The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-01

know better, would know was trying
to mislead him, because size is not the
measure of commercial value. You
can put a diamond worth million dol
lars, the Regents, all inside of quails
egg, therefore it isn't
Mr.. Harvey-But we would not con-
slider the proposition to make money
out of it for the world.
Horr RidicuIes idea.
Mr.. Horr-We don't make money out
Of it. No: but wouldn't consider the
proposition reasonable to go about
claiming that it had anything to do
with the value of a metal or that you
could base any calculation in reference
to value on it. 1t is SO ridiculous. But
I must proceed.
The next witnesses I want to call up
are those in domestic and personal SER
vice, the hired girls of the United
States, the men who sweep the streets,
the men who do the personal duties
for people in this great country of ours.
There are 4,36O,5O6. They are all of
them paid wages. They all of them
depend upon what they receive each
day to find out how well they are going
to live the next day. Is there an idiot
anywhere on the face of the earth who
thinks these men and women would
be benefited by giving them less for
their days work of the things they
need-for that is what he proposes to
| do. Take vote and see where you
will come out among that class of
wage-earners. Ask them, do you want
the dollar cheaper than it is now?
Do you want to go down town
to get a supply for your family and re-
ceive only about half what you get
now? Do you think they would be
long in voting on the question? That
is what he proposes to do do. That is
1850, sos that will be added to the per-
sons that that kind of legislation will
bring ruin upon. That is the reason
why protest against it. Now I come
to the list of those manufacturing and
| mechanical industries. All fac
tory hands, all skilled 1aborers
in the United States. Have
you any idea how many there
are? Five million ninety-one thou
sand six hundred and sixty-nine. Go
round among them; ask them, do you
want the measure of value reduced?
Do you want every dollar you earn cut
in two? Do you want people to hold
up to you that you are getting wages
SO and so, and then give you half that,
instead of the wages you have earned?
Do you think they would be long in de-
Gliding this question? You want to
take from them what they can earn
with their labor. They will all of them
| protest against it.
| As to Farmers.
The next is agriculture, fisheries,
mining There are nine million thir-
| teen thousand two hundred and one.
A part of all those who are in debt
more than they have got property with
which to pay, would tell you they would
like to scale down their debts and pay
! but so cents on the dollar. All, but
wait moment. Of those, three million
four thousand and fifteen are farm
hands, men who work by the day, men
who get their pay in cash, not in pro-
auctions. How will they vote? There
is not any question about this. Do you
! think you are going to fool the people
: of this great republic by trying to make
them think they will be better off not
! to get over half as much as they now
| get for every days work they do? That
is the proposition he proposes for the
| purpose of blessing them. This
makes a grand total of people who live
by labor, by human effort in the
! United States-because this does not
/ include a few people who live on lega-
cies and incomes provided by other peo-
! pie for tPem-a grand total Of twenty
million seven hundred and thirty-fve
thousand six siXty-one people. OF
those people, sixteen million of them
receive their pay in wages from day
to day and week to week, and large
numbers of the others are dependent
upon good money in order to be pros
| porous in this world.