Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-30

have to be shipped money centers to the
Try to pay for these crops The farmers get the
ana the next year raise the again and
keep the money coming with high prices them. When
money is high priced farmers products are low
priced the wealth accvmulates in the
cities (Applause)
EFFECTS on WAGES
They say wages have not declined
Store clerks in the city of Chicago In 1878 got SO
week. about an average of that. They getting
an average Of about Sc a week
Cnorganized labor has fallen proportionately 1t is
only organized labor that has held up prices and it
done that in two ways: One is that organized labor
among the frstclass mechanics where experts
CURED and the supply of that kind of workmen
ed But organized labor holds itself up
unions They Intelligent. They stand together as a
brotherhood of men fighting in a common And
yet IN spite of their organization labor has had
partially reduced.
Unorganized labor has declined so per cent? and tens
OF thousands are unemployed and getting nothing.
Ihs makes tramps; makes fallen hopes makes
couraged manhood; it makes less of good citizenship
I'D this country Add the number of workmen organized
unorGanlzed and unemployed, and get your total.
then divide it into the wages they you have
the gold standard measured with exacpess the
bone and flesh blood the laboring classes Of the
United States. Applause)
The labor question is question of supply and de-
mant and SO long farming is Improbable people
are gfavating to the cities And there oversup-
ply of wage The remedy higher prices and
gravtaton of wage to the country they
can build their homes and their own living as
s Of 9th
people. (Appausel
PENSION HOLDERS
They say to pensioners. "You can buy with the
money you now receive than you can with the
money If we had free coinage silver With free coin
age prices will double and you will buy less with your
pension
Here admission that prices will advance to double
what they with coinage of silver This
selfish argument made pensioners to men who
rsked their lives the field of their flag and
1t Is now question: under the present system of
nscation whether we are to have republic to
pay these pensions (Applause) And this struggle
these veterans who defended the republic before
will be found again the side Of the integrity the
nation The men who make this base appeal, Intended
to reach selfish nature the stayed at home
during the and trcked the necessities of the
government The loyal patriots of this country will be
satisfied with the honest money of Washington Jefer
Jackson and Lincoln Thousands of our pensioners
losing in their business occupations or by
loss of occupation by of the hard times
they getting in the way of pensions They are not
iders and beggars seeking their only subsistence
the government tApplause)
LIFE INSURANCE POLICY HOLDERS
They that the holders of life policies will
be paid in deprecated money-in fy-cent dollars The
answer is this:
If the present 20Ocent gold dollar to remain our
standard if depression and low prices
cupaton is continue. the policy holders will unable
pay the premiums their policies they will lose
by forfeiture what they have already raid And where
not forfeitabe distress and ruin will them be-
fore the benefits of their policies Or they
will be compelled hypothecae sacrifice that which
is intended for their families after death prompt
ing spirit that caused them to seek to provide against
distress for their families after death will prompt
to their families from distress while living The
life insurance companies the greatest money lenders
we have, and on the side of the money lenders.
SOUND MONEY.
They say the gold standard is sound money. We are
all in favor of sound money They Should rely OH
sound words but should furnish with sound argu-
mens to support their theory of the gold standard
gold standard is experiment first time
in the world since 1873 and have reaped bitter
fruits and know the of it, were par
aphraSing this disastrous system money would say
of this sound money" that it is the sound of the auc
toneers hammer the sound of the clod the collin:
the sound of the pistol that suicides fe for
such it has been. G4ong applause)
INDEPENDENT ACTION.
They say cannot go it alone
remind again of the quantity of gold and silver
in the world of the sixysx silver on which
the demand of the United States is operate When the
United States throws its minis open the silver of the
world this is the supply this block silver that has
the privilege of being coined into money by ins
We produce in the United States, annually, our
fields and factories enough all the silver in the
world to pay for it, That is the demand. And such
nation fix the commercial silver at the rl
ito it is coined into money AppIause If the world
wants to flood us with silver produce from our
fields and factories in single year enough TO take it ALL
all the silver in the world and the year can pro-
duce the same things again. and say to them IF
you have any more silver bring it Long continued
applauseD Such nation fix the commercial value
OF silver with gold at the ratio it is coined money
What happens when our mints open TO silver as
they now to gold: 1t is this The silver of the world
as the gold of the world do comes 10 our minis
is coined into money and handed back the men who
bring it, What do they bring it for: To cxchanr. i
with us for property. Under law we buy none
of their silver; make it possible for them RI ,oa
with us by exchanging their silver as money with us
for our products. man in foreign country wou!d
not part with his silver cchal,,. g-g COLI for lass
than at the legal ratio with Wac hs sock 10
buy it. Why? Because lie would answer II can coin
silver into money in the United Stas au exchange
IL LOT anything those peopie Lfe ara iiY produce in
that country everything til, w!.- for mis- neces
sies OF MS comfort; II VIII buy anything here that gold
VIII Duy. ana such MAJ %ouid not }srt with his sill
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