The Meeker herald., 1896-08-22

whose knowledge OF the financial Ques-
ton 10 limited to the returns Of his
hash counter, is seeking to cave hon
est labor from the nifty 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 few statements summed
up from articles in recent editions Of
the Times Herald:
l. The present silver dollar is only
worth SO cents.
e. One cent is the one hundredth part
of a dollar.
3. II 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
"a cents.
8. 1t takes two Mexican dollars to
purchase as much farm or other prod
ucte 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?
.. American paper money Is now &C.
cepted in England because the English
know that they can pay 1t back to
Americans for American products i'm
ported into England.
3. England accepts only ono 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 importations
from England are running American in
dustries. We do not want English
made goods.
II. American laborers are getting
$3.50 q day.
IL. There are sixteen men to every
one job given out all over the country.
13. Mexico is enjoying an era of un-
precedented prosperity (this slipped in
dispatch from the City Of Mexico, in
referance to the recent election.)
IA. Wages in the United States are
sustained by trade unions.
1b. II silver 10 remonetized the nay
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 be the first to reap the
benefits Of high prices. Organized lab
or is. the foundation of society. Until
1t makes move all other things re-
main in allegiance. It 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.
IL. Printers are earning from $8 to
IS 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 50 to
IS a day-thanks to the International
Typographical Union, the strongest
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 tho 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 Tines
Herald would be preaching free silver
just as energetically as It is now ad-
vocating gold monometallism.
10. All the semicivilized countries in
the world are on silver basis.
20. Semicivilized Turkey should be
wiped of the map. Turkey is a gold
standard country)
Il. Egypt is to-day 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 mur-
dered at Crete. By the soldiers sus-
tained by the gold standard of the
Barbarous Ottoman Empire).
%. Russia has now been on q silver
basis for one hundred years.
"a. Russia only emerged from bar
barism 100 years ago.
25. 1t cannot be denied that the pow
er Of England has been ON the wane
for 100 years. Slowly but surely the
star of Empire Is travelling toward the
west.
rs. England adopted the gold stand
ard 100 years ago.
q. Under free coinage policy holders
in life insurance companies would be
paid OF in fifty cent dollars.
2S. President Greene Of the Life
Insurance Co., is against free coinage,
because 1t would compel him to pay
his policies In fifty cent dollars This
IL daisy. Does any ono suppose that
President Greene would be for = gold
standard II he thought that free silver
would reduce his debts by one-half?
REMARK-The wage-earners and