The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-08-07
TUFIABORTR MUST PAY.

Henry X. Thurber, Esq. OF New York
city. has written a letter TO Mr.. VIM. i. st
John. the treasurer OF tho Chicago party.
which Mr.. ST. John has given ont TO
the press. In it lie says he Is hearth = In
favor Of the election OF Bryan and Sewall,
and ne says the Chicago movement is
rebellion against an attempt OF those who
oppose it Ito place our labor in the same
condition that the labor Of Europe Is"
This pretence of the free-silyer party
that they have the interests OF those who
work for wages and salaries I'm view when
they attempt 10 make our money silver
money, only the dollar in which is now
worth only fifty-three cents, is one OF the
most impudent pretensions that we have
ever known Of.
No unan believes that free coinage OF
silver Will raise the present silver dollar.
worth now ffty-three cents in gold. 10 the
value Of a gold dollar. and every man
with any pretensions to information knows
<hat when two moneys circulate side By
side one of which is cheaper than the
other, the cheaper one viii drive out The
dearer one Free silver would, therefore,
drive out gold and make our entire money
deprecated silver money.
All men with any pretensions 70 informa-
ton know that when the money OF
country is debased. commodities of all
kinds rise in price but wages and salaries
remain stationary for a long time and
never do rise in any sort Of proportion TO
the rise In the price of commodities.
What the wage-earner has TO buy greatly
Increases in price. and what he Is paid
to buy with loses a great part of its pur-
chasing power so that he is cut at both
ends Of the line.
The Chicago party want therefore, 70
debase the money of the country and do
the wage-earner and salaried man an In
calculable injury. and yet they prate Of a
desire TO help the laboring man. God save
the laboring men from these friends OF
theirs.
The agriculturist would undoubtedly get
an advantage for time from free silver.
for he would sell his wheat corn and cot
ton for gold. buy two silver dollars for one
gold dollar. and pay his laborers at old
rates with one silver dollar, making the
other one clear. His advantage would be
temporary, however. for his great profits
would put everybody to raising wheat,
corn and cotton and there would soon
be such a glut of them that the profits
would disappear. He would have an al
vantage, however. for while. but no
would make all the people in the country
who earn wages or salaries pay for It,
Mexico is a country that has free.coin-
age OF silver. The New York Journal OF
Commerce for August 9Th contains let
ter from our Consul-General, Hon. Thos.
r. Crittenden. at the City OF Mexico, In
which he gives the prices there or what
people have TO buy In everyday nre. lie
pays $50 a barrel for -four. fifty cents
mound for breakfast bacon. and sL5o
bushel for corn meal. OF course. Mexican
farmers like this. But Mexican laborers
are to-day paid just the same rates for
their work as they were paid thirty years
ago. when the silver dollar was az valua-
bic as the gold dollar. while they have TO
pay these prices for what they buy.
The wages for labor in Mexico are very
little better than wages in japan, yet II
IS dreadful upon the laborer that he must
receive those wages in deprecated
money and pay double prices for all he
has TO buy. The consequence is that the
Mexican laborer is one OF the most de-
graded men on the globe. Are our work
ing people going 10 aid In bringing any
such condition OF things Jpn themselves