The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-09-19
Who Will tie the Sufferers in the aTen. of
Free Silver2

We are told III Holy Writ that Judas
Iscariot betrayed Christ for silver and we
know without the telling that candidate
Bryan and his Anarchistic, Popuistic, Com
munistic. Socialstic, Democristic cohorts.
will betray the laboring classes of the Ameri-
can people with the same insignificant metal.
They, the Bryanites want to place the inter
ests of the silver mine owner ahead of the
interests of all other classes of business men,
and to place the interests of the few mining
states ahead of all the rest of the Union. Now
don't the working men know. that none but
the silver mine owner would be benefited by
the free and unlimited coinage of silver. Why
| he, the mine owner, would he the very first
to buncoe his honest laborer by paying him
| hfty-threc cent dollars. Now mind. these mil
ionaire silver mine owners put but So cents
worth OF bullion in dollar and that is the
meaning of 1G to / for about 32 to l, would
make silver dollar worth little over one
hundred cents and the worst of all is that
every one of these Shylock's have their
own stores for furnishing goods for all kinds
| to their already half starved miners and ut
the very first pay day don't you know tina.
there would be a general marking up of all
| goods in these stores. and all other stores for
that matter Now don't you see, that even
before these nim-y fifty three cent dollars
| got "A chance to drive sound money out of
circulation. that game of bunco would be
started against the poor laboring man to con-
tinue to the bitter end. The gold would
| vanish like the dews of morning and what
did not fly across the wide stream would find
its Judgment in the Golfers Of the rich of this
| poverty stricken county made so by free and
unlimited coinage of Judas Iscariat's favorite
money, we find in our arguments with many
of the free slverites. good fellows every one
of them, only they are after false Gods, that
they are opposed to sound money simply he
cause many of the rich oppose free silver,
and every one of them cite Col. VIM. NJ. Sin
gerly staunch Democrat as having gone
over to the boilers, but the fact is that the
Colonel never was identified with any such a
bowling mob of Anarchists. and we are Justly
proud of the stand that the great editor
manufacturer. banker, and all around bus
mess man has taken to protect his own
interest DIS well as the interest of the men
who start and keep his machinery running.
They. the Bryantes. argue that Monopo-
lists and persons who employ large capital in
enterprises such as banks, railroads. manu-
featuring, mining except silver mining) mer
camille establishments, it is easy to under
stand why they oppose the free and unlimited
coinage of silver by this country alone. they
believe that it would result in putting this
country on a silver basis. That this would
mean continuance of the depressed business
conditions which have prevailed since 1888 or
worse, it would ruin the laboring classes of
all kinds and injure the farmer None of the
business enterprises named can flourish unless
the country is prosperous. Banks depend on
loaning money to earn dividends, and they
depend on depositors for the money which
they loan. Hard times mean small deposits,
and as a result scanty profits for the banks.
Railroads cannot make money unless they
have freight to haul and passengers to carry.
In good times they have plenty of both. In
hard times they have little freight and few
passengers. for the people neither have money
to buy nor to travel with. So it is with mer-
little because they have not the money. Manu-
| facturers of all sorts of articles suffer from
the general depression. the demand for their
products falls Off, and they cease to make
money In fact there are no citizens OF this
country who have a greater interest in the
general prosperity of the country and Of the
community or communities in which they
| transact business than those who are often
stigmatized as Monopolists. The great bust
ness enterprises Of this country have lost
enormously during the past three years of
hard times, and they oppose the free and I'M
| limited coinage of silver. because that course
will mean an indefinite continuance of bust
ness depression, with panic to begin with,
and distress and suffering everywhere. No,
no. that himsy argument won't do. 1t won't
bring the proper answer. You might as we'll
take up the argument, that if Colonel Singerly
and all other wealthy enterprsing citizens
are going to join the army marching toward
| Gods kingdom that you will join the opposi-
ton and go into everlasting cusidness. Now
don't you see and know for yourself that the
laborer who is always creditor, would be
obliged to accept the silver dollar at its face
value for his wages, and in the event of free
and unlimited coinage Of silver at the ratio OF
16 to /. That the government would nc
longer be responsible in maintaining the short