Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-23

ton ~, aalf pound less wool. than he did
These rre official figures. from the sta
tlsl zeal abstract of the United States.
There u more gold not less. than there
was IN 1873. There is more money in cir
cuidtioH. not less, than there was in 1873
The fan in price of grain and cotton is
dae 10 no appreciation of gold; il is due
in demand-two causes the law of whose
operation Is as certain as the operation
OF the law Of gravitation.
They tell you. finally, that mill divi-
dends arc enormous and that farming on
a large scale is highly prosperous in
countries that enjoy the benefits of The
single silver standard
The prosperity of a country is not meas
ured by the dividends of its capitalists,
but by the condition of its people.
The grain shipper of India does make
money but the men who raise the grain
he sells are clad in a breech-clout and tur-
ban, and feed on oil and rice in good
seasons. and die Of famine in bad.
The cotton mills OF JapHn do return
to their owners dividends of % and even
. per cent. per annum but the wages of
the cotton operatives are less than 81
cents day, their homes are destitute of
comforts
The great coffee planters of Mexico are
prosperous. but it takes an ordinary Mex
lean laborer seven weeks TO earn a barrel
% white wheat flour. 1t takes him a
whole day TO earn enough of the coarsest
unbleached cotton cloth to cover the needs
of decency.
The silver advocates speak more wisely
than they know when they tell you that
silver is the poor mans money. Ii is. in
decd the poor man money. for in the
countries where silver. not gold, is the ba-
sis of value. it is not poverty that dogs
tn" heel of the Wage-earner-it is StarVa-
ton.
Halvine the standard of value by
changing from gold to Il silver basis
might double the price of all commodities
waIIl1 double q way n la
Ne tried that during the war. We had
neither gold nor silver. We only had
paper promises to pay. Measured by these
paper promises the price of goods went up
enormously. Measured by these same pa
per promises the wages of labor went up
50 little that week : wages in 1865 ac-
tually purchased less than in 1860.
The silver monometallism which these
inexperienced tinanciers propose to intiict
upon the United States in defiance OF the
wisdom and experience of every great
nation of the earth would accomplish not
only the destruction of American credit.
but the degradation of the American
home.
The Republican party gives its pledge
that home snail be debased neither by the
free competition of Chinese nor Hindoo
labor. in the debased currency of China or
india. Five times in the last five years
has the Democratic party sought to fasten
this policy upon the country. That we
these tiena gogGcs would bring MS is due
not only to the patriotism of a Democrat
ic president; it is due also to the patriot
the ability of a Republican speaker.
The declarations at Chicago of what
Henry George and Johann Most hail as
the foundation Of new, new party DO not stop
our army and navy and paralyze our gov
erEment by forbdding the issue of bonds
when it is necessary. through the inaction
of Congress. that the country be tided
over a deficit
They would destroy the civil service
laws. ana return to the condition of cor
ruption and spoils that prevailed before
They would break down what indus
tries the Wilson bill has left by carrying
out to finish the destructive principle
of q pure revenue tariff.
They would leave. the law-abiding .citi-
zen at the mercy of his lawless neighbor
by destroying the legal process by which
the dishonest neghbor is prevented from
boundary marks and destroy
ing property he does not own.
They would enforce upon the United
States the policy of non-resistance when
local authorities break down and peaceful
are threatened with the
torch and the dynamite bomb.
They would break down the palladium
of order and liberty, the supreme court of
the United States, and give this country
a government not of laws, but of mobs.
The speeches in which this policy was
We're barren of facts or figures.
They were appeals to envy, to prejudice.
to class and sectional hate. 1t was elo-
quence. if you will-yes. the eloquence
that sent a bowling mob to the doors of
parliament and drenched the city of Lon
don in the blood of the Gordon riots.
1t was the same kind of eloquence that.
hundred years ago, howled down the wor
ship of Almighty God in France. and
set an abandoned woman in his temple.
1t was the eloQuence, that. when our own
nation was fighting for its life. set the
torch to asylums in New York city and
hanged helpless children to the lamp
posts.
Not without reason does every
anarchist in the United States express
his pleasure. 1t was by no accident that
the nominee of that convention carried
rhetoric to the verge of blasphemy. 1t
was by no mere coincidence that his chief
supporter in Massachusetts offered to vote
down the Christian religion if need be.
The foe of law and order has nothing in
common with the prince of peace. who
told his followers: Render therefore
unto Caesar the things which are Gaze
sar's." The man who betrayed the faith
of the Massachusetts convention that
trusted him may fittingly sheer at the
religion that teaches "All things whatso-
ever We would that men should do to you.
do We even SO to Them
Though we fight not with bullets, but