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The Irish standard., 1896-09-05

With fifty. millions Of people in 1880
ard seventy odd millions now, those who
talk about lover production of wheat"
as responsible for it's decline in price are
out of their reckoning. The table given
above shows that, while the production
has decreased, the price has gradually
gone lower. OF course this can all be
accounted for by the goldite without diff
ficulty. With population of nearly
100000 more in 1896, and 100000
bushels less wheat than. in 1880, the price
is something like thirty cents per bushel
less in 1896 than 1t was in 1880. The ex-
cuses so frequently given Of cheaper
production" fertilizers" ETC., will not
answer. It costs more in the United
States today to raise bushel of wheat
in labor and in land occupied and to be
worked than it did twenty years ago.
In the great wheat-producing states the
cropping of the SOL has reduced the yield
per acre below what it was when the land
was fresh, and blowing, reaping, binding
and threshing take as much labor as
ever, acre for acre. This applies to corn,
cotton and all soil crops. The real
trouble about the price "a the gold dollar,
which constantly appreciates in it's power
to measure all other commodities.
The Irish standard., 1896-09-05
THE TRUTH is TOLD.

let us wait until England comes to our
help is the cry Of the gold standard men
when the masses OF the people Of this coun-
try demand the demonstration Of silver,
and England has not now, nor never did
have, the slightest inclination Of entering
into ain international agreement on the
subject. She will oppose It to the bitter
end, and the gold standard men whose in
tell:gence is worth consideration know It
well.
England's opinion upon the question may
be learned from the following, taken from
the London Financial News Of short
time ago. The News admitted that En-
gland now had the trade Of the world in It's
hands but concluded that It would not
long remain there should this country
adopt bimetall:sm. It said:
ut Is evident that the Democratic party
win not renominate . man who holds to
President Cleveland's idea on money, and
the only. hope for continuation OF Mr..
.Cleveland's financial policy will be n the
success 81 the Republicans IN the next cleo,
ton. .s5#3l
Re The success 81 free coinage will bring
down ths rate 81 d, money, and I, q
III rise Is th price & % q
y d h
I1lla II - q !!I n
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GOLD RETURNING.

What a shout went up little While
ago from the threats and the newspapers
of the gold standard men that gold was
leaving this country on account OF rec
silver talk. They painted the horrors OF
such condition and prayed that some
power might stop such calamity. But
now recently gold has been coming back
to this country, and what do these
throats and newspapers say in explana-
ton? Some Of them are as mum as an
oyster, and some who were loudest IN
lamentations about the misery Of such a
state Of affairs promptly turned about
and said, in substance: "Ha, see what
your free silver agitation is doing. It is
driving gold back into this country,
while everybody knows that we want to
keep gold out of the country" The
Journal. of this city, only few days ago,
asked the free silver men to view the
dreadful results of their work-the drly-
ing back of gold into the country. OF
course, the Journal did not attempt to
explain the reason. 1t dare not. But,
although it had joined in the hue and cry
about the terrors of gold leaving the
country, on account, it said, Of silver agi-
tation, it cried out in agony because It
was coming back, and said, in effect, I'VE
told you So" Surely such pretended ed
ucators of the people must think the
masses are stepped in the direst ignor-
arce. and, it is true, some of them are,
else they would not listen to such hum
bugging methods.
It has been suggested by some one
with a vein of humor in his makeup
that perhaps they have begun to talk
free silveg over in Europe, thus driving
gold out of the country. Is it not time
for the followers of the gold standard
teachers to cry out, "Save us from our
fr:ends"?
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connet. III, me words were '1 tte ~
'tn the tinted states Senate =by .M tl'
.1Vithers, 81 kentucky, md those M s..
care. to .,verify the quotation VIII iina.is
81 the Record 81 February 9, 1s7s. NJ "
Withers said 5. Isl ]. !. ss Il
B 1--WE who advocate the reno'e e g
ton ct saver have. during the progress !.
Of this debate, been char acterizea !, 9 y
one time al coin clippers, at an0sn IS J,
Us .debasers Of COIN by some accuseu !
Of desiring to sacrifice the obligations 8 g
national honor, by others OF wishing & =
destroy the credit Of the government,
and 80 on through al the grad tons tol
injurious aspersion, uttered sometimes .'
by Senators themselves, at others ~
SPECIALIZED menorialists who SO recently
secured an opportunity by the acton oli
a distinguished member Of this body, 1n
giving vicarious expression to the op1n-
ION that we were combination OF half
idiots and knaves.' .-
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FIGURES DON'T, LIZ

The following facts and figures are
taken from the consular reports, and our
god standard friends should take them
up and offer some explanation of them if
possible. Their standing argument is
that the gold standard is the cause and
the mainstay of high wages, while the
silver standard is just the opposite: Cas-
filters receive $14.5O week In Columbia
and $18 in Venezuela, both silver stand
ard countries, and but $4.OS in Germany
and $S.40 in Italy, both on the gold basis.
How comes It that cigarmakers receive
$3.50 and tinsmiths $14 in silver stand
ard Venezuela, and $3.50 and IS, respect
lively, in gold standard Spain? How
comes it that distillers receive $12 per
week in Mexico and but $3.50 in Den
mark? How comes it that cabinet max
ers receive $40 IN Ecuador and but $425
in Germany, blaoksmiths $12.83 in Ven-
ezuela and but $3.50 in Italy, telegraph
operators $11.50 in Mexico and but S. 80
In Denmark, engravers $19.75 in Peru
and but So in Spain? If the gold stand
ard makes uniformly for high wages,
why is there such tremendous differ
enoe in the wage rate Of gold standard
countries? The average weekly wages
of .bricklayers in the United States is
s21.1S, in Spain $3.50, in Canada $1S and
in Italy 1920, yet all are on gold basis.
Hn1-carrinra avera 90 S12 22 in tho limit
ed States and but $40 in Italy; plumb
ers $3.50 in Canada and 1925 in Spain,
$40 in the United States and $3.50, in Eng
land, S13.35 in New South Wales and
$4.25 in Germany-all gold standard
countries. ..p ~ .'..~=>
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and especially SO when applied TO wheat,
the Peoria Journal says:

and especially SO when applied TO Wheat,
the Peoria Journal says:
Occasionally one hears some street
corner political economist talk about
supply and demand, how the extraor-
binary production of silver has caused
it to depreciate in price. Granting, for
argument sake, that the extraordinary
production Of silver has cheapened it
in price, why has not the extraordinary
production of gold cheapened that metal
also? The worlds supply Of that metal
has nearly doubled within the past
twenty years, yet 1t takes more of the
products Of labor to obtain a given
amount Of gold now than 1t has at any
period during the century. Let US see
how production has affected the price Of
wheat. Below will be found table CIV
ing the production Of wheat since 1879,
together with the price upon the Chi
cago board OF trade for: the years named.
1t will be observed that the question uf
production seems to cut but little figure
with the nr;ca.
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their products into the mint, and g new
era similar to that Produced ~ the issue I[
81 greenbac1ss during the civil war Will De +.
gin. Cold will leave the banks and enter
into competition with silver IN the we
n1,es Of trade, and the manufacturers ct the
United States, which have been shut down
or crippled since 1892, will again resume
their fight for the English markets.
SIT is doubtful whether the Republican
PARTY can be held much longer In check by
sound money statesmen, as it's adherents
are divided by powerful factions. The
Democratic party is also breaking up under
the weight Of the free silver agitation. It
matters not to Great Britain which party
succeeds If the gold standard Is maintained,
but either of the old parties OF new party
which goes into power pledged to free coin
age wilt be inimical and prejudiced to En-
glish manufactures and trade.
1.-THE American people cling with Won
derful tenacity to party organizations, but
financial embarrassment and business stag
nation have become too severe for their
patience, and they are ready for any
change that promises relief. They are be-
coming convinced that it can not be founa
in the protection theory, as that has been
tried, and they are massing on free silver.
When that issue comes fairly before the
American people, England will regret her
apathy and adherence to the single gold
standard"
And yet, in the face of this admission on
the part Of England, the god standard men
of this country continue to humbug tho
people by preaching to them the blessings
Of gold as single standard, and prating
about the honor and credit Of the nation,
and worse than all, the hypocritical whine
about keeping up the workingman's wages
Heaven knows, the workmen have been
kept in bondage long enough by the money
lenders. They should awaken to the OPP
portunity given them in this campaign, and
free themselves at last and forever. To
talk about the eastern mil:onaires worry
ing themselves about the wages Of the
workingmen is as amusing as it is insult
ing to human intelligence.
The Irish standard., 1896-09-05
ASSERTIONS REFUTED

A Rev. DR.. Case recently made the fol-
lowing statements in the Chicago Record,
and was taken up promptly and answered
by DR.. Ernest Helm, of Beloit, Wis. Here
are the assertions with the demands at
tached: .,t.. -t.-...
'.First- me say that every free coin
age country is on a silver basis"
Answer-This Is not true. Japan is on a
silver basis yet it has $1.95 in gold and
$2.O5 in silver per capita
''Second-There is no gold standard
country in the, world that does not us
both silver, and gold"
Answer-Th!s is not true, and why? Be
cause gold, by its small bulk, cannot be
used as fractional currency, so a very little
silver must be used for that purpose.
'Third-There is not silver country in
the world that uses any gold along with
silver
Answer-This is misstatement. Rus
STA is on silver basis, yet it has just ten
times as much gold as silver, while in Jap
an the amount of god and silver Is nearly
equal. In fact, India, China and the Straits
Settlements are the only countries that
have no gold-and of silver they average
less than 50 per capita.
'Fourth-There is not a silver standard
country where the laboring man receives
as good wages for his labor as in the
United States"
Answer-No, nor in any gold standard
country, either. Egypt and Cuba are two
of the gold countries with enormous pet
capita gold circulation and almost no sill
yer Egypt $17.65 in gold and $3.50 in sill
yer, and Cuba SO in gold and s0.S3 id
silver per capital, and yet the wages they
pay now or ever have paid the laboring
men are among the lowest in the history
Of the world. They are by far the lowest
OF any country having even half their per
capita Of circulation. "
"Fifth-There Is not silver standard
country having more than one-fourth az
MUCH money per chpita Us the UnlLeQ
States"
Answer-The South American states are
on a silver basis and have three-fourths OF
the circulation we have. d
For verifcation Of these statistics 70.
fer to Sound Currency, published by the
Reform Club, Of New York.
Now, Just one word as to Mexico. Price,
are constantly rising there and are con.
stantly failing here. There Is no silyt,
country now but has better times than Il
has ever known, and there Is no gold com
try, (England, the banker country, alone
excepted) but that has the hardest tina,
1t has ever experienced.
The Irish standard., 1896-09-05
DoDdlNd THE ISSUE,

President Harrison made very dig
nlfed speech last week in New York.
which has been considered the opening 81
the campaign, although the opening Of ttts
campaign for the fresh issue now before.
the people the silver question took
place many moons ago. However. fIat4ii-
sdleli his speech did not stick 70 the issue;
but IKE 4 trained lawyer ne found refuge
II special pleading. Knowing that Tho tiss s
sue was between the gold STANDARD ana tie
,freeand unlimited Coinage q sssilvsr altiss
1Deyerthea driited away from i IN an.
sc,assion ~ thee que ions nh 4 ook III
s1 II N; & 81 n ~ 81
The Irish standard., 1896-09-05
THE SAME OLD CROWD.

Gold monometallists have q great deal
to offer these days about the immense
amount of silver coinage struck at the
United States minis since 1873. The
scheme is to represent that there was
very little legal tender silver coined
prior to that date, and great deal after
wards, and that, as consequence, gold
monometallists are justified in declaring
themselves the real friends Of the silver
dollar, says the Peoria Journal. AS
this little bladder fish has foated the
rounds of the gold monometallist press
for q week or two, 1t is about time to
prick it and let the wind out. The fact
is that between the years 1873 and 1873
there was not a single legal tender dol
lar coined at the United States minis.
No, not one. The only dollars coined
during that period were $35,0O0,O0
trade dollars. The trade dollar was a
gold monometallist conception, and owed
it's existence to the influence of John
Sherman and other 'ssound money" adj
yocates. Yet the trade dollar was the
only coin ever issued by the United
States which the government repudiat-
ed and dishonored. The great increase
In the coinage Of standard silver dollars
came afterwards, and by virtue Of the
Bland Allison act of 1878, and the men
who advocated that act were denounced
as .'repudiators,' Anarchists and
"half-witted scoundrels." Whatever
credit inheres in the fact that there are
nearly $500, oo0, 900 full legal tender dol
lars IN the United States today is due
to the men who fought the fight OF
1878. They made the silver dollar a
legal tender, as it was before John Sher-
man and his friends foisted the trade
dollar upon the country in 1873. They
succeeded In securing the passage of
the law under which the bullion pur-
chases were made, and the silver dol
lars Of today were called into exist
ence. They were abused, vil.fied and
slandered then, just as they and their
Bucoessore. are today. They were in
favor Of the free and unlimited coin
age Of standard silver dollars on the
same mint terms as the coinage Of gold
at ratio Of Ito 1, just as they and
their successors are today. Every dis
aster predicted now was predicted then
as sure TO follow the passage Of the
Bland Allison act, and the men who
posed 81 the honest money party then
are the same III person, to some extent,
ana the same II sentiment and bnllf an \.
Ing taetic then nov. 3 |Sasi u
NJ y
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The Irish standard., 1896-09-05

VIC. P. Breckenridge, of kentucky, Is
the leading champion Of the gold stand
ard in his state. 1t must have been the
"noral'' idea of the thing that captivated
him, Judging from his recent experience
in matters of domestic scandal.
The Irish standard., 1896-09-05

Therefore, we urge you to form your
selves into an association" etc., ETC.. is
the closing request OF. the Gen. s!ckles
address to the G. A. r. And yet he says
he is not interfering with the men. No.
he is Simply urging them. Sickles has
the check Of lightning-rod peddler.
The Irish standard., 1896-09-05

John Sherman said in 1867: Congress
alone can change the value Of our coin. !
zee no object in negotiating with other
powers on the subject" This was said at
a period in Sherman's Efe when he occa-
s:onally had the faculty Of telling the
truth His case has been a pitfabie one
since that time. He has lost that faculty.
The Irish standard., 1896-09-05

~, ~ /, NJ
Isl rohs - 8 he could nj
|. t..on to codd q the Al hat e
III. ss q, i trade of ths nnlIcan
ss l,dIi ticana during 8 eanps ne elec-s
Ton I oybr the worn insman can look ont fo g
Himself looking out for \ .mself now 2,
I'll, Til gaod, though ttul rear q 1895 g 8
II II Under nocratic admins u Z. aion the
constitution VIII not be nao.ested, but the
people Win determine who they are who ..
koyern th,s country whether they are the
! few. VINO ct IN high places By the grace
Of the governed or the many who toll and
who. are the. bulwark Of the nation.
So Harrison with ell his ostensible fairness
showed clearly that he was under the M
tluence az the money power. FIVE years
hence the very men who are now advocate
INK thesgold standard will be found ~ tat
ranks 6f those who then proclaimed thai
they were always advocates OF silver.
Not since the fathers threw on the yokd
.of Great Britain and established constitu''-
ton for themselves and posterity have the
peop,e been awakened to such an extent as
they are now. And that awakening VIII.
be the salvation of the masses. sSss
The Irish standard., 1896-09-05

What a lot Of men were anarchists, fools,
eooundre,s, repudiators and ,other horrible
things few years ago who are white robed
financial angels now. Those men who
were anarchists, etc., then believed in free
silver, Some Of them should explain how
Il feels to be a fool.
The Irish standard., 1896-09-05

Has any one seen samples Of Bourke
Cockran's speech in reply to Bryan scat
tered anywhere In the country round
about? The gold bugs don't seem to be
using that oratorical gem a great deal as
a campaign document.
The Irish standard., 1896-09-05
'RAH FOR VERMONT.

Well, Vermont has gone Republican,
and now all the shouters Of that party
are perfectly happy, and are predicting
the most wonderful events in case free
silver should be maintained.
The Irish standard., 1896-09-05

The Colorado Catholic says: ''Will
somebody please let the world know what
the difference is between a gold Republic
can and gold Democrat ?" Why, that's
dead easy. The difference is about the
same as that between the sincerity Of the
Republican party and the honesty OF
Mark Hanna. Give us: something hard
ser, please.
The Irish standard., 1896-09-05

The Minneapolis Journal says: sit
would be interesting to have some man
who was running for something come
out and declare himself .'the enemy Of
the working man." But what would. be
the necessity Of doing that when it ID so
we'll done already by those who are en-
emies of the workingman declaring ev-
cry day that they live only to worship
him? Every man who is running for
Office is seemingly dong so to benefit the
laboring man. He doesn't care straw
for himself.
The Irish standard., 1896-09-05

Major General S:ckles says he is not
interfering in any way with the G. A. r.
He is only arguing with Its. members as
to what dodgasted fools they are II they
don't vote for Mckinley, and threaten
ing them with dire results il they should
vote for Bryan. No one would be fool
enough to call such work as that inter-
ference. It's right name 10 impertinence.
The Irish standard., 1896-09-05

+ I. It is said that the Mexican dollars used
in this country as object lessons to en-
ployes are bogus. and that Mexico ID
thinking Of making some trouble about
It. But everything the gold bugs use in
the way Of argument Is bogus. The dol
lar dodge is only one Of many instances.
The Irish standard., 1896-09-05

The smart Alexis among the gold
standard people give us object lessons
occasionally by paying their employees
In Mexican dollars, because in this coun-
try these dollars now are not equal in
purchasing power to the American dollar.
But over in Canada the people there do
not want the dollar Of this country--the
silver dollar-and yet the go1d-bug shout.
ers tell that any one Of our dollars at
present, under the gold standard, is as
good as any other dollar.
The Irish standard., 1896-09-05
is pARNELL. DEAD?

The cable dispatch sent by Mr., Ballard
Smith to the New York World, in regard
to the late Mr.. Charles Stewart Parnell
has caused much comment on this side of
the Atlantic, and it is not considered alto
gether so absurd to be passed over silently
by some papers. says the Canadian Free
man. The dispatch says:
'Mrs. Della Parnell's hallucination
that her famous son still lives is shared
by her daughter, Miss Anna Parnell, who
at the time of her brothers impr.son-
ment, assumed the direction of the Land
League. Barry OBrien who is writing
ParneH's life, visited Anna Parnell few
days ago at the quiet seaside place on
English east coast, where she always
passes the summer. He tells the World
correspondent that in closing a long in
terview respecting the early life and per-
sonal traits of her brother, Miss .Parnell
said: DO you belive he IS really dead?
I DON'T" Miss Parnell lives alone sup
porting herself by painting on china and
other art works. 1t is remarkable that
mother and daughter at a distance of sew
eral thousand miles apart should express
the same unaccountable doubt about Par
nell's death at almost the same time.
Five people say Parne1l is dead; james
O'Kelly, M. p; the doctor, two UNDER
taker's men, and Mrs. G. S. Parnell. Hav-
ing died in high fever the body had to be
quickly coffined. His wife was in the
room from his death until the closing Of
the casket, except for a few minutes,
when she withdrew while O'Kelly viewed
the body"
The Quebec Telegraph is puzzled over
the affair, and asks, lis Parnell alive?" It
says: ''Now it is not at all impossible
that there is something more than mere
hallucination at the bottom of this
strange belief Of ParneN's mother and
sister. They may have some good sub
stant:al reason for it of which the
outside world knows nothing and there
fore it does not seem exactly right
to laugh at them or to dismiss the matter
lightly until further developments. It is
hardly possible to conceive that two
women in their sane senses could cherish
such an apparently wild notion without
justification of some kind. The fact that
five people are said to have seen Parnell
dead is not Of itself conclusive. It is. not
alone in the novels of the day that we
read of receptions having been practiced
on the world in this respect. They have
occurred frequently in real life. More
over Parnell was always a man Of nlys-
terry and the cloud under which he rested
at the time of his alleged death was cer-
tainly enough to make him disappear
from the public ken, il not reality. ait
least to all intents and purposes. He
was still a comparatively young man,
with plenty Of life before him. in the or
binary course of nature, and, though it
may seem utterly wild and chimerical,
we are not at all disposed to sllmmarily
pooh pooh the superstition that there
may have been a friendly plot or ar
rangen1ent Of some kind to aid his dis
appearance, which could have been all
the more easily done by giving out that
/ lie had died and gone through . form ,of
burial. ills not the first time that q de-
ption of this kind has succeeded either
by sabstitu the dead bod iler
rssn or M re psies
q III
The Irish standard., 1896-09-05

McKinley,s record has always been IN
favor Of free silver, but now he tramples
upon that record for the sake Of office.