The morning times., 1896-09-12
Let 1nem Provide Starvation Proof Armor:

Let Them Provide Starvation Proof Armor.
report is being circulated that certain labor lead
have agreed deliver the organized labor vote to
the silverie party the condition that Mr. Bryan will
stop government by injunction Federal interfer
ence." The TINES has repeatedly condemned these
methods of preventing wage-eapers from adopting re-
taatory when corporate greed encroaches
their rights and it now just vigorously, denounees
the demagogues who engaged in attempt to sell
the franchises of devoted followers the pretense that
these obstacles to the freedom of organized labor be
removed. Let it be distinctly understood that Mr..
Bryan chief executive could not carry ont his part
ofthe agreement The power to issue junction is
vested in the judicial branch of the government
which the President has CONTROL and act of Con-
makes if imperative to Federal troops to force
passage of the mails when interference renders such
measure necessary Every honest chief executive would
feel compelled to enforce that law, and if Mr.. Bryan
bargains to the contrary of his many pledges
worth the time expended in making them public.
While it may not be possible to prove the existence
of the compact referred it morally certain that two
othegeneral officers of the Knights of Labor trying
to their official salaries by working for Mr. Bryans
election. General Master Workman Sovereign has been
on the stump since the Chicago nomination at
official salary of ST. 500 year, and General Secretary
Treasurer Hayes whose arbitrary conduct has cost his
organization hundreds of thousands of members, has
converted headquarters into electioneerng bureau
and has also turned the journal of the Knights Labor
into free silver organ. The official salary of Mr..
Hayes 81 600 year. and the amount he receives for
prostituting the official journal of his organization may
possibly appear in his next annual report. It is not
likely, however that Mr. Hayes will refer to his
temptbe publication of the private letters of his old
time friend and benefactor Such conduct only reads
Welt when portraying the traitorous character of vii
lain in yellow-ba novel.
Let us see what organized labor would gain by the
election of Bryan and Hobart slverte President and
sound money Vice President for neither of Mr. Bryans
running mates expect to poll sufficient number of
electoral votes to second place With Mr. Hobart
presiding officer of the Senate assist preventing
change of rules freesver bill could pass that body
The honor of country the welfare of its citizens and
the of business interests demand the defeat of
attempt to force to silver basis and should mis-
fortune chronicle November victory for the silvere
party the fight will be continued if necessary, in the
Senate until the heat of debate fuses the bronze god
dess the dome of the Capitol. Silver supremacy at
the polls proongation of present business
depression Would that benefit organized labor :?
But granting that free silver bill could be enacted
would it profit wageearners anyone else to have the
purchasing power of money diminished? Does 100
cent dollars buy too much at the store grocery
too far in paying rent doctors bills that its
be deprecated? On every side we hear siverite
orators exultanty predicting Utopia of high prices
but none of them explain how wages will be raised to
meet this advance in the cost of living, do they make
clear how working people to exist during the long
period of panic that free silver would bring They
rant about the oppression of the people and
sputter red fire at gold bugs, But of sverite
can tell how that policy would injure Could Hearst
Morgan Rockefeller, Vanderbilt any other of the
hated mllllonaires. 1t is the and not the
classes that would feel the disastrous results of change
of monetary standard. The moment free silver
law went into effect 412H grains of silver would become
standard of value instead of Is $40 grains of gold
If that amount of silver worth only So cents in the
markets dollar would be rated accordingly and as am
inevitable result the purchasing of wages would
be diminished by nearly one-half.
In reply to this argument silverites say that an
inflated schedule of prices would stimulate trade bv
creating an increased demand. If employers generally
would double the rate of wages that working people
would not have the purchasing power of their money
impaired this explanation might SUFFICE but who will