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The herald., 1896-09-27
Of1At5. T IiAItlt1S.
Pasadena, Sept. 20.
CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM
CHEEK BY JOWL.

Editor Herald: Hon. Job Hartman,
Socialist candidate for congress in this
district, Is feminist free coinage
all same Wall street capitalist. Strange
bedfellows politics make, sure enough!
Socialists usually exhaust all the dis
paraging epithets in the vocabulary in
denouncing the doinss of the captains
of individual industry, but now
Mr.. Hartman, the recognized
leader of the Socialist-Labor party in
this county, says me too," when the
gold standardites sit up nights worry
ing over the workingman's cheap dol
lar" Mr.. Hartman says that no legis-
lation can affect values. How about a
protective tariff, exclusive franchise,
things prohibited by law, and things
enjoined upon us by law? Three years
ago it was legal to use a certain make
Of sanitary closet in this city. The city
board of health decided that its SANTA
ton was defective, and city ordinance
was passed against it. Down went it's
price or value, with a dull thud.
The annexed portion Of the city now
enjoys better real estate prices than
formerly obtained, brought about by
annexation legislation. A silver dollar
containing 121a grains of standard sill
yer prior to 1873 had more value than
gold dollar; another silver dollar Of
42O grains had very much less value
than either dollar just mentioned. What
made the difference? The sort OF law
creating and sustaining them.
II law had no effect, then the 4co grain
dollar must have been more valua BILE
than the 412h grain dollar, for the for
mer contains more metal. The dollar
Is but tool of trade, as is the yard
stick There Is no natural yard, pound
or bushel. These are but standards of
measurement generally agreed upon
yard may as well cover little more
or less distance and serve as we'll, pro-
vided that new distance was agreed
upon. So 1t Is with the dollar; 1t sets
value In commodities In the same way
that measures designate quantities.
Money Is not valuable only from the
fact that 1t Is used to meas
ure value. Metal Is not
money; paper is not money; but
money may be made from these matert-
ais. Mr.. Hartman says that a dollar,
to be good. must contain a dollars
worth Of labor Ask dealer in electri-
The herald., 1896-09-27
FOOLISH FALLACrps

Editor Herald:--Either there seems t.
be dense ignorance on the part OF able
editors" ana eloquent orators on the
gold side of the ruling topic Of the
time. or, II not ignorance. then there
must be q deliberate intention TO mis-
lead and to bemuddls the minds Of the
people addressed.
My understanding Of free coinage II
this: The owner OF refined silver bui-
lion, be he the mine owner, or the banker
who has bought It FROM him, sends the
bullion to the mint and In due course Of
time receives in return q silver dollar
for every 4121a grains OF metal that he
delivered-the cost of coinage being
recouped to the mint by the differences
between 371M grains OF f'ne silver which
Is in the coin and the ai21k grains which
it actually weighs being made UP Of the
alloy Of baser metal which Is Used to
harden the silver.
If Il am right, as, believe am, what
are we to think Of such a high .Slass
paper as the Argonaut presenting to itz
readers the following statement con-
tained in the following extract from its
issue Of the 14th instant:
"Who, then, would be benefited? Tho
first would be the owners of silver mines,
who could thus sell the product Of their
mines for nearly twice what it now
brings. The next people would be the
alton. They would receive the new dol
lars, not the people who are now clamor-
ing for them, and the people at large
could get them only by paying full value
to the mine owners for them. On the
other hand, since the GOVERNMENT
PAYS TWICE what the silver is worth.
THE DIFFERENCE MUST COME
OUT OF THE TREASURY. and the
money in tho treasury can be obtained
only from the people in the end"
ask attention to the erroneous statc-
ment which In printed in capitols Cat
my request.
Another word. How does anybody
get dollar but by giving full value for
Is in services or In goods2 The nans
owner, when ne gets the dollars in lieu
of his bullion. with them pays his
working miners, pays his tradesmen's
bills, possibly buys bonds. possibly
lends money to his neighbors. Anyhow,
the dollars go into circulation, labor is
employed, trade Is Increased. and no.
body so far as can be seen, Is hurt.
said q dozen years ago that we should
not have PERMANENT prosperity till
silver became remonctized, and SO 1t
ARGENT.
Santa Monica, Sept. %, 1896.
The herald., 1896-09-27

cal appliances the price of a patent
horseless carriage. He tells you $500.
Does that mean that there are 200 days
labor at $3.50 per day? Not at all; the
price includes the labor, interest on in
vested capital, profit, and as much as
can be safely added on account of the
patent The labor in commodity bears
no necessary relation to its selling price
or value, in q competitive system. the
dollar is the only thing in which the
labor making it cuts no figure. Law
makes dollars, not labor.
Mr.. Hartman says that the only way
this government could maintain the
parity between gold and silver would
be to pay out of the treasury either kind
of money that was demanded. 1t seems
to me that that is q first rate way to
destroy a parity on short order. There
is q law of finance well known to stu
dents called the Gresham law, which is
that the debtor is the one upon whom
to confer by law the right of choosing
which kind of legal tender money he
will pay his debts In If all debtors
know that they can pay i'll the kind of
money easiest to obtain, they will seek
the cheapest dollar; then all debtors
being after the same kind of dollar
simultaneously create demand for
it, and like everything else under sim
liar conditions it's value rises, and If its
value goes above some other kind of
money, then debtors will seek the other.
and so on until q parity is found. On
the other. hand, If the creditors are al
lowed to choose they will, of course,
demand the most costly money. and
boycott the deprecated sort, and that
would further widen the difference be-
tween them, until there would really
be only one kind of money and that
enormously appreciated.
Mr. Hartman may know how to run
cooperative commonwealth, but he
needs to study finance before he will
have very brilliant chance of being
elected to congress.
~ W. C. B. RANDOLPH.
Station D.
The herald., 1896-09-27

factured in this country They will often
put q discount on American manufac-
ture and offer imported goods 80 much
more desira bic, as they say 1t Is better
for wear. The great majority Of our peo-
pie WILL as they do now, be obliged to
buy the cheapest goods, 1. e. American
manufacture, and yet, they will have
to pay taxes to keep up high prices for
fine goods and luxuries for the rich just
the same. a free exchange OF all, or
nearly all, commodities between nations
is alike beneficial to all peoples and
tribes; as they will do their best to maks
things that are .salable away from
home. This country Is not as yet able
to stand alone in a manufacturing sense.
When this country can do as 1t says,
make things as good as other people on
the other side of the ocean, things will
selves.
Ii pauper labor, as we are fond Of CALL
ing the laborers of Europe. can mako
such good goods. why can't we smart
Americans do 1t? No, because we are
blind to our own resuorces and our own
interests. J. II.
Los Angeles. September q, 1885.
The herald., 1896-09-27
RALPH NJ. PARKER
Los Angeles, Sept .25.
CONSISTENCY, THOU ART A
JEWEL

Editor Herald: In an issue of the Los
Angeles Times short time ago appear
ed edtorally an article on MeXico's
poverty signed observer" Cd, which
was substituted for possibly more hon
est statement of Mexican industry sent
to the Times by a gentleman of this
city, but declined through editorial
prerogative." The writer passed the
matter by at the time as simply dirty
piece Of political bait. However, as an
other letter in the Times editorial col
umns of yesterday under the head of
Mr.. Stewards Mexican Mines would
seem to give the lie to observer" he
(the writer) cannot refrain from COM
menting on the fact as we'll as making
some observations himself.
observer" stated that Mexico's mines
could not be operated at a profit, and
had been and are shut down. Mr. Cur
It's letter, the one referred to as in yes
terday's Times, states that Stewards S
six mines mot only paid expenses and
$4,000 in taxes last year, permitted its
owner to do considerable development
work and add expensive improvements,
but enabled them to ship about 200 tons
to the smelters every week, which yield
ed about $4,000 ounces Of silver bullion"
the net profits Of which "the manager
estimates at from $1,000 to $4,000 week" +"
and all this under the most unfavorable
conditions mentioned.
Is it reasona bic to suppose these mines
are any exception to Mexican mines in
general? The fact is they are situated
hundreds of miles from the smelters,
and 100000 was paid alone last year for
the freighting of the ores from these
mines to the smelters.
observer" stated, practically, that
the American colony there We're pau
pers. The writer met many Americans
during his sojourn a short time ago in
Mexico. and found them, especially those
residing there permanently, as a rule
men of wealth and business energy. who
had made their money in that country.
observer" stated that one could not
get a meal in even a second class restau-
rant for less than so cents. The writer
boarded at one of the largest and best
hotels In Monterey paying So per week.
Mexican money, for his meals, single
meals being so cents (25 cents American
money!. Good restaurant meals can
be secured there for 25 cents Q21s cents
American money!.
observer" paid too much for his
beer. Instead of paying 10 cents Amer
lean money, he might have gone to the
best hotel bar and secured II for Is cents
in Mexican money, or paid not over 10
or IL cents at an ordinary bar.
The fact that the smelters at Monte
rey are in operation as they are would
hardly indicate inactive mining opera
tions. FELIX.
Los Angeles, Sept. 90.
The herald., 1896-09-27
ARGUMENTS ANSWERED.

Editor Herald: One Of the stock argu-
ments of gold men Is that II the govern
ment should open its mints to the free
coinage of silver the silver dollar
would only then be worth its present
bullion value (52 cents), because the
government would not be back of it or
agree to redeem 1t in gold. AS UNDER
stand 1t. from the constitution, the gov
ernment does not agree to redeem any
Of its silver in gold now, but what holds
up the value of the silver dollar is the
fact that the government will receive it
in payment of taxes, revenues or for
customs duties, and should free COIN
age bill be passed, the same conditions
would then be in existence as now, and
this is what would make the dollar worth
100 cents, for no one would dispose Of it
for less than the government would take
1t for. The other arguments" in favor
of a gold standard can be just as easily
answered by any thinking man.
Again, they say that gold would go to
q premium and leave the country, but,
to my mind, 1t seems that the very fact
OF gold being worth a premium (if such
thing was true) would prevent 1t from
leaving and bring the gold of Europe
here to get share Of the profit and this
would quickly do away with any pre-
MUM.
The very minute that Bryan's election
Is announced, silver will advance, and
the men that are now boarding the gold
will use 1t to buy the silver bullion, to
make profit on the raise, and do all in
their power to see that it does, and the
man who boards his gold away will be
an exception to the rule. The only reas-
on why it is boarded now is becaus it is
increasing in its purchasing power
daily, but then 1t will start to decrease.
and all capitalists will want to invest it
to make profit in other lines
1t is not even necessary for a free
coinage bill to be passed to bring about
good results, for II the secretary Of the
treasury under Bryan does as Daniel
Manning, the first secretary under
Cleveland. did, he will call meeting of
the bankers of New York and inform
them that in the future the government
bonds and greenbacks will be paid in sill
yer when we are short in gold, and no
more bonds or greenbacks will be pre-
sented for redemption with a view of
depicting the treasury, so as to force the
government to issue more bonds. on
which they can get an interest. This is
the plan that is pursued In France and
the true reason why the French people
are the most prosperous on the face of
the globe.
WIN. H. B. HAYWARD.
Los Angeles. Sept. 20, 1896.
The herald., 1896-09-27
BRYAN AND BREAD; MCKINLEY
AND MONOPOLY

Los Angeles, Sept. 25.
The herald., 1896-09-27

clared that they did not understand
the true meaning of the bill? Were they
all in the Sherman combine of unhung
scoundrels? No; the bill that was dis
cussed by the press and public was not
the bill sneaked through congress by
Sherman, who took advantage of the
confidence reposed in him by his fell
low members to play the vile traitor.
This fraud of Sherman's has been ably
shown up by ex-Mayor Hazard through
the columns of The Herald, and what I
might say on the subject would simply
be a repetition of what he has said so
much better than could say 1t.
RALPH M. PARKER.
The herald., 1896-09-27

Editor Herald: desire to send short
article for your Silver Issue on the all
important money question; and Will
show to any candid person who desire
the welfare of his fellowman and his
country the plain duty and how to vote
at the coming election.
There Is a frightful and glaring in
consistency in the arguments put fortn
by those who are In favor OF single
gold standard. They are unit In main
tanning that there is plenty OF money
in the country, and that the scarcity OF
it is not owing to want of money, but be-
cause men of means, who are connected
with trusts and banks, will not risk their
boarded money on uncertainties, and
hence they would rather keep 1t locked
up and out Of circulation until protective
tariff comes, when they think their gain
is sure to come They pretend Just now
to be very anxious about the laboring
classes and their welfare, and yet, In
a money sense, they stand absolutely
against the very men who by hard toll
and sweat have done the most to the
creation Of big fortunes for the few.
The cry against silver Is simply the fear
that money will be plenty in the land II
there should be free coinage Of silver.
AS it is now, they know full well that they
control in a great measure the CHIEF
bulk Of the money in the country, and
as here In California, charge outrageous
interest on loans as IL now eAlStS.
The gold bugs as rule are the great
est enemies of the human race. They al
ways set up q big howl when laboring
men unite and strike, and thus produce
no increase to trusts and the big corpor-
ations who hire them. Men who hold
their money out Of use because they
fear loss to themselves are far worse
than the men who stop work in factor
les and mines. and are in short the big
gest enemies Of all to any country in
which they live. Much Of the hard times
in this country since Cleveland came in
has, in the main, its root in great money
worship among the rich; and who loves
to hug and worship the almighty dollar
in safe place rather than use 1t for tho
common herd who are starving for want
of bread.
Every one who thinks must know
l,that when anything II in demand 1t al
ways goes UP in price. That is precisely
what will happen when silver will be
allowed to take its place and be carried
for free circulation in this country. 1t
will at once be in great damand and rise
in value as money accordingly.
Protective tariff will not help tho
masses in this land. but rather, they
will be tho tools to help the rich to still
indulge in greater extravaganza than
they do now. No one Is so blind as those
who will not see; and many are the blind
ones in this land Of ours.
Many of the biggest merchants in our
large cities never sell any goods manu-
The herald., 1896-09-27

II never was free silver advocate till
this fall. or rather last spring, and do
not believe I should now be advocating
the doctrine II trade were In normal
condition, but 1 do not believe we will
make matters much worse IL we destroy
our circulating medium entirely, for at
the present ruinous prices we cannot pay
interest and taxes, to say nothing of
keeping up repairs, improving and liv-
ing.
Write me again fully concerning the
situation out there, for 1 am anxious to
hear all that Is being done to win
H. e. Strickler. merchant at Iroquois,
Illinois, writes: How is the outlook in
the west for silver? I do believe from
present indications that Bryan will car
ry Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
"A great many'Republicans here have
turned for Bryan and silver. How is
California going?"
ALBION C. DAVIS.
The herald., 1896-09-27

who hold opposing political views, but
1t does not believe in pursuing such a
policy to the extent of submitting to un-
truthful slander, and abuse from hired
corporation attorneys and other mer-
cenafies employed to help organized
greed and rapacity to Cypress our peo-
pie and disrupt and 'debauch our free
institutions. Therefore. In reply to such
we propose to talk plainly.
We have now in hand and will have
until the campaign closes a supply of
Democratic literature.
We invite the aid and cooperation of
all commercial travellers in the United
states In spreading patriotic sentiments.
organizing Bryan and Sewall clubs, Sc
curing information of intimidating
methods and other campaign work. We
would be pleased to have sent us infor-
nation as to what concerns are intimi .
dating employees and as to how they are
doing it. 80 that we can take appropriate
action. Truly,
J. E. PITTS. Secretary.
JAMES W. JUMP, Chairman.
st. Louis, Sept, IL.
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