The San Francisco call., 1896-11-03


who have deposits in 'the savings banks have
real estate and other property somewhere
else and that the thing will average up.
What about you fellows who have deposits
in the savings banks and have not got any.
thing else? need not only the voice, but the
time, the energy and the feeling TO tell you OF
the ruin and disaster that would fail upon
business if any such doctrine as that should
prevail. Ask yourselves what would be the
effect on railroads. Suppose we have de-
iciency In currency. You may say you don't
care anything about the railroads-they have
pay went down, how Is 1t going to be raised
Your streetcars in California here can charge
you only cents. Suppose that 5 cents be-
comes 21z cents, how are the employees of tha
railroad 10 be satisfied with it?
don't profess to be any special friend of
the laboring man any more than any other
citizen, but [ am interested in him Tor the
earners belong to the same class. / am q
salary receiver, whether am salary-earner
or not, and this class com prises 20 per cent of
the people and upon them depend the pros
perity and hopes of this country.
The hope of civilization consists in the bet-
ter distribution OF wages and salaries; con-
stantly increasing salaries as profits come in
are for the advantage of the whole world as well
as for the workingmen, because it is the wages
of the workingmen which constitute the
great purchas ng fund OF this country. 1t is
not the rich men who keep the mills going;
we buy the products OF our mills and our
mines-that is, all of us together-and what
ever decreases the fund belonging TO the
wage-earners and salary-earners sets back CIV
iliZation so much.
What is the effect OF the decreasing dollar
OF the workingman? l ask the workingmen
accord9 What the effect is is proved by the
history of the United States.
In 1861 and down to 1864 we had depreci-
ating currency, and during that time the
prices OF all commodities went up 1872 per
cent What happened to wages? They went
up only 4S per cent, so that during that time
the workingman lost "a per cent OF his wages
How did that happen?
Labor is perishable and gets lost. ii YOU
have to-day's work to sell you have got to sell
1t to-day, an1 you can't spend much time argu-
ing with the boss about It, for if YOU do you
will have so much less OF that days labor to
sell. Then, again, If you have a days labor to
sell in Oakland you have to sell it here. You
can't sell 1t in New York; you can't sell il
hardly in San Francisco, fOr half your day
would be gone before you got there. But with
a barrel of -four the case Is different If you
can't sell it to-day, you can sell 1T tomorrow,
and II you can't sell it here you can sell it in
san Francisco.
There is no class of people on earth who
ought to shun deprecated currency like the
wage-workers and the salary-earners. That is
the history of the world from its very founda-
ton until now-that the farming class and the
laboring class are those that suffer from de-
preciated currency. Those men tell us we
want higher prices. What did they tell us
four years ago? They said we wanted lower
prices and we have got them. / want neither
higher prices nor lower prices; what want is
fair prices.
subject to this idea that there shall be a fair
and honest wage for the laboring man. Farm
ers need fear nothing except from that which
attacks eyerybody-namely overproduction in
the world. II is not silver that has put wheat
and the rest of the farmers products down; 1t
is the ruin and disaster which those men have
made, combined with the opening of new
wheat fields in other parts of the world.
a in
and not believe what those men tell you, when
you know that what they told you four years
ago has turned out to be falsehood?
have jus a word or two more to saw This
country is going right, and we want California
to do her part OF 1T. We want California to
face the rising and not the setting sun We
want her great resources opened. We want
her not to keep out the capital that she needs
by joining this movement and creating uncer-
tainty and destroying business confidence
Why is 1t thatall over the country the business
men have risen as one man? 1t is because they
know that the present condition of affairs is
running the country.
But when to-morrow's sun sets and the next
days sun rises you will find al the head of the
column Mckinley and Hobart, because they
represent peace, confidence and prosperity
and an increase OF the standing of the United
States of America.
/ bespeak from this audience the favor of
hearing from the lady that is TO follow me.
am not disposed TO argue any questions not
involved in the Rspu blican National success
my notions of duty if did not say to Califor-
mia audience that have never heard ofany ar
gument that could be urged for manhood
suffrage that could not be urged for woman
that would not be an argument against the
other.
Anna Shaw was warmly greeted, and re-
sponded with smile as cordial as the
greeting. She began by paying Mr. Reed
a com pliment for his friendship TO the
nf
Miss Kittie Reed, his daughter, who was
at that moment sitting by his side, was a
member of the Woman Suffrage Society.
The women would like to have Mr.. Reed
nominated for the Presidency, and il
would have been impossible for the Re.
publican party to have nominated any
leading Republican who was not in favor
OF the enfranchisement of women.
The Republicans of Alameda County
she said, would be recreant to their plat.
form if they didn't vote Tor woman's free.
dom, for the women were looking to the
Republican party to do what they could.
All that she asked was justice, and il
never paid to be unjust.
Miss Shaw added:
l would like 70 ask every workingmar
here if he does not believe that the working
women of this country are not as much inter
ested In this campaign as the workingmen and
II he does not believe that the working woman
suffers when anything goes wrong equally
with the workingman. want to say to the
men, remem Der that the women have helped
TO pay the debt of this country equally with
the men. The women of the country did not
make the debt, but you made the debt and we
help 10 pay il. Now, we want to help you to
keep from making so many debts that neither
you nor we may have to pay them.
You talk about the resources OF California
about the future of Ca ifornia Gentlemen
there is no future of California that will be
greater than the future of justice, the future
OF right, the future OF honesty, the future oi
the equality OF all its people.
The speaker denied that the men alone
had made California what ii is, and called
attention to the village of Angels Camp,
in Calaveras County, which received its
name because of the presence of a woman
there in the early days. On the question
of taxation without representation, Mrs.
Shaw said:
Don't you think it's mean piece of bust.
ness to count the heads Of the women of this
State to make up the members of Congress and
not allow the heads of the women of this State
to have a representation there? Taxation
without representation is tyranny. Do you
tax any women here in Oakland? Do you rep
resent them?
heard the other day that in Oakland YOU
had precinct where there were seven men
and sixty widows The seven men had no
booth TO vote in, but they had special booth
put up for them at cost of $50. Who paid
for the booth7 The sixty widows who hadn't