The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-03

with $1,000 In gold hs can purchase
sp,UoO silver dollnra. and with the $500
he pays OF his 50 900 IN wages You will
Dc compelled to accept II mt lty face
value. as this money will become legal
tcndGr nnd must be accepted for debt,
assume that
Your Wage. will Not Advance,
as wages are always the last thing 10
advance, and II the Industries OF this
country are ruined II does net seem very
probable that there viii DO much sd-
vance. You can readily zee then this
results In your, wages being cut In two.
The man who makes 81 80 per day ana II
paid for II In good honest coin ut tho
present time viii be paid In money. UNI
der this new law, that will only be worth
10 him seventy-hve cents, This differ
ence Is certainly possible. Do you want
TO undertake. the experiment? II 80,
vote for Mr.. Bryan. ~
Protection nnd Good Wages.
Now then ugaln, by tho effect OF this
cheap money on the tariff we all know
that tho protective tariff system Ia re-
sponslble for the high price of labor IN
the United States to protected indus
tries, md that II II was not for thin
tariff. the wages would OF necessity be
on the same scale aa the wages paid TO
the nauper labor in Europe. 7 ciaim
that thls cheap money will be equivalent
to reducing the tarlft one-half. And II
this IL true, labor In protected Industries
VIII be reduced In like proportion.
For Illustration. take the tin plate in
duStry, with which am connected In
Indiana. The duty OFT tin plate II 81 20
Owing to the Wilson mi
per box OF 100 pounds.
And the prevailing hard times. we are
nj present making no money In manu-
featuring tin plate. as We purchase our
tin plate Mt about the same price rs the
Welchmnn. and hin tin plate ia being
imported Into our market every day and
being cold In nur market, after Il duty
OF 81 20 per box has been paid. This
81 20 must represent the difference be-
tween the cost OF labor In this country
and In Wales. The Welsh manufac-
turer ships u box OF tin plate into this
country and under the present standard
OF money IL compelled to pay a duty OF
81 20 per box. Under the proposed new
Bryan law he can send over from Eng
land sixty cents IN gold and buy 81 20
worth Of silver. and which only costs
him sixty cents. pay the duty on his
boSe OF tin plate, thus getting his tin
plate Into our market at one-half the
present duty. Now the only way that
the Tin plate manufacturer can continue
TO operate hl3 mandatory under this
condition will be by having his men
eubmit to n reduction In duty and the
wages in the tin plate factories. in order
VIII Have to be Cut In Half
TO permit them to operate. Thus the
low wages that will be made in Indiana
will In the end be made the standard for
wages in Ohio. and then on top Of this
unfortunate condition the poor work.
ingnan will be paid on in debascd cur
rency.
You read In the papers last week OF
the great labor congress held In Eng
land representing $1,000 labor orgaDlza-
lions in the Kingdom. They met TO dis
cuss the grievances that labor had to
contend with. but during their entire
session not one syllable was ever uttered
in regard 10 the present monetary sys-
TEN OF England: yet England Is on the
gold standard to-day. the standard that
we advocate now. Do you think that II
there was anything wrong about this
gold standard n; relating 10 labor that
these brainy fellows who met In that
convention would not have been heard
from more emphatically.