The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-20
Iron WORKERS.

Work Upon.
Colonel Benjamin Nlelds in addressing
the workngmen of the Diamond State
I Iron Company on Saturday spoke as fol-
lows:
What the wage-earner wants to-day is
constant work, good wages and payment
In honest money. Have the wage-earners
since 1892 had constant work? You know
they have not. Why are thousands Of will
ing workers out Of employment to-day?
Why have thousands of willing workers
passed into the great army of tramps and
are now homeless wanderers over the
earth. None can deny that this is the
condition of the worhingman to-day. 1t is
because Our mills, shops and factories have
been closed since 1892 or running on short
time, with reduced force
why have our mills, shops and facto-
ries been closed or are running on short
time? 1t Is because the things made in our
mills, shops and factories have been manu-
factured abroad, shipped here and sold for
less money than they could be made for
here. For thirty years prior to 1892 we
had protection to our industries. Then our
mills, shops and factories were full Of or
ders and running constantly; and the wage
Garner had steady work and received good
wages No country at any time in the his
tory of the world had the prosperity we
then enjoyed. From 1850 to 1890 the popu-
laLion Of Wilmington increased about 30
per cent The real city Of Wilmington was
built in that period of thirty years and
most of the houses were built during that
time, These houses were built by working
men of the city. In that period the houses
of the workingmen were filled with most
of the comforts Of life and many of the
Injuries, in that period most Of the public
schools were built and thousands of happy
faced and neatly y-dressed children from
happy homes filled these schools.
"Workingmen were then paid high
wages. General J. Parke postles told me
that prior to 1892 morocco dressers in this
city earned as high as S35 per week, that
the average earnings of morocco dressers
were $2i week. Machinsts received from
SO to SIS per week. bIcklayCrs 81 day
and other wOFkmcn were paid in like pro-
portion and had constant work. What has
bcen the condition of the workingmen dur
ing the Democratic administration? The
present administration came into power
with the avOwrd purpose of adopting FREQ
trade. Upon the election of Grover Cleve-
land all the industries of the country we're
seized with paralysis. All the industrial
establishments in this city since then, as
you know, have been running with great
ly reduced forces and most of them with
out any profit and many Of them al loss
what is The remedy the Democratic
party proposes? Free trade, free silver
M 10 b,
party with one head and two tails. One
tail is in Maine and the other in Georgia,
and one tail is trying to destroy the other.
He is more than that, he is the candidate
Of three parties. He is tho candidate of
the so-called Democratic party: he is the
candidate of the Silver party, and he is
the candidate of the Populist party. If
should charge any Democrat in this audi
ence with being Populst, he would resent
it; and yet every one who votes for Bryan
votes for a Populfst candidate. Who are
bis supporters? All the intelligence of the
country is against him. There is not q
newspaper in New York for him. excepting
one, and thai is controlled by silver mine
owners. The press all over the country is
against him. The press Of this country, as
you know, always has and still stands for
the rights of the workngmen. Mr.. Bryan
claims to be Democrat and the candidate
of the Democratic party, yet Mr.. Cleveland
and every member Of his Cabinet repud-
ated the platform upon which he stands
Nov Mr. Bryan ard his supporters claim
that our industries will be renewed. our
prosperity will be restored workingmen
will receive constant employment and in
agcl l,,, F,a.
coinage of silver. Now this is a s. gold
piece coined by the United States Govern
ment and is good for So in any part of the
civilized world, You may melt it into a
bar and it will be worth as much as ever it
was. Why? Because its actual value is
50. When the government coined it, it add
ed thereby nothing to its value Here are
five silver dollars, coined by the Unitc1 |
States Government They are to-day good |
fcr So anywhere in the civilized world. You |
may melt them into a bar Of silver and that |
bar of silver will be worth about $40 and |
why is each silver dollar worth 100 cents, |
when coined by the government, and only |
worth 80 cents in the bar Of silver? The |
reason is that it has so cents of actual value
in 1t, and 50 cents of the credit Of the gov-
ernment back of it.
why is there so cents of government
credit back of these silver dollars? The
reason is that the government bought the
bullion silver and coined these dollars for
itself and paid them out, receiving 100 cents
oi value for each one of them. All the sill
Yer dollars purchased since 1873 were coin
ed from bullion purchased by the govern
ment. All the silver dollars issued bp the
pt, thot |
by the government for dollar in value re-
coivcd by the government 1t is the declar-
ed policy Of the government that these dol |
lars shall be kept equal in value to gold.
and the government therefore adds its
credit to the actual value Of the silver in
the coin for the purpose of keeping this dol |
l0r equal to 100 cents no matter what the !
actual value Of the silver may be. It is the
declared purpose Of the Bryan Democratic
rarity to coin silver dollars containing 4l2h
grains of silver, and that they shall be
equal to a standard gold dollar. That is,
any ono of you may purchase bullion silver,
have it coined into silver dollars. To these
dollars the credit OF the government is not
added. The silver dollar when SO coined
will be worth its bullion value and no more.
lust like the 81 gold piece, nothing is added
10 its value by the coinage; therefore under |
The operation of free and unlimited coinage |
lf gold and silver we would have q gold |
dollar worth 100 cents and silver dollar |
worth 80 cents.
For w Gh Men VITA Nervous Dsbiiity This
is Certainly the CHARGE of n Uterine.
Weak men suffering from nervous
debility weakened powers and exhausted |