The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-11

| be started to coin silver in unlimited
! quantities for the good of labor. But
I just how the man who has no silver to
! be coined is to be benefited has not
/ been made clear to US yet and believe
/ it viii do the country more good to
/ open our mines, mills and factories to
/ the unemployed than to open our minis
| to the unrestricted coinage of silver at
| the ratio of 16 to l.
That there Is not enough money in
| circulation may be true, but If so, IL IS
because labor has not been employed;
II IS because we have been importing
rather than exporting. When 1t is as
serted that our per capita circulation IS
not sufficient it must not be forgotten
that labor itself is in no small share re-
sponSfble for the state of AFFAIRS II IN
deed 1t be true. From the city OF Scran-
ton alone the 1aboring men last year
sent $4,000 in gold or its equivalent 10
foreign lands and scarcely a dollar OF II
went to England. They sent this mon
ey to their friends in the homes of the
poor of Europe. Every dollar sent re-
duces the per capita circulation of our
currency But what if it? So much
per capita is a meaningless term for 1t
gives no man a dollar and adds moth
ing to the wealth of man or common
wealth. Per capita circulation is a cir
culatiOn which does not circulate and
no man can lay fingers on a dollar OF
per capita circulation except in one or
two ways, honest or dishonest by labor
of some kind or by theft or some KIND
Passing to the Chicago strike Mr.
Powderly said the lawless element of
the city and not the strikers rioted and
added:
It do not approve Of government by
any other power than the will Of the
majority If we are to have govern
ment by a trucking time-serVing set
who fear to do their sworn duty, then
we invite government by injunction 1t
was a gratuitOuS act on the part OF the
Chicago convention to indorse the in
activity of the mayor of Chicago and
-
its members should be reminded that
honest labor in no way feels cOmpli-
mented by such doubtful recognition.
Government by injunction would never
be known in the United States had the
government by incompetency not pre-
ceeded it,
Mr. Powderly then entered into a
lengthy analysis of free coinage of sill
yer declaring it would drive gold from
the country, and enhance the value of
silver at the expense of the people.
THE proposition that the silver dol
lar is the Door mans dollar is pure
gush," he said. THE WOrkin gnan is
entitled to the best in the market; the
gold dollar is as much his dollar as the
dollar Of the millionaire and instead of
joining in the shout for a cheap dollar,
for free and unlimited coinage he
should inscribe on his banner The Best
is None Too Good For Me-"
Before adjourning the following reso-
luton was adopted by the meeting:
THE wage workers Of New York in
mass meeting assembled under the aus
pices of the Mckinley league, utterly
repudiate the teachings Of the plat
form adopted by the Democratic and
POpulist national convention at Chi
cagO. We hold its doctrines to be dis
honest, unpatriotic and injurious to the
best interests of the nation and the
wOrkingmen Of the United States. The
honor and prosperity of the Union are
involved in the election of the Repub-
Ecan candidates and we therefore call
upon wage workers everywhere to sup
port Mckinley and Hobart