The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-09-13


ties hss BEEN marked and cozS22sso1S t0r
s. third O. a century. zs@esi by \ pro-~ctaFs
ta-.r .z2 tie rsc9 rewar5s mat Cur
prosperity has offered. Whatever aE-f-
esl,arai prod its hare fallen II V-4ce- =
Is 5tseoTs-aEiIe -t1at ehsre Ezs been al n
creased production and that ne Increased
consumption. has not kept pace Ez-A tie
increased v-cd2crtogA- AS great areas o.
lard have beer opened TO the raising @.
farm p-ossscts. TIE quantity o. suca pro
eactlon has increased and, The demand
70. Increasing IN the sane proportion.
prices have IoEiezIlv and inevitably .al.s-l-
l. does lot require q great effort o. ne
mind to comprehend that Il y01 Increase
The quantity cf wheat II a single year
enormously. with about tire same NUN
ber of consumers a. before, the ursces
N'IH go down. With a given number oE
CONSUMERS ana al Increased prodic
SKA mare competitors and no more oo:a-
sgueG. lie cheaper IT viii become
" lsat Increases the price Of any proSt-
u7t Is that mary people want s. and can
oasy get X By paying better prise than
some one else Is willing TO pay. Tns
more people VIII want an article the bet-
ssr price 4 VIII command. The more pee-
rle who wan; you- labor. the better wages
yo1 ~lil receive. (ApplAGsel II there IS
Gre days labor for sixteen working men,
yoI would not get as good wages IS
though there were sixteen days work for
o1e worktaguan- daughter and sp-
paAEse-) And that sort Of IS % we want
IN the United States. tADplause.) Tbs
changes in the prices OF agricultural prod
acts or any ether commodities whioh
have been cElea pened in their production
- improved machinery and more com
DeiItlve fields wfth great production. does
not prove that gold has advanced n
valne. bat simply thai such prodacss have
fallen in prices
Is Il not The labor OF men rather than
the thing that has labor that creates the
real test9 Have the wages paid TO labor
since lss3. as measured by gold, 6ecreased9
That Is the crucial question. We resumed
specie payrn MS on a gold basis JanOary
/ IS's. since that time wages and salaries
have not declined, but rather risen"
Tie nominee then quoted Official statis-
tics 70 prove this assertion. referring also
70 the report Of the special committee OF
tae United states senate, which n Is91
inFestlsa ed the subject Of wages and
prices. He added: This committee re-
ported that in twenty-one OF the selected
industries wages were In money % per
cent. higher than In 1854, and 60 per cent.
higher IN iSso than IN 1850 and The prices
or staple articles Rad fallen between 1850
and lSo in some instances one-third In
other words. there never had been a
time IN our history when work was so
abundant or wages were so high, whether
measured by the currency IN which they
were paid or BY the power 10 supply IA.
aecessaries and comforts OF life. CAP
piaUseD
That Is what you left IN Isao Is there
a workman Ia the United States who
does not want that condition back again,
Continued appIause) Since Iseo wages
nave advanced esi= per cent. according TO
the table OF the senate committee The
wages paid n 1850 were in times when we
had the free and unlimited coinage OF
SILVER. and thirteen years before the sns-
penscn OF the free coinage OF silver In
ASe according TO. the census. the occupa-
tionA OF persons over - years of age
numbered N996.l5l. This great army. OF
which You are part. constituting more
ttan one-iiftn Of our population work
Ter wages and are paid in money measured
by gold that Is. when you have work
You have had no other kind OF money
since iS.s and the working people Of no
other country og the world have had any
better money. They are the toilirg mass
- Who were the most prosperous OF 1922
u any working people in the world. and
more prosperous than they had ever been
before.
The cheapenlng or commodities comes
from tae introduction and application OF
labor saving machinery both on :he farm
AID 81 tae factory. There i scarcely any
branch NJ production which does not turn,
p2f more commodities per hour OF labor
tuaa In i>.& L would be just as r.asou-
abe aH4 susr a. conclusive 10 sav tha- ne
suspension of tae free coinage OF silver IN
i>.s reduced tae price u steel rails from
$l-n per ton "a - or So per Ton. .he r,-toe
no~ pre VaNing- as - say that that act -
d9e@d me prsc@ OF wheat. The price Of
Taeat is hxe3 BY The la~ os supD,y, ami
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