Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-04-25
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replace the gold driven out But, II
we coined no more than that there
would be nothing 70 drive the gold out.
Forty millions n year would not keep
pace with our increase Of population.
and why such a coinage should drive
the gold MI out Of tho country. he falls
10 explain.
We coined nearly ;ao,OOO.o 900 year
under the Bland law (whan We were
much smaller than We are now) and
Instead Of driving all the gold out OF
the country, We actually Increased our
stock some 500, 01e0 600. But Mr.. Car
Isle would have ug believe II we Open
ed our minis freely to silver, however
small tho coinage might be, the gold
would get up on Its dignity, refuse 10
associate with the silver, aud walk out
Of the country IN high dudgeon
The argument Is simply puerlle. That
the capacity Of the mlnts could be
speedily enlarged and that the greater
demand Tor silver would enhance It's
value are points that he atudiously
Keeps IN the background.
That gold ~ practically not In circu-
latlpn now Is another circumstance to
which he makes no huston And yot
every wage-worker whom he addressed
knows II to be so.
1ie assumes the silver dollar TO be n
dishonest dollar when. In fact, even
II free coinage should place US on the
silver standard aud the dollar should
be worth no more than the Mexican
dollar IS now. II would still be ma good
an the gold dollar was Ia 1873. Docs
he think that in the year named, when
tue gold dollar WAS only worth half AS
much as It IL now,it was n ''5O-cent doll
lnrg'
He refers to the fluctuations In prices
during the war. when the grcenbnck,
or. rather. the gold, rose or fell with
every victory on defeat, as II II was u
parallel case, when he knows better.
He givea figures showing that during
the period referred to, prices OF conf
modltcs rose more rapidly than wages
but no man knows better than he that
whatever the daily or monthly fiuctua-
lions may have been, the period from
1860 10 1873 was the most prosperous
the American worl1ingman ever knew
Mr.. Carlisle stated In his Memphis
speech that wages rose hS per cent dur
Ing that time.and only S per cent since
OF course his figures relate merely to
few organized industries, but they are
as fair Tor one period as the other, aud
they show eight times us much rise
between 1850 and 1919 as between tho
latter year and 1890. Not only this.
but the workingmon were all employed
They did not work one day at 4 high
nominal rate and then lose two or
three or perhaps be idle for a month
at time. We had no Coxey armies
10 BIO kept on the erase, and tho ooun-
try was not infested with myriads OF
hungry ttnmps.
His treatment OF the question OF Jap
anoso competition Is q cunning special
plea. Intended 10 delude the working
men. He assumes that the restoration
Of silver would bring US AT once 10 a
silver basis, that tho workingmen would
be paid In ao-cent dollars and get no
more OF thcm-which Is impossible. IL
dollars become cheaper, prices must
rise, ana he 70 declares, But he In
sits That whiyea viii be lower. Every
thing VIII 60 Up hut wages according
10 MIR Carlisle, And yet. from 1860 10
1879, while general prices rose about II
per cent. wages went up. by hts own
showing, % per cent.
He ought 10 know, and does knew,
that II general prices rise II win lead
10 Increased production; that this in
turn viii Increase tho demand for la
Dor set the idle at work, and that "A
rise OF wages Is rs certain Ms any
thing In political economy cnn DO.
Mr.. Carlisle Is deliberately attempts
ing 20 dcceive thu worklngmen iato the
belief that Il Ia TO their interest 10 en-
hance tho value OF the dollars which
they have not. and which under his
system they cannot get-that Ia. not
many Of thcm.