Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-06

to carry on its business, and an Increase
would better our condition. h third
was that binletallism would resist the
worst competition of eastern countries,
by raising the price of wheat and farm
products. Now, there is but one of these
arguments left to democracy. However
good they then We're, republican prosper
ity has taken them out OF democratic
hands. though not in the way Bryan ex-
pected. That argument is the local
benefit of silver at $1.29 an ounce. The
democratic platform in name still reoog-
nizes silver but the campaign, the words
of the speakers OF this year, the real
sentiment at their convention, give the
lie to the platform that claims silver in
name.''
I'VE know the nation is prosperous;
that men who were idle then are now at
work: that wages are as good, or better,
everywhere. There may be local fall
ures: from the time of the holy writ, and
as long as men shall work for other men,
there will be oppression. But because one
man has the stomach ache, all the people
are not affected, and so with our local is
sue of h~igh-priced silver.
18th argument for increase Of money
has been met by the republican party.
There is now many times more. increase
in u money circulation than the total
value of the silver mined, even If all the
silver was coined. There has been an
increase of over $500, 000, 900 since Grover
went out of office. In that much, the
silver argument was good. that more
money was needed. But it was met in
the right way, by bringing general pros
'perity.'
Here some one in the audience inter-
ruoted with the remark that SILVER is
worth 5 cents more an ounce han it was
in 1896"
That's right" said the speaker.
PROSPERITY has advanced prices all
along the line and silver has gained as
Well as other products. Wheat has gone.
up % per cent, nearly all farm products
have gone UP to the same mount. There
is al increased value on everything. You
Ia say, it bears rather heavily on US
here; that wage do not SO up, while
other expenses do. But in no place can
you Keep up the highest wages With low
cost Of living, and everybody at work
while other parts of the country fail.
Others will come to get your jobs, there
would be other CoXey's armies cat or
work, and with two or three candidates
for your place there would be work but a
part of the time. We pay the farmer
more for his products, but we are at work
all the time, and have the money with
which to pay those of other parts of the
country. and keep our own places. To
day you could not raise 1000 C~oxeyites
in the state; four years ago it was all
too easy. We are not offended because
the east can live; THE whole country is
prosperous. and interdependent.
There. are good reasons Why many of
Bryan's supporters four years ago are
not following him noY. Then we be-
lieved him honest, and his party
willing to carry out it's platform on the
silver question which we thought meant
much TO US here. Though there was lit
tie warrant in SO believing for there
never was a promise kept b. them, ave
the one of free trade which brought mis-
cry to everyone. But now we known
hat democracy has - intention of CIV
ing bimetallism, why support them on an
that issue which beguiled SO many four
years ago?
The seaker then "a a telling review
of the election OF w. r. Hearst, the lead
ing democratic editor of the country, to
the representative position of president
of the united democratic clubs, and read
several extracts from the editorial col
umns of the New York Journal and San