Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-09-11

carpet 81 cents. denims II cents, drill
Ing 6 cents. ginghams cents, ahoetlng
L. cents. womcn's all wool dress
goods ~ cents. table plates cents.
pair. and glass goblets % cents per
dozen a days wages at $i,6O In gold
IN 1891 would buy ten pounds OF cof-
Zee instead OF i-s pounds In 1866. 6l-2
pounds OF butter Instead OF =, "a pounds
OF meat Instead OF 10. gallons OF New
orleans molasses instead OF l-5. 20
pounds OF rice instead OF II, 20 pounds
OF soap Instead OF 5, 80 pounds Of re-
ftned sugar instead of Is. 20 pounds OF
calico inatcad Of i-2. yards OF two
ply ingram carpet instead OF l. 10 yards
OF denims instead of ., 20 yards OF drill
ing instead OF 8. 2S yards OF ginghame
Instead OF ., 2. yards OF sheeting In
stead OF 6 10. I yards of women's all
wool dress goods instead OF 2 l-2, 40
table plates instead of n, 90 pairs Of
tea cups and saucers instead OF %, and
tl-2 dozen glass goblets instead OF i-s
dozen, II has been said that gold In
the rich mans money. These figures
prove that It IL the poor mans money.
and the money OF every one who works
for wages The wage worker is at
ways cheated by any deprecated
money. more by deprecated paper
money. because II hae no intrinsic
value TO check Its expansion. The wage
worker always gets the most for his
services when the dollar In which he
Is paid IL the dollar OF the commercial
world The whole people except specu-
lators and commercial gamblers
ARE lNJuRIousI.y AFFECTED
by deprecated money OF my Kind, but
the injury IL felt with crushing effect
by the man or woman whose lie de-
ponds on constant employment and
daily earnings The census of 1880
lllt.
States at that time s2fa36Gi laborera,
male and female, In all occupations
or that number 15,09g,9Oi We're wage
earncrs who We're paid In money for
their services; i.ei2,ilS were hired lab
orers In manufactures a,00i.0i5 were
hired farm lahorcrs: i,tia.s9s We're hlr-
cd domestic servants; d3e,il3 were con.
ductors engineers. ircmen ana other
employees OF railroad companies; 6H.-
Az Were carpenters and lOineIA, $3.50 800
Were clerks; 3ii.Sll We're school teach
ers; a6S, SOC We're draymen ana hack
men. 26i0O0 were statesmen. 2iSii5
We're launderers aud laundresses: 2i9,-
SOS We're painters; 203,Sl6 were black
smiths; lSb,igi were tnilorH; lhg, al7 were
bookkeepcra and accountants; i9l.5iS
were sawmill operators; iOt SOB We're
physicians; $685. were clergymen S,-
gi6 We're BARRIERS and hnirdresacra; So
ibi were printers and prossmen; 7i,G39
were commercial travellers. Ga,SiS were
telegraph and telephone operators and
iinemeni 4i,Si9 were boarding house
keepers; ii,iiO were hotel keepers. o.
o2s were hostlers, 726Oi were laborerr
employed In vineyards and nurseries;
1O,1N were lnburera employed by stock
men; i3.2i2 were civll engineers, 3s.GsI
were wood choppers; Sa9S3 were stem
ographers and typewrltcfs; 20, ,G7 were
livery stable keepers; i7,iaS Were dent
lists.
These are a part and only part OF
the vast army OF wage workers who
| are to be Injured. ana seriously inIur-
ed by the expulsion OF the present
standard and the adoption OF any de-
preclatod standard OF value. The pap
| er stundnrd as | have said, Ia the
worst, because the paper has no appre-
oiable intrinsic value to check It's ex-
panslon The silver standard In the
next In order. but It's mischief Is linz
Tied by the market value of the metal
/ IN the dollar. The most stable tuyAr.
liable and the best OF all moneys ls that
one of the precious metals which IL
recognized ms "the
COMMON MEASURE or VALUE"
Of the commercial world. We have that
| stable, inVnrinble standard OF value
/ nova currency destitute OF fcxlbillty
or elasticity. and there IL nothing
| NnH..Hb iVi US Improvement Dut the
| substitution of halves quarters ana
dimes In the place of the national
bank notes and a continued coinage OF
| shNer as limited IN It's amount as 10
keep II at par with gold.
The present national bnnk note rs
20 limited ny law that II cannot by It's
/ Increased Issue diAplacc the standard
hut u II based upon the existence and
continuation or public debt. ana A.
cannot be retained without the reton-
tion or the debt upon which II In
based, which requires nm annual In
terest charge from the pockets OF the
| people. am opposed 10 the retention
OF the public debt. I havo opposed,
| ana VIII continue to oppose, any In
crease of II In time OF peace under any
prcteNt The founders OF the republic
denounced II ms nm evil whose oSist-
ence was constant peril to free gov
| eminent President Washington urged
It's payment as rapidly as possible In
his message IN 1880. and 1--WE times re-
peatcd that recommendation to con-
gress, mud IN his farewell address
| warned the people OF the evils that
would follow It's retention. President
Jefferson denounced II over and over
again ana characterized II ms moral
oaniker'" President Madison declared
the man an enemy to the Union who
advocated It's unnecessary duration.
President Jnckron pressed the war on
II until In the last term OF his admin
istratlon every dollar OF the public
debt WAS eXtinguished II was a not
able event In our history. and II was
publicly celebrated In Washington on
the sth OF january. 1895, and the old
hero sent to the assembly the follow
Ing continent; ''rhe
PAYMENT or THE PUBLIC DEBT.
Let Us commemorate II as an event
which gives us Increased power as "A
nation and reflects luatre on our fed
eral union OF whose Justice fidelity and
wisdom II ~ glorious Illustration"
This was the universal Democratic sem
timent then. and II Is the sentiment Of
the vast majority OF the American
people now.
In the discussion OF the financial
question. we should examine II In all
Its features. We should settle the
h'nd and banking questions ns well as
the silver question. They are all parts
| of the game Ryrtem. and In the Hettlp-