The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-10-31

crease the price of all commodities. II
it should increase the price of the
things which the workingman has to
buy and does not correspondingly in
crease his wages, viii he not be most
seriously affected by the change?
a. Is it true that between 1860 and
1866, when the currency was inflated
with paper, the price of all commodi-
ties rose 116 per cent, while wages only
rose 43 per cent?
60 If wages only increased about
one-third as much as the price of
things for which wages had to be ex-
changed between 1860 and 1865, when
hundredsaof thousandsSof laborers We're
in the field as soldiers. do you believe
wages would increase so much under
conditions that would follow Mr.. Bry-
ans election?
(6) The railroads of the country de-
rive their incomes exclusively from
freight >and passenger tariffs that are
practically fixed by laws enforced by
state and interstate. commissions. 1T
free coinage increases the price of all
the commodities necessary to the ope-
ration of railroads, and their income is
kept uOW IL ny Jaw, SeilA tAiC ieei o. $3.50
of men employed in the service hope for
an increase of wages? AS a matter OF
fact, would not a cut in wages be
about the only way in which the rail
roads could meet the increased cost OF
operation?
(7) The street railway systems of the
city are operated under municipal ordl-
nances which fix their income at cents
per passenger carried. If Mr.. Bryan is
right in saying free coinage will in
crease prices of all commodities used
by street railways, can you advise the
conductors. motormen and other street
railway employees Of this city to vote
for free coinage with the hope of i'm
proving their condition?
60 As ! understand it., your party
has for years made war on protective
tariff because it increased the cost of
the necessaries of life. If Mr.. Bryan is
right, will not free coinage in this re-
spect be just as bad? Will it not also
create a gigantic trust and make a
market by law for the property of the
silver-mine owner at double its value?
(9.) Is 1T true that on the Santa F'e
railroad, operated partly in the United
States and partly in Mexico, the labor
er on the American side receives an
American silver dollar, while just
across the imaginary line, on the Mex
| lean side, the paymaster with the
American silver dollar buys two Mexi-
can silver dollars with which he pays
for two days work?
(1O.) Why is it that .37714 grains of sill
yer with the stamp of gold standard
America on it will buy 754 grains Of sill
yer with the stamp of silver-standard
Mexico on it?
| CID If you say it is because the sill
| yer dollar in America is maintained at
par with gold by the government, when
| the credit of the government is re-
! moved by free coinage and silver
stands on its merits, will not the Amer
| lean silver dollar sink to the value of
| the Mexican dolle II, and will not the
| American workingman who receives it
be put upon the low level of the Mexi-
| can laborer?
! (12.) Mr. Bryan says that gold has
/ appreciated, that under the gold stand
ard the gold dollar has grown in value
from 100 to 200 cents. Wages in this
| country are paid In gold or the equiva-
I lent The rate of wages has, risen since
| 1873 If the American workingman re-
| ceives as many dollars for a days work
now as he did prior to 1873 and these
dollars have grown ipsvalue from 100
/ to 200 cents, do you not think he would
| be unwise to swap it for a dollar that
Mr.. Bryan frankly tells him would be
worth only half as much?
Q3.) Will the workingman, under free
coinage, have to work as hard and as
many hours for a dollar as he does
now?
Upon your answers to the foregoing
] questions depends the vote of myself
and a large number of workingmen Of
| this community who have made up
their minds that the interest of them
selves and their families is superior to
any question of allegiance to party.