New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-09-16

power Of al the governments sof this
earth to take Eve cents Of value from It.
Having earned II BY The sweat Of my
brow, having earned it BY the exercise
of my brain, having earned It by the ex-
change Of my commod ODDITIES, can go to
the utter-most ends Of the earth, and
wherever I present It its value will be
unquestioned and unchallenged. 2
Even such good monometallists as
Professor LaughIin admit that gold de-
Iives It's value from the common consent
of civilized nations. If all the govern
ments of Europe and America demone-
tized gold, its value would sink. to moth
ing, or next to nothing, On this point,
that gold organ, the Evening Post,
said on July 31st last Gold and silver
only have value through the common
consent of mankind. II ever men give
up using them as money, they will have
very little value left" Mr.. Cockran's
defiance of 1sall the power Of all the gov
erDments'' to take five cents of value
from his SO gold piece shows how little
qualified he is to discuss finance. When
the gold piece ceases to be lawful mon
ey anywhere, it is next to worthless.
Anyhow, it is only men like Cochran
who can afford to go around defying,
with SO gold pieces. The laborer sees
very, very few SO gold pieces.
Mr.. Cochran was SO delighted by his
laborer- creditor that he had to refer to
him once more in these words:
Every laborer that have ever known
in my experience, every laborer Of whom
i have heard in my examination nf the
conditions of men, must by the very law
of his being be creditor for at least one
days work, and is generally a creditor
fora weeks work or two weeks work. .
Mr.. Cochran has evidently never heard
of the unemployed. It will be news to
men now seeking work that the laborer,
by the law Of his being, must be cred
itor for work, one day at least, and gen
orally week or two weeks. We could
bring thousands upon thousands of la
borers to testify to Mr.. Cochran that it
is the law of their being to hunt work
and wages in vain
One thing said by Mr.. Cochran is an
insult to millions of American citizens.
It was this
81 do not believe that any man who
ever lived could quite understand Pop
allst's notion of what money is, further
than that he believes it is desirable thing
to get, and that he is not very particular
about the means by which he can get
his hands on it.
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A man who would say such shame
full thing as that about hundreds of
thousands of American citizens is despic-
able. Mr.. Cochran had better beware of
raising the question of honesty. Let him
look into the pamphlet of the gold-bug
Evening Post" of this city, now sup
porting him, but which said two years
ago that Cochran was one of Tammany's
"big four" and beneficiary of police
blackmail. receiver of money paid by
keepers of houses of prostitution, and an
organizer of the greatest sWindling
scheme in American politics. The bank
presidents and the corporation officials
find it convenient to forget these past
charges of theirs, but when Mr.. Cochran
says that Populist is one who wants
money and cares not how he gets it, he
shows plainly that he judges others by
imself.--Twentieth Century, New York.