Show MR gt 2 RN a EHE OF glamM significant CANT THINGS PROM FROM CHICAGO TIMES HERALD bight statements from tb icat paper AU an of veilete azo af ut attl truth baxa 1900 ator sham the chicago times herald which la Is ran by an ex pie ale baker who knows know just as much about legitimate journal ism iam as a hog does about latin and whose knowledge of the financial question to is limited to the returns return of his big hash counter is seeking to gave eare honen labor from the MY fifty cent dollar cals calamity unity some of the arguments raade made in the times herald are very CM amusing Emu sins USing especially to laboring men who never see anything but silver olver money or its paper representative here are a few statements amed up from articles in recent editions of the times herald 1 the present silver dollar is only worth 53 cents 2 one cent is the one hundredth part dart of a dollar 3 it silver is gold will purchase only one half of what it does now are you going to rob the money owners 4 the present silver dollar is worth one hundred cents 5 the mexican sliver silver dollar is worth 64 cents 6 it takes two mexican dollars to purchase as much farm or other products as can fp be bought for one american silver dollar 7 the farmers and producers of mexico get nothing for their products are you going to american labor by voting for bryan and sewall 8 american paper money is now accepted in england because the english know that they can pay it back to for american products imported into england 9 england accepts only one kind of american money and that is gold we must maintain the system that will be receivable la in england in payment tor for importations from that country 10 the wilson auson bill importations from england are ruining american industries dus tries we do not want english made goods 11 american laborers are setting getting a day 12 there are sixteen men to every one job given out all over the country 13 mexico is enjoying an era em of unprecedented prosperity this slipped in a dispatch from the city of mexico in re ferance rance to the recent elec election tiou 14 wages in the united states are sustained by trade unions 16 15 if silver is the pay of labor will be the last to rise to meet the new condition of high prices editor kohlsaat Kohl knows in nig his heart that labor will be the first to reap the benefits of high prices organized labor is the foundation of society until rit it makes a move all other things remain in abeyance it is only unorganized labor a small quota that will te effected by a sudden rise of prices and then only slightly 16 laborer is densely ignorant 17 labor is too intelligent and too honest to accept two dollars for one dollars worth of work labor is for sound money 18 printers are earning from 3 to 5 a day they do not want the purchasing power of their wages cut in two as would be the case under free diver coinage answer yes printers are getting from 3 to 5 a day thanks to the international typographical union the strongest labor or organization in the world the union raises and lowers its scale of wages to suit new conditions double the circulation of the currency and there would soon be a rise in the printers wage scale if the resumption of coinage could in any way harm the international typographical union or any other union the times herald would be preaching free ree silver just as energetically as it is now advocating vo cating gold 19 all the count countries in the world are on a silver basis 20 turkey should be wiped off the map turkey is a gold standard country 21 egypt is today to day a ruined country an AH its wealth is in the hands of the lew few it will never revive egypt Is a gold standard country 22 five thousand christians murdered ur at crete by the s soldiers sustained by the gold standard of the barbarous ottoman empire 23 russia has now been on A silver basis for one hundred yeu years 13 24 russia only emerged from barbarism years ago 25 it cannot be denied that the power of england has been on the wane vane tor for years yeam slowly 9 1 0 w ly but surely the etar of empire Is traveling toward the west 26 england adopted the gold standard years ago 27 under free coinage policy holders lu in life insurance copan companies les would be paid off in my fifty cent dollars 28 29 president greene of the he life idle insurance co is against tree coinage bemuse because it would empel compel lam him to part pay lite AW policies la ft fifty aft cent dollars this j is a daisy daby does any aay one suppose that tha president greene would aronld be tor a sold standard it ff ie he thought that airee tree silver nee bis debts br one halt the che wag en aud saif ess see far themselves res z 1 SAM t ft ft wv LT ff evex money capitalists are riot not on his side in this struggle their interests are opposed now as they ever have been and perhaps will be for centuries to come capital wants labor to produce as cheaply as possible this labor knows As one republican paper puts it if we cannot quote labor as in favor of bf maintaining the present gold standard we ought not quote capital it does more harm than good let iet us get off this financial issue onto the tariff protection is the campaign cry but the democratic platform does not oppose protection the populist platform does not oppose appose protection the silver platform does not oppose protection at the same time the three platforms declare for free silver i the republican platform declares against free silver the party papers must not recede from the issue they must fight us along financial lines its a hopeless fight of course and to tell the truth it is pitiful to see the once great republican party going down to defeat with wall street EX republican |