Morris tribune., 1896-10-14
SILVER AS THE
FARMERS FRIEND.
FREE SILVER WOULD HELP THE BIG
FARMER BY CUTTING DOWN THE
WAGES OF HIS HIRED MEN.

WAGES OF F1lO F1IhGO WEN.
A Cool, Calculating Farmer Explains TIN
situation to His Wife-He Thinks HI
Viii Gain Nearly So, 900 by the Sixteer
To One Scheme Half of This Will b
Taken From the Wages of His Farm
hands-His Wife Shocked at the Idea o
Cheating Their Hired Help-Win Do He
Best to Prevent Bryan's Election.
Farmer-I reckon this free silver
about the best friend of us farmers
that's come our way since the war. AL
lowing Bryan elected all right thi'
year, / calc'late TIL be worth nearly
g, 900 more next year than now.
farmers Wife-Nonsense, Harvei
don't believe silver's going to make
folks rich. One'll have to work for q
living if Bryan's elected just as hard as
If he isn't.
FL don't deny but what you re
heads level there, Jane. Some folks
will have to work harder, but it won't
BIZ us farmers. Well come out on top
with free silver. That's sure's shooter.
+. W.-What crazy notion in your
head now anyhow? D'you think farm
FRS are smart enough to make laws
aaat'll take money out of other folks
pockets and put it into theirs?
F.-P'r'aps not, but they re going to
try it. s'pose you don't see how free
silTer'll help us, but do
z. W.-If you'll take my advice,
you'll not bother yourself to death try
ing to get rich by free silver. I'll war
rant Tt won't work as you calc'late.
FIJI tell you one way it'll help
me, Jane You know that if we get
free coinage we will have silver dollars
worth bout so cents-same' Mexican
dollars now.
F. WI thought Bryan said that
s3lyer'd be worth just as much as gold
when we get free silver.
Eyes, that's what he says in the
EAST SOS he won't scare the millhands
and savings bank folks too much. But he
Jnn't talk that way out here, because he
kuew's that amt what we're after. We
want cheap money, SOS prices of wheat,
corn and pork'll be twice as high, same
as in Mexico.
T. W.-Supp's'n they are Wouldn't
you have to pay twice as much for
clothes. and groc' res and everything else
you'd have to buy? If you got So instead
Df ST.. you'd have to spend So instead of
ST. 2t'd be as broad as it is long. If
that's the way silver's going to make you
rich, you'll never get rich.
F.-But wouldn't have to spend So
for every 81 spend now. You know, we
have at least two hired men the whole
year and three to five more from April
10 November, besides the hired girl for
most OF the year. Do you reckon I'm
going to raise their pay when we get
free silver?
F. WI s'pose So Why shouldn's
you?
F-Just because I wouldn't have to.
P'raps after year or so I'd give 'em
81 or So more a month, but nothing
like double what they're getting now.
1 calc late I'd save between $500 and
81 900 in wages-not quite so much on
John ind Dave, because they board with |
as. and of course the prices of some of |
The g3hangs they eat would go up, but |
I'd save. bout half on my day hands
who live and board at home. That's |
how l figger it, and it's 'cording to the
opinion Of Governor Boies and other big
silver people. They say farm wages is
100 high for profits and that silver'll
bring EN- down.
f, N.-And so that's why you re for
Tree silver, Harve Grimes; want to cheat
FOUR p p5r hired hands out of half their
cages, mem who now can hardly keep (
1e1r flmffies out OF the poorhousel
hought it was them Wall street Shy
ocks and goldbugs you re after with
rour free silver stick and that your
trying to square accounts with them
ich fellers, but it seems
F.-Hold up there, Jane! Free silver's
going to save us bout 81, 900 on what l
sill owe on that 81, 900 mortgage.
Eho d you think'lI lose that?
E. WI don't care who'd lose it.
'Tain't right to cheat anybody, but I
wculdn't say word so longs it's some
bCdy who could afford to lose it, but when
il comes to cheating your poor neighbors
it's time to put stop to it don't
rare if you never get that other farm
paid for guess we won't starve on
his old farm. I'm going to tell John
Knd Dave and all the others just how
free silver will hurt them, and I'll get |
them all to vote against Bryan. The
idea of such farmers as you trying to |
elect Bryan to cut down the wages of |
Your hired menI I'm ashamed of you, / |
ami
AndreHE Lacksnn Yersus w. j. BRYAN.