Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-10-21
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Some Idea Of How the Gold
Standard Effects the United
States.

Butte City, Montana, Oct. ~ 1896.

tional bankers of the United States in s
favor OF the gold standard?
The question is easily answered.
I will first state that 80 per cent. of
the men who become m%illionaires and
possess nc souls. Their
hearts are ossfied. Avarice and greed
gold is paramount in their compo-
sition. They seem hypnotized at the
sight Of the yellow metal aud become
willfully blind to the interest Of all
but self.
And these are the men who, only a
short time ago, on Wall street, New
York, subscribed twenty million dol
lars for Mark Hhnna's campaign
fund.
This was but the work of one day
among the money kings. On other
days five, ten and fifteen millions
have been subscribed for the same
purposes in order to hold this country
to a gold st tndard. One hundred
million dollars will he subscribed if
necessary They have promised this
amount and the promise will not be
broken.
Why have the facts not been dis
covered by the massPs-The labOrers,
mechanics, farmers and artisans? 1t
was the policy Of the banks to keep
quiet. These vast sums of money
are readily put up because if Nc
K.~1o, =, 11na%0l nd 4, cold tnr,(a pl
remains every dollar aud millions
more will flow back into their Golfers.
[ will e~ndeavor to show why the
gold standard will be retained if
money will buy such conditions. Look
up the Government statistics and
draw a balance Of imports and ex-
ports for the silver staGdatd countries
Japan, China, Mexico, South and
Central America, India and the
Southern Islands.
You will find the balance aGainst US
to the amount of II hundred and
sixty million dollars per annum. This
balance has beer paid in gold.
This is why bonds have been sold
in times of peace to get the gold
back.
This is why thirteen million dollars
goes to Europe each month-to settle
the balance.
These banks buy our silver as far
as they can at fifty cents on the dol
lar, and place it at par when settling
the balance.
This is one plausible reason why the
European money kings and their
United States em~issaries desire the
gold standard.
This is why we have three million
idle men in the United States today.
We are paving this one hundred
end sixty million dollars in gold to
Asiatic and PeoD labor for products
we a produce with eur OWL labor at
good wages while the goldbugs are
, us and We are compelled to take
them.
r This is why We have so many idle
laborers. We cannot compete with
= ioool RGlo " VII " doliolS az
+ against a gold doll4r which we pay.
f Silver remonetized at IS to ] is
4 equal to 100 per cent duties put up in
y all silver standard countries.
Is Mark Hanna, Chairman of the
National Republican Goldbng Com
mittee, doing anything TO prevent the
debasement Of our labor?
Is he not doing everything in his
y power to reduce American labor to q
level with the cooley slaves of China
: A Western merchant says tina
while in New York recently he over
heard a conversation between bank,
ers of that city and London capital
lists. wherein one OF them said: "Oal
laboring men are getting too indie
D pendent-they are getting too much
money for their work. What we mus
2 do is to reduce wages. We must keel
| them down or they will control GU
d legislation. Keep them on a leve
u with the Eoor of Europe and they will
be more submissive"
+ Mark Hanna's record with his owl
laborers proves cOnclusively that h
endorses such sentiments as til,
above.
In William Jennings Bryan W,
lind a man so very different from
Mark Hanna thai comparison would
almost be a crime. In Mr.. Bryan W,
have a poor but honest man who's
heart and soul is iu the Sc of RICH
l. and justice.
In Joel Wallis hook of Denver, Col.
page At, I take the following statistic
which are taken from Statesmen yea