The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-06-04
Your Dollar Was Never
Worth so much as Now

Now don't say it isn't so-right eff the bat OF
realize the seeming contradiction in the state
ment contained in the heading Of this article whole
lot has been said and written about the Shrinking Dollar
the 46 cent dollar the SO cent dollar You have read
of and have doubtless had less unpleasant ex
perences concerning this fact No need to tell you that
the Great American Dollar is no great but very
small indeed and contains but fraction and small
fraction at that of its former purchasing power In this
respect it has been getting smaller and smaller Little
by little and times whole lot at time, its value
: the necessities market has constantly dwind
led until have to regard dollar as little
than Joke tho tragic one for the most Of us who
earn them all and get but few. But still we maintain
that your dollar is worth more now than ever before
But it will take several more paragraphs to tell you why
You can't always measure the value Of a dollar by
what it will buy in general way There is still another
measure for the dollar and that the need OF
it at particular time When you have many OF them
their purchasing power Is not so important quantity
balances quality But when you have only few and the
purchasing power has dwndled to about one thrdthen
even 33 cent dollar looks big and bright as brand
new full moon.
Last week we told you on this page of the paper
shortage of the very grave situation Of The Toer be-
cause of it and the lack Of funds in The Toer treasuey
of the absolute necessity Of getting funds Immediately
to purchase paper if to continue publication
But in spite of the paper shortage paper can be hadfor
dollars Even truthtelng weekly paper such as The
Toiler can obtain paper if dollars are at hand.
And there is the trouble, comrades and readers Of
The Toiler Just as we told you last week. have no
funds to buy newsprnt We want to repeatin spite OF
the difficulties of obtaining print in spite of the
conspiracy which is said to exist against the smaller
weekies in spite Of the conspiracy which WE KNOW
exists in certain circles to kill The Toiler in any way
and several ways have been tried this past year. in spite
of all these-we know how to get all the newsprint
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what wheels to turn to start hundreds of reams of
to roll way- you will help get the money needed
to pay for it. We have learned how to do that in battling
for The Toiler these past trying months-and have
! learned it well.
! The rest is up to you comrades we believe we have
! done duty We have found the ways-you must help
find the means It is not much that we ask Just
little from each Of you who believe in The Toiler and its
mission who believe that in this particular crisis little
80 cent dollar too much to give to it to sustain it
in its struggle for the education and emancipation of the
! workers.
And we repeat what we state in the first para
graph-that in this particular instance, that measey
backened torn 33 cent dollar in your pocket is worth
NOW than ever before Because it will insure the
continuation Of The Toler by supplying the needed pa
per upon which to print by making certain that which
! we MUST have if we are to do our wcrk-yours and
ours Twenty five hundred dollars will pay for ten tons
of newsprnt Ten tons of paper mean good long lease
of life and chance to do whole lot of needed social
ist worka whole lot Of educational work among the
/ workers.
We know this is worth while You realize it is too.
Already the dollars coming in We ask you also to
drop at least dollar in the stream of dollars that is
to revove the wheels that keep The Toiler turning out
each and every week the education and nspra
tion which the workers must have to win world fer
{ those who toll
! SEND YOUR DOLLAR NOW!