The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28

property for more gold than you do now.
Gold must decline in value when the
United States, yet the greatest nation on
earth, goes out Of the market for gold.
To withdraw demand from an article
lowers it's value is law OF trade that all
men must admit and no man can contra
dict. Hence you will then exchange your
property for more gold than you can now
The debtor will pay his gold debt easier
then than he can now.
THE STAMP DOES NOT GIVE VALUE.
II want right here to answer Mr..
Horr's proposition that he cannot by law
confer value upon silver or anything
else. I have already answered that, II
you will notice, but l want to answer it
| further. 1t is not the stamp upon the
coin that gives value to it, it is the law
creating it as money. (Applause.) 1t is
law that gives to silver the new use of
money which it has not now. When
you make new use for thing you in
crease its value. Wheat would not be
worth as much as it is now If it were not
for ats use when ground into flour for
bread. Silver would not be worth so much
| if it were not for the use we propose for
| it, to grind it into money for the use Of
the people as an exchange (Applauseo
1t is in the exchange of property that
wealth is acquired, and when you can ex-
change your property for more gold than
formerly you are benefited if you are
gold debtor. To assist in taking the de-
mand from gold is to your interest. 1t
is to the interest of the men to whom
you owe the gold to keep the demand on
it, 1t is to your interest to take it off.
When you have given full money func-
tons to silver you have taken a demand
| off of gold.
Mr.. Horr-I was just talking of the
great army of people in the United States
who are classified under the head of
trades and transportation. We have
of them 3,325,962 At least 100000 Of that
army get their pay in wages given them
each day, week and month for the work
they have done. You ask them whether
they want a dollar that will buy a good
many of the things they need or one that
will buy only part as much as they now
receive, and what will be their answer?
Why, my friend Harvey seemed to think
that if he could get me schooled on that
question Of silver coinage and get me on
to the stump on that subject would rat
tie things up wonderfully by carrying
around a chart showing the size Of the
gold in the world. He is mistaken. The
size has nothing to do with the value.
You may be able to do it, Harvey, but
| couldn't refer 10 a principle and pic
ture of that kind without stultifying my
self. man who has as much brains as
chipmunk would know better, would
cause size is not the measure Of CONNER
cial value. You can put a diamond
worth $1,OOO,000 the Regent, all inside of
quaiPs egg, therefore it isn't"
Mr.. Harvey-But we would not consid-
er the proposition to make money out of
it for the world.
Mr.. Horr-We don't make money out Of
it, no; but I wouldn't consider the propo-
sitiOn reasonable to go about claiming
that it had anything to do with the value
of a metal or that you could base any
calculation in reference to value-it is so
ridiculous But 1 must proceed.
TACKLES THE HIRED GIRL CUES
TION.
'The next witnesses I want to call up
are those in domestic and personal SER
vice. The hired girls of the United
States, the men who sweep the streets,
men who do the personal duties for peo-
pie in this great country of ours. There
are 4,360,506. They are all Of them paid
wages. They all of them depend upon
what they receive each day to find out
how well they are going to live the next
day. Is there an idiot anywhere on the
face Of the earth who thinks these men
and women would be benefited by giving
them less for their days work Of the
things they need-for that is what he
proposes to do. Take a vote and see
where you would come out among that
class of wage-earnerS. Ask them: Do
you want the dollar cheaper than it is
now? Do you want to go downtown to
get supply for your family and receive
only about half what you get now? Do
you think they would be long in voting
on that question? That is what he pro-
poses to do. That is 4,360,5 SOC that will be
OBJ n1 TO ho hot hot lii Of
legislation will bring ruin upon. That is
the reason why protest against it. Now
l come to the list Of those manufacturing
and mechanical industries. All factory
hands, all skilled laborers in the United
States. Have you any idea how many
there are? Five million ninety-one thou
sand six hundred and siXty-nine. Go
round among them, ask them: Do you
want the measure Of value reduced? Do
you want every dollar you earn cut in
two? Do you want people to hold up to
you that you are getting wages so and so
and then give you half that instead of
the wages you have earned Do you
think they would be long in deciding this
question? You want to take from them
what they can earn with their labor.
They will all Of them protest against it.
HOW 1T AFFECTS PENSIONERS.
Now in addition to this army of work.
ing people I have crowd of witnesses l
want to call to the stand to vote on this
question. It is a strengthening crowd
that 1 see coming into the witness-box.
Many of them are on crutcheS; empty
sleeves are hanging by the sides of many;
scars received by the furrowing work Of
shot and shell when they were risking
their lives that this nation might live.
All, there are women in black in that
crowd; there are little children clinging
to the garments of widowed mothers,
made widows by the death of their SOL
der husbands. One million Of them now
in the United States Ask them: Do you
want your pensions cut down by giving
you dollar not worth as much as you
have been receiving? They stood the
brunt of battle; they risked their lives
that this republic might live, and right
now comes the new philosophy which
says: We will cut down their pension
rolls by destroying the value of the mon>
ey we pay them for the glorious work
they did, Shame, shame on such pat
riotiSm as that.
eff you pass this law you must either
double the pay of every pensioner or you
disgrace this great nation of ours. 1 en-
ter a protest against that effort to dis
grace this nation by cheating 100000
of men whom the government is paying
for the risks they took and the hardships
they endured that you and I might live
in a country worth living in. Do you
think that they would vote with you,
Harvey? Try it and see.
again, we have in this country-I
know Brother Harvey thinks they are
wicked institutions, at least suppose he
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