The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-09-20
LIVE ISSUES.
Buying Honey.

leaves that human toll with no unit
to purchase what they must have.
He throws that into the argument
occasionally and / don't want it to
deceive any one, and / may later
read you what Mr.. Horn says ON
that subject himself.
You may cheaper thing with
reference to the time required to
produce it, but if the man that
handles the machinery that does it
does not get enough for his work to
hold him up as a respectable citizen
in the community, wherein does
your cheapening process help him
any? (Applause.)
Mr.. Horn has been giving you an
illustration of the gold standard by
the fall of prices. l am very much
obliged to Mr.. Horn for that long
list he went through, but there was
one kind of property that Mr.. Horn
did not mention. 1t is property
regarded by all people as the most
desirable property in the world.
Mr.. Horn, you may mention oats,
corn. beef, wheat and hundreds of
other articles, but unless you name
this one that | am going to mention
you have not yet mentioned the
article for which there is the most
numerous and general demand in
the world. 1t is class of property
for which men will travel to the
ends of the world; for which men
will at times risk their lives; a
property that lures men to commit
crime; a property which if you have
it in your pocket you are perfectly
safe as to dependency at any point
in the world. That property is
money. 1t has not declined. Do
not let us be deceived with all this
sophistry. Price is relative term.
We have a class of men that own
this kind Of property that I have
named-money. How are they
benefited by this decline in the
prices in that long list that Mr..
Horn read? They 60 forth into the
market with their money and buy
property with it. You go into the
market with your property, with
your tin buckets, your reapers,
your dozens of other things you
mentioned to buy money, and you
only buy one half as much as you
bought with them in 1873. (Long
continued applause.)
NO DECLINE IN THE PRICE OF
MONEY.
But these men in London and
New England 60 into the market
with their property-money-to
buy your property that you have
spent so much human toll over.
And how much do they buy with
their property? One-half as much
as in 1873? No, sir, they buy
twice as much. Gentlemen, there
is by the United States census at
the cash valuation $65, 0OO, 900, 900
worth of property in the United
States outside of money and secu-
rites, and the assessed value of it
is 1874, OOO, 900, 900. There is class
of men in this country who own
money securities in larger volume
than the assessed value of all the
property in the United States.
Now we may have class of men
owning cotton, or class of men
owning wheat, but none of those
classes are near so large in interest
-moneyed interests this class
of men who are sowing money and
reaping the harvest from it. And
this crop which I call money is the
crop that has been legislated in
favor of. All commerce is an eX-
change of property, one property
for another, and when you so legis-
late that the man owning one clsss
of property can enhance the ex-
changeable value of that property
in exchange for your property so
as to make his disproportionately
more valuable than yours, you have
legislated in the interest of that
class. But you have done more
serious thing in this instance, be
cause this class of property to
which 1 now refer, money, is a class
of property which you must have.
You can do without wheat, because
you can eat something else. You