The record-union., 1896-08-14

tization of silver to stop falling prices
and start the wheels of industry to give
labor employment, they say the silver
dollar will be a fifty-cent dollar. The
4ooO0O,000 silver dollars now coined
and circulating either as dollars or as
silver certificates are redeemabIe in
nothing but silver, and are as good as
gold. Previous to the demonetization of
SILVER silver dollars were as good as
gold dollars. This the laboring people
Know These assertions will deceive no
one.
But they say prices will rise, and the
laboringmen could not buy as much
with his dollar. We desire that prices
should stop falling. because while prices
are falling enterprises languish and
millions are out of employment There
Is not half as much paid to labor i'm
the aggregate to-day as there would be
l. there We're money to stop falling
prices, because then all willing hands
would find employment in this country
of unlimited resources
IL Mckinley wants the faboringman
to have dollar which will purchase the
largest amount of goods, why does he
want high tariff for manufacturing
monopolists? If the gold interests re-
ally want the laborer to enjoy all the
benefits of a cheap market, why do
they want a high tariff to raise prices
or the necessaries of life? The gold
standard is a tariff in favor of every
silver standard country and against ev-
cry gold standard country amounting to
nearly lOO per cent. The advantages
which the agriculturists of silver stand
ard countries have had in the differ
ence of exchange has given the silver
standard countries the monopoly of the
European market for farm products and
reduced the prices of such products be-
low the cost of production. Tt has been
often remarked by Englishman that the
difference of exchange between silver
standard countries and the gold stand
ard countries is a bounty on imports
and tax on exports, all in favor of the
silver standard countries
'The struggle with the Indians Chin
ese and South Americans in supplying
Europe with farm products is therefore
unequal, while the protected industries
of this country raise the prices of the
necessaries of life and increase the bur
den of protection. In other words, Nc
Kinleyism will make everything the
farms produce cheaper and everything
the farmers buy dearer. This may be
an explanation why protected monopo-
lists contribute millions for Mckinley
ism.
But why have the so-called Demo-
cratic papers become converted to Nc
Kinleyism? Rothschilds, Morgan &
Co. are in the wrecking business. They
live on protected franchises, and per-
form the same function on the accumu-
lations of industry that vultures per-
form on decaying carcasses. The influ-
ence of Rothschilds Morgan & Co. with
the Democratic newspaper is simply
sufficient to make that paper advocate
high tariff, low tariff, States rights,
Federal despotism or anything else
which shall suit the wreckers.
'Laborers, take warning. Ask your
selves what Hanna and Morgan would
do if they had Mckinley in the White
House in case labor organizations
should complain of reduction in wages.
Do you doubt that if they owned the
Federal Government that they would
use the army to reduce wages? If you
doubt that. investigate the character
of these potentates who propose to own
a President.