, 1896-10-22
TIE SIDING LETTER.
FOR FOUR YEARS WE HAVE
BEEN WAITING FOR
M'KINLEY.

Kinley Back There-Sprague Will
Not Vote to Cut Down His Own
Salary.
Tie Siding. Oct. 20. 1S0e.-(Special
Correspondence.)-F over three long
years we have been waiting and look
ing forward to the Sd day Of November,
1896. as the day that we could correct
the mistake we made in 80. Now the
day is almost here and are we prepared
to correct it, or shall we make a greater
one. and add a debased currency to free
trade. We, as wage earners should look
at the past and present carefully. We
have no way of judging the future but
by the past. On the one hand we have
the assurance that our home industries
and our own people will be protected
against foreign manufacturers and
cheap labor and hat our money will
be kept as good as any money on earth,
while IN the other hand the certainty
that our home manufactures and labor
will be forced to compete with every
nation on earth no matter how poorly
they are paid, and do that on a debased
currency. I ask my brother wage
earners which will we have? 1t is with
US to decide.
Mr.. Bryan tells Is that we are a ma
ton which within ourselves we can
legislate IS cents worth of the worlds
product of silver into a 100-cent dollar.
I want to ask my brother working
men II they ever stopped to think that
for every one Of us 70,000, 900 in the
United States there were about 1876 out
side in other nations? Can one Ameri,
can force 1876 foreigners to change their
monetary system to please Mr.. Bryan
and the silver mine owners Of this and
other countries?
Mr.. Bryan is q very able man. but II
he should 60 into your town and try
to force 1856 Of your people to accept
53-cent dollars for 100 cents you would
take him to Evanston and place him
in the asylum. And yet 1t would be as
easy for Mr.. Bryan to accomplish that
as 1t would be for the United States to
throw Its mints open to the world and
try to force So cents worth OF silver
stamped a dollar OF to the nations OF
the earth as a 100-cent dollar. We
would soon ind out that our dollars
were worth no more than the silver
bullion was worth that our dollars con-
tanned. We all know that our gold
would leave the wage earner and that
our currency would d~epreciate to the
value OF our silver. Now who would
be benefited? No one. Who would be
hurt? Every one. But NJ poor labor
ing men and women would feel it the
most, when we found the purchasing
power Of our h~ard-earned dollars had
been cut In two. We should look at
our own interest and work and vote
to protect ourselves, our wives and our
children.
We know that every word and act Of
Mr.. Bryan while in congress was
against protection to our home indus
tries and our own working men and
women. and In favor Of foreign manu-
facturers and foreign labor.
Ihave just received a long letter from
our old friend and neighbor, Hon. A. L.
Sutherland, who is 20 foreman of the
N. B. Granite works, Windsor, VT. He
says every eastern state IL for McKin-
ley and hopes to see Wyoming register
Its name with Mckinley. protection and
sound money, and only wishes he was
here to give a helping hand. He mys
there is plenty of money in the country.
but no confidence. He says w should
remember that when We buy in the
open markets Of the world the wages
of the working man must come down
to that OF other countries before the
manufacturers In this country can
start up. Free trade 10 q curse to tahis
country and free silver would only dou,
BILE the curse on the working men Of
this country. He appeals to his old
friends in Wyoming to stand by Nc
Kfnley.
Now they tell Us there 10 not money
enough fn circulation, which ts very
true. How are We going to get It in cir
culation? We know We have more
money in this country per capita than
any other nation on earth. France ex-
cepted. So II 10 not the lack Of money.
but q lack Of a chance to earn It. Give
Us a protective tariff and open up our
work shops and all American Industries
and It will put . million Of our Mle
men and women to work md throw q
million dollars into ctrculat3oa sach
day. Work Will never cons TO our pso-
pie by 10 to 1 silver and . dsnased cur
rency. We know Mckinley win sfvs
N protectioo to our American work
shops. to sheep md eatEls, Cur coal aAA
hon, our tinhse and svsrytAing that
viii help all s,asss d our pspplA. He
VIII kesp NJ noosy q Opod - IL
money Of any stAsr. HAk3oa. - 4aAa
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