The San Francisco call., 1896-08-03
GROSSLY MIsREPREsENTBD.

The Popocrats grossly misrepresent JET
ferson and Jackson when they declare
that their declaration of principles are in
harmony with the utterances of those dis
tinguished statesmen. Nowhere in the
speeches., proclamations or messages OF
Jefferson and Jackson will be found so
much as an intimation of principle of
government that is in accord with what
the Popocrats are demanding. Andrew
jackson especially was outspoken in his
denunciation of schemes and plans to give
the country unsound money, and no doubt
Jefferson would have been equally so had
occasion required. Jackson always
thought of the workingman. He knew
the rich could get along until the tide
changed, no matter how disturbed the
business situation might be by flood OF
cheap and fuctuating money. but the man
who worked for daily wages must have a
sound basis for his compensation. he
must have money that is as good on Sat
urday night when he receives his wages
as it was on the preceding Monday morn
ing when he sold his services for the week.
Speaking of the effects of unsound and
uncertain money upon the working classes
President Jackson said: Engaged from
day to day in their useful tolls they do not
perceive that although their wages are
nominally the same or even somewhat
higher they are greatly reduced in fact by
the rapid increase of spurious currency
which, as it appears to make money
abound, they are at first inclined to con-
slider a blessing. 1t is not so with the
specuIator, by whom this operation is
better understood and is made to contrib
ute to his advantage. It is not until the
prices of the necessaries of life become so
dear that the laboring classes cannot sup
ply their wants out of their wages that
wages rise and gradually reach justly
proportional rate to that of the products
of their LABOR" Does any one suppose
that if Andrew Jackson were alive he
would be found supporting the nominees
of the Chicago convention? The Popocrats
are for a policy of money debasemert.
They want quantity without reference to
quality, but Andrew Jackson taught no
such economic fallacie He was sound
money man.
But the Popocrats cannot fool the wage
.earners. In every industrial center wage
earners are organizing themselves into
working clubs to aid in electing man to
the Presidency who represents and stands
for good money and continuous employ
ment at satisfying wages. The working
men of this country know that the enter
prises which give them employment are
intimately connected with the trade and
commerce of other countries; that the
business of the commercial world is inter-
woven and inseparable, and that it must
have a uniform measure of value as it
must have uniform measure of quantity.
Hence it is that pretty much all wage
earners are for bimetallism on the lines
laid down by the Republican party, which
is International recognition of silver s
parity with gold. The workingmen of the
United States are not like the pauper labor
ofChina and Japan. They possess good COM
mon sense, and therefore they agree with
Thomas Jefferson that ''the proportion
between the values of gold and silver is a
mercantile problem altogether" and that
nations proposing to use gold and silver in
settling international trade balances must
first meet and solve the mercantile prob.
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