Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-08-04

- hstHs foreign trade we must pay the
CON winch foreigners demand
IL is not matter of american cour.
TX then, but of whether we shall con
''i We 70 nuy anything at all abroad
W snaii nave 10 pay foreigners in gold
wv ~ our SILVER viii circulate only at horne
ihat peing the case, do you pretend 10
10y 'nat with unlimited free silver coin,
h1',. L,ohsrcss could by any possibility
he.p siiver al par with gold? You know
1oi,r than 70 point to the present silver
noiiars being at par with gold In snita -
their being less valuable for uye ~ ID, vi
me reason Is that as yet nobody but po,..
bbfihIiiineht has the right to have silver
| ogiiioh coined, and the limited number
OF silver dollars are regarded ne Iii,
u'ran,eed 3y the governments gold. like
we Know and you know that If all tho
owners OF silver bullion can cnrrv an ~,
| !, ~ my mint to be coined for their own
nd ,tl 1iot VIII be instantly changed
| erned by the market lust as the ,tnc,Inn,,
bullion silver now is. 90 WV "H'oined
~ gu Know thai Congress cannot govern
| .ilf ndttct- ~ may say to the end ~
| time that ~ coin 81 q silver grains sh,ii
~ CONSIDERED equal to Z322 gold graine
che ]G TO J ratioJ. But il ca6not E., IL
stamp make 81 - silver grains M, 80, ~
Than haif Of what 23.22 gold grains vyi,i
buy II the market says that ri n efI',nr
grains. -''-- boid
In other words. prices viii be high no
! ctuse lhey Will be generally paid In gII-
| come along and he can have things ~
! half-pricc 's7 at
. So !, /, t. now II Mexico. pay there
| lars worth Of goods. ana / receiv. bsck
nearly q dollar in Mexican change. That
! IS "hat ne market does, and no Congress
can annul it, 90
Eeing perfectly aware of an this. Mr.
'iyai; why 90 you lead people to be-
ll"Fe ihat congress can maintain the par
liy OF silver at a 10 to ratio?
?. Next. why do you teach that tbis
Tree SILVER imitation viii give us better
You do not need to be reminded that
high prices alone will not make better
times for the people. We will have M
letter times untii those who have money
are willing TO invest it in productive bust.
ness instead Of letting it lie idle for fear
Of disaster Better times do not come
untn capitalists have confidence that
there VIII b. q lasting demand for the
VIII free silver give them that conf
Look, Higher prices paid by the con-
suiIer mean higher prices paid by the
capt.. iisI IN productions so he gains moth
ing. On the other hand, all who live on
stated incomes, ana not on wages:-that
is all who live on the interest of their
money. AL widows ana their families who
live on the income of life Insurance all
pensioners, to say nothing of all who
live on yearly salaries which admittedly
cannot rise 10 keep pace with prices;-
this vast lump Of the people cannot pay
high prices and 50 will 20 without
Free silver and high prices therefore
mean that not so many people will buy
You. Mr.. Bryan. avert your eye from
this fact But capitalists have their eye
fixed on il. They will not invest. They
will not produce what the people cannot
buy.
You know perfectly. as a student of
history. that the high prices of initiation
make. in the end, harder times for every
body alike If you Were an ignorant man
conscious only of the present hardness
and ready to listen TO any plausible
theory. would understand you But.
as an educated man. who knows that
wages never rise equally with prices
.annot avoid feeling that you are telling
enorant people what you know is
,. DO you gravely believe what you say
IF the farmers?
You said at Chicago: The great cities
est upon these broad prairies Burn
md your cities will spring up again az
~ magic. But destroy our farms, and
grass will grow in every city.
Those words are as misleading as they
IRE clever. You made people think that the
armer is all-mportant while the manu-
acturer is made by the farmer We
NOW that you know better Your words
would have been true when this countrya.
was young. But today the farmer de-
let, and he depends upon city manufac-
ures for all his tools and comforts.
A century ago his farm was sufficient
or all the needs of his work and his
amiiy: then he raised all his stock. made
most of his implements. produced the ma
eral for all the clothing and made ii up
L nome.
In this day he is one cog in the vast in
ustrial machine. He suffers or thrives
With the manufacturer and the banker
SO. how Will selling double help him
when he pays double?
Grant that he may the first year sell
lis crops at an advance, and that he may
hereby lift his mortgage by paying it in
liver. Tell us how he will go on the
ext year? He will then be at the mercy
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Besides. you know. as he does not know
II will not believe, that farming is now
n overdone business-that it is the
ompetition with the agriculture of India.
Africa and Australia that has broken the
armers back. There is money enough
o buy all he has to sell if it were.
Then why do you mislead him by hold
ng up free silver as the lasting cure-all
Candidly. you seem to us like a man
setting fire TO the very prairies
on talk so tenderly about.
t. Lastly. Mr. Bryan. tell MS If YOU care
othing for the wage-earners? Your high
rices will hurt more than help them.
on remember our Civil War when prices
vent up ZIG per cent. and wages only 4S
er cent. You know wages never rise so
asst or so high inflated prices.
Does your crown of thorns on the brow
f labor apply only to the men who own
arms. and not to the millions upon mil
ons of wage-earners, men and women.
those life even now is the bitterest
truggle?
DO you care nothing for the widows
nd orphans who exc out n living from
he life insurance left them? Double the
rice of living, and they have half as
luch to live upon.
DO you care nothing for the aged army
customers who live now entirely
pom the governments dole to them?
DO You care nothing for the hundreds
thousands of men on small salaries
'ho have built little homes which high
riceS and consequent inability to pay
IL mortgage interest will sweep awaye
81 alt.
@ crucfied on Il cross of gold YOU of
purse do not include all these sufferers
your rhetoric.
In other words Mr.. Bryan you strike.
s. who can see through you and your
ratorcal tricks. as a heartiess and
licked deceiver of the people
Hamilton X. Bell in Illustrated
merican.
Sure to Win.