The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-09-04
THE LINE OF BATTLE.
SIGNIFICANT THINGS FROM THE
CHICAGO TIMEs-HERALD.
Twenty Eight Statements from That
Paper All Of Which Are Contradictory
Little Truths Which Strike Home
Center Shots.

just as much ABOUT legitimate Journal
ism as a hog does about Latin, and
whose knowledge of the financial ques-
ton is limited to the returns of his
nash counter, is seeking to save hon.
est labor from the fifty cent dollar
calamity. Some of the arguments
made in the Times-Herald are very
amusing, especially to laboring men
who V see anything but silver
money, or it's paper representative.
Here are a few statements summed
up from articles in recent editions of
the Times-Herald:
l. The present silver dollar is only
worth SO cents.
2. One cent is the one hundredth part
of a dollar.
$. II silver is remonetized gold will
purchase only one-half of what it does
now. Are you going to rob the money
owners?
4. The present silver dollar is worth
II hundred cents.
5. The Mexican silver dollar is worth
81 cents.
6. 1t takes two Mexican dollars to
purchase as much farm or other prod
ucts as can be bought for one Ameri-
can silver dollar.
Z. The farmers and producers Of
Mexico get nothing for their products.
Are you going to MeXicaniZe. Ameri-
can labor by voting for Bryan and
Sewall?
s. American paper money is now &C
copied IN England because the English
know that they can pay it back to
Americans for American products i'm
ported into England.
8. England accepts only one kind of
American money and that is gold. We
must maintain the system that will be
receivable in England in payment for
importations from that country.
10. The Wilson bill importations
from England are running American in
dustries. We do not want English
made goods.
II. American laborers are getting
$3.50 a day.
II. There are sixteen men to every
one job given out all over the country.
Is. Mexico is enjoying an era of IN
precedented prosperity this slipped in
a dispatch from the City of Mexico, in
referance to the recent election.)
Il. Wages in the United States arc
sustained by trade unions.
Is. If silver is remonetized the pay
OF labor will be the last to rise to NEE!
the new condition of high prices
editor Kohlsaat knows in his hear
that In hOr will ho tho S,ct ~ ~,
benefits of high prices. Organized lab.
or is the foundation of society. Unit
it makes a move all other things re.
main in allegiance. It is only unor
ganized labor "a small quota) that viii
be effected by a sudden rise of prices
and then only slightly.
16. Laborer is densely ignorant.
II. Labor is too intelligent and TOT
honest to accept two dollars for on,
dollars worth of work. Labor is fo]
sound money.
IL. Printers are earning from SO tt
IS a day. They do not want the pur
chasing power of their wages cut il
two, as would be the case under fire,
silver coinage. Answer:
Yes, printers are getting from SO t,
IS a day-thanks to the Internationa
Typographical Union, the stronges
labor organization in the world. The
union raises and lowers it's scale O
wages to suit new conditions. Double
the circulation of the currency an(
there would soon be a rise in the print
ers' wage scale. If the resumption O.
free silver coinage could in any way
harm the International Typographical
Union or any other union, the Times
Herald would be preaching free silve:
just as theoretically as it is now ad
vocating gold monometallism.
10. All the semicivilized countries il
the world are On a silver basis.
20. Semicivilized Turkey should b,
wiped off the map. (Turkey is a golt
standard country.)
21. Egypt is to-day a ruined country
All it's wealth is in the hands of tn
few. 1t will never revive. egypt is
gold standard country
%. Five thousand Christians muir
dered at Crete. (By the soldiers sus
tanned by the gold standard of tn
Barbarous Ottoman Empire).
%. Russia has now been on a silve
basis for one hundred years.
"a. Russia only emerged from bar
barism 100 years ago.
Is. It cannot be denied that the pow
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