The herald., 1896-10-04
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
JOB HARTMAN
AND FREE SILVER ,
BY JBMEs q. CLARK
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 8 3 8 Z 9

J On Sunday evening, September 9th,
there was a discussion at Temperance
temple between Job Hartman and w.
G. Bowman.
yer coinage benefit the wage workers."
Mr.. Bowman took the affirmative, Mr..
Hartman the negative.
~ The question, which was formulated
by Mr.. Hartman, who is candidate for
congress on the Socialist Labor ticket,
vas q strange one for discussion before
Socialists, who are, or ought to be il con-
slstent, inspired by the golden rule, and
the sentiment that IAN injury to one is
the concern of ALL
= More and more the world, outside of
orders and creeds of all kinds, is coming
to recognize the higher socialism which
realizes that one class cannot in any
true sense be uplifted through isolated
and selfish plans or impulse and eSpec-
tally at the expense and through the de-
preston or neglect of another class.
This Is why faith in high protective
tariff Is waning every year, and why the
best and wisest of all creeds and parties
are combining against the inhuman and
devastating money despotism whose
head center rs usury.
The question discussed on Sunday
evening was, in it's very structure, a cold
and uninspiring one at this particular
time. For this reason, If no other, Mr.
Harriman-though an eloquent and
ready debater-appeared at decided dis
advantage before an audience composed
largely of reformers who sincerely be-
lieve in "All for one and one for all"
rather than in prayer; Lord bless me
and my wife, my son John and his wife,"
etc. We all know that the banking
transportation and other syndicates are
in favor of the gold standard and oppos-
ed to free silver coinage. for the proofs
are on every hand in the form of combi-
nations, and systematic policy of cruel
fQrce and coercion, which obliges en-
pfOyes to prostitute themselves and
cruelty their best instincts or lose their
HOBS. We all know that Hanna McKin-
ley success and rule mean more gold in
terest bearing bonds and worse slavery
for producers and wage workers.
Mr.. Harriman's argument against free
silver coinage was based upon the sing
ularly unique proposition that as the
purchasing power would be lessened ac-
cording to the additional volume put in
circulation, hence there would be moth
ing gained by the wage workers, who
are now being paid in gold standard
money. He left entirely out of the ques-
ton the fact that rising values, which
&ould- necessarily follow an increasing
volume of money per capita, would tend
through fixed economic law to draw
INTO active circulation hundreds of mil
Hons now lying ilde-hoarded because
people dare not take chances on a fall
tng commodity and rising money mar
ket-and that these circulating millions
would, like an abundance Of warm
Blood. give fresh energy to the body
p0lttic and work to a vast army Of idle,
destitutemen and women, no intelligent
kfon0mic student can gainsay or refute,.
md no Socialist will dispute Mr.. Harri-
@arse 9rst proposition, /. e., that all
Medlth 10 derived from labor, and that
N1der the operation of the present com.
69fifive wage system the employees do
&6t, receive sufficient pay to buy back
E5uGt proportion of what they produce,
Hxd that as the surplus in the hands of
~ employer class is too great for the
1$ter. to properly utilize, the result is
QEer- production and idle accumulation
NIL kinds Of products in the hands Of
He few.
Yet Mr.. Hartman, who makes this
~ basic proposition. indirectly-if not
E5Eoct1y- Lends to the already congested
oney power the influence Of hls 10.