Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-09-11

pete with it in the home market Issn etc: for
There rssx + nssR sampeb tber gr teats Where the
Knights gd Hea Of labor labor extinsashed their camp
fires twelve years ag0 ln thGse of fSTelsa
mark mari y%ouEshouId % be abolished. Those laws
as the limp importation of labor. is hardly
known. Had these patriots who erect 10
talk in the name Of labor been slnear
where they faunt the word importation"
Taking up the money question proper Mi;
said that thers is not enough
circulation, and that the mints should be
started to coin silver in unlimited guam
titles for the good of labor. but just how
is TO be benefited has not been MADE
clear to us yet, and l believe IT Wild 90
mills and factories to the unemployed than
to open our mints to the unrestricted coin.
age of silver at the ratio Of ls to l. lnat
there is not enough money in circuiation
may be true but II so it is because labor
has not been employed; it is because we
have been importing rather than exporting.
The Question of "Per Capita"
when it is asserted that our per capita
is not sufficient, it must not be forgotten
that labor itself is in no small share re-
sponsible for this state of affairs, II. IN
deed. 1t be true, important If true. From
last year sent $4,000 in gold. or its equiva-
lent, to foreign lands. and scarcely dol
lar of it went to England. They sent this
the poor of Europe. Every dollar sent re-
earrS Currency w Eut E what WHAT of it? So much per
capita is meaningless term for it gives
no man a dollar. and adds nothing to the
wealth of man or commonwealth. Per
capita circulation Is circulation which
Inac MT cir t1afa and lZv
fingers on dollar of that per capita ex-
cept in one of two ways-honest or dis
honestly labor of some kind or by theft
of some kind. The per capita circulation
is greater now than 1t ever was before in
the United States. but so long as it lies
idle through lack of confidence. SO long
as 1t is reduced each time steamer lands
its cargo Of immigrants on these shores.
the idle workmen can have no share of it.
looks to, and not the idle dollars which do
not circulate"
Government by Injunction"
Passing to the Chicago strike, Mr.. Pow
derly said the lawless element of the city
and not the strikers, rioted. and added:
other power than the will of the Ameri-
can people; but IL We will have govern
ment by trucking, time-serving officials,
invite government by injunction 1t was
gratuitous act on the part of the Chicago
convention to indorse the inactivity of the
VI VI lineage anu tNe SONtTuOT VI
nois; but, having done so. its members
should be reminded that honest labor in
no way feels complimented by such doubt
full recognition. Government by injunction
would never be known in the United States
had government by incompetency not pre-
ceded it,
Continuing, Mr.. Powderly compared ex-
listing prices with prices he said existed in
the days of Democratic simplify" and
doubted if one would exchange his pres
ent surroundings for the old. He then en-
tered a LENGTHY analVSfc of free cOin-
age of silver. declaring 1t would drive gold
from the country and enhance the value of
Closing he Wat ABOUT with
the nation on a silver basis instead of
gold basis? One silver dollar then will buy
half what it will now, and the man work.
two days in order to purchase as much for
two silver dollars as he now obtains for one
dollar of gold or Of silver. or of paper
| based on gold.
The Poor Mans Dollar.
1.-The proposition that the silver dollar
| Is the poor mans dollar Is pure gush. The
dollar of the poor man is the dollar which
he earns. whether it be gold or silver.
in the Me market: mar @ the the gold dollar is as IS much
his dollar as the dollar of the millionaire,
and instead Of joining in the shout for
| age. he should inscribe on his banner:
| The best is none too good for me.
Mr.. Powderly said that his attention had
| been called to an article in the Journal OF
the knights of Labor headed Then and
! Now in which 1t was attempted to show
that he Powderly) had said; p the
Republican party in 1883. while he now
| upholds the Republican party for doing
the very things he condemned 1t for then.
A letter was published in connection with
the article which 1t was claimed Powderiy
| had written in 1885, denouncing the Repub-
lican party.
Mr.. .Powderly said that anyone who would
publish personal letter was not worth
I frp Ha had M a yyYi
| ing such a letter. and he had not even read
ii. He would denounce any party. how
ever. that was opposed to sound money
and adopted platform directly opposed to
| the interests of the wage earners.
! Hon. Warner Miller was next introduced
and was greeted with great applause that
| to attentively.
| Wage Workers for Mckinley.
Before adjourning. the following resolu-
tion was adopted:
THE wage workers of New York, in mass
meeting assembled. under the auspices of
the Mckinley League, utterly repudiate
the teachings of the platform adopted by
| the Democratic-Po -Populistic national conven-
tior at Chicago. We hold its doctrines to
| be dishonest, unpatriotic, and injurious to
the best interests of the nation and the
workingmen of the United States. The ma
| tional honor and the nations prosperity
are involved, and depend upon the election
of the Republican candidates. and We there
fore call upon wage workers everywhere
to support Mckinley and Hobart"
SILVERITES IN FULL CONTROL,
| Gold Men Howled Down at the Penn
sylvania Democratic Convention
-Fusion With the Pops.
Harrisburg, Pa, Sept. 10.-The Demo-
cratic state convention reconyened to-day