The herald., 1896-09-06
PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA
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cloud cries of "The workingman.")
Who will raise the workingman's wages
to meet the rise in the products he buys?
He cannot do it unaided and by him
self; he does not wholly control the pay
rool Of his employers; he must get
somebody else's consent before his
wages can be raised, nd he knows from
experience that the last thing to be ad-
-vauced, the hardest thing to have ad
vanced is his wages. We might just
as we'll understand that we cannot fix
by law the wages of labor. That is a
matter of mutual contract between en-
ployer and employe. But we can fix by
law the kind of money in which wages
are to be paid, and we will never decree
that they shall be paid in anything short
OF the best dollars in purchasing power
recognized throughout the civilized
world. (Cheers.) When man is out of
q job he Is usually out of money
Qaughter), and to live he must draw
upon his savings if he has any. Is not
that so, workingmen Of Pennsylvania? :?
If not upon his savings, then upon his
credit. What the idle workingman wants
is job. That means money to him.
The mints, if they were thrown wide
open to the coinage of every charcter of
metal. and were multiplied a hundred
fold in capcity, would neither furnish
the job. restore his exhausted savings,
nor give him credit. (Applause) Moth
ing, my fellow citizens, will accomplish
that but work, and that will only come
through confidence restored by wise
financial and industrial policy.
(Cheers.)
Remember that money! never will
ingly idle, any more than labor is will
ingly idle. If money is ever, idle it is, ,be-
cause it fears loss. The way to dispel
that fear is to insure business stability
and business confidence. We cannot
work if we do not have wealth some
where; and we cannot have wealth
without work, for work is the founda-
tion Of all wealth. (Great applause)
The power to get hold of money! don't
care what business we are in-depends
on whether the man who owns the mon
ey wants what we have and needs what
we have more than he wants or needs
his money. (Applause.) If we have our
labor we can get pay for it, if somebody
wants it who can pay for. it,, and he
never wants it unless it is necessary to
have it for his convenience or comfort
or to produce something from which he
can make profit out of his money.
If we want to borrow money, our abil-
ity to get it is measured by the conf
dence the possessor has in our ability
and disposition to repay it. That is true
with every kind of money we have. And
there is another thing we ought to re-
member, and that is free silver at a ra-
tio of 16 to l, or any other ratio, will not
repeal the great law of supply and de-
mand. (Cheers)
1t is a grave error to suppose that you
can enhance values by diminishing the
value of money-that you can increase
the value of anything by changing it's
measure. You can no more do that
than you can increase the quantity by
diminishing the measure. Garfield ut
tered a great truth when speaking of the
resumption of specie payments he said:
"In the name of every man who wants
his own when he earns it, demand that
w
man to shivel in his hands after he has
earned them. (Applause.) But that his
money shall be made better and better
until the plow holders money shall be
as good as the bondholder's money; un-
til our standard is one and there is no
longer one money for the rich and an
other for the poor" (Great applause)
What Garfield SO eloquently spoke for
executed by the resumption of the law
of 1879. The dollar OF promise became
the coin of fulfillment That is what it
is now and that is the way it shall be if
the people place the Republican party
in control of every branch of our federal
government. (Applause) And the pre-
servation of that dollar is as indispensa-
BILE to our national honor and our public
faith as it is to the men who work in fac
tories and who toll in the field. Gap
plause.
SCHURz SPEAKS
CHICAGO, Sept. 5.-Central Music
hall was packed to the doors tonight to
hear the address of Carl Schurz, who
spoke under the auspices of the Ameri-
can Honest Money league. Mr. Schurz
paid particular attention to the New
York speech of Mr.. Bryan, and his de-
scription Of what would occur if Mr..
Bryan was elected provoked repeated
cheers from the audience. He fatty de-
clared that if Mr.. Bryan believed GER
tain things which he quoted from Mr..
Bryan's New York address, then Mr..
Bryan did not know what free coinage
meant, even though he was it's most
ardent apostle.
The audience, which numbered about
$500, received Mr. Schurz's address with
great enthusiasm.