| Show IN ANOTHER LIGHT the chicago tribune bune commenting on archbishop statement that gold has baa risen 35 85 per cent in value in the last fifteen years says he must mean the decline in prices is due to the appreciation of gold and opt to the march of improvement which enables the worker to produce and transport merchandise with a smaller expenditure of muscular energy than was waa formerly required would it not be well for or him blin to ask if working people are receiving 85 35 per cent less lesa pay for a stated amount of service than fifteen years ago if he should put that question to himself he be might see the case in another light those who persist in holding to the speculators speculator Is doctrine that gold alone is the criterion by and from which all other values silver included of course can be determined are sometimes forced into Int just ojust such shallow sophistry as is contained in the foregoing quotation the working people sire are not as aa a rule receiving 85 per cent less lees than fifteen years ngo ago they may be getting somewhat more what has that to do with it was it through the beneficent results of an exclusively gold standard that the machinery by means of which labor is lightened and made more pro was brought into existence it is a fact that the men who constructed ted that machinery or a ma arity of them were paid in the 61 depreciated currency which the single standard people are trying to lo prevent circulating except in very limited sums and only then for change just as copper does doea now in some parts of the country when this is accomplished and one half of our available money la is withdrawn from circulation will wages then advance or will the prices of advance and wages decline when to Is labor most in demand when money la Is abundant and great enterprises can be set afoot and kept going or when there to Is a stringency and ali the wherewith to pay for or labor and materials cannot be found per haps the tribune will see the case in another lighta if it will only take the pains to look at both sides of it |
