The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-09-14

The distinguished Chinese statesman
LII Hung Chang when In New York a few
days ago commented very sharply upon
The absurdi;y Of country like this pay
ing good loo-cent dollars 10 the Irish when
they could get Cinnamon 10 do the same
work for free-coinage country prices.
No doubt this looks very ridiculous TO
man who has been accustomed 10 en-
ploy labor al 10 cents day. bat how does
,he Irishman look al II? Fortunately, II
is not Ii Hung Chang whose vote Is
going 20 determine whether the Irshman
shall be paid for his days labor In the
best money In the world or in the de-
based currency OF free silver countries:
IL is the Irishman himself who Is 70 cas-,
me deciding vote.
We would Ike TO ask any Irishman 10
imagine himself al home Ia the Emerald
Isle. His days are full Of toll, and his
few leisure hours spent in a humble
cabin containing few OF the comforts of
life. He knows the fell value OF every
farthing. We will suppose that All En-
glish nonresident land owner desired to
be returned TO parliament for an Irish
county. He calls upon the Irish laborer.
as shrewd and rich In native wit In his
own land as he Is on the adopted soil
Of the United States, and asks for his
vote, giving reason why he should
be elected the promise OF certain reforms.
Patrick" he says, you have been here
tofore paid for your labor In money
which Is as good In London New York
or Ia Russia as IL Is in the county Of
Kerry. But some OF us landowners Dor
rowed money on mortgages some years
ago. about 1873 and We want a Law passed
enabling Us 10 pay that debt IN cheaper
money, because somebody has been tell
ing Us within the past month or 50 that
since 1878 the price OF gold has gone up"
The Irisnman would naturally ask how
The change was going 20 affect him.
man who works hard for his days pay
would naturally require a very good rea-
son for trying 10 have himself paid in
money that was rot good as the best.
He Is creditor himself
The English Land owner would reply
that the great evil OF The present day was
that peopls could buy too much with rheir
money. the only salvation FOR ireland
Noult be 20 reduce the purchasing power
or 1as shilling" In other words work
iueTnAn wao receives a certain stAted sum
Per day should vote In favor OF AiSher
prices
T'hs irishran would want 70 know how
that would better his condition. whether
fl would raise his wages propor,louRteIy
ana make employment more plentiful He
wollG Dc told thai In The general ..raua-
be Of higher prices he might perhaps
get s 70 Per cent raise with whicA 10 NEE,
the 100 PER eeat. advance IN prices.
Would any sane I-shman vote .or a.
English landlord who asked ais aid In
s1cA one-siIed project Is ther. a
goesoon In al the Isle from Lough Foyls
70 Ban,ry bay so d4fs as 20 vote away
his own security II me best money there
was % - had ia order 70 help TIE Land
lord 70 pay his deots?
And Secs az lrls8man los. his tr..1t.
genes when ~ leaves ne cd ea,s.rv
AID becomes Al American ci,isen7 Bt,.
terry as an lrishman nay resent years O.
British oppression. ana cordially a. ~
may Aaie everything bearing me name ..
British. ae q not fool enough n r.,as.
British money. Nhich Is The besr g, the
@o-lt, although 70 better -nsr n. ,,.s4~.
money o. TIA United States. merely d.