Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-08-23
rTER IN MEXICO.
,ue tABoRER IS ROBBED BY rue CHEAP DOLLAR.

things would seem to be so cer-
 [L.t it is a waste of time to argue
 ,ham Among these is the condi-
 tbe people of Mexico, which ey-
 iv knows is in every respect in-
 nthat of the people of the United
 Yet the silyerites have cheek
 to brazenly claim that the Mex
 sre more prosperous than we are. 3hllowing letter, recently published
 New York Sun, shows the real
 d to Mexico's alleged prosperity:
 MEXICO, July 6, 1895.
 fight over the financial question
 n in the United States is watched
 eagerness and interest by mine
 x here. Whenever the United
 throws open her hints to the free unlimited coinage of silver the |, no property of Mexico will be en-
 sd in value in the same proportion
 at in Colorado, though experience
 .boWn that the salary of the laborer ' bs the same, at least so far as Mex
 concerned. The dividend of the Ebolder will alone be increased. a average of wages ranges from 1215
 cents day ill the cities and haci-
 Bor plantations of Mexico, and in
 emote mining districts it is little
 All laborers have to find" them
 in Mexico. On all plantations
 are stores owned by the landlord.
 is usually earned by labor on the
 isalways spent with the owner of it.
 be question naturally arises, espe-
 F after one has heard the promises of silyer men on. the floors of congress,
 have wages not risen in Mexico? even on a silver basis, are they so h lower than the lowest paid in the Ited States? It must be remembered, , that the wages paid here are in Q reeiated coin, worth only half as Ih as the same amount received for r i'll the United States.
 h all sides one hears the answer that silyer basis in Mexico is not respon- Afor the low wages. This is partially but still wages have not increased made any advance under the free |age of silver. The chief argument |he silver men in the States seems to That wages will advance and that |volnme of currency will be largely |ated
 |Othing which has been promised by |slver men has come to pass here. Ees are lower and living higher. |a silver has decreased in value to |ut one7half, everything produced in country which competes with the Ekets of the world has increased pro The only products which e remained at nominally the old Ire are those which are not grown for Wt and which do not come in con with similar products grown in ntries which have sound currency. n coffee, which is one of the staple iucts, has risen to such point as to 'tically be beyond the reach of the ] and the laborer, while the only ever ill reach of the peon is that oh is cut from the dead animals aft he bull fight.
 
 utter is so dear as to make it lux to all classes, and it is ordered in lurants as dainties are. Beer, which standard drink here, sells for b } glass, and the only liquor which be had by the laboring classes is Fe drink called "pulque,' a milk looking beverage which produces } of the results of the malt product out possessing any of it's virtues. hen these facts are pointed out to silver man from the States, he at says that such condition of things l not exist there; that labor is too organized to permit such state of rs to last. The politician as we'll as aborer knows that there can be no ious value i'll labor, and, moreover, less than 3 per cent of the great of labor in the United States is or- zed. The low wages here are not ned alone to what may be termed aboring class, but all salaries are ortionately small. The best of clerks he stores get from $50 to $100 tn. The most expert bookkeepers seldom get more than from $60 to 3 month. Yet ill this class of life 'lothes they wear, the food they eat, bought at gold prices. While his y is higher, yet the bookkeeper's ssities are so much the greater. 'gue as they will, there can be but result from silver basis in the ed States, which should be made to all who are dependent for their g upon their labor. It is that wages Id not bo perceptibly increased, and the purchasing power of those ss would be diminished almost half. 'nts have been steadily advancing and they would be put up in any try which depreciates its money. never the United States goes upon T basis, the earning power of her 'ers, artisans and clerks will be cut st ill two, while the clothes they :, the houses they live in, the food eat, will be increased almost dou- Seeing the condition of the toiler the peasant here, in country upon yer basis, it can be but the one ar of an American visiting Mexico hls own country may be spared the