The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-08-19

would give him more employment, more
frequent employment, more work and
n chance to get unemployment nftcr
no was discharged. II TINT means any
thing 1t means that II the laborcr Is
willing to have his wages cut down hC
Will get moro work.
But n dlmnutIon In tho rate Of wages
does not Increase the scope OF employ
mcRt. Tho more abundant tho product
tho higher the wages. There cannot be
an abundant product unless labor IA
extensively employed. Mr.. Bryan
would have you believe that prosperity
Is advanced by chcapcnlng tho rate OF
wages, but the fall in the rate OF wages
comes from n narrow production and
narrow production means there Is little
demand for labor In the market.
When. after the panic Of 1873. the
price or lobor fell TO 30 cents n day. II
was harder to obtain labor than when
the rate OF labor was s.. md the dlr-
ference between tho Popullst who seeks
to cut down the rate OF wages and the
Democrat who seeks 10 protect Il Is
that the Democrat believes that high
wages and prosperity are synonymous,
and the popullst wants to cut Che rate
OF wages IN order that he may tcmpt
the farmer TO make war upon his own
workingmcn.
A. Lnbor's Expense.
Mr. Bryan leads the van In saying TINT
It Is the creditor he Is after. In order
that you should understand Just how
change in the standard OF value enables
men to cheat their creditors you have to
consider the function which money plays
In measuring debts.
II | paid $40 for ten yards OF cloth to be
delivered TO me next week and In the In
tcrim the government should pass Il law
declaring thnt hereafter tho ynrd meas
urc should consist OF eighteen inches and
thatnll existing contracts should be set
tied in that system OF measure would
be cheated out OF half the cloth for which
had paid. II. on the other hand. ow-
ed cloth merchant for ten yards OF
cloth, which he had delivered to me aud
which was pnyable next week. and In the
meantime the government would change
the standard or value and cut down the
unit OF coinage One-half. then would
settle that debt In St and the cloth mer-
chant would have been cheated. Now
the Popullst loves TO say that the credl-
tor Is person who oppre6scs the west
crn farmer. The creditors Of this colir-
try are not the bankers: they are not the
so-callrd capitalists; they nrG the lnbUr-
ers, md 1t Is IT the expense OF labor that
this change Is made. The laborer Is al
ways 4 creditor for at least one days
work. When any man can show me n
labOrer who has been paid In advance
for a days work. l will show him Ia
borer who Is u debtor. The laborcr, by
the very law OF his being q creditor for
at least one days work. is generally Il
creditor for weeks work or two week. $
work. Every great Industrial enterprise
has for Its chief creditors Its own labor
erS The heaviest account In every de-
partment Of Industry, whatever II may
be. Is always the wages account.
The pretense that the farmer OF Ne
braska is suffering under the weight OF
IL mortgage contracted under metal
which has steadily incTedEnd in value is
but n Popullst metaphor. Two-thirds of
the farmers have no mortgage debts
whatever do not believe there Is s per
cent OF them that owe n mortgage over
three years old. during which time there
has been no change in the value OF the
metal. This proposal OF the POpulIst Is
an intent to enlist the farmer In Il con-
splracy 10 reduce wages OF every man
who works In cities, who tolls at the
bench. who digs in the mines, who man
ages the train. In the hope that they can
ride into power on IL wave OF cupidlty
and greed awakened in the breast OF the.
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