The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-18

put all the burden of the worlds work
on gold, the natural results followed;
gold began to appreciate. If you look
around you in Pennsylvania you will
see that it has appreciated 80 per cent.
That is, measured by anything that
you gentlemen in Pennsylvania have to
sell, it takes twice as much to buy 800
worth of gold as it did in 1872. There
is no exception to this, whether it be
wheat, iron, coal or anything that you
have to sell, or, stated the other way,
anything you have with which to buy
gold. You know that the products of
Pennsylvania are worth more every
year than all the products of all the
silver states combined. That being
true, then you men in Pennsylvania
are much more interested in having
silver restored than are the men of the
silver states, as what you have to sell
Is worth more than what they have to
sell. And when you say the great rank
and file of the Republican party in the
East believe as you do, can you tell why
they do? Have they ever studied the
question? Is 1t not true that they get
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in the great press Of the East? Is it
not true that that press Is controlled
by the creditor class of this nation, and
that the great masses are being out
rageously robbed all the time without
knowing that fact?
As to Farm Mortgages.
"If you have time, go up to the coun-
ty recorders Office and ask him how
the mortgages on the farms will conf
pare with what they were twenty years
ago, and see if they have not doubled
Investigate little and see If the farm
ers will not tell you that their farms
have fallen so per cent. in value in the
last fifteen years. Go beyond that.
Write to the keepers Of the insane asy-
lums and the prisons Of Pennsylvania,
! and see if the ratio has not increased
so per cent in that time Investigate
the matter thoroughly and see if really
Pennsylvania Is not slowly going Back
to barbarism, because that is the effect
when, in a prosperous country the
volume of money is stricken down.
"You have one gentleman in Penn
sylvania who understands the ques-
ton. 1t is your senior senator. Send
| to him and ask his ideas.
"You talk about silver as a money
metal up to the safety of the National
credit and UP to the limit of the sol
vency of the American treasury! Did
you ever think that perhaps it was a
! little strange that the world used sill
yer, all they could get, for 1900 years,
and that the safety of no nation was
ever jeoparded by the amount of it?
Do you know that 1t was silver from
Nevada which steadied this nation
through the war Of the rebellion and
enabled the government to meet its in
terest charges? Do you know that the
trade of this country Is 81 per cent.
domestic, and that If something can be
done to make that prosperous, we will
not have to worry about the per cent.
that goes abroad?
Charges There Was a Conspiracy.
"I mean no disrespect to you, but
beg to tell you that you are cropping
simply in the rudiments of this ques-
ton, because you have never tried to
understand it. You have taken the
word of the great press Of New York
and Philadelphia, and perhaps of some
money-loaner in Scranton, and believe
that because the money-loaner deals
in money, he must understand the
question, and you do not know that
this condition came because there was
conspiracy organized by some men
beyond the sea to destroy half the
: money of the world and put the toilers
of the world in perpetual bondage.
"Do you know that we have to pay
in interest and dividends to Great Bri-