Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-06-23
SILVER LABOR.
SALEM. June 2. '0e.

get, III you WoFk, UT INV h"S" 49,
YOU get II you can get job at what
Won are able 10 do, or IL you are com
peiled to work at some time IN the
future? Is IL s2 a day? That was a
fair average before the crime OF lSV2'
Then the free silver men, II they sue
ceed, will cut your wages IN two. You
will then get the equivalent OF dol
lar day, or II you are receiving a
dollar now, you will then be paid the
equivalent OF 80 cents. You viii re-
ceive the same number Of dollars, but
they will be worth just half as much
as now in purchasing anything you
want TO buy, with the one exception
of labor. No free silver man who Is
Intelligent will deny this. Ask one OF
them whom you can trust. aud VINO
understands the subject, and see II
this Is not his testimony. Then the
free tIaders would have you compete
on equal terms with the labOrers OF
China, Japan and India, receiving
10 cents day, liyIngon rice and going
naked. And yet we hear laborlng
men on the streets OF Salem, intelli-
gent appearing men, too, every day,
talking IN favor OF populism aud gem
er ril calamity, cousOrting and working
with those who would hive both free
trade and free silver. Does this not
seem stranger"
The abuvc Is the standing argu-
meat OF the gold standard press They
repeat it over and over, hoping to
frIxhten the wage earners into vote
lag the bankers and monopolists
tickets. IL Is weak argument but
one OF their best, aud on so good u
foundation do they build their hopes
OF success In the present campaign.
Notice the admission made that the
price of all commodities will double.
How do you like that farmers? and
you blacksmiths, wagon makers, con-
tnctOrsg Would dollar wheat for the
farmers and 100 per cent advance in
the value VI the product Of the
mechanics make your margin OF pro
fits less? Grocerymen, commission
men, dry goods men, hardware men,
manufacturers when do you sell your
goods at the best margin OF profit?
Is II not when high prices are paid
the farmers, and those who are con
yertlng the raw products gathered
from the four corners of the eartl
into the finished articles OF commerce.
Reader, how much wages do you gel
under the present gold standard9 Re
member the Republican party Ia thei
national platform declare: "Th'
present gold standard must b'
preserved"
II you are at work you are gettlnl
but very little higher wages than th'
laborer OF gold standard Europe, anC
you will not get one cent more within
five years from now. When unde
this unpatrlotlc, seryile policy, TIN
farmers have been forced to give NJ
their farms, which are now unde
mortgage and thousands of then
have taken their places In the great
army OF common labOrers.
We plead guilty TO the charge o
standing on the street talking FREE
silver and we do not need the hired
organs OF the banks'and official elias
TO tell us how 10 vote.
We know dollar wheat will mea
Thousands of happy homes, thousand
OF us who have been forced into th
ranks OF the wage earners will 20 bac
again 10 mother earth TO build home
for which We would lay down on
Hives, II need be, TO protect.
The skilled mechanic would ais
leaves the ranks OF the common Ia
borers and open shops OF their own
lHigh prices mean high profits an,
our mechanics would become home
builders upon which depends the PEI
e petuation OF this government, NOV
/. for common lahorers: show us one q
this class who does not expect some
time TO own small farm or some bus
! iness OF his own. Is there any hope 10
that In gold standard for Europe O
I. Amerlcas Does any sane man belley
: that with high prices, which tn
. Statesman admits We will have, un
der tree coinage.
When the producer, the manufaet
lnnar and fhe trader ara making mOna,