Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-22
MILLS ON SILVER.
How the Texas Senator Justifies His Go
 version to Honest Money.

How the Texas Senator Justifies His Con-
 version to Honest Money. From a Recent Letter.
 A days wages at $1.60 in gold in 1891 would buy ten pounds of coffee instead of three and half pounds in 1886; six and one-half pounds of butter instead of three; twenty-four pounds of meat in stead of ten; five gallons of New Orleans molasses instead of one and one-ffth; i; twenty-siX pounds of rice instead of eleV- en; twenty-S pounds of soap instead or eight; fifty pounds of refined sugar in stead of fifteen; twenty-six yards of cal ico instead of five and one-half; three yards of two-ply ingraip carpet instead of one; fifteen yards of denims instead of three; twenty-six yards of drilling ln- stead of five; twenty-three yards Of ging- ham instead of nine; twenty-tour yaros of sheeting instead of six and one-half i; seven yards of womenS all wool dress goods instead of two and one-half;. forty table plates instead of seventeen; forty six pairs of tea cups and saucers instead of twenty-two, and six and one-half doz- en glass goblets instead of half dozen.
 It has been said that gold is the r1cn mans money. These figures prove that it is the poor mans money and the mon ey of everyone who works for wages The wage worker is always cheated py any depreciated money more by depre- cated paper money, because IL mas no intrinsic value to check its expansion.
 The wage earner always gets the most for his services when the dollar In which he is paid is the dollar of the commer- ciaI world The whole people, except speculators and commercial gamblers are injuriously affected by deprecated money of any kind, but the injury Is felt with crushing effect by the man or woman whose life depends upon con- stant employment and daily earnings.
 The census of 1890 shows that there were in the United States at that time 22 733, ,661 laborers, male and female, in all occupations. Of that number l5.099,- 901 were wage earners, who were pa1d In money for their services.
 4942,41S were hired laborers in manu- factures.
 3,004. .O15 were hired farm laborers.
 1,443, ,g99 were hired domestic servants.
 639, 413 were conductors, engineers fire men and other employees of railroad com- panieS.
 ell. AT were carpenters and joiners.
 556 900 were clerks.
 341 S11 were school teachers.
 36S, 502 were draymen and hackmen.
 264, 900 were salesmen. PAS, AS were launderers and laundresses. 19.S6S were painters. 205,3 ,315 were blacksmths. 1855, 197 were tailors.
 159.374 were bookkeepers and account ants.
 .51S were saw mill operators. 1c4, S03 were physicians SS, ,295 were clergymen
 S4.976 were barbers and hairdressers.
 S6.454 were printers and pressmen. "A. 633 were watchmen and policemen.
 5s,701 were commercial travellers
 63, 34S were telegraph and telephone op- orators and linemen
 A. 349 were boardnghouse keepers.
 A, no were hotel keepers.
 54 ,029 were hostlers
 72. .601 were laborers employed in vine yards and nurseries
 70,734 were laborers employed by stock men.
 43.242 were civil engineers.
 B, ,697 were wood choppers.
 B. 333 were stenoghh>ers and type writers.
 26. 767 were livery stable keepers.
 17.49S were dentists
 These are a part, and only $ part. or the vast army of wage-Workers wlo are to be injured, and seriously injured, by