Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-09

a dollar would buy more than iatlGss now
 tell the lahorers he has made ina strong
 est possible argument ti3ab cssi. he made on their side of thc qsestior. 7 nat dollar ! buys cotton t'at cOltittfy lRG9F produces 1t buys ;,so Ghe shoes tfst aity labor nude. It buys the cloth that eitv ls6er m.de and
 it buys the four that cisY l.l5or ground I IF q dollar will huy nlaTe food and
 aore clothing tast. eetf before,
 then that d3,isf has g,i hin ger eentrol 1 oveT l,.bo. \ pso.idct9 astd over the labor l ing mass $ f'istll ifaeer l. btiore in the history Of the world th1els.l Instead l Of beieg ap argument aSsainst a rise of
 prices sh3r is an argument fee it.. Instead of D tug au ar-amcnt 1t favor of the libarcr It is an argument
 agsipst him. flow is tie lahorer
 to he brnedtted by a rise in l priceS9 A rise in prices i.laHnS an inera;tse 1 ill the amount of l.haAes in eirealatioa. it
 means an iacrease in the amoant of honey invested. Ii inestns more industries to
 a4aa.ea and deeel fp our dormant resourc- es 1t lnaans more railroads binding our
 prairies @i5h bGads of steel te tne great | comnereiAl cancers. .a9or heag a cum modity ieSt like any other commodity aud
 regulated bF sae same great iaN of supply
 and demand. t necessarily follows that i there are bel .ef wages or prices when there
 Is a larger demand, Where is the man 1 who toes nat knoW that ia lS6 and tS61
 labofers got nfofe for their labor than they
 do nows Every railroad was bsing pushed
 to it's utmost capacity. the Wliiri Of sDindles
 made nlasie in every mill, the song of the
 reaper ma6e melody i'll every field, and the | whole country NaS pf0SpaPo,iS Labor had
 more employment and better wages in lS61 1 than it hat ever before or since. Aint
 that s02 Cries 1f "A x. that x right. , | Then they began to destroy OUT money. | There began to be greater supply Of la
 Dor than there was any temard for. The | result was that labor went under with q
 junp When labor was idle prices had te
 take q talaole W hen one laborer was
 working on half wages half of the laborers
 made no Wages tt all Falling prices bank
 rupted the merchants, they caused the
 banks to suspend aad tAa spiadles to stop,
 IL rests with tine lahorers of this and in
 this great contest to ssy whether these conditions shall be remeuied or not They 1 know why the factories are idle They l know that the people have less money and
 have to bay less goods They know that
 the government creates no money and that l the Wall street syndicate has cornered all l that it has already made That system
 can never be remedied till the people com 1 pei the great political parties of this nation
 to be true to the pledges they have made l and start tbs government once more
 where 1t ought to be, with more money in 1 circulation among the people. The mantl-
 faeturef would sell his goods because the
 merchant wonld ssalva the wherewith to l pay for them. 'Ghe demand for goods l
 would grow and the prices for it would go
 Mr Mckinley asks: Where's the work l ingman who wants to lock in d market re- l port every morning to ascertain the value 1 of the dollar that he has received for his l toil?i When has any Workingman ever
 had q dollar of that kind? When has any workinginan ever had to lock into a news l paper to find out the value of his wagess 1 The laboringmans dollar buys as much as l d gold dollar Cheers. No man in this
 whole crowd has got gold dollar. You
 could not rake up enough gold money from l all these thousands of people to pay my l hotel bill. Laughter. Let the labaring
 man be paid in any kind of dollar as long l as 1t Is as good as any other dollar, and 1 will do for him what any other dollar
 would do. Give me plenty of greenbacks
 and will be as happy as anybody you ever
 saw l don't care what's the price of corn. 1 Laughter and cheers It is as good for
 me and my needs as any other dollar
 i MT. Mckinley asks the question, why
 don't the capitalist invest his moneys l
 answer because it pays him better to hold 1 it. 1t pays him better because the price of l gold is going up faster than the legal in
 terest would be on any investment he could
 make If you have got any gold just sit on
 the lid of the chest and wateh it grow. -
 will go up because the law makes 1t go up
 and the syndicates owning the gold made
 the law. The price of gold will keep on 1 going up till you break the trust by mak
 ing more money. tCheers. Make the | government open its hints and go to mak- I ing money. Cheers) l have heard men
 talking about the gold standard. They 1 said the farmers iaborers mechanics and
 everybody ought to be for the gold stand 1 ard. God forgive them, they know not
 what they do. lGheers. They are per 1 fectly honest. They are as honest about 1t
 as you or I. but they are dreadfnlly mis- 1 taken Laughter. What would the 1 gold standard mean if adopted into law
 That you can't pay your debts with silver money or with paper money That you l can't pay them in anything but gold money.
 Don't you know that under the gold stand ard, and your merchants were compelled to 1 pay their debts in gold coin, that eveIy l one of them would be bankrupt before l night? There is not q bank In the south ern states that could stand the pressure. ] You could not pay your debts if you had | to pay them in gold. Have you got any gold? 1 Has your neghbor got any, Who has got ity The Belnonts and the Rothschilds and
 the Morgans, and they want you to come
 under their whip and make you beg at
 your debts If the gold standard is adopted we will be a nation of the most ab-
 ject serfs the world ever saw. lCheers.l
 A yoice-We will get up a little fight on | that.
 Watson-No danger There is not going to be any fighting. l believe in the final triumph of right. l have not yet lost con | fidence ill the people of this republic. | Noice-Hurrah for Watsonil 1 believe | that those who would establish the gold
 standard will themselves speedily realize the dreadful abyss into which they would | plunge themselves, their friends and their neighbors, and would help us to secure the necessary legislation that will restore prosperity to this country and help Us in 1 the cause of more money and less taxes
 Can you remedy this situation by elect ing Mckinley and Hobart? Loud cries of No, no, no. y If there is man here
 who believes that these things can be reme- died by electng Mckinley and Hobart let
 him hold up his hand. lOne hand went
 up.l One, thank God. fGreat cheers.l 1 When say thank God, l simply express my pleasure at seeing the gentleman on
 my right in such hopeless minority. He l is just as much entitled to his opinion as
 I am to mine. He is going to be mistaken | in his vote because Mckinley and Hobart l .I<