The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-08-18
THE FREE SILVER OKAToh An"
TuE LABORING MAN.

..vvben the enterprlsing Burglars not a.
burgling. not a-burghng'
When the cutthroat is not occupied
with crime. pied with crime;
He loves 10 hear the little brook a-surg-
ling. brook a~gurgling,
And listen to the merry village chime,
village chime"
Gu when the free silver orator Is not
d,ssoIvng US into tears OF rage at the
way England is leading us around by
the nose. he's sure 10 be telling the labor
ing man how he is trying to protect him
from sharpers by making money cheap.
Listen TO Orator Bryan. OF Nebraska, In
that famous free silver speech Of his
In Congress last Wednesday. After tell
ing us that 1t is corporate interests OF
the United States, the moneyed interests.
aggregated wealth and capital, imper-
ious, arrogant, compassIonless" that de-
mands sound finance. he says:
ION the other side stand an unnum-
bered throng, those who gave to the DEM
ocratic party a name and for whom II
has assumed to speak. Work worn and
dust begrimed. they make their mute APP
help beat In vain against the outer walls,
while others less deserving gain ready
access to legislative halls"
BY which fine rhetoric he would have
us to understand that he is the especial
champion of the rights OF the laborine
man when he demands that we shall
flood the country with silver dollars
worth less than sixty cents each.
Now we say that IL there is one thing
the iaboring man has cause to pray 10
God he may be delivered from, 1t is from
a cheap dollar. When the money Of a
country becomes deprecated, everything
advances in price except labor. That,
and that alone. remains stationary or
moves but little while everything the
laborIlg man must buy goes up enor-
mously in price. We put what Daniel
Webster said on that subject against the
rhetoric of Orator Bryan Said Mr.. Web
ster sixty years ago:
HE who hampers with the currency
robs labor of it's bread. He panders in
deed to greedy capital. which is keen
sighted and may shift for itself; but he
beggars labor, which is honest. unsus-
pecting and too busy with the present
to calculate for the future. The pros
perity Of the working class lives, moves,
and has its being in established credit
and a steady medium Of payment. All
sudden changes destroy II. Honest in
dustry never comes in for any part OF
the spoils in that scramble which takes
place when the currency Of the country
is disordered. Did wild schemes or pro-
jects ever benefit the Industries? Did
irredeemable bank paper ever enrich the
laborers? Did violent fluctuations ever
do good to him who depends on his daily
labor for his daily bread? All these
things may crafty the greedness for
sudden gains or the rashness of daring
speculation; but they can bring nothing
but injury and distrust TO the homes Of
patient industry and honest labor. Who
are they that profit by the present state
Of things? They are not the many. but
the few. They are the spectators.
brokers, dealers in money and lenders OF
money at exorbitant interest. Small
CAPITALISTS are crushed out, and their
means being dispersed, as usual, In va
rious parts Of the country, and this mis-
cradle policy having destroyed exchanges,
they have no longer either money or
credit. And all classes of labor partale
and must partake, in the same calan-
ity"
These are the wise words Of one OF
the foremost statesman the world has
ever known. This Is q truthful por-
traya1 of what cheap money means 10
the laboring man, and Orator Bryan had
better make this his model IL he pro-
poses to speak for the woridngman.