Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-04-24
TO THE WOMEN OF AMERICA.

TO THE WOMEN OF AMERICA.
Silver Knight.
The persons most interested in hav.
ing plenty of money and good prices
and good times are the women OF
America. Stagnation, falling prices,
poverty and want, are felt by them
first, last, and all the time. The wo-
men of the United States know
enough of economic science if they
would apply it, to solve the question
of good or bad times. They know
that when the things they have to
buy are scarce they will be dear.
They know this when they 60 to mar
ket; they know this when they 60
shopping; they know it when they
want anything and have a limited
amount of money with which to buy
it. All they have to do to under
stand the money question is to apply
what they know about everything else
to the question OF money. If money
is scarce, it will be dear. If money is
dear it will be hard to get. 1t will
take more labor, more property, more
exertion, and more sac riice, to get
money when money is dear. than
when there is plenty of it and it is
cheap. When money gets dear their
fathers, husbands and sons will be un.
able to make money in business or
enterprise, or if they are laborers, they
will be turned out of employment,
and then the wife and mother must,
not only suffer themselves, but suffer
for their starving children. which is
the most intense anguish q good wo-
man can endure.
Do the women OF America realize
that band of wicked men who deal
in credits OF various kinds, such as
bonds, mortgages, and the like, and
are engaged in using money for spec
ulative purposes, have combined to-
gether and destroyed one OF the pre-
cious metals for Use as money. We
mean they have destroyed its money
function, so that it could not be used
as money of ultimate payment, and
made gold the standard. so that every.
thing has to be finally paid or re-
deemed in gold. Before this was
done all credits and all kinds of
money were ultimately redeemable in
gold or silver coin. Now according to
the policy of the wicked men who are
destroying the prosperity of the coun-
try, silver is no more redeemer. II.
has to be redeemed in gold, and all
paper money credits depend upon the
shrinking amount OF gold. There is
very little gold in the country, not
much more than half as much as the
gold men tell us. These conspirators
have succeeded in getting laws to
make gold the only money of final
payment. There is a great demand
for gold, and it is very scarce and
very dear, and the women OF America
are suffering to-day more sorrow, more
anguish, more privation, more misery,
than ever before in this country, and
perhaps they feel it more keenly than
any race of women ever did. because
they have seen better days and have
seen better times.
But those better days and better
times have gone forever, II money con-
tinues to grow scarcer and dearer, and
ii their fathers, husbands and sons
find less employment, and are less and
less able to support their families, as
must necessarily be the case under the
shrinking supply of gold. We appeal
to the women of the land to aid their
husbands to rise in their might and
use the ballot to wrest the government
of the United States from the hands
OF bad men, who, by wicked laws, have
transferred nearly all the property of
the country to the rich. We must re-
store the laws under which we had
prosperity and enjoyed the presence
OF abundance and liberty in the better
days OF the republic. Do not let your
male friends and relations rest until
they have freed this country from the
cruel bondage and CALLING slavery
which the conspirators, mostly on the
other side of the Atlantic, design as
the fate of this great country.