Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

ism as a hog does about Latin, and
whose knowledge of the financial ques-
tion Is limited to the returns of his
hash 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 never see anything but silver
money, or its paper representative.
Here are a few statements summed
mp from articles in recent editions of
the mes-Herald:
1. The present silver dollar is only
worth SO cents.
2. One cent Is the one hundredth part
of dollar
3. If 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
one 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 ac-
aepted in England because the English
9now that they can pay it back to
Americans for American products i'm
ported into England,
3. 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 importatons
from England are running American in
dustrles. We do not want English
made goods.
IL. American laborers are getting
$3.50 day.
IL. There are sixteen men to every
one job given out all over the country.
IL. Mexico is enjoying an era of I'M
precedented prosperity (thls slipped in
dispatch from the City of Mexico in
referance to the recent election.)
ID. Wages in the United States are
sustained by trade unions.
Is. If silver is remonetized the pay
OF labor will be the last to rise to meet
the new condition of high prices.
editor Kohlsaat knows in his heart.
that labor will lie The first to reap the
benefits osAigh prices. Organized lab
or is the foundation of society. Until
it makes a move all other things re-
main in allegiance. 1t is only unor-
ganized labor Ia small QUOTA that will
be effected by sudden rise of prices,
and then only slightly.
16. Laborer is densely ignorant.
II. Labor is too intelligent and too
honest to accept two dollars for one
dollars worth of work. Labor is for
sound money.
Is. Printers are earning from SO to
So day. They do not want the pur-
chasing power OF their wages cut in
two, as would be the case under free
silver coinage. Answer:
Yes, printers are getting from SO to
So a day--thanks to the International
Typographical Union. the strongest
labor organization in the world The
union raises and lowers its scale of
wages TO suit new conditions. Double
the circulation OF the currency and
there would soon be rise in the print
ers' wage scale. II the resumption of
free silver coinage could in any way
harm the International Typographical
Union or any other union, the Times
Herald would be preaching free silver
just as theoretically as 1t is now ad-
vocating gold monometallism.
10. All the semiciyllizcd countries in
the world are on a silver basis.
20. Semiciyilized Turkey should be
wiped off the map. (Turkey is gold
standard country)
81. Egypt 10 to-day a ruined country
All its wealth is in the hands of the
few. 1t will never revive. EGYPT is a
gold standard country)
%. Five thousand Christians muir
dered at Crete. (By the soldiers sus-
talned by tho gold standard of the
Barbarous Ottoman Empire).
o. Russia has now been on a silver
basis for one hundred years.
"a. Russia only emerged from bar
barism 100 years ago.
25 1t cannot be denied that the pow
err of England has been on the want
for 100 years. Slowly but surely tn,
star of Empire is travelling toward tn,
west
oe unoiand adonted the gold stand