Show 7 I 1 I 1 I 1 7 I 1 FREE all ail wha ut ta will find cheit wages ctet M in nal naif by the suver doll dollar sr the denver chamber of commerce replying to the appeal tor for sound bound money issued by br the NOW new york ch chamber amber 0 of f commerce says that resumption of tree free coinage of euve i Is objectionable oblee Honable to persona of fixed incomes this Is true but in a 6 be sense afif 3 broader than its authors intended persons persona of fixed incomes ar are e not merely million alres army or navy officers all who labor bor in this country whether the pay be called salary or wages are also per sons of 0 fixed incomes and the they y decidedly object to having their incomes cut cu in halt half tor for the benefit ot of the silver allver nine mine owners the blacksmith who makes 15 a i week the carpenter at 3 per day the salesman at 1000 a year the agricultural laborer at a day the tea teacher cher k at 10 a week are all persons of 0 fixed incomes they find their inco incomes mes none i too large tor for their necessities why my should they not jobje object c t to a slump to silver tree free and unlimited for or the benefit of those who own silver but at a loss of 0 50 per cent in their fixed incomes it is the labor of the country that most determinedly demands the gold basis that demands stability in the currency that objected most positively to a loss of halt half its I 1 1 silver mine owners and agen agents ts must reckon with this element and it is a mighty element at the ballot box let platform writers note this fact as well as silver mine capit capitalists alista mica chicago times herald it Is almost a waste of time to comment upon anything that appears in tho the chicago times herald with reference to the silver question if there is a statement against silver so 80 wild so eo incongruous so absurd and so go utterly false as not to find a place in the editorial columns of that paper it aaa C only anly be because the financial editor has not happened to think of it it if somebody should suggest to him that the free coinage of silver would convert the seventeen year locusts into an annual pest or interfere with the orderly precision of the equinoxes equinox es we may be sure that the idea would speedily appear in the columns of that paper with all the gorgeous coloring that a lurid imagination could supply still there is now and then a person who may possibly be misled by the very boldness of the times timea herald statements doubtless this is the theory of the sound currency committee of the reform club for the above article appears in one of its sound money a supplements u P clements ts which are being scatter scattered ed broadcast over the country the idea sought to be conveyed is that all wage workers have fixed incomes that la is no matter how greatly the prices of houses aud and everything else in which the carpenter work is done may fall the carpenter is still going to get the same pay no matter how much or how little the employer gets fot for shoeing horses or making wagons the blacksmiths pay will remain unchanged n though the merchants merchant 3 profits r may be destroyed and he be forced into bankruptcy by the tall fall in the prices of his bis goods the salesman will still draw his 1000 a year it if the farmers wheat drops to 25 cents his corn to 12 his oats to 8 aud and his potatoes to nothing eft at all the farm hand is still going to receive his monthly pay undiminished such is the philosophy of the times herald and by adoption of the sound money committee it is hard to say whether we should smile at the absurdity or become indignant at the barefaced bare faced fraud perhaps it would be as well to treat it with silent contempt for there is not an intelligent worker workingman agman in the country who rho can be deceived by anything so flimsy and false the average workingman knows perfectly well that his employer s ability to pay him his wages depends upon the price obtained for the product ol 01 his labor he knows that the statement that his pay is fixed is absolutely false faim every day some great establishment either limits prodoc production ion or cuts wages beca because of f th the e lo 10 low w prices 1 ce 3 0 ol 01 products he knows that prices are lower than ever before and that there Is more idleness poverty and suffering extant than at any previous period in our count rys history if there is a workingman in the bojin country who honestly believes in the gold standard the character of the arguments by which it is defended should quickly convince him of his error the statement that the incomes of the blacksmith black smi th the th e carpenter the salesman and the agricultural laborer are fixed is an insult to the intelligence of of american workingmen there is another adea involved that is equally preposterous and equally false it is in that under free coinage the workingman wor kingman would get no more dollars dolla rs than ahe 19 does now pad and each 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