Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-08

servant OF bonanza mine owners" And
again: "Bryan's corporation work-he IL
assistant attorney OF the Missouri Pacific
Tor Nebraska" and again. Bryan on bolt
Ing. I am not a democrat
considerable space is devoted TO the con-
G6e Gem Of the doctrine Of cheapness.
one heading says: Cheap goods don't
make people happy"
The Crime OF 1T,
Under the heading crime of 1874 Is th,,
paragraph:
The 16 to l theorists who nronose to
cure all evils by restoring the condition
which existed prior to 1873. will not stop
with the restoration OF silver. The propos-
eu restoration must include the doubling of
everything which has shrunken The fol-
lowing is suggestive of others:
Disease-Ten days per annum is the ay-
erase amount of sickness I'm human life
ihat is hardly enough. What We need is TO
nave the per capita doubled. If there was
twenty days sickness instead of ten tban
tne doctors would earn just twice as much
as tney DO now. and, of course would
speho twice as much. and that would in
crease the money, and everybody would be
JUST Twice as We'll OFF. The production OF
the country would be thus increased for
tnere are good many more doctors than
.here are silver mine owners, and by
doubling their earnings and thus setting
twice as much money in circulation basil
ness would revive.
The doctors would have to use more
norses to drive around among their pa-
uents and so there would be twice rs manx
oats used This would double the price of
OATS and so all around there would he a
rise in values
Wages would 20 way I'D with the other
things, and then too a man wo1,la not
nave to work so hard as he does now for
ne would lay OF with sickness twice as
many days as he does nov. Ever since Tho
RECOMMENDATION of disease sickness has
neen gradually declining. and The per
capita is altogether too low What we need
| Is more sickness. and there should a. once
be return TO the cid ratio of our fathers
L 10 ~; that is, one sick day to sixteen
Wen Gays, which would make about twenty
SICK days IN a year instead of ten. Tntil
this Is done we can have no prosperity"
The Insurance Question.
On the insurance question is said:
The fire Insurance policy holder is a Pc
culiar Illustration of the actual application
or the brilliant free silver idea The sta
tictics do not give the number of insurers
out we know 1t must include at least two
thirds of all men doing business aud
great majority OF the househclders of tn,
country The total risks written bv tbs
STATISTICS at hand, was over Sic. 500. 900: but
tne value OF the insurance shown by the
policy holders surplus was 81 3D. a,. l.s,
estimating the household insurers at poo
600 and the business insurers at ,ar, 600
Which Is conJectural but surely within the
limits. this makes the average investment
In life insurance about $50 to each person
FROM each of these persons every one. Of
them producers. the great free silver idea
proposes to take away half of the value of
his policy in force when the change of
standard takes place.
Life Insurance..
The vast sums that the policy holders OF
life insurance have loaned, through the CO.
operation of their agents. namely. the off,
GERS who represent the various companies
throughout the United States, constitute
them money-lending class. There are
i,496S'6 Hfe-insurance policies outstanding
great many people have more than one
poncy' SO mat IT Is probable that the num-
per or this class would be somew here about
LHnhU But each policy represents a
uebt TO be scaled, and can be viewed In
mat line. Some rich men carry a good deal
OF lie insurance. but the vast mass of the
insurers are men of ordinary means. who
mus provide an assurance for their fami-
lies. The total savings of this form In re-
ser serve, and surplus as to policies, is 81 156-
ooi'66. The face of the policies is far
more but the average savings on each
policy Is $l12.6 And because the people
nave saved this sum, a little each year
tnronSh many years. the great free silver
ldea proposes to punish them by taking
away about S'S6 from each avera ge value
Oh account OF the wickedness of belonging
TO the money-lending class
The Money Issue
The attitude Of the republican Marty nm
the money issue in the campaign is thus
defined:
The republican party declares in its
platform:
I'VE are unalterably opposed to every
measure calculated 20 debase our currency
eI impair the credit of our country. We
are, therefore, opposed to the free coinage
OF silver except by international agree
ment with the leading commercial nations
u-hi ah
to promote.
The democratic party declares In its
platform:
I'VE demand the free and unlimited coin-
age OF both gold and silver at the present
regal ratio of 10 to ], without waiting for
the AID or consent of any other nation.
by This language the issue is to he
presented for the decision of the l5.ep.op
voters
The following are some of the reasons
why the republicans contend for interna-
tlonal agreement:
IF We take up the metal alone and that
course results in the expulsion OF gold
We shall have, in the first place. a financial
crisis worse than ever suffered in this
country. This because We cannot in a
long time. even by working our minis day
and night, coin silver enough to take the
place which would be vacated by gold.
Prices would sorely fall. Immense num-
ters of failures would occur Laborers
would be thrown out of work. Altogether
dreadful paroxysm in our business would
be precipitated. Slowly ths gap left by
gold would be filled by the mining and
coinage of silver. Prices would then grad
ually rise. At last they would become
higher than now. more and more approach
ing the Mexican and japanese level. Seine
advantages would doubtless spring from
this elevation of prices. but ii is a mistake
to suppose that II would redress the in
EQUITY caused by the fall of prices in 1871,
because the rise and the fall would in the
overwhelming majority of cases not apply
to the same parties. In most instances the
very men who have proflted by the fall
would manage to profit again by the rise.
Moreover. wages would rise more slowly
than values al large.
But a consequence far worse than any OF
these would be that our passage to a silver
basis would erect against foreign exchange
between Europe and the United States Just
such a barrier Row exists between Eu-
rope and Mexico. 1t would annihilate all
fixed par between New York and London
repeating the terrible Inconvenience in our
European exchanges which we suffered in
war times. when we were upon a paper
basis.
We are now using as much silver as gold
and as silver has never been demonetiZed
1t Is as good as gold everywhere The
standard silver dollar of 412is grains has
never been anything less than legal tender