The San Francisco call., 1896-09-23

would receive the thrust, the same arguments,
the same kind OF promises were renewed to
the Work1ngmen until they were lured away.
And l ask you, my fellow-citizens, who has
received the blow-upon whom has it fallen
most severely? The workingman can answer
thls-he, his wife and his children are the
sufferers. The rich can live anyhow; the rich
can live on what they have laid by; the rich
can draw from their stores. The poor man has
10 earn his sustenance, day by day; and when
he does not labor he does not carry home food
10 the wife and to the children who are wait
ing there for it.
And now we are confronted with another
plcture-the result of the broken promises of
The Democratic party. Let US look once again
al Manchester, Birmingham and all the other
traverse Germany and France There we find
that the furnaces which were silent, the CHM
neys which were smokeless, the spindle which
was falllng apart from nonuse are again in
action. Their furnaces are burning; their
ehimneys are giving forth the light that is
making night as day. They are prosperous
England, OF Germany, OF Scotland and of all
the other countries lying within that great and
broad land where labor is cheap and plentiful
are now employed.
And who are their eustomers-for whom are
they laboring to-day? They are working every
moment Tor the American people; they are
working Tor the Workingmen of America; they
are working for the middle classes OF America
they are working fo- the rich of America; they
are doing our work, while our fac tories are idle
our furnaces are cold, our splndIes are still
and our workingmen are out upon the high
way, and we can hear their murmur and their
cry for bread.
Ten millions of people without work.
ASK the Democratic parry why; ask William
J. Bryan why; yes, ask this Democratic Popu-
hstic-Silverite if this is what he calls redemp-
ton OF promise; ask him if this is what he
calls good faith; ask him if he expects YOU to
believe in him againl Ask yourselves, with
this experience in the past, can you dare to
believe him in the future? Forget if your
hunger will permit you to consider the rem
edy he offers you for the mistake he has made.
Let us look at the prescription which this in
competent doctor ventures Tor our now i'm
poverished and weak frame: "Free and un-
limited coinage OF silver at a ratio of 16 to l"
ing of the mints of the United States of
America to the silver of the whole world, ire
spect1Ye OF the place whence it comes; the
silver product of Mexico, dug from the bowels
OF Mexico with 80 cents a day labor; from
South America, with labor at ID cents a
day; and from all over the world. The minis
OF America, maintained by the Workmen of
America, maintained by the middle classes of
America, ma aintained by the rich of America
the American taxes, levied upon the American
people, are to maintain mints to coin every
bodys silver into American dollars-into
American dollars only in name, and not in
yalue-a dollar only in pretense; the worst
kind OF dollar, the poorest kind of dollar-a
dollar worth AZ cents less than genuine gold
dollarI
After showing some of the commercial
and natural absurdities of the single silver
standard plan the colonel went on to ex-
plain about the ratio.
To-day in the market the ratio is more than
81 OF silver to L of gold That is why the