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Show 25. Because rising prices mean I more profit in business and more new industries and enterprises. 26. Because more. Industries mean more employment. 27. Because more employment means a lessening of the supply of labor. 28. Because more employment 1 means a greater demand for labor. Thus by increasing the demand and lessening the supply you raise wages. 29. Becanse free coinage means capital is now rushing to Japan, 44. - Because only about 4 per cent of our business is with foreign nations, and of that is with nations thatiavor silver. 45. Because McKinley says it will;cause an oversupply of money, thus raising prices, while Harrison 1 says it will drive out gold, making money scarce, and thus lowering prices. 46. Because the Hon. Burke Cock ran says both of these are wrong nearly twice as much money in circulation, cir-culation, and with an abundance of industries, factories, mills and enterprises en-terprises of all kinds in operation. 30. Because the employers, making mak-ing more sales and more profit, will pay higher wages. 31. Because free coinage will make the dollar nearly twice as easy -to get, thus making debts nearly twice as easy to pay. ' j 32. Because the gold people are dishonest and refuse to print in their newspapers the silver side of the question, while the silver people circulate the New York Journal as a campaign democrat, and, that paper prints the" best arguments from the very best gold advocates, which shows ,that the silverites do not fear to have both sides heard, being confident that Jbey .. have. by. far the better of the" argument. xx. Because the wage earner will and the London price of silver will make the price here,, and consequently conse-quently the price of all commodities here will vary as the London price varies. 47. Because free coinage will benefit the people of the silver states only in common with the people of the United States, giving to all jhat which the act of 1893 took away. 48. Because Mexico has prospered pros-pered and kept the pnrchasing power of her currency stable under free coinage, and her labor in many cases is far better off than ours. Why does she not change to the gold standard if dissatisfied? England would help her and welcome her as one' of' Her .financial colonies along with the United States. 49; Because President Andrews 'x of-Brown uni veitynstritherxttrfla" . tic, anarchist nor mine owner, and he I says: I "There must be a change if we would avoid bankruptcy. With free coinage, every industry would look up. Never since slavery days has the press displayed such disregard for truth and such stubborn obtuse-ness," obtuse-ness," etc. 50. Because free coinage means continuous prosperity, employment and higher wages, government of ahe people and by the people, and not government of Hanna for the trusts and by the plutocrats. . FIFTY GOOD REAM'S WHY The American People should Favor the Free Coinage of Silver. The Busy Man Can See Why It Should lleuefit Him and the Whole Couutry to Return to the Money of the Constitution. 16. Because the silver dollar "would necessarily contain 100 cents' worth" of silver and be worth a dollar dol-lar anywhere. 17. Because that silver dollar would be a better dollar than the present silver dollar, for this contains con-tains only 53 cents' worth of silver. 18. Because, if the present silver dollar is dishonest, it was the gold people who made it so by demonetizing demone-tizing silver by the "crime of 1873." 19. Because the dollar under free coinage would contain just so much silver as the silver dollar today, and this dollar buys 106 cents' worth 'every day. . 20. Because if the mine owner may take 53 cents' worth of silver to the mints and get a 100 cent dollar for it, the laborer may do the same thing. s,2i. Because the miner gets a 100 cent dollar, then there is no such thjng as 53 cent dollars in circulation. circula-tion. t;22. Because it is funny if the dollar can be a 100 cent dollar to the rnine owner and only a 52 cent dollar to the laborer. 4.23. Because every dollar that gets in circulation means the sale of some' commodity of the installation of capital in business. .24: Because free toinage means rising prices. i i 1 be benefitted most by silver and the Wall street people decline. 34 . Because all the labor organizations organi-zations have arrayed themselves on the side of free silver, and they generally gen-erally know their own business. 35. Because the capitalists have all arrayed themselves on the side of gold, and they generally know their business. 36. Because wages have fallen 11 per cent under the gold standard. stand-ard. 37. Because the goldites resort to shallow sneers instead of argument. argu-ment. 38. Because there is not enough gold in the world to do one month's business only $2.50 per capita in the world. 39. Because there is only $22.90 per capita in this country, counting all kinds of money, " and less than half of that is in circulation, the rest being tied up and hoarded. 40. Because free coinage will raise the price of silver by giving it use and cheapen gold by taking away the demand. 41. Because Blaine said the maintenance of a gold standard would produce widespread disaster, and his prediction came true in 18 years. 42. Because the silver mines have never yet and never will produce pro-duce more than enough silver to supply the world's nations with coins and the arts with silverware, and there can be no over-production. 43. Because it will not injure our foreign credit, but will improve it and invite in foreign capital by our increased prosperity, just as |