The herald., 1895-11-15
meant that an equal amount OF brandy
would keep a man sober.

| meant that an equal amount OF BRANDY
would keep man sober.
Asa matter of fact the people who do
| the hard WORK OF the world do not in any
| country, whether the standard be gold OF
| silver, receive fair pay for fair day s
work. They never have, and IL they
| listen TO the free siiverites and lot OF
! other sha m rsformers, they never will.
In some countries thu people who 10 the
work get better snare of what they
produce than they do in others. but in
no country 10 they get what they should.
But the fact that the working pe ,ple as
a rule do not receive just proportion
of the products OF labor in gold stand
ard country in no way justifies the con-
clusion that they would fare better If the
silver standard we're substituted.
The idea that working people would
get more wages If more silver, or. Tor that
matter. more money of any kind, were
only used, arises out OF failure to I'M
derstand what wages are. This inability
to grasp the meaning of the term IS In
separately associated with the silverite;
in fact, 1t is with what he does not know
that he is a silverite.
Wages Ioptcooub poAsAoA ~ $3.50
wealth produced by labor and capital, up
piled to the resources OF nature. that gots
to labor. The money that wages are fig-
ured in and usually paid in does not con-
stitute the wages, it only stands for
them the real wages consist of tie things
to eat, drink, wear and live in that the
people who labor get. They do not work
for the money, but for the things. And
there n light be tenfold increase in
country's money and five kinds instead OF
one kind of metal be used, and yet the
working people Of that country receive
no nlore things as wages than before.
But in the change of the kinds of money
it might happen that they WOULD for
some time at least. receive less. Under
free and unlimited coinage OF silver at l6
to l ratio the silver dollars turned out
would be worth about so cents apiece as
soon as this country exhausted its stock
of gold in trying IT, maintain the silver
dollar at a parity with the gold dollar.
Then the man who happened to haze con.
tracted to work tor 81 dollars per day
would receive 81 with the purchasing
power that 81 possess under the exist
ing gold standard.
Free coinage might give the worker
more dollars, but as they would buy less
things, be would be worse off. When you
reduce the things he gets you reduce his
wages.
The people who do the work of the
world are more interested in the stability
of the money that wages are paid in than
they are in Its quantity.
ii the quantity of money stablished
wages, Australia, Belgium, the Neither
lands and France would pay higher wages
than the United States. for each of these
countries has a greater per capita Of
money than this one has. But wages are
really higher in the United States than in
the countries named; the labor in the lat
ter is Of the ''pauper" kind the Express re
fers to in Its unique protective tariff argu.
ments, And the reason for the difference
is that in the United States the oppor.
tunities for labor are yet greater than in
any country of the world; consequently
there is greater demand for people to
WORK and they are in a position to exact
greater share of the wealth that they,
in conjunction with capital. produce than
tie people of the other countries. They
would get just as much if the per capita
OF money in the country were reduced
one-half.
The statistical! arguments used by our
contemporary are developed in their
sophistry by an Article from the pen OF
the gifted editor of the San Bernardino
Sun, published elsewhere in this issue OF
The Herald