The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1896-10-10

ton h limited TO the returns OF M
hash counter, Is seeking to save hon
esl labor from the fifty cent dollaI
calamity. Some Of the argument
made In the Times-Herald are very
amusing, especially TO laboring mel
who never see anything but silyel
money. or its paper representative
Here are a few statements summed
up from articles in recent editions oil
the Times-Herald:
1. The present silver dollar Is only
worth 50 cents.
2. One cent is the one hundredth part
Of dollar.
3. II silver is remonetized gold viii
purchase only one-half OF what it does
now. Are you going to rob the money
owners?
4. The present silver dollar is worth
one hundred cents.
5. The Mexican silver dollar is worth
"a cents.
6. Il takes two Mexican dollars to
purchase as much farm or other prod
ucts as can be bought for one Ameri-
can silver dollar
z. The farmers and producers Of
Mexico get nothing for their products
Are you going to Mexicanize Ameri-
can labor by voting for Bryan and
Sewall?
s. American paper money is now &C
cepted in England. because the English
know that they can pay 1t back to
Americans for American products i'm
ported into England.
8. England accepts only one kind of
American money and that is gold. We
must maintain the system that win be
receivable in England In payment for
importations from that country.
10. The Wilson bill importations
from England are running American in
dustries. We do not want English
made goods.
IL American laborers are getting
sl-50 q day.
IL. There are sixteen men to every
one job given out all over the country.
IL. Mexico is enjoying an era of I'M
precedented prosperity (this slipped In
q dispatch from the City Of Mexico, in
referanee to the recent election.)
II. Wages in the United States are
sustained by trade unions.
Is. II silver is remonetized the pay
OF labor will be the last to rise to meet
the new condition Of high prices.
editor Kohlsaat knows in his heart
that labor viii be the first to reap the
benefits Of high prices. Organized lab
or is the foundation of society. Until
1t makes move all other things re-
main in allegiance It is only unor-
ganiZed labor "a small Quota) that will
se effected by a sudden rise Of prices,
and then only slightly.
16. Laborer is densely ignorant
IL. Labor is too intelligent and too
honest to accept two dollars for one
dollars worth Of work. Labor Is for
sound money.
L. Printers are earning from So to
IS day. They do not want the Dur
chasing power of their wages cut in
two. as would be the case under free
silver coinage. Answer:
Yes, printers are getting from 50 to
IS day-thanks to the International
Typographical Union, the strongest
labor organization in the world. The
union raises and lowers its scale of
wages TO suit new conditions. Double
the circulation Of the currency and
there would soon be a rise in the print
ers' wage scale. II the resumption of
free silver coinage could in any way
harm the International typographical
Union or any other union, the Times
Herald would be preaching free silver
just as theoretically as it is now ad-
vocating gold monometallism.
10. All the semicivilized countries in
the world are on a silver basis.
20. Semicivilized Turkey should be
wiped on the map. Turkey is a gold
standard eountry.)
21- Egypt is to-day a ruined country.
All its wealth is in the hands of the
few II viii never revive. Egypt "a a
gold standard country.)
q Five thousand Christians muir
dered at Crete. By the soldiers sus-
tanned by the gold standard Of the
Ottoman Empire).
q. Russia has now been on n silver
basis for one hundred years.
"A. Russia only emerged from bar
barism 100 years ago.
Is. II cannot be denied that the DOW
er Of England has been on the vane
for 100 years Slowly but surely the
star Of Empire Is travelling toward the
west
e. England adopted the gold stand
ard 100 years ago.
q. Under free coinage policy holders
IN HE insurance companies would be
paid on in fifty cent dollars.
g President Greene Of the - Life
Insurance Co. Is against free coinage.
because IL would compel him to pay
his policies In fifty cent dollars. This
IL daisy. Does any one suppose that
President Greene would be for a gold
standard IL he thought that free silver
would reduce his debts by one-haif1
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