The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-08
THE FREE COINAGE OF SILVER.
What Mr.. Blaine Thought of It--Trusts
and Combines Opnress the Lahorer.

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and Combines Cypress the Laborer.
Rocky Mount, Va, Sept. Z, 1866
Correspondence 1.-THE goldbugs could !
not have picked out anywhere i'll Amer. |
lea more appropriate, more signiil-
can't place for holding their plutocratic
parlor conspiracy. India napolis-In-
dia and nodis, signifying the city of In
dia. India is n colony of England
Twcnty,Ihree years ago, 'ere silver wns
demonstrated, India did not import mil
lion Of bushels Of wheat per year. Now,
tbs axis tn these goldbug conspirators,
sire is Americas gre test wheat export
competitor, exporting, as she How does,
snUr, than ~ hundred million bushels
annually. 1t is the same in regard To
cotton. An ounce of silver in 1878
bought bushci OF wheat in India. An
ounce of silver in 1896 buys IL bushel of
wheat i'll India, AN ounce of silver in
1878 was worth Sal.37 in India. An ounce
of silver in India day is worth $1.37.
Therefore, the India farmer gets to. day
81 81 per bushel for his wheat, and the
United States farmer only sixty cents.
The India farmer gets twelve cents for
his cotton; the United States farmer gets
six cents. Now, had not silver been
demonetized by the fraudulent action of
these plutocratic conspirators, wheat in
this country would be bringing $1.37 to-
day, for England could not compete at
that price in Liverpool. Why? Because
our wheat is of a better quality and it's
transportation would be much cheaper
England has never done for India cher
own colony one hundredth part that
these Wall street gold bankers have
done. They have built up the cities and
farms of India and they have destroyed
the cities and farms of America. India
napolis was appropriately selected.
Hanna's man Friday "a Cleveland Dem
ocrat).is here trying to organize an anti
silver Mckinley club. They say Hanna
supplied him with barrel He was
last night in secret caucus with man
who was Il Republican office holder di-
rectly after the war; mt the time when
his party voted almost solidly to dis
franchise $500 white men in Virginia.
Up to this date don't think that he has
found another aati-Bryan Democrat in
this place. (This one above referred to
when he lost his Office in the Republican
party is said to have " jinedn the Dem
ocrats.) This Hanna man must be
watched and their hy pocrcy to the labor
ing man loudly exposed.
BY the way, please examine the report
of the interstate commerce commission
1t appears from said report that while the
roads in this country have been increased
20 per cent since 1893 the wages of the
mechanics and laborers have been de-
creased, and after the restoration of
confidence" produced by the repeal of
the Sherman act the decrease of the num-
Der of railroad employees in one year was
04, 600, II loss of more than 5000, 900 Der
day, or $50, 100000 per year If Hanna
Is elected (thc election of Mckinley means
Hannn's appointment to the position of
Secretary of the Treasury every laboring
mans wages in America will be reduced
to accord with the goldbugs' prices, and
the labor unions will be controlled by the
plutocratic national army. Laboring
men, l refer you to Hanna's record as a
union labor wrecller. If you vote for
Mckinley on the indianapolis "put up"
you vote for Hanna as Secretary of the
Treasury of the United States
Mr.. Blaine was certainly the boldest
most aggressive and brilliant of the Re
publican party leaders. His opinions
upon silver coinage were deliberately ex-
pressed in speech in the United States
Senate in 1890 Said he: ~ believe the
struggle now going on il this country
and in other countries for n single stan
dard would, if successful, produce wide
spread disaster in and throughout the
commercial world. The destruction of
silver as money and establishing gold -as
the sole unit of value must have a ruin.
Gus effect on all forms of property, ex.
cept those investments which yield n fix
ed return in money. Those would be
enormously enhanced in value and would
gain disproportionatc and unfair adj
vantage over every other species of prop
erty. If, ms most reliable statistics show.
there are nearly 81 1000, 000, 900 of coin or
bullion in the world very equally divided
between gold and silver, it is impossible
TO strike silver out of existence as money
without results that will prove distress
ing to millions and utterly disastrous to
tens of thousands. l believe,n said he.
'goli and silver to be the money of the
onstitutlon-indeed, the money of the
American people anterior to the consti
tuition, which the great organic law rec.
ognized as independent of it's own exis-
tence. No power was conferred on Con-
gress to declare that either metal should
not be money. Congress has, therefore.
no power, in my judgment, to demonetize
either. II, therefore, silver has been
demonetized, am in favor of remonetiz
ing 1T. If its coinage has been prohibited
am in favor of ordering it to be resum
ed: L am in favor of having it enlarged. ~
Now, fellow laborers, ''divided labor
becomes an easy prey for corporate
greed. " BY the organizations of trusts
ana combines the honest sons of toll are
reduced to poverty. Let the bone and
sinew OF the land unite against the ty-
ranny OF unlawful combines, against
goidbug prices, the further contraction
OF our currency and against the further
cohtro: by handful of wealthy men of
the prices of the products of our labor
an 81.