The age-herald., 1898-02-12

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 Money Dearer, Prices Lower
 That because of the dollar becoming dearer since the striking down of silver in 1878, prices have declined. That the French premier in a speech in the chamber of deputies recently explained that with the same quantity of gold it is now possible to obtain a double quantity of products" That the general average of prices for num- Der of years. and not the price of one par ticular thing for one particular year, is valuable in establishing a general rule. That the index numbers of prices fur nished by the Royal Statistical Society of London show general average of decline of more than 8 1-3 per cent. since 1873 That Prof. L. l.. Price, of Oriel College, Oxford, says that in the light of converging lines of evidence 1t seems impossible to doubt the existence of connection be- tween the recent fall of prices and the money changes of the last twenty years
 Bottom of Prices Not Reached
 MT. Tomlinson further showed from au- thors of unquestioned authority that the bottom of prices was not yet reached. That great economic changes are slow in taking effect.
 He showed the condition of the agrcul- tural laborlng classes of Engiand where children were put out at the tender years of 314 to work under strange task-mas ters. But, he said, England had been on gold basis since 1916, while this country had only been on a gold standard basis for less than quarter of a century, and dur ing part of that time with limited coin age of silver.
 He showed that the plan of the contrac- tionists was not only to stop the coinage of silver but to do away with all of the silver now coined, which was one-half of the metallic money of the world; which, when accomplished, as money measures values, reduce the present values at least one-half where uninfuenced by local and other conditions; that the effect of this pol icy is being felt in the continuing fall in prices now, except in the manufactured products of the protected few.
 Women and Children Must Work
 That statistics show that 50 per cent. of the laboring people of this country now are unable to support the family without the wife and children working also, as got to be the case in England good many years ago.
 That dofnesticity is on the decrease, that there are fewer homes where "the love of country is born in the love of home." To Debauch the Very Poor and to Use Them
 He further showed that it is folly now to go in debt. That in the accomplishment of their purpose to do away with all silver money now in use, the extremely rich, as was the case on the decline of the Roman empire, are endeavoring to debauch the very poor, who must look, not to the fu- ture, but to their immediate necessities to satisfy the cries of hungry children. In this way it is attempted to debauch the very poor and to them against the great middle classes who are to be de- feated in this way.
 Cato, the Wise, who made a visit to Car thage and beholding the insolence of the Carthagenians, on returning to Rome made a speech in which he said Romans must conquer the Carthagenians or the Cartha- genians would conquer Rome; and after that in every speech he made he wound up with the same exhortation. We must conquer the gold standard or the gold standard will conquer us The last contest was much closer than many supposed Went in unorganized, came out an organized body; that very day the result was known the buge | note of renewed attack was sounded again along down the line, and led on by the gall lant Bryan democracy had won in every contest since where it had stood firmly and aggressvely by its principle.
 Time is demonstrating the wisdom of the Chicago platform, not only on the money plank, but on all of the blanks.
 That Mexico is prospering under the double standard system of money; it is furnishing an object lesson to the world of the wisdom of true bimetallism. That while 400 100000 people are under the gold stand, ard, there are 900 who know nothing but silver-with whom mostly this country. trades. Fable of Wolf and Lamb MT. Tona4ifson further contended that while the logic of events was proving the truth of the cause of democracy, yetito win democracy must fight, and continue to fight, and fight all along the line. That the gold standard people, like the wolf in the fable of the Wolf and the Lamb, would, if they could, have their dinner, the increments of an increasing dollar in spite of all of our arguments; they are organ ized, aggressive, deceptive and misleading; and, unless watched, will in this state, un- der the plea of so-called harmony" and under the plea that in judicial fights the money question has no place." control our next democratic state convention, securing the state and county democratic executive committees so as to control the policy of the party in the great fight of 1900. Help Those Who Help the Cause That the policy of the silver advocates should be to help those who help the cause, and fight politically those who fight and sheer at the cause of silver; that any other course is illogical and unwise; that those who are earnestly in favor of silver will not put in the hands of others the club with which to fight silver; actions speak louder than words; those that are not for us are against us; those who profess to be for sil- yer and work for the advocates of the gold standard in accomplishing their ends, are not fooling the people. When men say they are bimetallists, ask them if they are in favor of free coinage, second of unlm- ited coinage, third of independent coinage by this government, fourth at the existing legal rate of 16 to I? If they answer, yes, then they are true bimetallists; otherwise, not
 Candidates for Solicitor
 The speaker said, in proceeding with his speech, that he had heard that certain can- didates for solicitor had been threatened that if they did not bring up their counties against silver in favor of certain candl- dates in the next state convention, that they would be beaten for solicitor in the next legislature That if this was true, these candidates should not be influenced thereby: that they should remember that the next legislature will be controlled by the advocates of silver's restoration, and that if candidates for solicitor think that they will help their cause before that leg islature by bringing up counties against silver, in the next state convention. they read the times incorrectly.
 Aggressiveness Against Aggressiveness
 If the banks of this state feel 1t to their