much for silver.
o A voice-"You say the bill demon
g tizing silver was surreptitious
Il passed. What do you say about Jol
IA Sherman introducing that bill?"
3? The speaker-"John Sherman is n
Ir the president of the United State
o He is not the Republican party, al