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Show They Even Eat Fie The Shyloclts under the gold standard, think 50 cents a day is enough for labor, so wrote J. Francis Fran-cis Forsythe of No. 11 Wall street to Judge R; C. Bell of Fort Wayne, Ind. Speaking of the working-men working-men he said "if they cannot get a dollar a day they refuse to work, while they ought to take 75 cents or even 50 cents, so that we may keep them at work. You ought to teach them that 1$ per day on a gold basis is enormous pay in this country; no gold country pays more than 50 cents, while here living is the cheapest of all countries, coun-tries, providing the lower : classes will live as they should live.- They are really extravagant; they buy meat four or five days in tire week; they even indulge in pie, which is no kind of food to be enjoyed by working people and does them no good; rice is one of the most hoalthy and nourishing of foods; it is cheap and can be raised in endless end-less quantities, but workmen avoid it as a general food. They eat wheat bread when rye is much more suitable." Workingmen, what do you think Ol It f- iUUllUVQ VVJUIJ IJf J.LL lliCA. |