Abilene weekly reflector., 1896-10-15
ADENt WEEKLY REFLECTOR ABILENE KANSAS OCTOBER h pAcrs
the working man money. and nothing

{ crowding around the silver man. tie
us that"
"The business Of this country won
run til they get money enough to rul
/" It, declared the silver man. And
!" the business don't run, you can't ge
9 to work"
How DO you know there amt none.
. enough to run business asked thu
. man who wanted to know.
why, amt 1t plain?" cried the sill
verite, excitedy.
No, 1t amt plain" said some one in
the crowd. ITS a damn lie. Money
a don't wear out, and there was lots Of II
r fye years ago. There seems to be lots
r OF money for everybody but the work.
!, ingman. Money cant be got because
! We can't get work.
well, II you think there Is money
| enough In this country, that settles 1t, =
said the silver man.
Then you cant tell me how this free
coinage Is going to benefit me?' said
the man who wanted to know
II 1t isn't the shortage of money, |
don't know what the matter is" de-
cIared the sllverite. But will you tell
me how gold is going to help me?'
! Who said gold would help you? Has
anybody said this country was going to
stop coining silver? This talk about
the financial system is all rot This
country, right now, has the best sys-
TEN In existence"
Then why haven't we all got work"
asked the silver man, with d wise
smile
WELL | asked you how your silver
party was going to help me, and you
failed to tell me. Now let me tell you
now the carrying out of the platform
OF the Republican party-and Bill Nc
Klnley will carry 1t out to the letter.
will help us.
First Of all, he knows too much to
NEEDLE with a currency system which
Is the result Of long experience, and
under which this country has grown
to be the greatest the sun ever shone
on. The effort will be to improve It,
If possible, but until the conditions are
improved, SO that the people Of this
country have work. 1t will not be
tampered with. 1t is better for all
classes than Englands or any other
country's az 1t Is.
THE rate Of wages which the fac
tories and mills Of this country pay,
were the wages which those industries
could afford to pay under protective
tariff. The Wilson bill has made II
impossible 10 pay those wages, and as
a result industries must either shut
down or decrease the wages to the lev
ell of those paid In England or wher-
ever the imports come from. The un-
ions will not allow the industries to
cut down wages, and, when they at
tempt 1t, a strike is the result. For
the last few years a strike has meant
q lockout or the shutting down of the
factory. The men who are running the
industries Of this country know that
a cut In wages means a strike, so in
stead Of cutting the wages they shut
down. They don't have to run the fac
tories, they can live without them, be-
cause they have money. They don't
want strike, for fear 1t may mean
damage to property, SO they shut up
shop, throw the men out Of employ
ment and go travelling II they want to.
We can't make them open up. They
will do 1t, when they see their way to
make money and pay the wages de-
manded by the unions. There Is Just
)ne way to make them open, and that
$ by giving them chance to make
'ome money. They can make 1t under
protective tariff and pay the wages
and just as soon as that
ariff Is again In force, they will open !
hlngs up. ]
THAT IS WHAT'S THE MATTER
WITH THE COUNTRY.
Our unions made their scales of I
wages under protective tariff, and IL L
We don't have that tariff we can't get :
he wages. | know, and so do you II
hat II you would work low enough, SO /.
he men that own the mills and fac !
ories could make money, they would !.
ave kept running or would start any ?.
ay. But we want the union wages, :.
nd under the Wilson bill they can't L,
lake money and pay them. u
THAT IS WHY WE HAVEN'T u
OF WORK. d
THE way to get work at the old q
ages Is to get protective tariff, and =
lie words Mckinley and protection y
lean the same thing. Then we will
ct work and wages, not until If this -, III
overnment would coin all the silver :
rought to the mints free. 1t would - =.
AXE no more difference about me and u :,
" job and my wages than the food =, =,
ven to the prisoners CT Siberia. This u
lver talk Is a humbug. Protection Is ,e =
hat we want. ID
And then, turning to the crowd p
)out him, the man who wanted to =.
low, said. Am | right, boys?" His VI "
,swer was three cheers for McKin- e. e.
y and protection. The silver man ~ ~
I'd fled, ~ =,
This incident is one Of many which ~ ~
i've occurred on the sti eets of Chi ~
go, lately, when the curhstone meet a. a.
gs broke up by the rout of the Wild ~. ~
ed sllverte and an app, oval of the Wv
apublican ticket by three old-fash-
ned cheers for Mckinley and the good
4 days =,
Mr.. Hobart deals clearly with the ~
riff situation. He calls spade a N
ade, and therefore holds the mstak-
economic policy Of the Democratin Rl