New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-11

NOIND MONEI 4ND Ia Boz.


The mass-meeting n, Cooper Union last even
ing. under the auspices Of the Mckinney
League was dominated by the spirit OF work
iugmen who are determined in their demand
for an Administration which will give them Il
fair opportunity for employment and guarantee
to them an honest dollar in payment for their
/ toll Ii gathering which bore eloquent
testimony TO the understanding which wage
Gamers have of the important ISSUES Of ms
campaign The two principal speakers cX-
Senator Warner Miller and Terence '. Pow
Derby the former general master workman OF
the Knights OF Labor. made addresses OF an
entirely different character. but each peclliari!
adapted TO punctming the sOphstries OIL the
Boy Orator and showing the poor men OF the
country the hoowness of the pleas with when
he seeks to stir UP class hatred and ride mo
power on wave OF Jealous and greedy pas
sion One was the business man discussing the
questions as every sensible business man sees
them The other was the representative OF dis-
tnctive labor interest examining into the trials
of the laborng man and seeking TO relieve
them not by striking blindly at the first person
who seems we'll Off. but by considering the real
origin of those trials and the true cure to be
had from obedience to industrial laws
Mr. Miller gave first place to an examination
of the cause of the hard times rs "A preliminary
ia proving the uselesSness of the qnack rene
dies proposed by the Populsts. He showed how
a little fear of tariff changes stepping one set
of cogs in the engine Of commerce. had para
lived the whole machinery. The incrchah'
foreseeng the possibility of large imports ana
lower prices. was slow in replenshlng his s'ocH'
the manufacturer stopped making goods ne hau
10 call for. the workman. losing wages COLI
sumed less. and the merchant III time ios' hiS
trade SO it went in an overwhelming circle
and before any new adjustment couId come
silver agtators demanding free coinage ~ the
cure for the disturbance made matters worse
Mr. Miller demolished the argument That the
depression was due TO lack of money with con
vincing figures. and settled the other plea OF the
Populists. that gold has appreciated III 'hioe
because many products have fallen by showing
that the two gauges Of the value or money the
rate of wages and the rate of interest, prove eA-
actly the contrary tendency. In spite OF Inc
fall in products labor is higher. and III tweh'!
wears the average rate OF interest mas diihh-
jshed nearly Onc-half, showing that money Is
easier TO be had He also showed now MI.
BRYAN has just now declared for paper nat
money and developed to its logical result III Il
Bellamy Ethiopia of time checks and socialism
his scheme 10 abolish taxation by setting up
printing presses.
Mr. Powdery gave careful attention TO the
! fall Of prices. and told wage-earners 'ha' the!
! suffered not from the oppression which bryan
| fumes over. but from the effect or indns'riai
changes which they themselves haze helped 10
! bring and TO which they are not yet acc ls'omed
The worklnen have been improving their proc
.ssas One farm laborer can cultivate more land
and grow more wheat than his father could one
mechanic AT n machine turns ont many times the
nroduct that he once made with his hands these
changes bring disturbance. but in the END 'hey
bring blessing for they multiply the wants oi
the people and 50 make new work. But the ou
hand has 10 learn 10 work in the new way LEI
even with these troubles the workman Is De'ler
off than he ever was before. MI POWDER!
graphically described the life Of the wageearner
in .'the gooG old Democratic times he is asked
| To revive. when wages were lower. loou anu
clothing higher. when THE laborcr then worked
from sunrise until sunset that his employer anu
.he was not called a robber baron either. might
get the full benefit of his labor. when lhe OH
the farm and in the factory was hard ana drear!
| TO a degree that no presen-day laborer won'd
endure He made it plain that wage-earners and
| farmers under a SOlu siihudIu ia" p'''i''''
in spite of temporary furries and industrial
| changes. and proved how inestmably cheap
| money must harm them.
Coming 10 the discussion Of the Anarchy plank
| of the Bryan platform. his utierances were what
might be expected of manly laborer VINO VIII
not be BATTERED or cajoled into being the enemy
of his country and itS laws Mr.. Powderly SAD
that. whatever the grievance of the strikers AT
Chicago. tn, disorder was due TO the man VINO
wrote Anarchy into the Chicago PLATFORM III
was a gratuitOus act on the part OF the 'Icago
| "Copvention 10 indor>e the inactivity OF the
"Noyor of Chicago and the Governor OF limos.
'but having done So its members should De re-
minded that honest labor in no way feels COM
.plmented by such doubtful recognition. Gov
"ernment by injunction would never he Known
lin the United States had government by lhcohi-
potency not preceded H." Altgeld encouraged
disorder the lawless elements Of Chicago start
ed riot the aggrieved workers stood by help
| less and troops had TO be called i'll. Ihat Is the
| verdict of a workingman on the appeal OF the
| Populists to workingmcn 10 vote for free rio'.
| That is the answer which wageearncrs may he
pxncctcd 10 give to this insult to their PATRIOTISM
when they go 10 the polls.
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