!HE SOUIX CnilNfY JOURXAL
HARBISON.
NEBRASKA.
The New York Mail and Express
ays: "There is now a great deal of safe
robbery la this city." Perfectly safe.
The Roentgen ray baa reached the
(danger point. When a room can be
photographed through a partition it la
time to call a halt, for no man Is safe.
That Troy paper which thinks that
"all will ride bicycles hereafter," per
haps will admit that a large proportion
of the riders probably will have to be
classed as "scorchers."
Alfred Austin. In his ioeiu on Katten
berg, asks, "Who would cot die for
England?" There are several gentle
men of English descent who could be
named who are not chafing the death
angel very bard.
Boston will not send a team of ath
letes to Athens to compete In the Olym
pic games. Boston is nothing If not
the Athens of modern civilization, but
that should not create Jealousy for the
Grecian capital.
Xansen may know a good deal, but
be missed the only chance he will ever
ihave of discovering the South Pole.
It Is certainly on the other end of the
same stick and he never thought 'to
pull it out and look for the south end.
A London paper learns that the
young man who is to marry Miss Pull
man is "well educated and of high
birth." There, must be some mistake
about that. Nothing less thun a double
lower berth goes In the Pullman fam
ily. Adelina Patti will make mother fare
well tour of America provided an "an
gel" will guarantee that her net profits
hall not fall below 1200,000. If she
will make counter guarantee that the
tour shall be her last a hundred "an
gels" would accept the contract.
Terhaps the 15,000 soldiers Gen. Wey
ler rnisser from the army In Cuba are
partly accounted for by the number of
Spanish spies distributed throughout
the seaports of America. The suppres
sion of sympathy for men who are
shot if captured fighting for liberty
could not be affected by a million spies.
The sale of John It. Gentry for $7,600
Illustrates the fickleness of the lor
tunes of the track. Axtell sold lor
$105,000, when the trotter was at the
height of his glory. Now, after R. suc
cessful season, Gentry, the pacing
wonder, Is knocked down to a pawn
broker at a respectable price for a ctr
rlage horse. -.
A toe-post is an English bootmaker's
Ingenious device for correcting distor
tions in the feet of men and women.
It is a thin, vertical steel plate, cov
ered with leather, which rises from the
Inside of the sole, and separates the
great toe from the toe next to it, thus
correcting the tendency of the great toe
to become twisted round. Of course,
hosiery having a separate compartment
for the great toe is also necessary.
A point In street car ethics is afforded
in the talk concerning the largest trol
ley car ever used. Of course this car Is
In Chicago. An officer of the road says
that the car has a seating capacity of
forty-four, but will easily carry one
hundred and fifty persons. It may, or
may not, comfort passengers on the
street railways to read this additional
evidence that their having to stand Is
not accidental, but Is provided for in
the economy of the railway companies.
When a physician so eminent as Sir
James Crichton-Browne announces
himself as opposed to what- Is termed
the higher education of woman his
words are sure to attract attention.
But there are women, and other wom
en. Some have the mental and pbys
Jcal capacity for the highest education;
others break down in mind or body,
or in both. It is not paradoxical to say
that specialists are too prone to general
ization. It Is safer to say women than
' woman when yon mean nearly all of
them; It leaves room for differentia
tion. Twenty-four boys were arraigned in
a single day In Chicago for offenses va
rying in gravity from disorderly con
duct to burglary. A boy nine years
old was a leader of a gang of four
burglars. AH over the country there
la the same story of youthful criminals.
The cheap novel, giving details of rice
and rlolence, and the cigarette, are
the constant companions of these of
fenders. If there is a disposition to
do wrong, suggestion to crime is swiftly
followed by acta of law-breaking. This
destructive literature ought to be
stamped out as we destroy the germs
of Tlrulent diseases.
The game-warden of Illinois reports
to the Governor that the song-birds
hare been snot and trapped to such an
extent that they have almost disappear
ed from the woods of that State. What
with the murderous work of amateur
gunners and the killing of birds for use
In trimming hats and the like for
women, the despoiling has robbed the
groves and fields of one of their chief
charms. Apart from the question of
truelfy, there la the economic consldera
ttoa tiatt the farmers will miss the help
f the thirds In getting rid of Insert
Mi grata Injurious to vegetation. One
ltnoa for the children Is that
t fct or rw the frightening of
1 CVzZm la not osrjr Inhumane,
l'7t fc37 to tko commanlty.
There la too little beauty and ip'jflc
in our liven, at oesL Whoever lessvis
the volume of harmony In the world not
only offends against good taste, but
does 111 to his neighbor.
Now that Senator Frye has been elect
ed President pro tempore of Um Sen
ate, it Is a singular and perhaps unpre
cedented fact that the Chief Justice of
the United States, the presiding officer
of both branches of Congress and the
chairman of the leading committee of
the House of Representatives, are all
natives of one State, and thai? so far
as population is concerned, one of the
smallest Moreover, Chief Justice Ful
ler, Senator Frye and Speaker Reed all
graduated between ISTiO and 1500 at
Bowdoin College, then and now one
of the smaller institutions of learning,
but the "alma mater" of many Illustri
ous men, at the head of whom stand
Longfellow and Hawthorne.
The graduated income tax Just sub
mitted in France, by which the rate of
tax paid is to vary in Inverse propor
tion to the size of the family, is otie
of the schemes proposed for encourag
ing an Increase In the population. Its
introduction lends Interest to a state
ment brought out by Galiguanl that for
the first time in the history of the world
the population of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland is greater
than that of France. At the beginning
of this century France had 2,0iO.(KiO
Inhabitants and the United Kingdom
only lH.i'mO.Onfl. In 1891 the latter had
37.7tC.iX") and France 8S.343.fWJ. In
the last five'years the little difference
of 5411.000 must have lcen overcome,
as the vital statistics stiow that In 1M2
and 1W3 the deaths In France outnum
bered the births by more than 12.000
while in the United Kingdom the births
were more numerous than the deaths
by about S17,m. It is stated that since
1S!)3 a change for the Ix-tter has Is-en
observed in France, but the gain is a
small one. The native growth of
France has teen small, after making
due allowances for the disastrous ef
fects of NaK)leouie wars early In the
century and the struggle with Germany
in 187o-'71. In the last hundred years
it has amounted to but alut lll.ooO.
000, or 44J per cent, while In the same
time the growth of population In the
British Islands has been more than 21.
000,000, or 130 per cent., despite the
famines In Ireland and the large migra
tion to other countries. In that time
the emigration from the United King
dom has amounted to eleven and a half
millions, making the actual British in
crease thirty-two and a half millions,
while France has sent only half a mill
ion to foreign lands, Including her col
onies, making the total Increase of her
people only eleven and a half millions.
or little more than one-third that of
the British. If to the home augment
there are added the gain by Immigra
tion and native growth in the English
speaking colonies, also that of the Eng
lish-speaking United States, we have in
the result a powerful argument in favor
of the theory that English Is to be, prae-
tie'allv, the universal language of the
future, no other tongue lieing worthy
to be reckoned for a moment as a
serious competitor. In 1W)3 there were
in France 237,000 marriages, 874,000
births, and 807,000 deaths; while in the
United Kingdom in the same year the
marriages were only 2S7.ooo, but the
births were 1,147,000, against 732.0H0
deaths. That is, marriages are the
more numerous In France, but more
fruitful in Great Britain, and the death
rate in the latter is much the smaller
of the two. If the conditions here noted
should continue Frawe well may be
considered as falling behind; for a
country the native population of which
Is at a standstill, or actually becoming
less, hardly can hope to extend its
power.
Spider Farming.
Although entomologists have often
raised spiders for purposes of scientific
observation, spider raising as a money
making Industry is rather novel.
One has only to go four miles froia
Philadelphia and find the farm of
Pierr Grautalre, to see what can be
found in no other place In America,
and abroad only in a Tillage in the
Department of the Loire.
Pierre Grautalre furnishes spiders at
so much per hundred to wholesale
wine merchants.
These merchants stock their cellars
with new, freshly labeled wine, sprin
kle dust upon the bins and admit the
spiders, who weave their webs from
cork to cork. The collection of cob
webs thus obtained gives the Impres
sion to the buyer, upon whom the de
eentlon Is Dracticed. of years of storage
j and mellowing.
A Talented Mathematician.
George P. Bidder, Q. K., died recent
ly at Manchester, Knglnnd. He was
the son of a civil engineer who was
known in the early part of the century
as "the calculating boy." For many
years Mr. Bidder has been one of the
leaders at the parliamentary bar. The
extraordinary calculating powers of
the father were inherited to a mar
velous degree by the son, who could
mentally multiply fifteen figures by
fifteen figures and perform with ap
parent ease many similar feats. He
was also successful as a cryptographer,
and published some years ago what is,
perhaps, the only attempt at a scientific
method of analysis of cipher 'j
Green Bone.
Every fall we feel like speaking a
word In favor of cut green bone for
poultry food. Some form of animal
food Is especially desirable for fowls
that have had a range of the farm
through the summer. When frost de
stroys Insects, those bena are forced
to a sudden change of diet the natural
food la taken away from them. The
problem of supplying this animal food
daring the wlnte, becomes a aertois
THEY Will NOT BE HANGED
President Irnger Inolined to bs Msr
eiful THE RAIDERS HAVE STRONG HOPE.
Marry Tempore JuaUca aad They Will
be treed.
Pketobia, April 30 Monster peti
tions are being signed here and in Jo
hannesburg asking the president to
pardon the members of the reform
union upon whom sentence was pro
nounced Tuesday. The Boer jurors,
before whom the condemned men would
have been tried had they not pleaded
guilty, have also Bigned a memorial ask
ing that executive clemency be extend
ed the self confessed reformers.
All of the members of the reform
nnion who are nnder sentence for high
treas n or le&e niajeste are in jail here,
though at present they are granted cer
tain privileges.
I H . J. L7de, secretary of state
of the South African republic, informed
Sir Jacobus A. reet, British diplo
matic agent, yesterday that the death
penalties imposed upon John llaya
Hammond, Colonel Rhodes and others
of the Johannesburg reform upon Tues
day had been commuted, but it had not
been decided what form of punn-huient
would be substituted for that which had
Wen abandoned.
The executive council is now in ses
sion, considering all ot the sentences
impos-ed by the court Tuesday.
In rassing judgment upon the prison
ers Tuesday, the judge said it was bis
painful duty to impose extreme sen
tence, but he hoped that the executive
would exercise the same degree of
clemency toward the prisoners that he
had shown at the beginrrng of tiie year.
KBl tiEK ADVISES COOLNESS.
London, April 30 A dispatch from
Pretoria, under Tuesday's date, gives
the substance of an interview with
President Kruger, in which the Boer
president, in regard to the sentences
passed on the leaders of the Johannes
burg reform union, said that he was
earnestly weighing in his mind the de
velopments of the day. He trusted, he
added, that the people of Johannesburg
would calmly await the decision of the
government The judgment of the
court would be presented to the execu
tive in writinv on April 30, when the
matter would be promptly dealt with.
John Hays Hammond's physician
stood by him while the sentence of
death was being pronounced. Ham
mond was wtiak in health, but firm and
strong in spirit and showed not the
slightest sign of fear.
Among the sixty other Uitlandera,
who received minor sentences for their
participation in the reform movement,
were two Americans named Butters
and SauTpson.
Cam Town, April 29. The Cape
Argus in an article noon the action of
the high court at Pretoria yesterday,
in condemning to death the leaders of
the Johannesburg reform union, gays:
'The aw ful sentence pronounced upon
these men ha created a painful sensa
tion throughout the civilized world."
In Johannesburg the sentences
shocked the entire town. The people
were greatly excited and tl.ronged the
streets, di-cussing the event. An im
mense public meeting was held yester
day afternoon to protest aiainet the
court's severe judgment. The consen
sus of opinion in Johannesburg is that
the sentences will be commuted. The
greatest sympathy is felt for those
among the condemned reformers who
did not take any active part in the
movement. Most of the theatres in Jo
hannesburg, as well as a majority of
the stores, were closed last evening and
business was practically suspended.
The town is quiet.
BARNEY tS BITTER.
Johancesbiro, April 29. The Dig
gers News says that "Barney" Barnato,
the Kaffir king, is very bitter concern
ing the sentences imposed upon Khodes,
Hammond and 'others at Pretoria yes
terday, and is showing his resentment
by closing all his mines and selling all
his landed properties in the Rand
The people are paralyzed at the pros
pect, as the closing of the Barnato
mines will throw thousands of men into
the already overflowing ranks of tko
unemployed.
London, April 29. The list pub
lished in the ("L James Gazette of the
prisoners sentenced at Pretoria yester
day to pay a fine of 2,000, two years'
imprisonment and three years' banish
ment does not contain the name of the
American, Butters, which is given in
the list sent out by the Central News,
'but it does include the names of F. L.
Lino-ham, H. J. King and (Samson.
Washington, April 29. Secretary
Olney this morning received the follow
ing cablegram, dated today, from Vice
Consul Knight at Cape Town, relative
to John Hsya Hammond :
"Have been informed that the sen
tence ?f death is commuted. Further
particulars rill be wired."
London, April 29. The colonial of
fice has received a dispatch from Pre
toria saying that the death sentences
imposed upon the leaders of the Jo
hannesburg union have been commuted.
' captured.
Havana, April 30. The Spanish
gunboat Me agora has captured, near
BarracoK on the northern coast of the
province ol Pinar del Rio, the Ameri
can schooner Competitor of Key West,
loaded with arma and ammunition, for
which she was seeking a landing place.
On board of the schooner were the
rebel leader, Alfredo Labordo, Dr. Be
die, correspondent of the EI Mosquito,
a Key West newspaper, and - three
others, all ol whom were arrested.
AMI taa rira
Caim-t Chick, Colo , May 1. The
cause of Wednesday's fire is a matter of
(peculation. A waitress in the Port-
Una hotel was in the kitchen when Uie
Maze first broke through the partition
wil, and she state that the fire origin
ated in the Chicago restaurant, ad
joining the hotel, but the fire burst out
simultaneously from so many places as
to fctill leave the impression that arson
was committed. Coal oil fumes wera
detected alout the school Louse yester
day, snd some women created a sensa
tion yesterday afternoon by telling of
seeing two men trying to set fire to a
residence near the reservoir. One un
known man was killed Wednesday, one
shot and a number of suspects were
arrested during the night and locked
up in box cars in lien "f any lietter
place to confine criminals.
The burned district of Wednesday
covered seventeen blocks. The Masonic
temple building was but partially de
stroyed, and there the ma-s meeting of
citizens was held yesterday to consider
the grave situation. Committees were
named to take charge of the rrlief work
and headquarters were opened at the
Midland terminal depot and at the two
school houses. Men, women and child
ren, hungry, worn out and cold from
the hardships of Wednesday night,
flocked to the depot w hen the relief
trains from Denver snd Colorado
Springs arrived at 6 o'clock yesterday
morning. Their wants were soon satis
fied and tents set np.
oanKK ot t or chaos.
By noon something like order pre
vailed. What provisions were saed
commanded fancy prices, Is f selling
at $1 a pound and bread 2") cents a loaf.
The First National bank opi ned be
fore 9 o'clock in a warehouse and
money was issued upon demand. The
Bimetallic bank was opei.ded this
morning. In the burned tln-tri.-t of Sat
urday's fire the work of erecting tem
porary buildings wai resumed and the
piles of salvage from Wedm s lay's fire,
which has Wen carried tin re were put
in something like order yesterday.
Trains of supplies of all kind- came in
late yesterdy and more is announced.
The gtnerons rekponfe from the entire
state i greatly appreciated and while
there will be many cases of Buffering
during the coming two or three days
and people w ill scon be able to take
care of themselves.
There is a determination plainly
shown to rid the camp of undesirable
crooks and tramps. At noon fifty
bobos were lined up and drummed out
of town. All arreted suspects were
later sent to Colorado Springe. A vig
ilance committee ban been formed and
no mercy will be shown to violators of
the law. This committee will work
quietly and will not gheout anything
to the public The result of this policy
has been wholesome and few complaints
of thieving have been made.
It is irnpoesible to state now many
were burned in the fire Wednesday.
All kinds of rumors are afloat and many
persons are missing, home have gone
out of town and some are out in the
hills with friends.
' THE DEAD AND INJUBED.
At the improvised morgue are three
dead bodies, that of Charles (inlhth, a
miner, the unknown incendiary i-hot by
Floyd Thompson, and an unidentified
miner.
The revised wt of the injured is as
follows :
John Rose, broken leg.
Claude Stanton, badly bruised.
E. W. Lewis, badly cut and bruised.
Tom tfewell, leg injured.
George L Uuden, burned and bruised.
A. G. Grider, head hurt.
E. Broadway, face badly cut.
E. K. Hinckley, cut on head and legs.
John Youngstrum, slight cuts.
Charles Ragodeli, skull fractured.
Charles McCann, skull fractured, face
cut.
T. W.Gerbeck, head and neck cut
Joseph Maroney, blown off ladder, se
riously injured.
E. H. Smith, superintendent of water
works, injury to head and face, caused
by flying glass.
Ed Oebey, fireman Davey hose com
pany, badly injured.
Lee Corcoran, fireman Whitney bose
company, injured.
N. 8. Fisher, injured.
Grant Lewis, fi-eman, badly injured.
Herbert Winkler, Davy hose com
pany, arm crushed.
George Leyden, Georgetown, hands
broken arid lacerated, head and face
badly cut
H. B. Ordway, fatally injured.
J. W. Linch, Loveland, Colo., arm
blown off.
Willis Walker, mine engineer, seri
ously injured.
John Evans, cut on face and hands.
. Christ Coffmeyer, fireman, severely
injured.
Dr. Crane broke his leg yesterday
while assisting to lift an injured man
oat of a wagon.
A corps of twenty-five insurance ad
justers are trying to figure out their
losses. They variously estimate the
property loss at l,2o0,000, not more
than 10 per cent of which is covered by
insurance. It is said the loss will
reach 12,000,000, and the total insur
ance alwut 1400,000.
Jf.w l.la.
Tacoma, May 1. Japanese Consul
Saito has received notice that a com
pany of capitalists bas applied to the
Japanese government for . permission
to establish a steamship line between
Japan and New York city, The consul
aajre that the new line has no connec
tion with the Nippon Yosen Xalaha,
the Jine which will operate a line of
ahlpa between Japan and some port on
I the Northern Pacific within the next
vear or so.
CABUSLEATCHICA00,
.
TELLS WORK1NGMEN PLAINLY HOW
FREECOINAGE WOULD INJURE THEM.
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Qaicklr fc- was- Bio-if ,
, I. D.prlati.-EP.H-
Waaa
' caea of Taltaa Statoa, Call aad Mmttm ,
With Caaaa Moay Was F-n-r
Would AIm Lm Ooa-half of All ' j
Bavtaca Dxpaatted la Baaha, BalldlDf ,
ad Loaa AaiociatloBa.
Billion.
Secretary of the Treasury John Ci.
Carlisle made another of his niaxt-r;y
speeches on the currency question, in
Chicago, on April 15. It was to an iia
incnse audience composed largely of
workingmeu, many of whom, csjiecinlly
in the beginning, wi re ski-ptical as to
the blowings of 100 cuit dollars. The
secretary's argument as to the -fiVct of
cheup money on wages was mt con
vincing and effW-ted a notable change in
the attitude of ens auditors. We quote
a part f t his speech on this point :
Lalxir cannot tie hoarded. The idle
day is gone fort vcr. Loft wiig-s are nev
er reimbursed, and therefore steady em
ployment and good pay in g. d money
are essential to the comfort and happi
ness of the American laborer uud his
wife and children, aiid he will be un
faithful to himself and to them if he
does not insist upon the adoption and
maintenance of such a policy as will
most certainly preserve the valuo and
stability of all our currency and promote
the regular and profitable conduct of ail
our industrial enterprises. He cannot
prosper whn the country is in distress,
when its industries are prostrated, its
commerce paralyi'-d, its credit broken
down, or its social order disturbed. Nor
can he prosper when the fluctuations i,f
the currency are such that he cannot
certainly know the value it the dollar
in which his wages are paid.
Money received for wages, like money
received on every other account, is val
uable only to the extent that it can be
exchanged for other commodities, and
it is scare lyiifcessary to suggest that a
dollar worth 50 cent will not purchase
as mnch in the markets as a dollar
worth 100 cents. To call a dime a dol
lar would add nothing whatever to iti
intrinsic value or to its purchasing pow
er. If these prepositions are correct, it
is clear that when wages aro paid in a
depreciated currency the rates of wages
must be increased in proportion to the
depreciation of the money and in pro-
portiou to the increase in the prices of
other things or the laborer will suffer a
loss.
But I affirm that it is the universal
rule that the rates of waji-s do in it in
crease in proportion to tho depreciation
in the value of tho money in which
they are paid, and that w hen the cur
rency is depreciated the rates of wag' s
do not increase in proportion to the in
crease in the prices of tho commodities
tho laborer is compelled to purchase.
Oar Eiperieace With Chap Money.
Congress, early in tho year 1H62, in
augurated the policy of issuing legal
tender paper, gold wai driven out of
circulation, specie payments wero sus
pended, the currency began at once to
depreciate, and before tho close of tho
year the paper dollar was worth less
than 7 0 cents in gold.
In 1802 the wage's of labor, paid in
depreciated paper, were less than 8 per
wnt higher in paper than when paid in
gold, but the prices of the 223 articles
used by the laborers and other jx-oplo
in the maintenance of their families
were nearly 18 per cent higher than
they were when paid iu gold. In 1 HCi
the wages of labor paid in depreciated
paper worth about 09 ceuts on the dol
lar were 04 'T CP,lt higher than
when paid in gold, but the prices of tho
articles the laborer had to buy with his
wages were nearly 49 per cent higher.
In 1804 the wages of lalxir paid in do
predated paper dollars worth 49 cents
each hud advanced 25 s percent, but
the prices of the necessaries ef life had
advanced 00 per cent. In 165 wage
paiu iu paper currency worm do cenis
on the dollar had advanced 43 per cert
above the rates previously paid in gold,
or its equivalent, but the prices of coin-
modifies had advanced nearly 117 jht
cent that is to say, had more than dou
bled, and in 1866 wages paid in a cur
rency worth 71 cents on the dollar had
advanced a fraction more than 62 p. r
cent from the previons rates in gold, or
its equivalent, but the price of com
modities had advanced 90 per cent Tho
rise in the rates of wages never corre
sponded with the rise iu the prices of oth
er things until the year 1809, four years
after the close of the war, when the
value of our currency was 7 1 cents on
the dollar, and it was quite certain that
no further depreciut ion would occur.
The wages of labor, measured by gold
as they were in 1 860, when we had a
sound currency, bad fallen about 24 per
cent in 1863, more than 19 per cent in
1864, and nearly 44 percent in 1865,
when we had a depreciated currency,
and, gentlemen, the force of this illus
tration is greatly augmented by the facts
that these reduction in the rates of
wages occurred at a time when several
hundred thousand laborers had been
withdrawn from the field of competi
tion, when the government was engaged
in the prosecution of a great war and
was expending money lavishly for all
binds of supplies for the army and navy,
and when the prices of all the product
of labor had largely increased.
Eirlaea of Calla.
The recent experience of the republic
of Chile furnishes another impressive
warning to the wage earner against the
evils of depreciuUd currency. In 1875
the peso, or dollar of Chile, was worth
about HH cents in our money, bat in
1885, ten years after gold went out and
silver fame In, the peso was worth leaa
than 53 cents in our money. Silver con
tinued to depreciate, and besides large
amounts of paper currency were isaaed
by the government and the banks, and
in 1696, 20 year after the change from
the gold basis to the silver basis, the
peso was worth only about 84)tf orate
Let as se BOW Waal ef -
k-'JSSS
woraa,
laim " ; . . 1 1
which yon are aka eaopi uerr, -
spun thewrW Ubor in that cntry.
la lsTS.wben tks peso was worth 8 .'
cents, a mechanic a
boiW maker.
blacksmith, a carpenter, a nreman a
ordinary labf.rer received t.gt her for
fireman and
aday'swork 1S J. or t io. -
lri
I0 um sain" .
ceivwi for thessme work pesos;
but, ow.ngto the depreciat.on ... ....
curreu.T. this was eqmd " t10 ;3
in our money, and in hw. 20 year, aft
er the country had descended to a silver
bam. the tuit laborers received for tb
aaiue work 25.95 J. but the vl of
the peso wa. lew than 85 cents, ana con
sequently their wge amount' d to only
$1 84 in our money, or just ab ut one
half f what they had received 20 year
before.
Our minister to Chile, after a very
careful examination of the entire situa
tion in that country, says, "It may b
taken f-.r prann d that in Hill", as in all
other pountn.i which have a like finan
cial exjp.-rt.nc, the omstqu.-nc of
cheap mom T have weighed ni't heavily
utx.n the clae. that are l. a-t able to
support the burden." The evils . f silver
monometallism and a d. pr.-iat .1 cur
reney finallv Kcarne intolerable in that
country, and it has recently ad-ipt-d the
gold standard of value.
Meitro ac an Inatanra.
Our neighboring republic of Mexico
hai the silver standard of value, gold
uot being in use, and if cheap luomy is
a blessing to the laboring man he onght
tobeppoperousand happy in that coun
try. The Mexican dollarcintamii 377.il
(rr'aina. if pure silver, ornearlysix grains
more than is contained In our dollar,
and yet, not being sustained by a mone
tary "system which keeps it at a parity
with gold, it is worth only alsmt 55
cents in our money. Wages are paid in
silver and are very low in comparison
with the wages paid in thin country for
the same services, in many instance not
being half as much, whil't the prie s t,t
commodities generally are much higher
than th.y are litre.
The prices of imjsirted article espe
cially Bm exorbitantly high in Mexico,
because they have to be paid for abroad
in gold, and the depreciation of their
money is r. great that It requires m arly
$i in silver topayfl in gold. Although
our own fcilu r .h ilar contains h-ss ftn
silver than thn Mexican dollar, nue of
ours is m arly equal in exchangeablo
value to two i f their, because here th
coinage is limited, and the government
j issues t lie coin u its own account and
has pledp-d its faith and credit to keep
them as good as gold, a pledge that has
ts-en faithfully kept up to this time,
notwithstanding the cinj.laiiita and de
nunciations of our fn coinage oprsj
w n ta
If we are to have free and unlimit
ed coinage of legal Under silver for the
betn fit ef tint owners of the bullion,
the value f our dollar would 1 n
greater than tho intrinsic or commercial
value of the silver contained in it, and
its purchasing power in the markptii
would le diminished about one-half,
but the wag.-s of labor would remain,
for a long time at least, substantially at
the present rates, or, if they should bo
nominally increased on account of tho
depreciation of the. curn nry, experience
in tho paxt shows that they would not
Increase in proportion to the inm-ose in
the prices of commodities. Kiscs in tho
rates of wages take place v. ry slowly,
while the prices of comni'xlitie move
rapidly, at some jieriods changing stv-
cral times in the course of a single day,
and these movement aro always more
frequent and more harmful when the
currency is in an uiis.-ttl.tT condition.
Why Savins- Would lb) Lmt.
If the solution of this question affect
ed only the character and amount and
. purchasing power, f the future earnings
of the American laborer, it would still
! be a subject of the gravest importanea
j to him, but it importance is greatly
j increased by tho fact that the sufoty
and value of a very considerable part of
' his past earnings are aluo involved The
1 ninny an.l proviuent Worklllgman
is
not a debtor, but a creditor, and the
corporations and individuals having the
custody of his earnings are indebted to
him mid ought to pay w hat they owe
him iu just as goisi money as he put
into their hands.
The banks, trust companies, building
association and other similar institu
tions owe the people of the UniW
Htates today f5, 808, 188, 62 1 for money
actually deposited, a sura nearly eight
time greater than the total capital of
all the national bank in tho country.
while the life insurance policies he ld by
uie peopie in ue various kinds of cor
porations and associations and in forco
today amount to$10,203,804,857, a sum
larger than ha been actually invested
in all our railroads. In view of these
facts, which cannot be successfully dis
puted, I submit that you ought serious
ly to consider all the consequences to.
yourselves and y.mr fellow citiien be
fore you agree to the free and unlimited
coinage of legal tender silver at a ratio
of 16 to 1 in order that these, great cor
porations and associations may have the
privilege of discharging their debts to
the people by paying 61 or 6 J cent on
the dollsr, for that is exactly what it
mean. Every dollar the people pot into
these banks and trust companies and
other institutions and every dollar they
paid for insurance was worth 100 cent
and would procure 100 cents' worth of
commodities In the market when they
earned it and when they invested it,
and they have an unquestionable right
to demand that it shall be refunded to
them in dollars worth 100 oe-iit eve-ry-
The greatest crime short of abso
lute political enslavement that jeonld
be committed against the workingman
In this country would be to conftacate
his labor for the beoosU of the employer
by destroying the value of the money in
Which hie wagea are paid ; bat, gentle
men, this Irreparable wrong caa aever
be perpetrated under oar system of for
eminent unless the laboring man him
self assists la forging his own chains.
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