| Show THE MEXICAN IENir the report of the committee of the chicago trade and labor asemo sent bent to mexico to investigate benoir he can editions there among the labor laboring lug classes shows that the common people are living under quite primitive candit conditions dit ions the wage are low and the living cheap many of the tillers of the ground are virtually slaved handling their erode crude agricultural implements much me as their ancestors ancestor have been doing doine for or centuries the th american workingman Is in a prince as compared to the mexican laborer saab bach are the conclusions reached after a careful investigation the report in IB of course to be used BB as an argument against the be agitation for free coinage of silver liver but as aa such auch it in IB utterly val nele no matter what stand an investigator takes lakes on the coinage question be cannot but perceive that the condition of the common people in mexico dep depends enle on other factors than the financial policy of the goven ment meat were for instance stance la a committee to go to turkey to institute a similar investigation vesti gation there they would find wages way down below those noticed in mexico they would find natives in some places working for 16 15 and 20 cents a day rod and supporting a family on those earnings they would flod bod them living in houses built of judg mud devoid not only of furniture but of windows too they might see gee occasionally the ground tilled with a crooked stick mick of wood drawn by a team consisting of a half hal starved donkey and a woman laborers are there duiven to work in the same way as cattle the overseers club being their chief encouragement in their toll toil under a burning BUD yet turkey Is ie claued classed as a rold gold and silver country just juat so eg the united states with a money circulation of fifty million dollars of which to gold it would be absurd to bold the yellow metal responsible for turkish condl condi tion and it Is IB equally absurd to blame silver liver for the slow ow progress of mexico s advancement |
