The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-09-29
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truth l do not know, but II is true that
the Mexican dollar is worth it's bullion
value, which is about fifty-flve cents,
and when we go to free silver our ST.
yer dollar will be worth its bullion val
ue, which is about fifty cents.
When the boy orator parted COM
pany from this truth about the value of
the Mexican dollar, which gives away
his whole case, he entered again on that
more delightful field of glowing and
varied transformation in which he is
most at home, and alleged that If we
opened our minis to silver the price of
silver would rise to $l.29 an ounce.
THE boy orator says that the troub-
lie with the gold dollar is that 1t has
been constantly getting fatter. In the
process it has certainly not affected
wages adversely for the wage rate has
risen steadily since 1878. Therefore,
under the gold standard, labor is get
ting more dollars than ever before and
of higher purchasing power. 1t is
difficult to see why labor should wish
to make the money which it saves and
earns thinner than it now is.
1T must also be remembered that
when the currency Is deprecated the
bad money or the e'isap money dnds its
way most surrey into the hands of the
workingmen, and it is on them that the
loss falls. When the great paper in
fation of France collapsed at the end
OF the last century the worthless as
signats were in the hands of the peo-
pie, and especially of the workingmen.
The spectators escaped with fortunes.
The ruin and loss fell on the working
men, the business men and the manu-
facturers of France
The fact Is that the economic argu-
nent against free silver or any form of
cheap money Is irresistible in the case
OF the Wage-earner, and for that rea-
son the advocates of free silver have
abandoned reason and argument and
substituted therefor appeals to passion
and to prejudice.
The man who attempts to create
elassfeelingin this country is an enemv
OF public veal. He is the worst foe OF
American institutions and American
prosperity. We are all masses here,
and we are all equal in the eyes Of the
law To drop argument and seek to set
one American against another is to en-
ter on the road which, in France, ended
in the horrors of the commune
Nofalser appeal was ever made than
that which urges the employed to vote
one way because the employer votes the
other The prosperity of the country
rests on the prosperity of the wage
Garner. If the wage Garner is not pros
porous, the business man and the en-
ployer are not prosperous. The ruin
Of the employer means the ruin of the
employed. 1t would be as reasonable to
say that you would not pay taxes for q
fire department to protect the great
factories in New York Manufacturing
plants buildings and workshops belong
to the employers of labor.
Suppose on the theory that the In
terests Of the employer and the en-
ployed are hostile, you gave UP your fire
department and burned down every
manufacturing establishment in New
York.
1.-THE employer would be ruined, but
how much would labor benefit? The
employer would lose his dividend, but
the Workingman with the factory gone
would lose his dinner.
To support a policy in regard to the
currency on the ground that 1t will ruin
the capitalist, is as bad as to put tie
torch to every mandatory on the
ground that the employer wanted to
preserve it and thereforeSit must be to
the interest Of the workingmen to de-
stroy it,
I'VE have a number of important
questions open in our foreign relations.
They have been pushed aside in public
discussion by more Immediate issues,
but they are permanent questions, and
they must be dealt with We shall be
called on In short time to determine
what we shall do in regard to the Nj
caragua canal, we must settle the con-
troversy of the Hawaiian islands, we
must stop Canadian encroachment on
our Alaskan boundary, we must see to
1t that the Monroe doctrine is guarded
and vindicated everywhere. The Gu
ban question Is eliminating, and the
day Is not far distant when we must
take decisive action to put an end to
that hideous and desolating war.
"These are delicate, difficult and i'm
portant questions, requiring the high
est and the wisest craftsmanship I'm
agine trusting them for a solution TO
the crew who wrote that platform and
held that convention at Chicago.
s'And this Is not all. That same plat
form struck at the very foundations of
American government and the bull
warks Of American liberty. They as
saulted the supreme court, they propos-
ed to tear down that great tribunal
which for 100 years has been he adj
miration OF the world, and pack it and
the other courts of the United States
so as to carry out the fleeing whim
of party passion.
Reverence for the courts and ac-
ceptance Of their decisions have been
among the glories of our history and
the chief safeguard of the republic.
1t is but q few days since the leading
spirit of that convention declared that
they would take those 'raseally judges
by the throat and learn them that there
should be liberty in the land The
meaning is plain even if the grammar
is defective, and that is what this new
party proposes to do to the courts of
the United States.
fsBut they do not stop there. They
propose to take from the president the
power to enforce the laws.
'fThat was the power which Washing
ton used when the government was