The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-09-18

try to pay for these crops The farmers get the money
and the year raise the crcps over again. and
keep The money coming with high prices 70 them. men
money 10 high priced and the farmers products are low
priced the Ii true and wealth accumulates Ia the
cities. AppauseD
EFFECTS on WAGES.
They say wages have not declined
Store clerks In the city OF Chicago in 1873 got $i2
week. about an average Of that They are now getting
an average OF about 50 a week.
Unorganzed labor has fallen proportionateiy. u -
only organized labor that has held up prices ana mas
done that in two ways Is that organized labor Is
among the nrst mechanics where experts are re-
quired. and the supply OF that kind OF workmen - INN
tied But organized labor holds Itself up by reason OF s
unions They are intelligent They stand together az
brotherhood Of men fighting In common cause. ana
yet In spite Of their organization iaper mas nau "as
partially reduced
Unorganized labor has declined - per cent and tens
Of thousands unemployed and are getting n9thns
This makes tramps It makes fallen hopes; makes as
courased manhood; Il makes less Of good citizenship
In this country. Add the number OF workmen organized
unorganzed and unemployed. and get your sum total
then divide II into the wages they receive ana you nave
the gold standard measured with exacness into the
bone and nesh and blood Of the aborng classes Of the
United States. (Applause)
The labor question Is question or supply ana de-
mand and long farming is Improbable. the people
gravitatng to the cities And there Is an oversup-
ply Of wage The remedy Is higher prices and
gmvitaton Of wage to the country where they
can build their homes and their own living as
their own employers, anu as the VI
people, Applause)
PENSION HOLDERS.
They say to pensioners "You can buy more with the
money you receive than you can with the same
money II we had coinage Of silver. With free coin
age prices will double and you will buy less with your
pension"
Here is an admission that prices will advance to doubh
what they are with the free coinage OF silver This
selfish argument made pensioners Is made to men who
rsked their lives the field of battle for their ag and
1t Is question under the present system OF con-
fscntion, whether to have republic or cot TO
pay these pensions (ApplauseD And In this struggle
these veterans who defended the republic before
will be found again the side of the integrity OF the
nation The men who make this base appeal Intended
reach selfish nature are the men who stayed ut home
during and racked on the necessities OF the
government The loyal patriots OF this country VIII be
satisfied with the honest money OF Washington Jeer
SON Jackson and Lincoln Thousands Of our pensioners
losing In their business or occupations or Dy
loss of occupation by reason Of the hard times, than
they are getting in the way OF pensions. They are not
oilers beggars seeking their only subsistence from
the government. Applause.)
LIFE INSURANCE POLICY HOLDERS.
They say that the OF life insurance policies will
be paid in deprecated moneyin hftycent dollars The
| answer il this:
II the present 2O0cent gold dollar Is to remain our
money II depression and low prices loss OF oc
cupation continue. the policy holders Will be unable
pay the premiums on their policies ana they VIII lose
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not distress and ruin will come to them be-
fore the benefits OF their policies are received Or they
will be compelled hypothecate and sacrifice that which
intended for their families after death The prompt
ing spirit that caused them seek to provide against
distress for their families after Ceah will prompt them
10 save their families from distress while living The
life companies are the greatest money lenders
| we have and are the side Of the money lenders
SOUND MONEY.
They say the gold standard is sound money. We are
| all in favor Of sound money They should not rely on
sound words but should furnish with sound argu-
ments to support their theory Of the gold standard The
gold experiment on trial FOR the nst Tine
in world since 1879 and we have reaped Ito bitter
fruits and we now the Of It, II were par
aphrasing this disastrous system Of money would say
Of this sound money that Is the sound OF the auc-
toneers hammer! the sound OF the cod upon the COLIN
the sound Of the pistol that takes the suicides fe FOR
such It has been. Qong applauseo
INDEPENDENT ACTION.
They say we cannot so 1t alone.
remind you again Of the quantity Of gold and silver
in the world the foot block Of silver on which
the demand of the United States is to operate When the
United States throws minis open to the silver Of the
world this supply this block Of silver that has
the privilege OF being coined into money by minis
We produce In the United States. annually, from ou
fields and factories enough to take all silver In tho
world to pay for 1t. That is the demand. And such
nation can the commercial value Of silver at the ra
Ito It Is coined into money (AppauseI Ii the work
wants to flood us with silver, produce from on
fields and single enough to take it all
all the silver the world and the next we can pro
duce the same things again. and say to theln Il
you any silver bring 1t on Long continues
applause) Such a nation can fix tho commercial valu
Of silver with gold at the ratio 1t Is coined Into money
What happens when minis open to silver a
they are now gold? Is this: The silver of the world
a. the gold the world do comes TO our minis
Il coined into money and handed back to the men VIII
I bring It. What do they bring 1t for? To exchange
with us for property Under such law we buy non
OF their silver; make It possible for them to dea
with US by exchanging their silver. as money with
a for our products man In foreign county woM
not part with his silver in exchange for gold for les
than par Mt the legal ratio with those who thus seek
A buy It. why? Because, he would answer Il can col
nv silver into money In the United States and cxchang
Il for anything those people have. and they produce
that country everything that man wants for Ills nece'
stiles or his comfort II will buy anything there that goi
will buy" And such would not part with his 81
gold except at par less the cost OF shipping II
the United States or In other words exchange This
the effect Of the United States passing such law
axes the price Of silver the world Mexico cannot
T. because she has the exportabe wealth. The I'm
i ted States has. Applauscl