The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-12-26
ABOUT WAGES.

sonu sonnn;ut;clsed-Wsges In shver anu ooiU
GUpn %hnn Mr.. Carlisle was making
,nseches in Kentucky, ne said among
o'nIi .r There is not a free coinage coun-
:, the world to-day that is not on
a silver basis.
30 80 There is not gold standard coun.
.uu in the world to-day that does not
o 2 silver money along with gold.
40 There is not silver standard
oorntrv in the world to-day that uses
env gold along with silver
IA There is no silver standard coun-
Saw in the world to-day that has more
.hsn one-third of the circulation per
snn;ta that the United States has.
's,s There is not silver standard
oo,ntrv in the world to-day where the
laborinp man receives fair pay Tor
fair days work" Il
These utterances have been hailed
bv the gold-buR press - infahipls, ana
although they nave oeen' snsvvs.ed oy
the bimetallic papers repeatedly, yer
like Banquo's ghost. they are ever re-
'pr There are five propositions, and they
o.nrs,t. of course be all answered In de-
tail in one newspaper article. Let us
consider the fifth first, a. 1t Ia really
the most important, because II 1t is
true that the laborer does not receive
a fair days pay for fair days work
in countries where silver Is coined free
then he should be opposed to bimetal-
lism strenuously; if on the contrary.
he gets better wages in free silver
countries, then he should favor the
general use of silver.
If Mr.. Carlisle's proposition is true,
presumably the reverse OF it is also
true, and fair wages are paid in gold
countries, because obviously II fair
wages are paid the kind of money is OF
no Importance to the laborer.
To begin with, when this question Ia
considered, it is well to notice thai
wages have always been very low in
Asia. and that if they are low now, YET
they are higher than they were years
ago. For sixty years India has had
silver standard, but wages have mo-
gone down there, but on the contrary
they have slightly increased. In ia
nan. Curtis in his recent letters to the
Chicago Record from that country, say:
wages are advancing.
In Europe, the demonstration
silver does not seem to have MATERIAL
advanced wages. The British work
man, with his gold standard for nearl
a century, is not as we'll off as tn
German who used silver until twenty
two years ago. Wages in Austria hav
not advanced since it has been place
on a gold basis. The farmers in En-
gland, who have enjoyed gold stant
ard, are far less prosperous than IN
French peasants, although the Unite
Kingdom has $112, 900 in silver an
France has $500, 900, ,Oo0. These figure
show very clearly that prosperity Il
creases with the amount OF silver
community rather than decrease
Italy has 54 cents per capita in silv'
and thousands of Italians cross Il
Alps every year to France, with i
S13.O5 per capita, to earn living. re
Frenchmen emigrate, comparativel
but Englishmen, Irishmen and Scotc
men, who have only 1894 per capt
go all over the world seeking nom
The emigration from Germany h
never been as great as since 1873, VIII
silver was demonetized in the empll
Here are the figures: From 1851
1870, Germany sent 1,773,6 emlgran
to the United States; from 1871 to Ii
she sent 2, ,21o, $50. Austria hardly Sc
us a representative until she started
get on a gold basis, and now the Al
ian-Hungarian emigration is amo
the largest we receive. France, whl
has more silver in circulation than
country in Europe, and far more
capita than the United States,
never sent $4,000 in any deca'
Canada has sent 392, S02 emigran
while Mexico only furnished 1913.
these statistics show that the emig
ton has been almost in direct prop
ton to the silver in circulation In
country from which the emigra
come, and as they are nearly all wa
earners, it is clear that so far "a
money at home furnished cause
emigration, everything is in favol
silver. It should be remembered I
while silver was demonetized b
partially, the demonstration was
complete until the Sherman bill
repealed, and the emigration
greatest when the country was u
most silver.
But there is even moro direct
dence on this question of wages
even that which study of emigrs
statistics furnishes The state dep
ment under Mr.. Cleveland, be 1t
membered, has been collecting thro
the consuls in foreign cities ststiI
Of wages in gold-using and silver.u
countries Let us take two OF the
Belgium, gold country, and Me'
silver country. and compare u
The Manufacturer has done this,
ing it's figures from the reports,
the following result :,
Bricl,layers