Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-12-19
ABOUT WAGES.


Criticised-wages In silver and Gold
Countries.
When Mr.. Carlisle was making
speeches in Kentucky, he said among
other things:
II. There is not free coinage coun-
try in the world to-day that is not on
a silver basis.
''2. There is not gold standard coun-
try in the world to-day that does not
use silver money along with gold.
''3. There is not a silver standard
country in the world to-day that uses
any gold along with silver.
81. There is no silver standard coun-
try in the world to-day that has more
than one-third of the circulation per
capita that the I'm tied States has.
..5. There is not a silver standard
country in the world to-day where the
laboring man receives fair pay for .
fair days work.
These utterances have been hailed
by the gold-bug press as infallible, and
although they have been answered by
the bimetaIlic papers repeatedly, yet
like Banquo's ghost, they are ever re-
appearing.
There are five propositions, and they
cannot of course be all answered in de-
tail in one newspaper article. Let us
consider the fifth first. as it is really
the most important, because it it is
true that the laborer does not receive
fair days pay for fair days work
in countries where silver is coined free
then he should be opposed to bimetal-
ism strenuously; if on the contrary,
he hnf ell
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 il fair
wages are paid the kind of money is OF
no Importance to the laborer.
To begin with, when this question Is
considered, it is well to notice that
wages have always been very low in
Asia, and that if they are low now, yet
they are higher than they we're years
ago. For sixty years India has had q
silver standard, but wages have not
gone down there, but on the contrary
they have slightly increased. In Ja-
pan, Curtis, in his recent letters to the
Chicago Record from that country, says
wages are advancing.
In Europe, the demonstration OF
silver does not seem to have materially
advanced wages The British work
man. with his gold standard for nearly
a century, is not as we'll of as the
German who used silver until twenty
two years ago. Wages in Austria have
not advanced since it has been placed
70 frS
gland, who have enjoyed gold stand
ard, are far less prosperous than the
French peasants, although the United
Kingdom has SIP. 00O. 600 in silver and
France has $500, 900, 0e0. These figures
show very clearly that prosperity in
creases with the amount OF silver IN
a community rather than decreases
Italy has 81 cents per capita in silver
and thousands of Italians cross the
Alps every year to France. with its
S13-O5 per capita. to earn living. Few
Frenchmen emigrate. comparatively,
but Englishmen, Irishmen and Scotch
men, who have only $3.94 per capita,
go all over the world seeking hom eA
The emigration from Germany has
never been as great as since 1879, when
silver was demonetized in the empire
Here are the figures: From 1851 TO
1870, Germany sent ], 773. 674 emigrauts
to the United States; from 1871 to 1880
she sent g, 210, ESQ Austria hardly sent
MS representative until she started to
get Oh gold basis, and now tho Ans
trian-Hungarian emigration Is among
the largest we receive. France. which
has more silver in circulation than any
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