The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-13
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and, the demand not increasing in the
samey proportion, prices have logically
and inevitably fallen. 1t does not re-
pure a great effort OF the mind 10 COM
prehend that if you increase the guam
tity OF wheat in a single year erpr-
mously, with about the same number of
consumers as before. that prices will
I go down. With a given number of con-
sumers and an increased produc ton.
with more competitors and no more con-
sumers. the cheaper will be the pro-
ducts. What increases the price Of any
Product is that many people want it and
can only get it by paying better price
than some one else is willing to give.
ONE KIND OF 16 TO L
THE more people who want an arti-
Gle, the better price it will command.
J The more people who want your labor
the better wages you Will receive Gap
plause.) If there is one days labor for
sixteen workngmen, you woud not get
as good wages as though there was six
teen days for one w'orkingman. Oaugh-
ter and appkause) And that is the sort
Applause) The changes In the prices
of agricultural products or any other COM
modities which have been cheaDened in
their production by improved machinery
and more competitive fields with great
er production, does not prove that gold
has advanced In value but simply that
such products have fallen In prices. Is
not the labor of man rather than the
thing which his labor creates the real
test? Have the wages paid to labor
since 1873, as measured by gold, de-
creased? That Is the crucjcal question.
We resumed specie payments on a gold
basis, January /, 1879. Since that time
wages and salaries have not declined.
but rather risen.
FIGURES TO PROVE TT.
The nominee then quoted official sta
tistics to prove this assertion, referring
also to the report OF the special COM
nlittee of the United States senate which
in 1892 investigated the subject of wages
and prices He added:
This committee reported that In
twenty-one Of the selected industries,
wages were, in money. 40 per cent higher
in 1850 than in 1860. and so per cent high
er in 1890 than in 1860, and the prices of
staple articles had fallen between 1880
and 1890. in some instances. one-third.
In other words. there never had been
a time in our history when work was
SO abundant or when wages were SO
high, whether measured by the currency
IN which they were paid or by the pow
er 10 supply the necessarieS and COM
forts OF life. (Applause)
That's what you left in 1892. Is there
workman dn the United States who
does not want that condition back
again? Continued applause)
HIGHER THAN IN 1850.
'tSinoe 1860 wages have advanced ssh
per cent, according to the table of the
senate committee. The wages paid in
1860 We're in times when we had the free
and unlimited coinage Of silver and
thirtene years before the suspension Of
free coinage of silver. In 1880, accord
to the census, the occupations of persons
over IL years of age numbered IA. 324. $50.
This great army of which you are a part
constituting more than one-fifth of our
population, work for wages and are paid
in money measured in gold, that is. when
you have work. or money as good as
gold You have mad no other kind Of
money since 1879 and rhe workir@ people
of no otter country of the world have
any bet5t- money. There are the toll
ing masses who were the most pros
porous in 1892 OF any working people in
tn world and more prosperous than
they had ever ben before.
STEEL RAILS AND WHEAT.
The cheapening OF commodities
comes from the introduction and ap-
plication OF la.bor-savfng machinery.
both on the farm and in the factory.
There is scarcely any branchof produo-
ton which does not turn out more CON-
modtues per hour Of labor than in 1873.
1t would be just as reasonable and just
as conclusive TO say that the suspension
of the FIRE Coinage Of silver In 1873 re-
duced the price OF steel rails from $40
per ton TO s25 or $50 per ton, the price
now prevailing, a. 10 gay that = re-
dUced the price OF wheat The price
Of wheat Is fixed by the law OF supply
and demand, which is eternal Cold has
not made long crops or short crops,
high prices or low prices. Cod has not
opened I'D the wheat fields Of Russ.o.
India or the Argentine republic: nor VIII
FIRE silver destroy them. Gold has not
kept up the freight rates Tor the agTi-
cultural produced and the sto0page OF
FIRE coinage in 1873 has not advanced IL
Our working people have bought the
neoeSSares and comforts % life cheaper
fer themselves and families during all
these years since 1873 and down 20 1882
They were getting better wages. paid
n gold for their labor than ever before
CHEAPENED MEN.
an the United States everything has
been cheaoene but man. and as netr-
" a. I can ascertain =, IN free silver
countries, such es Mexico, Central Amer
lea and South America, man alone has
been cheapsned: everything he buys
having been steadily Increasing. with
CONSTANT fluctuations. by the steady de-
crosse in the price OF silver Win the
gold basis and the protective tariff from
1879 % Isss. the workacgrnea OF this
Country were never before - steadily
employed; they never before rece1vd
such good wages; they never before
were paid IL better money end their
wages never before bouSa. as much oc
the nscessaries. comforts ard iuTuures
Of Efe. (Cr.es % 'HuTah fo- MGk-n-
iey.1
IF a gold standard deprived the
American toIler OF siagie days wo-6-
or his family OF q single comfort. o. -
Suced his wages or made he harder