The representative., 1899-11-23

book as yours, you are entitled to far
more Tabor checks" than another mar
consuming the same number OF hours
destroying the Spanish navy.
And, gentlemen, we are proud to
boast that the man nominated for Presi-
dent Of these United States by our party
Is among the very foremost minds of
the world on such subjects. AS he is a
real statesman who, unlike Bryan, re-
fuses to make sacrifice of principle to
secure votes, have cut this out of his
paper. The American. Pin it to your
saw-hOrse and learn it while at work.
Then you can teach your neighbors how
to vote. Then you and they will secure
the means to saw wood by electricity
HOW TO ISSUE GREENBACKS.
BY Wharton Barker
There is that idleness engendered by
fluctuations in the value of the money
standard that by depressing prices cut
out the profits of production. lead to
stagnation and the throwing of men out
OF work, that it is the duty of the gov
ernment to guard against. And how
may this be guarded against, how may
the money standard be freed from
fluctuations and the opportunity to
work kept open to all men and at all
times, so that there may be NO LOSS
FROM ENFORCED IDLENESS, no
suffering and distress and impoverish-
ment bred thereof? Some tell us to
make labor the standard of value by
onering work to all men at fixed wage
This would give us rigid measure Of
values based on labor as a unit. Then
should wages for any cause be generally
reduced in the independent fields of
production, MEN WOULD TAKE UP
WITH THE GOVERNMENTS STAND
ING OFFER, BE SET TO WORK IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF WORKS OF
PUBLIC UTILITY, the wages paid them
would 60 to swell the volume of cur
rency; this would lift prices, instil new
life into Independent industry, finally
result in increased demand for labor
and GENERAL OFFERING OF
HIGHER WAGES. And this very
thing would prevent any imitation of
currency by drawing workers back to
the service of Independent producers
and so, by decreasing the hands in
government employ, cause a decrease in
the rate of currency increase the mo-
ment imitation was threatened.
But do we want rigid measure OF
values based on labor as a unit? For
our part we do not, for TO LABOR 1T
WOULD BE UNJUST. With the prog
ress of invention labor becomes more
productive, more valuable, and should
command higher wages If we made
labor the unit of value wages would not
rise, but remain unchanged with such
progress, while prices would fall. You
say this would be all right, for labor
would secure the profit and benefit OF
such increased productiveness by being
able to buy cheaper; that the wage.
though nominally unchanged, would
buy more. This is true but labor would
secure it's profits after the others had
taken off and secured for their own
profit large part of the increased pro-
ductiveness of labor-an increased pro-
ductiveness that such others: fundhold-
ers and landlords, drawers of interest
and rent, had no share in bringing
about. For with such a cheapening
drawers of interest and rents could
command a greater share of the pro-
ducts of labor, thus leaving labor with
far from the full increase of it's own
productiveness. And this would be un-
just for it would deprive labor of the
full fruit of it's toll, obige it to share
such fruits with those who had no Just
claim thereto. Therefore, we would
make the general level of prices the
basis of our measure of values, and
then we would regulate the volume of
currency so as to keep that level stable.
Therefore would we offer work to all
men, not upon any fixed rigid scale, but
vance with the productiveness of labor,
be. so regulated as to KEEP UP THE
CURRENCY TO SUCH A VOLUME AS
WOULD BE NEEDED TO MAINTAIN
THE LEVEL OF PRICES This would,
of course, mean that any fall in prices.
consequent on any progress made in
industrial arts. would be followed by a
rising in the scale of wages until, as a
result, the volume Of currency would be
SO increased as to restore and maintain
the level Of prices. Then not only would
THE RIGHT WORK BE SECURED TO
ALL MEN, but the right of all men to
enjoy the FULL fruits of their toll be
recognized. THEN WOULD THE La
BORER SHARE TO THE FULL in
the general progress of the arts and the
Increased productiveness Of labor. Then
would there be Justice; then men
would be really free. Then great would
be the stimulus to enterprise and in
dustry; great be the increase in wealth
production, unparalleled the accumula-
tion of capital, marvellous the rate of
progress.
Mr.. Buell-You Populists and Social
lists would force men to work together.
would tell them for whom they must