The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-10-01
Sound rioney in Montana.

People in the East must not suppose
that there are no honest money men in
the supposed heart of the silver section,
says the Ellsworth American. 4 few
weeks ago we mentioned the fact that our
old silver friend, DR.. A. $. Condor of
Utah, was fighting molly for Mckinley,
and now a friend in Montana sends us
copies of the Billings Daily Gazette, whose
editor is making a strong fight for honest
money, and who prints a letter from a
mine owner to Congressman Hartman of
that State. This mine owner, a Mr.. knip-
penberg, writes to the Gazette as follows
81 have lived in Montana sixteen years
My every interest is in silver mining. Dur
ing these sixteen years I have furnished the
world 10000, O00 ounces of silver. [ have
paid labor IN Beaverhead county, IS ,0O0 900
Notwithstanding ali this, am upalterah.y
opposed to the independent, free and M
limited coinage Of silver at il to /, simply
because my Judgment tells me that it is con-
trdrS to history, experience and common
sense. ! am a Republican,"
This from a capitalist. Now in the Ga
zette of the following day is printed d let
ter from a railway conductor in Mexico
the free silverites' land of promise. Here
is the letter:
RAsCoN, MEXICO, Aug. %.
"My Dear Sir: l have received your letter
of the 18th inst. to-day, and as | have a few
moments to spare hasten to answer.
In the first place this money question is
too deep for me, and [ cannot for an instant
imagine what the outcome will be if the
United States comes out for the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver. No country has
ever prospered under it, but possibly Ameri-
ca is powerful enough to stand alone upon
this question and experience no bad results,
but | doubt it.
hay bpa I'd nd oh I ha
clubs, have always been Democrat, but,
my boy, if l was in the United States in No
vember Mckinley would get my vote.
"Mexico, with its free silver, is lesson
enough for me, and I sincerely hope that
will never live to see the American working
laborer in Mexico.
II sent to Joe Widmyer editor and pro-
prietor of the Gendive independently last
week table of wages of this country, and
it alone should convince any thinking man
that free silver is bad for them. 1t will re-
duce your wages as sure as the sun shines.
"My run is between Rascon and Tampico,
200 kilometers or 125 miles, the same dis
lance as from Glendive to Forsyth, Mont.
For the round trip [ receive $40, and if 1
make ten trips | receive 500. Ii | am then
called TO the States or any other country on
earth, except South America, | exchange
my money and get $S53.
"While freight conductor running from
Glendive to Forsyth, same number of trips,
gets S73 50, and they consider in Mexico that
freight conductors on this division are paid
too much-best paid men on the system.
Passenger conductors get S160 month, or
$50 in your country; engineers IS day,
amounting to So in the States.
IA porterhouse steak, baked potatoes and
wheat bread will cost you So Canadian
club whiskey costs 40 cents a drink.
81 have pair of 81 American tan-colored
shoes that I paid ST. 80 for Stetson, Dun
lap, Knox, or, in fact, any make Of hats are
$40.
$50, Gus, take my advice and vote for Nc
kinley, and you owe it to yourself to do all
in your power to influence your friends to
do likewise.
81 know their cry, We must have change,
and if we do vote for Bryan it can't be worse
than it is now, but they don't know what
they are talking about. The man who works
for a living and casts his vote for free silver,
thinking to better his condition, will live to
bitterly repent it. Yours in p. F.,
j. r. CONDIT."