The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-10

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or, some day to own the house you live in
--or for the rainy day that may come.
That is, you are able to. But you
haven't done IL.
Why didn't you:
Oh, the mill is sn ut down--has been
shut down-cr only running half time
or the wages have been cut. And all
your skill aud experience is lying idle!
Well, well, that's hard luck and it's
odd, too. There surely ought to be a
market.f for skill and experience IL there
is market for anything on earth. Skill
and experience We know for fact, do
not grow on every bush. One W ould sup
pose the world would be eager to got the
benefit Of them and pay good price for
the use OF them. Queer they should DO
lying about loose this way like discard
ed banana skins or flung to one side like
the tomato can in the ash barrel.
Something must be the matter. OF
course something is the matter. You
may have your opinion of what 1t is and
we may have our opinion OF what 1t is
and maybe our opinions may agree and
maybe they may not agree.
But 1t strikes as that we may all agree
to one thing.
And that is this;
II the United States government
buys all the silver on earth or such OF 1t
as may be offered.
And II the government mint In Phila-
delphia and the government mint In San
Francisco and the government mint in
New Orleans and any other government
mints there may De or any that may be
built, all set to work on pigs OF silver
a-eutting out and stamping and milling
and polishing silver dollars;
That is not OF itself going to give you
work for your hand and brain now TAX.
ing an enforced vacation ot loss to
yourself and TO the world which ought
to be reaping the advantage OF your skill
and experience.
That is not going to make your boss
start his mill or, II he is now running
it and giving you employment, raise
your wages.
Not much. No one could make you
believe thar it would-pot IL you took
little time to stop and consider.
The mints might coin silver dollars or
any other kind OF dollars; they might coin
silver and gold at q ratio OF l6 to !, or
brown paper pulp and gold at a ratio of
le, COO, ,0oO, 900 to 4; and they might run
night and day and keep it up until the
crack Of doom. You wouldn't profit one
cent by it--uniess, may hap, you got
job in one Of the mints.
You know You wouldn't. What alb
surdityl
You know just as well as you want to
and you don't need the assistance OF
any campaign orator to teach you IL
either--that what will prompt the boss
to start the mill, run 1t iull time, run 1t
overtime maybe, demand the full limit OF
vnur all an and endurance nav po,, a pra
MUM for 1t, beg you to work for him
and name your own price is-coNFIDENcE
confidence that when his goods are
produced they are going to sell at pro-
ftable fgure-contidenc that every dollar
for which they are exchanged viii be
100-cent dollar, no matter whether it is
gold, silver or paper dollar--or only
piece of cheap white paper scrs Sled with
an endorsement that cam be turned into
cash for sixty days, but that may be dis
counted at banks right of.
What Will create such fine. all power
ful thing as confdence3
Well, just now we haven't the time to
discuss that because we are busily en-
gagged In combating crazy proposition
that Is trying to delude you and us with
the idea that instead OF confidence we
are going to be furnished a miracle
worker.
And the miracle workers proposition
is that the government buy all the silver
on earth and set the mints manufactur-
ing silver dollars.
Just the idea, in fact, that you and we
have just agreed upon is all rot
THE DOCTORS AND COMPULs sOR
VACCINE TION.
Bless the doctors