Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-12

with one man what fifty men could not
do fifty years ago That is what has
brought dewn prices in this country
and everywhere"
Since the popocrats were foolish
enough, in view of Bismarck's very
pronounced anti-silver official record,
to try to use the letter written by him
| in reply to one from Gov. Culbertson,
of Texas, as campaign argument in
favor of the free coinage of silver, at
tention has been drawn to the writings
of the German advocates of silver, and
wide difference is found in the argu-
ments they advance and thoseput forth
by Bryan and his followers Mr.. Bryan
tells his hearers every time he makes a
speech about the great benefits the
cheaper dollar would bring to the
wage-earner, while the ablest of the
German bimetallists argue that a cheap
ening OF the money would bring about
an immediate raise in the price of
every thing except human labor. Prof.
Wagner says: Wages are the thing
that increase most slowly. All classes
who have fixed incomes, (employes and
workingmen) suffer especially under
the increase in the price of food" and
Herr Schaeffie says; Wages and sal
aries will increase neither at once nor
in general nor in proportion to the de-
probation" Palmer yet was the Ian
guage used in the German Diet by
Count Mirbach, one of the silver lead
ers. He said: I'm an article of the
Munich Nachrichten it is said: All ar
ticles of food and necessities of life will
increase at once in price upon the rise
of silver, while wages will be increased
but slowly?' Well, gentlemen. that is
exactly what we want" Surely that
is not what is wanted by the wage
earners of the United States.
The Ohio republicans who came to
Washington have not heard anything
about that rumored republican scare in
that state, and Washington man has
deposited 49, 500 in a local bank with
instructions to bet it against 81, 900 that
Mckinley carries Ohio. Mr.. Charles NJ
Wilkins, of Warren, Ohio, now visiting
Washington, says: "The state is safe
for the republicans by at least 10000
majority. In my town know of but
one republican who has been converted
to the silver cause, while know dozens
of democrats who will vote for Palmer
or Mckinley. Our country is one OF
the first in agriculture, but there is no
free silver craze among our farmers,
and they will stick to the party they
have supported so long and SO faith
fully. Bryan is absolutely distanced
in Ohio"
When Mr.. Bryan called manufactur-
ers robbers and a committee of glass
makers who appeared before the House
Ways and Means Committee, of which
he was mem mber, to ask that their oc-
cupation should not be destroyed by
the Wilson tariff bill, then being con-
cocted, public beggars," he probably
did not think that he would at this
time be travelling around the country
asking the public beggars" to vote for
him. The following version'of the oc-
currence has been sworn to by them:
when Sellers Mckee IA glass manu-
facturer) started to explain the benefit
tariff was to him Mr.. Bryan said:
oh, you manufacturers are robbers
At this one of the members of the
Workers Committee turned to Mr.
Bryan and said: If the manufacturers
are robbers what are we? You are
public beggars,' replied Mr.. Bryan,
and SO is rybody else that asks for
a protective tariff that will protect
him."