The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-09-10

| send Der of TO school this fall. if we
ever intend 10 do anything more for
her than give her common sca nol
education. This cir ular says tha
II h.ve to pay double prices for
what ! bay that it will amount to the
same as cutting my salary liz half.
Now, 1t would DC simply impossible
for me 10 live on $3.50 per month.
Therefore. even admitting that free
silver would be the best thing for the
country generally, is not my first
duty TO my wife and family? there
fore, should not vote against free
silver, situated as | ann
Senator: You have stated the case
probably as strongly from the gold
standpoint as it is possible for any
one to make it, but your fears Be TO
| free silver are all groundless. The
fact is thai you have As much and
probably more to fear from the gold
| standard than tho farmer, even
though you are drawing salary. Did
1T ever occur TO you that If the gold
| standard Is permanently fixed upon
this country that your salary ls sure
70 be reduced, and not only roIuccd
once, bat continuously and success
sIvely, until there is no telling upon
how little you may be forced to live
per month; and, besides, did it ever
occur to you thar you are liable to
IlosG your position?
| Conductor: ! don't understand
that. Why should lose my posi-
ton as long as do my duty to the
company Or have my salary reduced, :,
either?
| Senator: Do you know any nan
to day who Is out of a JOB who is As
competent to serve as conductor on
this road as yourself?
| Conductor: Yes, | know several.
Senator; Several7 If you will thlG k
} for moment you will think OF mere
than several. The fact is that, if
you take the country over, for every
man who has job that pays a.
much as yours, there are at least ten
5 men, equally rs competent to fill If,
( who are either out OF a Job or try
+ ing to make n living IN some other
way, who would be ready and anX-
D ious to take your jOb and every
3 other Job like II, and even to take il
at q lower figure than you are get
: ting, if necessary. There are political
D reasons why the railroads do not
Just now force down your salarloS or
: dismiss you and take some other IL ~
{ who will work for less; but let me
ask you: is it human nature for any
} man o. corporation to pay more to
, | tON In .,n
can get other men, equally as com
petent, TO perform the same serv-
5 ices? Let the gold standard once be
, permanently fastened on this couu-
try. when the corporations and the
5 gold men feel safe, and as sure as
: fate every man who is now III their
employment will have to accept a
7 big cut in his wages or be dismissed
5 to give place TO some other man
= equally as competent, who will do
| the work for less.
| Let me ask you: what would you
, do to- day if you were dismissed as
! conductor? which way would you
D turn to make living?
s Conductor: Cod only knows.
t would try to find some other job, but
r my family would suffer if | were tt
: lose one months wages.
!. Senator: You would try 10 find an
S other job? But would you not fine
g at least ten men as competent a!
y you are applying for the same job
S Then how could your chances bt
J. any better than one in ten TO get the
o job? If every other man was a.
D competent to fill the place as you
s and you had no special pull, ther
: the only way that you could get /
@ would be by doing the work for les
II than the others. But why is it II a
g you think Of nothing but getting ;
job9 Why would you not go int
Q some Other business enterprise where
d you could be with your family more
n and Fave more time that was you
J. own?
st Conductor: | know Of no busines
e that / could go into in which | coul
y make p living. ! would perish I
L IL death at farming. though was rails
III ed on u farm. The mercantile bus
p" mess is run III the ground, and me
Y with more capital and eXperlenc
VI than | have got are failing each day
III hear all the drummers complain U
IN dull trade, and | see d great man
ao others who have been dismissed b
y their firms on account of falling G
at in sales.
~ Senator: Then you admit frankl
~ that the condition OF the country
"a very bad, and even alarming. No
W are you safe even as q man DRAWN
- salary when you are liable to hav
=, this salary reduced, in fact, certaJ
-. TO have it reduced If the number ,
~ =, unemployed men increase, and whe1
-. , if you lost your job you would be
or sea, and would soon face want.
o you prefer this situation OF thing
,N' or would yOu prefer to see all
'G these unemployed men who a
y, standing around waiting for yo'
w. -" Job engaged in profitable bu:
@ nesses-some of them farming al
~ making money, some of them me
~ chandizing and making money, son
,ar of them going into manufacture
on enterprises and making money, sor
or, OF them going on ts new rallrOa
~ that would be built, until there W
~ % demand for more labor than the
ne- were men to supply the deman
.o,, This is what would happen with a ST
"' ticent supply OF money. Then yo
=. instead of being in danger of losil
40. your job, would have another ra
.ae ,ae road bidding for your services a
nn no offering you q greater salary. The
oI would be no danger OF you losi
se ssr your job. The only question wor
= ou be, which job would you take? A
Il the chances are that you would I
my serve as conductor on any railros
p: pe for the opportunity of going il
Ills some other business more congen
81, to your taste and more agreeable