The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-07-31

~ Paying the Workingman in Chea
Silver Dollars.


Ex-Gov. Horace Boies, of Iowa.
banker than his fellow silverites. WI
,Setend that their 50-cent-dollar schen
would benefit the working classes.
recent interview he says:
have myself in this state two farm
bald for largely with money | hay
Earned as lawyer. One is farm :
Loo acres Of land, and the other cor
Eins 1000 acres. With the presen
price of labor and the present price pai
Tor farm products, no man in the worl
could take either Of these farms. even
should present him with the ground
ind make dollar out OF it. I mean. q
tourse, that he could not equip tn,
Im and pay interest on the none,
Invested in the equipment and wage,
ur labor out Of the income he would
Rrt by selling the products. A farme,
Mo works himself and is assisted bx
be labor of sons and daughters
ould make a small farm paw. Rut
. farm is profitable when conducted
b the basis Of a manufacturing bust
less. Cheap and abundant money is
be only remedy for this intolerable
late of things"
This is candid admission that he
links that wages are now too high. and
bat in some way free silver will give
be farmers cheaper labor. The mere
let of an increase in the price Of farm
oducts would not make farming prof
bible, if, as is claimed by most of the
hteen to one leaders, wages would he
publed along with doubled prices Of
ferything the farmer buys. Mr.. Boies
Early expects that the result of "chean
ID abundant money viii be the prac-
bal reduction Of the price paid for
rm labor. This would no doubt be
very good thing for rich man with
POO acres of land. But what does
Z poor laborer think Of the scheme?
e the American people ready to vote
a debased currency which will re.
ZEE the wages Of the workers?
Next in Importance to the confession
bit free silver would cut down wages
the admission that "a farmer who
Prks himself can make small farm
~ What kind of farmers does Mr..
Pes expect to see prosper? Men who
Re bought up big tracts Of land which
y hold out Of use in the expectation
|elllng it at high price, and in the s
fntlme are working it with hired 6
|or? That is not the kind of farmers LIS
Ech Americans wish to see thrive. t
man who owns and works his own T
|als the ideal farmer of this country. q
F blg estate with its gangs. of hired p
may do while new territories are s
Pc opened up, but the welfare of the Z
nbllc depends on the men who Guilt v
the soil owning the land they till. !"
E-Gov Boiesr thinks himself entitled II
Pm income from his land without &C
klng it himself, he is very much he
Faken. No farmer should prosper as
|amply owns land" and expects to az
X profit out of other mems labor. II
under free silver few men could W
cheap money to speculate in land an
get rich out of the toll of the under
laborers is the very best reason
the masses should vote against II. W.
Y l'oies admits that the farmer
works can make his farm pay. But
iother part of the same interview he 81,
mat farms bought 20 or rs wears i
'annot De made to pay interest on col
cost. This is strong argument n
lst cheap money, for it was the an
pack imitation of the war period dol
put the price of land SO high ont
the men who bought farms have Cor
NI Juggling ever since to pay for Wo
1he heavy mortgages, with n
interest rates, which are crushing Bla
my farmers, have their origin in will
ign speculative price of land and
ny the cheap money craze of the afte
Free coinage would re- cycl
ne evils brought about by the safe
sues OF greenbacks, end while not Fl
9 the present owners of farms in O
benefit spectators and make it enc
Tor the millions of landless and any
ISIS men to get piece of land on to ,
10 make living, be S,
8oies is evidently a sincere man Sc,
advocating free silver with the be Ii
az 1t will help men, like himself, befol
N Big tracts of land. But as the Tn
SUITS ,. OF that policy would be the be lie
lnon Of debts, the reduction of free
'nd the enrichment of the men mont
ecuiate in land but do not work Fo
YES ne is not safe guide for year
citlzens.-Whidden Graham. has b