The Penn's Grove record., 1896-10-16
WHITHERARE WE DRIFTING
AS A NATION.

40 N INA AOlNs
Some years ago Thos. 3. Reed, e x
Speaker of the House of Representatives
said, that the yellow man with the
white metal was beating in commerce
and industry the white man with the
yellow metal"
The British Consul's report for 1895
says "a considerable number of spindles
are lying idle in consequence of want OF
hands" not from want of orders in the
cotton mills In Osaka, the Manchester
Of Japan. 1.-THE scarcity Of hands is
principally due to a return of prosper
ity throughout the country (Japan) and
people are reluctant to send their girls
to factories" The same report shows
that wages have advanced from 10 to
20 per cent. This happened since the
mints OF India and the United States
were closed against the coinage Of sill.
YER in 1898. The difference between
the silver standard and gold standard
countries give a protective tariff of 100
per cent. in favor Of the silver stand
ard countries and that is the reason
Chinese and Japanese manufacturers
are fiourishing and their goods are
flooding this country, while our mills
are idle, wages going down and work
ingmen starving.
Wharton Barker's american, Oct.
10th, says: sand when the Japanese
have beaten the English in the Oriental
markets they will enter into competi-
ton, they and their Chinese allies, tor
the home markets of the gold standard
countries, and such competition, If we
hold out TO u competitors a bounty In
the shape of a premium on gold. will
prove as ruinous to u manufacturers
as competition in the European mark
cts with silver-using India and paper.
using Argentine has already proven
ruinous to our farmers and planters.
The only salvation of the g%old-using
countries from industrial destruction
and the degradation of their producing
| classes to a level akin to that of the
| Chinese and Japanese coolie laborer lies
in the restoration of bimetallism. Sill
YER will not degrade the American
wage.earner to the condition OF the
| Mexican peon, the Indian ryot or the
| Chinese coolie, but adherence to the
gold standard will. 1t is in adherence
to the approaching gold standard that
lies the danger to our civilization. II
we adhere to it, wealth will accumulate
in the hands of the few, our producing
classes will be impoverished, our social
order will crumble and civilization re-
trograde. If the Western world would
not relapse into a second period akin to
the dark ages. we must awaken from
our lethargy, and disenthrall our pro-
ducipg classes from the g%rievous bur-
den of falling prices that il grinding
them down to impoyerishment, while
building a moneyed oligarchy on their
sufferings. American voters can APP
ply the remedy and save the Republic
Save western civilization from a re-
Lapse into barbarism such az followed
the downfall of Roman civilization-a
downfall brought about by the same
causes that now threaten to engulf US,
namely, an approaching measure OF
value and resulting Capitalization oil
wealth in a few hands.
"American voters, we repeat, can ap-
ply the remedy that can alone save the
Republic and western civilization from
d~isintegration. VIII they apply it OF
will they permit themselves to be de-
luded until their liberty is so undermin
ed that it will be impossible for them
to recover it?n
Wake up men and get to doing
BE a heio in the strife.
Don't you see your nations threatened
Go to work and ave its life.
In this battle for our freedom
III this great election strife
Be not bought like driven cattle
Vote your manhood, save your life.
"Liyes of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime
And departing leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time"
Wake up then and vote free silver.
Save our nation from this fate
Show your manhood for your country.
On tn work before too late.