Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-10-26
ADDRESS TO TOILERS.
LABOR LEADERS DISCUSS THE
CAUSES OF DISTRESS.
Worxingmen Asked to Combine While
the Ruthless Money Powers COnspire-
Labor Should BE King-Unrest Is Caus-
ing Much Anxiety-NOtes of Industry.
Appeal to tho Wage Il ,rDers.

To the Members of Organized Labor ana
All Other Producers and Toilers ThrC u sh-
out the United S.ates.
In Wow OF tie genera distress now
pre- ailing throughout our country,
which has existed for so many years
aud which will continue until remedial
legislation is enacted. and all this oc-
curing, too, at time when our graz
arie, are full to epletion, IL d when
in the natural order of things, cur pro-
ducers and toilers should be en- Dying
to the full the fruit of their hard and
conscientious labJrs, ii seems To us
that the ii @ has come for united "a
ton on the part o, those who create
the wealth OF the country.
The res tive demands and plat
forms OF principles OF our several o.
CARNATIONS set forth our opinions as to
the causes that have brought aoout
this condition of things. lnasmucl Is
the leading repre- enta ives and friend :
of all our organizations have placed
one OF the causes to the fluctuations Cf
our bel owed republic to the departure
of our government from the sc bi-
meta lie financial policy Oi Wa hil.-
ton, .effe son and Ham 'lton, and tie
substitution therefor of the pre- sent
moDometallic policy recommended
by European m0ney-owners and al
vocatei by their American allies,
We, the undersigned Of GERS of in
dustrial, agricu tural, and commerce al
organiza ions, have thought it best at
this particular time, to submit ios
your careful consideration Il synopsis
of the legislation re specting the pre-
cious metals enacted in this country
sin the undatiCu of this Govern
ment that you may Judge Tor your
selves as to what potion of such legis-
latiOn was ena ted in the interest of
the produc ng and what in the interest
of the non-prOducing classe-. and as to
whether or not the shrewd nanipu
lator5 of our finances foresaw that the
result of their work would be to largely
help in the subju alton of the reop.e.
Whatever the oil. Get, certain 1t is that
before the demoIetL alton of silver
and the enactment Ct other fina icial
legislation, which our organizations
condemn, 3.5UO bushels of wheat or
$4,000 pounds OF cotton was the annual
pa of our Congress man and senat r.,
while to-day 10 90 bushels of wheat or
100000 pound of cotton barely suffice:
before demonet cation 3j.C0O bushels
of wheal or 5000 o ounds OF cotton
per year would have aid the salary of
the President; to-day he receives the
e4uiva ent of 10 200 bushels of wheat
or 1,0Jr.O00 pounds of cotton, ami in
like proportion it is with all other
fixed salaries and incomes.
Was this legislation just Was it
honest? Does it not necessarily follow
that the characterization OF silver by
B impoverishing the food producing Sec
tiOns of the county, through fa lure
to procure reasonable prices of their
products, causes the manu- 'acturing
sections to accum llate excessive
stocks, and in C nse ,uence O. a poor
market hundred, of thousands of Ope-
rativeS are ne, essarily thrown OFT of
employment. thu robblng them of the
power, eve at the low prices, to pur-
cha the neceSSar;cs of life,
Again, il it net obS iOlis to every one
that the strik NJ down of one half of
the worl1's volume of money makes
the rem9i lining half comparatively
easy matter tor capitalists to control
and manipulate, and ths toilers, to OBJ
tain money for tho purchase of their
food supplies, Il placed entirely at
the mercy of the foreign American
money sharks, VINO, by cont acting
cur. ency, can force panic or famine
in money at their supreme will?
Would they be guilty of such a
crime? We ONLY say in reply Look at
or present helpless condition oes
it not seem to you in the light o. the
facts here given, that where in the
midsi of plen the G i, widcspr ad
suffering and unhappin ess. there is
considerable meat III the refrain from
Wall street.
"Dig on, We toilers, dig; the legisla
tive button that we press will do the
rest?"
The first coinage law enacted under
the constitution was recommended by
Hamilt N, cOncurred in by Jefferson.
and approved by Washington. pro-
vided for the free an unlimited coin
age of both gold and silver: tn, silver
dollar containing 5.If 81 aims of III Q
metal.
In 1897 the mint laws were revised
and a standard OF both gold a ID silver
was made nine-t .nths fine that Is.
niEe-tonths pure metal, and one pa t
alloy; the number OF pure silver grain
to the dollar remaining unaltere !, viz,
81 grains.
This law established or ent ratio
of IL to !.
In August, 1867 the public debt,
WHICH grow OUT vi INC TcdCHcQ l. >
highest point the debt less cash in
the treasury being S ..JG, al ,000 This
debt was not payable in god. o
bonds Or other governmental Cb.iga-
tions were ever made srecilicall, pay
abe in gold. The interest on bonds
was made payable in C in; the greater
portion of the principal OF the original
bond is in coin-not gold coin, but coin
of either gold or silver.
In 1869 the principal Of the bonded
debt was also made pa abe in coin.
In 1870 the standard of in was by
the rounding act nomin ted in the
bond, that is to say, al of the Obliga-
tons of tho United states were then
declared payable in either gold or sill
YER, OF the present ratio, at the option,
not OF the bondholders, but OF the pc J.
pie of the United states.
All of the acts pa ssed s nee the close
of the civil war, il will he observed,
wore in the intere of the bondhOld-
ers and against that of the producers
and tOilers.
But it remained for the yea 1873 to
witness the browning blow of all In
that wear An innocent aDpearinU hill