The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-01

when YOU find strong labor eombina-
tions there you find the highest
wages paid While kind capi-
talists associated with the in
dustrial world, the law of supply
and demand, keen competition and an
oyer-stoclled labor market adj tended
to reduce wages and manufacture
| tramps and paupers, and there are
not lacking INSCRIPTIONS men ever
ready to avail themselves OF all those
forcs for self aggrandizement III
seems very strange to me that our gold
bug Demosthenes should so suddenly
become so very solicitous for the wei
fare of the working man. 1T he were
really sincere in his utterances, and
was anxious to see the CumnoclS work
ing man prosper. Why does he not
pay his Hoisting Engineers $50 a
month, his mechanics 40 cents an
hour, and his common laborers $1.25
day, the same as they pay in the
North? There is no law to prevent
him doing this. McKinley's election
will bestow no extra power upon him.
The gold-bugs frequently refer to
Mexico and make out grand case
against Bryan and silver. What
funny thing i'd is they never refer
us TO the condition of labor in one
of the oldest gold standard countries
in the world-Turkey? Another point
to remember is this: Bad as the condi-
tion of the Mexican laborer is he is
free man compared to the Turk.
The Turk is mortgaged and men,
aced by all Europe, and the time for
his dissolution is near at hand. It's
not so with the Mexico. No nation has
a mortgage on him. If the gold stand
ard has produced such disastrous re-
suits in Turkey, Why won't it do the
same in this country?
India, alos,was prosperous until Eng
lish bankers demonetized silver there,
and drove it to a gold standard basis.
It's trade is now paralyzed and its in
dustries crippled to such an extent
that, had it not been for the assis-
lance rendered by the English Par
lament, the country would now be
bankrupt This anonymous scribe.
am now criticising, says 1T takes the
product Of seven weeks of his labor to
buy one barrel of white wheat flour"
This is not lie, Oh, no! He is only
speaking Hyperbolically He first
states that one dollar in this country
will buy as much as three dollars in
Mexico Then he states that the Mex
lean works for $500 a week, seven
times $3.50, amount to $500. Is this
the price of a barrel of -four in Mexi-
co?
1.-THE great body of the Mexican peo-
pie live on corn meal and water and |
beans, and dress in a single cotton |
dress the year round" If this be so, |
are there not thousands of people in
this country that live in a similar
style? Is it not time that something
was done to improve this state of
things? VIII the gold standard and
high tariff produce this improvement?
/ think not. We now have q higher
tariff than we ever had, with the ex-
ception of the Mckinley Bill" It is
beyond my comprehension how any
workingman can be induced to vote
for Mckinley. If he be elected he will
continue the same financial policy as
is practiced by the present administra-
tion. Where can you find any working
men Wtho manifests the slightest res
pect for the present administration?
The gold-bug policy, as represented
by McKinleyism, is nothing but con-
tinuation of Clevelandism. Working
men, pay no attention to the sophis-
tries of the gold-bug. Depend upon
it he is trying to use you as tool to
destroy your liberty, and, ultimately,
to establish a monarchy or Empire
upon the ruins of this Republic. The
rich were never known to fight for the
interests of the poor. But every one
of their schemes has u tendency to
render you more subservient to their
wishes and deserves.
Respectfully yours,
JOHN PRITCHARD,
Cumnock, N. c., Oct. 81.