The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-10-06

credits; people don't have very much
confidence In their ability to pay; and he
can go TO the storekeeper and pay up
last weeks or last months bills with
that silver dollar that his employer gives
him. ut when no has paid those debts
and goes to buy some goods with that
silver dollar. he will find that the mer-
chant has taken ms pencil and
marked up his prices. tAppiause')
when prices fiuctuate, 90 up ana
domn. the merchants take the'r pencils
and go around TO the tickets on
their goods and just change uis price
mark. Then the laboring man WIN nave
To paw more for everything he buys oy as
much as that silver dollar is VIZ"
than the gold dollar. (Applause.l
WAGES GO UP SLOWLf'
Yut. saws the laDorer. perhaps my
wages will 80 up some way "en' 80
il. (ApplauseJ You cant so To the
pay-ro Ia tne snop ana take pe".
and mark up your wages iron t"eh-y
dollars month to forty can you
Qaushter) There IS u nan in the oiiico
mat mas 10 DO consulted about tha'. ING
store-keeper doesn't nave to consult any
bOdy, ten cents worth Of snciis VIII set
HIM right. (Applause) Here are these
J. en- working in our Shops AMI factories
how are they going TO UT wages! An
my countrymen, YOU Know no" nara IL
is to lift wages. CHAT right. You
know about tne strikes md the suffering
that men have u 90 through 10 h-e
wages up. IL IS hard work. Anu inns mas
been written u hundrsI times IN MS
tory: WAGES ARE THE LAST THING
10 GO UP, AND THEY 90 SLOWLY.
CRAWLING ALONG, THE LAST
THING As ITS PRODUCTS GO W.
(Applause) The wOrk.nl man Will be inc
loser until he can. by stress and strain,
push up his labor 10 the same grade
as that TO which the goods IN the
stores have been advanced; and, after he
has done that. after years o. struggle, ne
would not be any better OF than nc
was before. (Applause)
now. my coLltrymen, we can see that
the wOrkineman is not going &c be helped.
VINO else IS going 10 be? The free coin-
age of silver Will introduce confusion
and disaster into every mercantile trans
action M this country. / notice dis
tiuguished English n'metaliist, Mr.. Chas.
Freund. VINO recently came TO New
York, thinks .hat We are going to have
free coinage. Bismarck says that We
ought TO have tree coinage. They both
think that we ought to try it. but
neither England nor Germany is willing
to try it. Mr.. Ere md. when asked what
he thought the first effect of il would be,
said that It would cause a great panic.
We are to 80 through that, according
% this great English bimetallist, and he
tells as that then there Will be smooth
sea outside. But there is going 70 be
D. md In 40
nO assurance. except the predictions of
these political weather prophets that it
will De- smooth outside. lApplause) Ac-
COrdins to them, men who have money
gre TO Doe frightened, they are 20 hoard
1T. men in commerce wanting money 20
uso in their business are to be turned
away from the bank doors ana Doe un-
able to raise the means necessary IN
their transactions. their houses will be
closed while fa.u,e AMI disaster make
their wide swath through our CONNER
cial life. That is the certain prospect,
but we are eoins TO nave smooth water
outside.
Az OBJECT LESSON.
The world has given as a lesson that
you may learn. Some Of you remember
the time. according 10 the story ass we
have il up North. when here in Rich
mond you took your money when you
went 10 market i'm a basket and brought
your purchases home in your vest pocket.
1.4rrhfarl Manu- of ms nm North re-
nan,i.. tho ffn. when th, eraenhaoks
backed h- tho rovyer and ra-nonefiiiftv
of tho United States we're only worth
forty cents on the dollar. Statisueiaus.
colo hI00ltd statlsticials. have studied
t,.t ,.,iol b, GETTING the WAGES of la
nor from SCOOPS of factories. and the
prices of the necessar.es of ME- from
..,r.s nf mercantile fou.os and they
naro of,,n ms the sfor,. of how orickly
n.r, and nour and smear went 40. ana
n.,, SLOWLY, v.l.,.s trai.o.i On behind. lAn-
r.la.,e.,
So nv Committeeman we are invited TO
alopt n course which even los edvocates
oonrale means rr,sanf disaster. mon the
smooth assurances OF mon who never had
to do with any great financial tnnsar-
ti8ns I'm their lives. that il Viii Doe all
rf.hf after "a while.
You are listening to or reading. every
dar the most inpassioned and Incorporate
snpeals AGAINST banks and every form
of Organized capital. am here to say
char bave always believed that the in
f.r.sfs If tho ,vortfrrnan should be- the
,.~.,,,. o,r. ~ ,ifs .,.,er,t,eof onnlausol
and mat I'm ~ corntrv ike ours content-
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oia...s fs .s..nffal IN national nrosrerit,. .
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ana irve.t o. mart nj his earnings and
tl.s 5.,. . tt.fs. in r7ain+airin, tha
re.ce and GOOD order ~ the community