The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-10-21
SPEECH BY CARLISLE.
The Secretary Talks to Wage-Earners ON
the Money Question.

The Secretary Talks to Wage-Earners ON
the Money Question.
Washington, Oct. 1.-THE Wage
Farmers Patriotic League of Maryland
to the number of 200 called on Secretary
Carlisle Friday to invite him to address
them in Baltimore at his convenience.
The secretary received the delegation
on the south steps of the treasury
building, where Mr.. H. X. L.. johnson.
the leader of the delegation, made an
address in which he said they were
Cleveland and Carlisle democrats, who
proposed to vote for Mckinley as the
representative of honest money. Post.
master Warfield. of Baltimore, accom-
panied the delegation. Secretary Car
isle mounted chair and as he did SO
some one in the crowd yelled out: "Tell
the truth" He promptly answered:
II will try to do So" Then he said, after
stating his regret at his inability to
speak in Baltimore:
IF there is a laboring man in the United
| states who really believes that the money
ne Is now receiving for his wages is too
good Tor him; that 1t is buying too much
food too much clothing for himself and
for better house than he and his family
ought to live in, 1t Is his duty to vote for
the free and unlimited coinage of silver at
the ratio of sixteen to one If there ia
any laboring man in the United States
who has saved money out of his earnings
and deposited it in a savings bank or build
ing association, or paid 1t on a policy of in.
surance for the benefit of his family. and
| who desires to have 1t paid back to him in
| currency worth about half as much as
J ha nnVnnx I.
vote Tor the free and unlimited coinage of
! silver. for that will give him exactly what
ne wants. On the other hand, every man
IN the United States, whether he works for
/ wages or not, who wants to preserve the
value of what he has already accumulated
ana 10 insure the value of what he may
i hereafter receive, ought to vote against
| the Tree and unlimited coinage Of silver and
cor the maintenance of sound and stable
currency in this country.
While every man who works for wages
or receives fixed compensation for his
| services must be deeply interested in the
result OF the pending contest, these men
who work for railroad companies and other
transportation companies, many of whom
reside In your city, and some of them are
/ perhaps here. have a special interest in
| the questions involved, because their en-
ployers are confronted by a situation
| which makes il impossible to so increase
wages as to compensate for the dimin-
| ished purchasing power of the money in
! which wages must be paid if the policy of
free coinage of silver at sixteen to one Is
! adopted. These companies cannot increa se
wages unless they can increase the re-
ceipts from their business; they cannot
| increase the receipts from their business
! unless they can increase the charges for
| carrying freight and passengers, and if
| they should attempt to increase the charges
| for carrying freight and passengers it
; Is safe to say that the very men, the very
people who are now most clamorouS for
! the free coinage of silver would be the
| first to protest against it and to demand
! legislation to prohibit it in all cases where
! such legislation is not already existing.
THE man, therefore, who works for a
transportation company would find him
| self the helpless victim of policy which
! diminished the purchasing power of his
wages about one-half and compelled him
/ to work on and on for the same number of
! dollars he received before, thus destroying
| all hope of Improvement of his condition
! But, gentlemen, the laboring men have
! their fate in their own hands. They have
! the power to protect their wages against
| depreciation and to protect their country
! against financial disturbances and ruin,
! and if they are as Intelligent and patriotic
! as believe them to be they will so exer-
! else their power that no reckless agitator
! will herea fter dare to approach them in
! behalf of his wild and revolutionary scheme
| of finance and civil government"