The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-10-03

more than ten years Ia prison for his
interference in the cause OF human
freedom. Edmond Burke wrote theol-
ogv and suffered for his espousal for
the liberty Of his nrtive Ireland. Rob
ert Emmett was a theoloPian and In free
doms cause for the Emersald Isle. per-
ished on the gibbct. The priest. the
statesman and the soldier seem to have
attributes closely allied TO each other.
and history proves they have ever been
the vanguard of n higher and noblcr
civilization.
The Iconoclast believes that hun
dreds of newspapers are striving to
create the impression, that gold makes
for high, and silver for low wages. vet
the biggest fool engaged in this dis
reputable skulduggery knows full well
II he knows anything that he perpetra-
ting n brazen falsehood II Cicero
wondered that the Roman Aruspices
could look each other IN the face with
out laughing, what would he have
thought of the goldbug editors and or
ators who after laboriouslv comparing
the wage rate of England and the Uni
ted States with that Of China and Ja-
pan, solemnly advises the American
workingman that If he does not want
to work for dime a day. in deprecia-
ted currency, and live on rice and rats
should welcome the cross of gold
There is not an editor with sense
enough TO dodge plate matter when
welding the shears, but knows such
talk is the veriest tommyrot There is
not an orator that employs it but does
so for the express purpose of deceiving
the plain people, and herewith brand
such men as either irresponsible fools,
or deliberate lnaves with malice and
aforethought.
Certainly wages are higher in Eng
land and sthe United States than in
China and Japan, and of right ought
to be for the productive power Of the
energetic Caucasian with his improved
machinery is ten fold greater than that
of the Ipattering Mongolion with his
antedeluvian devices. Every man
versed in even the primary principles
of economics knows that the unit Of
value in a country, has no more to do
with its wage rate than the number of
frogs in its irrigation tanks
We do not have to go to Ricardo or
Mill for this information. IL is only
necessary to turn to the latest pub
lished consulor reports, which any man
may obtain OF his representative in con
gress-free of cost.
If gold makes for high, and the silver
standard for low wages, how comes IL
that gasfitters receive S14.50 week IN
Columbia and $500 in Venezuela, both
silver standard countries, and but S4.0s
in Germany and S3.40 in Italy, both
gold standard countries, How comes
il that cigar makers receive $12.50 and
tin smiths S14.00 in silver standard Ven
ezuela and $3.50 and $500 respectively
in gold standard spain. How is il that
distillers receive S12.OO per week in
Mexico and but SO. 30 i'm Denmark. How
does 1t happen that cabinet makers get
$1,000 in Ecudor and but S4.25 in Ger
many. Blacksmiths Sl2. SO in Venezue-
la and but $3.50 in Italy. Telegraph
operators Sl1.50 in Mexico, and but
$3.50 in Denmark. Engravers $40. 80 in
Peru and but $500 in Spain.
II gold standard makes uniformly
for high wages, why is IL there is such
tremendous difference in the wage
rate of gold standard countries. The
average weekly wages of brichlayers
I'm the United States under its present
downward tendency has been $20.1s in
Spain, $3.50 in Canada. $500 and in
Italy S420. Yet all are on n gold ba.
sis Ilod carriers average S13.3S in the
United States and but Sl.70 i'm Spain
Plumbers $3.50 in Canada and 1925 in
Spain, $1,000 in the United States and
500 in England, s1335 in New South
Wales and S4.25 ia Germany, all gold
standard countries. Yet the goldbugs
ask the workingman to believe upon
the unit OF value depends the scale OF
wages II is wonder that when a