The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-14
SENATOR STEWART
ON THE RAMPAGE
tie Launches ThunderbOit al the
"Gold Commercial Press"
A SHOT AT DEMOCRATIC ORGANS
The Ontcrriiied Press, he Thinks,
Would, Under Certain Influence,
Inmates that the Army May in Time
be Used to Reduce Wages.

New York, Aug. 13.-Senator Stewart
this afternoon gave out the following
statement:
The gold commercial press is using every
effort to fasten the tangs OF gold munop-
oily upon labor. 1t tells the workinEman
that nigh wages and cheap commodities
result from the same causes that the
cheaper things are, the more will be paid
10 labor FOR producing them.
While we ask for the RECOMMENDATION of
silver to stop falling prices and start the
wheels OF industry, to give labor employ
ment, they say the silver dollar would be
a 50-cent dollar. The -four hundred million
silver dollars now coined and circulating
either as dollars or silver certificates are
retlcemabe in nothing but silver and are
as good as gold. Previous to demon1tiZa
tiou of silver, silver dollars were as eood
gold dollars. This the laboling people
know. These assertions viii deceive
none.
But they say prices would rise and the
labOring man would not buy as much with
his dollar. We desire that prices should
/ stop falling because while prices are fan
ing enterprises languish and millions are
out OF employment. There is not half as
much paid TO labor in the aggregate TO-
day as there would be If there was money
~ Sloi ldlliilS pl4N'Sr bul Nltt-h an Will
inG hands would find employment in this
country OF unlimited resources.
I If Mckinley wants the laboring man to
have "A dollar which will purchase the
largest amount of goods why does ho
want high tariff Tor manutaCturinS =
m0roroists? " the gold men really wan.
the laborer to enjoy ali the benefits Of II
/ cheap market why do they want Il high
| tariff to raise the prices OF the neCessar-
l 4 h. ...rgF
! In favor of every silver standard count ~
and AGAINST every gold standard country
I amounting to only one hundred per cent.
The advantages which the aeTiCulturiStS :
! of silver standard countries have had in
the differences OF exchange has given the
silver standard countries the monopoly OF
the European market for farm products
and reduced the prices of such products
1 below the cost OF production.
| IT has been often remarked by English
( men that the effect Of the difference ol
| exchange between silver standard coun-
( tries and the g0ld STANDARD countries Is a
! bounty on imports and a tax on exports
| all in favor of the silver standard coUu-
| tries.
EFFECT or MKINLEYISM.
| The struggle with the Indians. Chinese
and South Americans in supplying Europe
with farm products Is therefore unequal
/ while the protected industries Ot this c0un-
| try raise the prices OF the neccsSaricS OF
| life and increase the burden OF protection
/ In other words Mckinleyism will make
| everything the farms. produce cheaper
| and everything the farmers buy doarer
! This may be an explanation why protected
! mouCuolists contribute millions for Ne
! Kiuleyism. But why have the so-called
| Democratic papers been converted to Me-
! Kinlryism? The answer is easy. Kuths-
! child, Morgan X Co. are IN the WreCking
! business. They live on protected fran
Chises and perform the same function on
! the accommodations of industry that VUi-
! lures perform on deCaying carcasSes. Tn,
influence Of Rothschild. Morgan n Co
! with the Democratic newspaper is amply
/ sufficient to make that paper advocate
| high tariff low tariff states rights, fedeTa
| desp0tism or any thing else which shall
suit the WrecierS. Laborers take warn.
! ing.
| ASK yourselves what Hanna and Pier
| pOnt Morgan wOuld do If they had Me
| Einley in the white house in ease labor
ORGANIZATIONS should complain of reduc-
toua in wages. 10 yOu doubt that If they
: owned the federal government that they
would use the army to reduce wages? Ii
you doubt that investigate the character
of these potcntates who propose to own a
| president of the United States.