The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-08-02
from Sac a Thousand to s6.50 a thousand

from $40 thousand to $3.50 thousand
| have cut their wages five per cent
from first to last. In the last three
years lumber has gone down 40 per cent.
l have only cut their wages five per
cent l have stood 40 per cent. OF the
loss or shrinkage in the price of lumber.
They have borne five per cent. only"
then asked him: you say you are
making more money now than you ever
dido"
WELL" he said, from start to finish
I have paid cash always. l owe no man
anything. have the best improved ma
chincry. The dollars ] get to-day go
farther than any dollars ever had; and
not only is that true of me but it is true
Of every man l have. At the mill today
the hands gathered around me and told
me l had always been their friend and
asked me- how it was that could be for
sound money when they were all for
free silver. l told them ] was their
friend in this as we'll as other things.
l told them: 81 know you men. You
are in better condition to-day than you
have been in 90 years. You have more
comforts at your homes; you have more
of everything: and you are drinking less
whisky to-day than ever before" I
pointed to one of them and said: II
know I gave you q check on the LIST day
Of July for your accumulated wages for
$1,000 and you asked me to write
in the check payable in gold" Ibid so,
and you are rabid free-silved man,
want the bank, to my own knowledge
for / am a director of the bank-and
draw out 5000 in gold and have got it
hid away in an old boot somewhere now
nobody knows where but you. An
other one of your fellow-laborers there
drew his back wages and followed me
out of the Office and asked me IL he could
get the check cashed in gold. / told MIN
yes; but | said: You are free-silver
mnn. amt your Silver he said, for
the other fellow, but gold for me-" l
then told the men that when money de-
preciated and they began to pay eight
and ten dollars for a barrel of -four, and
IL cents for meat that pledged them 1
would not increase their wages and that
they would be much more disconnected
than they are now.
There are thousands OF disconnected
laboring men to-day who want change
i'll the financial policy of our country.
but their wages will never 30 up as
money goes down, il the free and I'M
limited coinage men get in their work.
but they will never get ii in. in my cam
did Judgment. ! believe Mr.. Carlisle
SAID there are 4o0.000,0o0 of coined sill
YER dollars in the treasury and sub
treasures now. Not bank will have
1t, though he proffered to pay the ex-
press charges on it, He tells us again
mat II all the mints of this country
were to run day aud night they could
not coin one-half the product of the
mines of America, and if we had free
and unlimited coinage of silver we
would soon have silver enough in our
vaults to bankrupt the country. And
THESE free and unlimited coiners arc
packing nll the gold they can get into
their socks and boots and REFUSING IN
ake silver. Very few men want more
'h'ih hve dollars in silver. Most all
men want silver in the sense that they
Gun get sixteen dollars in silver for one
dollar in gold and then go TO the treas
ury and swap sixteen dollars in silver
Tor sixteen dollars in gold sixteen for
one when II is coming my way-sixteen
10 sixteen when 1t is going the other
way" '''e'
The common sense of this country
ana what patriotism we have left will
relega'e the Chicago platform and can.
dldafes to the rear: not because II is
= Mckinley on the one side and BRYAN n,
the other, but because the Americar
dollar must be rs good as anvbo,,y,s
ooliar as long as the American ncon,e
are as good as any people. With the
hihaiiest feelings towards both cand,.
oates, and with the settled purpose 4,
wore Tor Levering and johnson. the car.
u'ua'es OF the national prohibition mar.
", VIII watch the procession and ro-
1oiee over right consequences md h..
moan evil consequences, with The solid
conviction of mind and soul tha, 90
stand anything anybody else can stona
ana stand ii as long and saw as it'll,
"niie l am standing it.
Il SAM p. JoNEs.