The morning times., 1896-08-09

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sharks and silver sharks. I've been waitin'
since 1865 for something out OF the regular
to vote for, and 1 think I've struck 1t.
One year says to myself III vote for
Blaine. and I gets Harrison. Next time
i votes for Harrison and gets CleveIt nd.
shark.
Then Il lot OF US gets together and We
sizes IL up thai IL we are to have sharks every
time, We ought to get our own kind . shark.
I'm talking TO you now candid and on the
square. There's nigh on to a million Of US
out West here that is dead certain 20 vote
for this silver ticket, and the ticket is all
we're going 10 get out OF it. 4
what might you be, stranger? A
brlcklay yer? Well, thatn DO to preach this
sermon Oh. Irsagood business when ,ou've
got anything to do. But now put il 10 you
this way. Suppose our man is elected.
What's going to happen? Every one Of US
that can dig silver is sure OF a job at the
same old price, because wages ism. going
10 rise until they start to make silver into
money, and when it is made into money
whatll they want men to work for and
pay high wages.
ROCK PILE PHILOSOPHY.
"When there's i lot o money turned ouu
wages'il go down with US because they'n
say there is enough and TO spare of money
in the country. See that? Ii il don't mean
that for us silver diggeIS, what do il mean?
And you're u brickayer. Very good. Now
you know THAI u people who waLi brick-
layers or carpenters, is people who already
has money, and If they want you 10 work
you'll git Job whether We are digging
81 ,000 day or S1C0 ,OG0 day. What
we dig isn't going TO make more people
with more money. See that? Where 10
you suppose the money We dig is going?"
DO you see them bar1sc Well, ii YOU
turn the spigots and let them run from
now until November, they've got to be
filled up again before we talk about fres
drInks, haven't they? And 1t don't taks
a parson 10 prove to you, Mr.. Bricklayer, b
that what VIC dig goes first to the mint, and
then where? Right into those barrels. I've
had 'em t.ibeled SO you can see who they
belong TO. Now, that's all there is in is
for you Just well as it is for me. IL
every one OF them barrels was 1o,OO0.0O0
and they was all full they would belong
TO the same people on our Wall street in
our West. You know how you get one OF
these silver dollars today, don't you? Well,
you can have the whole mine if YOU tell
me how you're going to get it in any
other way supposin' Us to be diggin' EN-
up by tie shovelful for the next ten years.
And mind you, il don't make any diff.
ference as to your sixteen to one or such
other things out Of the books / wants an
ounce OF gold the other day and goes ever
to Goldville. 1 didn't argue with Hen
Glider about the price OF it. I'm sixteen
to one man. and / want and ounce Of
gold, said / to Ben. It's thirty TO one
over the counter says he. Very good
says l. and he weighs me off lis ounce.
and be weighs my thirty ounces of silver
and the bargain was struck. Now that's
business. and 1 don't care what you find
10 your books.
JUST HOW 1T WORKS.
"Ben,' says l. times'n change before
long. We're going to make a law thai
when bring you this thirty ounces or thirty
two ounces. all made up into new silver
dollars you'll be compelled to give n methirty
dollars worth of your gold dust for it"
when is that going to happen, silas2"
says he.
Next year. says II
I'm not going to be in the tredina
business next year. says Silas and with
that he emptied my stuff into his powder
keg, and we talked about somethiu, else.
mo stranger, there isn't anything much
in this silver business except Cor tho
men who own them. IT'S Just like yon when
you work on house. There isn't any.
thing init except your days wa yes, is there?
Well, look at it in the common sense way.
Suppose 1000 900 of us vote the silvef
ticket, we are only working to put up q
bigger and greater house for the men whd
are building 1t, aint we? and everything
in it will belong to the gold bugs-I mean
the silver bugs. I'm square man and
when talks politics takes them 20 mean
common sense.
DO you see that mint? Well, it's doing
a pretty fair business, isn't. il? All the
same, that is not free money coming OUT
of that free silver mill Nobody gets grist
out OF the mill that doesn't put corn in tha
hopper.
There's another theory. i suppose YOU
notice the procession of tcapots and sugar
dishes and forks and spoons walking into
the mint and coming out dollars? Now
this reminds me 10 mention again That this
is not n "Poor Mans Campaign" Least
wise, there isn't man in tie country ,ex.
cept 1T be Squire watson, who has q silver
dish on the premises. Low is il IN you1
county,"