Birmingham state herald., 1896-10-31

my of them all, by electing a democratic
 president, vice-president and congress- men.
 WHAT THE GREAT LEADER SAYS. A few days ago the New York Evening
 Journal conceived the idea of getting direct from MT. Bryan an answer to an important question in this campaign, and
 to that end wired him as follows:
 'It is true that as soon as we get free
 silver the purchasing power of the work
 ingmens wages will decrease?"
 Those who do not in reality care 1 cent
 about the laboring men, further than to
 get their labor as cheap as possible and
 their votes in the approaching campaign have been wringing the charges all through the campaign on the above ques-
 tion. In season and out of season they have attempted to bamboozle the wage earners into the belief that the free coin age of silver would prove detrimental to them.
 There being no argument to sustain the proposition, the goldbugs have not at- tempted to sustain it with argument, but
 have in every conceivable way put the question.and insisted on the wage earners answering it.
 It affords the State Herald great pleas
 ure to be able to supply the wage earn
 CTS in these parts who have been pressed
 to vote for Mckinley or Palmer and
 Buckner, complete answer to the asser-
 tion that free coinage will injure them,
 furnished by the great, pure and gallant
 leader of democracy.
 In reply to the question as put to him 1.trt t1C ,n1 Chicago Oct 2S, 1896 That is question that is propounded by the manufacturer-employ who seems to be terribly afraid that under free coinage he will have to get his men for less wages than they are working for now I want to say that in the sense in which the words are used I reply, no. l There are two things to be considered First the number of dollars that the l laborng man receives; and, second, the purchasing power of the dollar he re- ceives.
 If you take the purchasing power of single dollar it will be less, but at the present time a great many workingmen | are working on half time and many are not able to find work at all, and you must remember that when you decide whether the purchasing power of the working mans wages is decreased you must take what the workingman will receive in dol
 lars under free coinage and compare it
 with what the workingman receives in
 dollars now under the gold standard.
 More than that, you also have to con-
 slider that, under the present conditions,
 when man loses his job it is hard to find
 work again, and that every man who
 finds employment is menaced by idle
 men, increasing in number, who stand
 ready to take his place on moments
 notice.
 "We insist that the conditions that will
 be brought about by the free coinage of
 silver the increased demand for work in
 order to supply the goods which will be
 consumed when the people are prosper
 ous under bmetallsm, and the increas-
 ing wages which will come with greater
 demand for labor-we insist that, when
 these things are considered, the working
 man will receive more dollars and that he
 can buy more with the larger wages which he will receive under free coinage than he can buy now with the few dol lars he receives under the gold standard and then his employment will be more permanent"
 Let me give you a test. I challenge you to find an instance where the laboring 1 man ever suffered because of the bimetal- lie standard They tell you that prices will rise. l believe that general prices will rise. They tell you that means suf- fering to the workingmen. I want you to look back over the period when we had rising prices, and you will find that those
 
 ingman ever had, because he not only had
 more steady employment and better wages, but the property that he had also
 rose. whereas today if his wages buy more per dollar the property that he owns goes down In value as the dollar goes up. Remembering that the laboring men have never indorsed the gold standard in any nation that has had it; and when you see the beauties of the gold standard presented to laboring men by people who do not labor; when you find that the blessings brought by the gold standard are so disguised that financier has to spend all the time during the campaign pointing out those blessings to the labor ing man, who cannot discover them when they are pointed out, you will understand what the gold standard has done for the laboring man. VIM. J. BRYAN" The drivel gotten off by the parasites of the goldbugs-for they, as well as nearly all bugs of any size. are full of parasites about the declara tion of the democratic platform against the validity of gold con- nt- hotF t,1fr .Nft atk