The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-09-24
ANSWERS TO "woRKINGMAN's''
QUESTIONS.

In yesterday issue appeared number
of questions directed to the editor Of the
News- Democrat, for an answer. As each
nd all Of them are important at this
stage OF the campaign, we have taken
space to fully and plainly answer them
without equivocation or evasion. We
invite careful perusal of these questions
and answers. They cover the ground
which is Of direct interest to the man
who earns his bread by the sweat Of his
face.
First-what is meant by cheap
dollsr9 Does it refer to the material of
which IL is made or to the number of
dollars in circulation compared with the
amount and extent Of business doneP
Answer First-A cheap dollar is not
cheap by reason Of the material Of which
IL Is made. Dollars are cheap or dear by
reason OF their abundance or scarcity.
Products and days labor measure the
relative cheapness or oostllness Of dollars.
When 1t requires two days labor or a
large amount Of farm and manufactured
products to buy dollar,it naturally fol-
lows that dollars are scarce and dear.
The material Of which the dollars are
com posed Is not factor In determining
their value as debt-paying medium.
Five hundred pennies whose actual worth
in metal is only 5b cents, will pay IS
debt as readily and effectually as So
gold piece.
Second--will the free coinage Of silver
increase general pricesp II so how will
the man who works for wages be bene-
fitedP
Answer Seoond--Free.c coinage of silver
will increase prices, or stop the fall OF
prices, which, in effect, Is the same thing,
by reason of the increase in the number
of dollars that will be put into circula-
ton. Labor will be benefited because
additional opportunities for employment
will be opened up. Competition. between
wage.earners will be reduced to the
minimum, and the idle labor, which today
is the greatest menace to the wages Of the
workingman, will be fully employed.
Tbird-If this country goes to the free
coinage Of silver how will that silver get
into oiroulaticnP
Answer Third-A law giving to silver
the right of coinage at the United States
mints will bring from the vaults of the
banks and the old stockings Of the people
every boarded dollar, which they will In
vest in property and new enterprises thai
promises profit. The gold and silve.
mining property Of the West will also b'
opened up and create demand for well
paid labor, which will be paid from wha
they create. The wage-earners, by reason
of employment, will put the money int
circulation by paying the debts that the!
have been compelled TO make under tn
present gold standard, and by supplying
1 the necessary needs of themselves an'
families AS property will rise In price
the holders of money will invest 1T Ii
t property instead of boarding 1t for ris
+ as money.
i Fourth-Major Mckinley says that tn
;, only way ot get money Is to work for II
That used to he the old-fashioned wa
but is 1t true todayS
. Answer Fourth-The absorption of tn
bulk of the money of the country is nc
u by labor. Days work secures less tina
10 per cent. of the actual money in oil
j oulation, and under the present idle cor
q ditions Of labor, less than one-half Of /
per cent. finds It's way into the pockets G
= the wage-earner. The men who secur
s the bulk of the money and WELD tn
greatest influence do not earn money b
the sweat of their faces, but get 1t fror
the sweat of other mems faces. For II
stance, j Pierpont Morgan got SIT, ,00O,O 90
: by buying government bonds from hi
friend, Grover Cleveland, at $l.O4, an
selling them at $1.2O. Mark Ham
> gets $1,000 per year from the unorgar
lied and poorly paid labor of bis ooa
! miners, sailors and street car employees
John d. Rockefeller has job that pay
him 81 ,000, 900 per month, which Is 81
n cured by crushing out competition In tn
oil business, and buying up Legislature
co give him cut rates on railroads and ri
' turn tariff taxes on tin plate. Andre'
Carnegie gets million year by tari
= taxation and QUITTING the wages of hi
laborers in order to teach them th
beauties of protective tariff. Combir
ations, trusts railroad corporations owne
by foreign capital; monopolies controllin
beef, beer elass, dour, meat, nails, pig iror
steel rails, and hundreds Of other articles
all set millions of money by buying u
legislatures, and importing low-price
foreign labor to work In their protecte
industries. 1t might have been true, ,yeal
ago, that the men who got money worke
for 1t, but the man who gets the most {
It today tolls not, neither does he spin, bu
gets 1t by scheming, while the rel
hardy sons Of toll, the men who do th
real work Of the world, are In active CON
petition with each other to earn scant
living. The Major must have obtaine
his information from an unreliabl