Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1896-08-02
a QUERY

Before the Republican National
convention was held. the San Fran.
cisco Bulletin. like the Chronicle Of
that city, was an out and ont silver
paper. 1t neve tired in the CT use
but after Mckinley was nominated
the influence OF Mark Hanna's barrel,
or some other equally potent cause,
worked Il marvellous change i'll the
Bulletin Office and il now worships at
the shrine Of the gold standard. With
all the zeal OF a new convert, it nsked
the following question in u recent
issue:
Surprising it be granted That
makeing so cents worth OF silver into
a dollar would raise tho price OF the
farmers wheat, corn, hay beef, pork
mutton, barley, eggs, butter and
potatoes, thereby helping him. how
would it help the workingman-the
man whose daily wage pays for his
daily bread-to increase the cost OF
those articles winch go to make up
his living.?"
The Bulletin intended this question
as u parallyzer to the advocates Of the
white metal and chuckled in it's glee
over the CONSERVATION it would pro-
duce in their ranks. But James
O'Brien, a workingman, knocked it
silly with the following pointed
answer:
You want to know, Mr.. Editor,
what beuetit it will be to the laborer
il wheat, sugar, fruit. clothes, etc, go
up in price, through the increased
demand for these articles by foreign
countries, whose low priced oliver
will be sent here rs ballast in cx
chnnge for the produce OF this state.
1t is II real blessing, in the first
place, to know, Mr.. Editor, that you
are really convinced that free silver
will so increase the demand for the
produce OF this state rs to raise the
price Of all kinds of produce to the
foreigner and SO put some more
money in the pockets OF the farmer,
vinc-yardist, fruit grower, manufac-
turer, merchant, etc; but alns! for the
poor lnborer. He alono is to be left
out in the cold. Mr.. Editor, did yon
ever know. in all your experience. OF
IA similar case where tho demand for |
the produce Of Il country WINS SO great
and the profit was so large to the em-
ployer OF labor, that the laborer did
not get HE fair share of the spolls?
Mickey and did smile at your
sweet innocence when we read your
article on the terrible burdens the la
borer would have to bear il the price
OF things went up. You surely for
get that Just now there are two hun
cry laborers waiting with tears in
their eyes to get u chance Mt one job,
but with the increased demand there
will be two jobs waiting for one la
borer, and you bet your life that the
laborer then will want to drink his
pint Of Wicland's Extra Pale and
smoke his good white labor cigar be-
fore he makes up his mind which job
he tackles. Now. Mr.. Editor, Just
for n moment imagine the foreigner
offering the farmer 81 a bushel for
wheat he cannot deliver unless he
first gets the lnborer's assistance, and
two farmers are anxiously soliciting
each laborer, instead OF each farmer
being solicited by two laborors. And
il you knew what stuff n free laborer
is made OF, and how well no can take
in the true eituation of affairs, how
indifferent he is to rush at n Job when
there is no one else in sight to take
tho job, and how close he can get 10
all the traffic will bear when no
knOwa no IS boss.