The evening times., 1896-10-14
TRANSPARENT SILVER TALK.
WOrkingmen beginning to Compre
hend Fallacie., of Brynnite Ora tors

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Editor Times: Now that the campaign
is daily growing shorter, and Mr.. Bryan
rearpiatform career is dra wing to close
after all the powers of rhetoric have been
| spent in misleading and confusing the pct-
pie; after all the space and argument that
mas been devoted To the discussion, and tht
| mass OF contradictory statementsthat have
| oeen spread broadcast, perhaps IL will oc-
! cur To the average person that there Is a
great deal of Misrepresentation and fraud
| in the bald assertions that are made by
/ the advocates of free Coinage.
| Starting out with Coins financial school
meth DDS, Mr.. Bryan and his followers have
Kept up the cry that the price OF wheat
! and all other commodities is regulated by
/ the price OF silver; that because silver has
| declined, everything else has fallen with IL.
| The educational fund of the silver mine
owners has been devoted to spreading this
| doctrine among the farmers of the South
| and West during the last five or six yea rs,
| and through the manipulation of n few
| labor reformers, they also succeeded in hav
| Ing their scheme indorsed by the labor or
| ganiZations when 80 per cent of the mem
bers were entirely ignorant Of the true
meaning of free coinage at ] q to /. II was
represented as stab at the money po wers
OF the country, and that was sufficient
reason with the average labor agitator.
Inc rc>ui"tion went uIIrouSn Tie Jouvt.n-
iiun with "a hurrah and the thousands Of
members We're thereby pie dyed to the
cause OF silver. They Were not alIo wed to
think and act for themselves in the matter;
their leaders did that for them. The en-
tire membership was compromised a ,il with
t.Ie usu.tl results. To-Day there al, thou
sands ot these same union men who have
thrown off the yoke of the lea ders and are
doing thnHin.. They ha We adtimc
to compare notes and size up the men and
has Ia..,-.
sentch by both sides, and they are begin
Ding to realize that there is a profuse sup
ply or siander and hypocrisy in the free,
silver camp They have anal wed Mr. Bry-
ans claim that silver Will rise to 81 20
and that prices and wages will also rise by
the same operation.
Tney have had time to consider the state
ment that Mr.. Bland made at Loure,, Nd.
that free coinage would give US a so
cent dollar, that prices would double and
that all the workingmen would have to do
would ne to demand double pay for their
services and they would getit."
They have had time To sift the claim that
the demonetiZation OF silver has increased
the purchasing power Of our present dol
lars and lesSencd the price Of food clothing.
furniture, etc, and they have finally come
10 the conclusion that Mr. Bryan and his
followers are trying to work the bnnco
game on the farmers ard workinrIncn of
the country.
Tney know that il silver should rise to
81 % the dollars coined under such a law
Would be just the same as our present dol.
lars; they would not purchase any more
food or clothing; they would not increase
the price of wheat or other articles; they
would not increase the wages OF working
men, ana they would be Just as hard to
get. Harder, in fact, If Mr.. Bryan could
also pat his free trade ideas in working or
DER. 1tpy know q iS,, ha NJ
B'and'S plan prices Of products would be
doubied, the workingmen Of the country
might demand double pay from now TO
eternity, but they would never get il
with 5000 200 idle workingmen and sew
eral million others who are on LaIr tiua
now thes know that all this talk about in
creaslng wages is rank nonsense
Mr.. Eland's scheme is n good thing IN try
and blind the farmers with. but with the
millions Of wOrkingnIeu who consume -four.
ilfihs or the farmers products, IL will NOT
find many supporters. Mr.. Bland, how
ever. Is entitled to credit for his honesty in
stating the case just as it really is. He
did not try to deceive the people by telling
them that silver would rise to ST. 20, for he
knows better. and he simply admits the
truth of what all sound money men claim,
that is. that free coinage at 1G to l Will
give us cheap 50-cent dollar But he
shows great lack of the Bryan brand of
political credulity when he thinks that The
workingmen will take any stock in the
assertion tnat they can obtain double nav
by just merely demanding it OF their EN-
ployers
They know further that Mr. Bryan and his
horde of agitaUors are either knaves or fools
when they roam about the country telling
he people that the price OF commodities is
by the price of silver. That's
he basis of all their appeals to the far
ners in order to catch their votes. and many
Of them have been led to believe it. The !
avs of demand and supply. working in their
order, and not tanpered with by
legislation or combinations. have been cast
lsidc in order that the slvery spray NAV
lazzle and blind the people. Several years
If hard and expensive work among the
armers has naturally resulted in making |
'oine converts tn the free silver theory.
But since the Chicago convention thu sound |
money advocates have had their inning; |
he fallacies of the silvertes have been eX- |
posed. and thousands of farmers who were |
Gaming toward free coinage have forsakcn |
md denounced it, and they are now ON the |