The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-19
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Dspsw Thinks Railroads Make Most Mosey
when They Civs Work 60 Most Mes.

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when They Give Work 90 Most Mes.
In all his speeches Mr.. Bryan en-
deavors To excite employees against en-
ployers; wage-earners against wage
payers state this proposition
without fear OF contradictions prop
osition which every worxingman
knows TO be true-that IL the employer
and his employees are agreed upon
wages and hours. then their interests
are the same. The ernploye wants the
factory or the furnace, or the mills. 10
have orders, TO have a market which
viii take the product: otherwise he
cannot have employment or he win
have TO work on half time. He wants
his employer to extend his business. 20
double It, TO treble II. to auadruple IL.
because that means that more of his
fellows shall receive employment. 1t
means that he shall share In this pros
perity by an increase OF pay. This pam
&c has thrown $4,000 railroad men on
the payroll No one feels worse
about that than the directors and the
presidents and managers. There are
$1,000 cars lying idle between New York
and Chicago and st. Louis. That
means locomotive engineers and fire.
men and brakemen and switchmen out
OF employment. That means less work
in the shops and mechanics laid on:
that means that the mill IL no longer
sending out it's product and the farmer
no longer finds n market. What
want. what pray for what I am out
travelling for night and day and maxi
ing speeches to bring about is. TO
change all this. Now I am distressed
and my heart is .wrung; my men and
their wives and daughters are coming
TO me for employment What want
IL TO see the day, and TO see IL speedily,
when ] shall be seeking men. when i
shall he advertising for engineers and
firemen and switchmen on the New
York Central railroad; when every
railroad president and manager will be
In a position to employ all the skilled
railway labor there IL In the country.
and be calling upon the farmers for
their boys to enter the service.
Mr.. Bryan SAYS that this experiment
OF the free coinage OF silver will, OF
course. cause a panic. This boy of the
Platte. in his wreckless talk. does not
understand the horrors of a panic. We
swallowed potato bug four years ago.
and now ne proposes we take a dose OF
paris green to kill It, A panic means
the banks refusing TO loan because the
depositors are calling for their money:
it means the closing OF the mills and
shops and factories and mines; II
means the bigge-t mercantile establish
ments going into bankruptcy and their
clerks into the streets; IL means thou
sands Of honest toilers seeking Jobs
without finding them. and returning TO
homes where there are hungry chill
dren and despairlng wives. To talk
lightly of panic is to be Indifferent to
human misery and crime against suf-
fering humanity.-Chauncey NJ. Depew
Experience Despised by silver Men.
The legislation proposed in the Chi
cago and st. Louis platforms proceeds
on a reputation OF the principles of all
the legislation that has proceeded H.
The idea that was uppermost in the
minds OF the authors of our earliest
coinage legislation at the closest
possible correspondence in the legal
and commercial ratio between gold and
silver should be maintained. Is thrown
10 the winds and the idea of the later
legislation that dollar In any and
every one of the constituent elements
of the currency OF the United States.
gold silver and paper should be main
tanned as of equal value is alike dis
carded. The proposal is that the mon
etary unit should be a dollar contain
ing SIPS grains of pure silver, worth
today I'm the markets OF the world
about SO cents. and that this should be
the measure of all values and the stand
ard for the payment of all debts. This,
obviously, Is silver monometallism,
pure and simple.
Cheap Money the Foe Of Labor.
He who Hampers with the currency
robe labor of Its bread. He panders, In
deed tn greedy capital. which IL keen
sighted and may shift for itself; but ne
beggars labor. which 10 honest, unsuspect-
Ing too busy with the present to caiulate
for the future. The prosperity of the
working classes lives, moves and has its
being in established credit ssd = steady
medium of payment All sudden changes
/ destroy H. Honest industry never comes
IN for any part OF the spoils in that scram-
BILE. which takes place when the currency
Of . country 10 disordersd. Did Wild
schemes and profits ever benefit the In
dustrious? Did violent fluctuations ever
do good to him who depends on his daily
labor for hh daily brsSdf Certainly
never. All thsse things may crafty greed
tusss for sudden gain or the rssbness of
davins speodDsssou. but they can bring
nothing but injury and distyess tn the
horses % vseisnt ipdustry and honest L.
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