The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1896-07-18

into circulation, permeating every
branch OF trade industry and avenue
Of commerce.
Suppose that in 1897 five hundred
million Of silver dollars be coined from
hnlli"n. the owners of those millions
will put that money into circulation.
1t will build railroads, dig canals.
eject foundries, construct factories.
&C., which will demand the labor of
the thousands Of men who are forced
t" be idle to day. The demand for
labor Will enhance wages. las there is
now nothing more certain than de
mand for labor always increases
wages) trade will be enlarged indus
tries now languishing will awaken
and flourish, whilst the toiler will he
contented and satisfied.
Suppose that the owner Of five hun
dred thousand dollars would come to
the Lafourche Valley and build five
large central sugar factories. No one
doubts that they would be successful
and reap a good pecuniary reward.
Would not that at once revive pros
perlty here, supply work for laborels
Of all classes, foundries, boilermakels,
sawmiIls, &C., and put new life and
animation into the mind of every man.
Those labOrers would be enabled to
purchase the products of the farms
q create a demand for the rice, pc.
tatoes, corn and other n~ecessaries of
lite produced by the sweat 1T the man
who tills the soil. 1t is said by the
gold monometallists that there is an
over production Of farm products, an
assertion that facts will not sustain.
There Ia no more corn, cotton, rice,
potatoes or other farm products grown
to-day than there were fifteen years
ago. in proportion to the population OF
the United States, whsn there was a
ready and fair sale for them. But there
is a simple reason why these farm pro-
ducts find no purchasers, and it is be.
cause the consumers have no money to
purchase them.
How many families sit down daily
to their dinner meals in this little town
who have no rice on their table, sim.
ply because they have no money to
buy it.
Go to the market any morning and
notice the few purchasers who are
there laying IN their daily supply Of
meat, and recall the fact that a few
years ago n had to wait five or ten
minutes for his turn to be attended to.
Notice the men who have families If
half y dozen children bHying Is or 20
cents worth of meat who lsed to pur-
chase three or four times that much.
Have the people become tired of
beef and cannot eat it 7 Not likely.
They have not the means to purchase
it.. Ask your butchers how the daily
sales of their meat compare with those
OF former years when money wal plen-
ty, and they will tell you that they are
from 80 to 50 per tent less. Lab0rers
do not obtain steady employment aud
receive miserabIy poor pay for what
they do, the merchant sells but few
goods, the draymen's carts that used
to be heard rolling all day long stand
idle, the grocer wears out the seat Of
his pants waiting for customers, the
foundries, bOiler-shops and other ill.,
dustries that once had employment all
the year round, now work but a few
months and with reduced forces.
Here is found the reason why the farm
products rot i'll the granaries for want
Of purchasers. Oh, no! it is not over
production of farm products, it Ia over
starvation of the men who would glad
ly, but who cannot, purchase and cou-
sumo these products. -
Two men 60 to the mint, one with
silver bullion worth 500, 900. the 9TH
er with gold bullion of the same value.
They each receive their money when
coined. The man with the silver dol
lars employs his in some purpose for
the improvement and benefit of the
country and her people, the other with
the gold dollars hastens to New York
to hide it away in the cellars of Wall
Street and forms trusts and combina-
tons to squeeze the life's blood out of
the country through taxation TOR in
terest on her bonds, or for the ruin Of
any portion Of the people mon whom
he a lay his hands and strange.
Which is 1t. my readers. the gold or
the silver that you want? Under which
King will you raise your banner, under
silver with prosperity, or under gold
with poverty aud degradation Choose
va hal them INOITIRER