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A REMARKABLE BOOK.
>uld be in the Hands of Every Voter.
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-'Ill faren the land, to hastening ills a prey.
Where wealth accumulates and men decay."

CIVILIZATION.
VAN AND THE TIMES, r-JW'tvaji 13 "V :^2/M->~

FRANCIS R. (JOLE, Ph. D., LL. D.,

OF^THE CHICAGO BAK.
^|t of "The Citizen Sovereignty Association," Director of 'College
of Citizenship," Etc.

lO Cents.

Unej of the greatest campaign documents ever issued in the

history Uf American politics.
^^'' honest, vivid and fearless presentation of the
lable,
! uentjous questions of the pending campaign, from a historic,
'^tifi^- and statesman's standpoint,

SOMETHING RED HOT FOR THE CAMPAIGN.

 Mrs. Malaprop said to a visiting friend, as^I!5"*TSI'fi'ZIIS^d her a

. hero ! if you'll read that contentively you'll get lots of inflammation.'

if you but go over this little work contentively, intentively or attenl

will get lots of inflammation and a heap of information on the great q\

the hour.

An old lady, on htanng a minister remark "The world is full oi

said she didn't believe it, so little of it found its wa}' into her purse, She haj

pened to be living under the gold standard.

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Copyright 1896 by Francis K. Cole.

To the common people, the producers of the land,

To Liberty's great defc nding band,
Who have placed the signet of their co^yjiajfwiiwg power
On all civilizations, in spite of despot, dungeon and tower
Who, from the promontories of equality and the ballot
Will never conic down to be plutocracy's valet.
In time of peril > ou don't stand on a per cent, and hoi
After the war is over, for an honest? dollar;
To you, whose burning wrongs are to conflagration fanned
By plutocracy's dojngs and "The public be damned,"
To the great common people, the glory of the state,
This little book I dedicate.
The Author.

Definitions.
Bimetallism, double standard and free silver mean the same thin^ equi
betore the law as full legal tender money and free and equal access to ;he mi

i6 to r means that, as both gold and silver are precious metals and
amount of silver in the world is less than i6 times that of gold, and rice

ratio was i6 to i before it was fraudulently demonetized, i6 oz. o; .live

coining should be equal in value to i oz. of gold.

The oldeconomists said that the value of money was n ore in

Roman
quantity of it in circulation than in the substance in which the unit was ;mbod
and this was incorporated into the Pandects of Justinian. Ricardo sa id "1
commodities should rise or fall in price in proportion to the increase
am
tion of money, I assume as an incontrovertable fact."

Note.
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 GIVILaIZAT^ION.
13:^.1^ Ji^isr .AJ<iiD THE ti:m:es-
BY
Francis R. Cole, Ph. D,, LL. D.

"Doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs,

And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns."
The march of civilization is bloody in a single night. ]\Ien and women lan-
and slow, yet as viewed through the guished in the Bastile of France, the
centuries its motion is ever forward Tower of England and the prisons and
and its step always quickening-. At dungeons of other countries for sym-
times, when confronted b3^ the AliJine pathizing with downtrodden humanity
barriers of concentrated wrong", it and questioning the assumptions and
seems to halt, retreat down the valley rights of kings, nobles and priests.
of despair and disapj)ear in the dark But "thrice armed is he who hath his
night of hopelessness, but it is only quarrel just," and in spite of the fact
laking a circuitous route and will that on one side was power, pomp,
eventually emerge from the plateaus pageantry, influence and skill, and on
of God's mysterious purposes and in a the other ignorance, poverty and weak-
burst of outraged and inflamed indig- ness, yet the leaders of the masses could
nation sweep the opposing forces of not be surpressed, for where one fell
fortified evil off the face of the earth. ten took his place, till at length the
Af. this civilization advances, the hori- heavy cannonading of common sense,
zon broadens and grows red with hope, the consuming flames of truth and the
rights become more general and se- dynamite of satire shattered and
cure, wrongs less monumental an<l burned down the infested fabric of
intense. From the absolute despotism regal institutions, blew up its rotten
of primitive times where the despot foundations, and founded instead the
had the absolute right (?) of life and lefty temple of liberty and dedicated it
death over his subjects, mankind, with to humanity amid patriotic sacrifice.
its face towards the millennium, has Pitt, Hobbes, Bolingbroke, Hume, Eous-
persistently journeyed on and up, seau, Diderot, Voltaire, Danton, Mira-
through tortuous paths of policy, riv- beau, Washington, Jefferson, Paine,
ers of intrigue, seas of blood, moun- Henry, Franklin, arranged and con-
tains of wrong and nights of'treason, ducted the glorious proceedings. The
till now it has passed through mon- clergy were forced to relinquish their
archy, hierarchy and aristocracy, and is unwarrantable power and the kings
on the heights of democracy. In the and nobles were compelled to consider
last century the people ran up against and recognize the common rights of
one of these apparently impassable bar- the common people.
riers. Generation after generation wit- This settled the political and relig-
nessed the degrading influences of the ious rights of the whites. Next, after
"powers that be." Church and state things quieted and developed soiue,
combined to crush the aspirations of mankind met the menacing octopus of
humanity and held millions in tyran- slaverj^ The slavery of the south had
nical sway. The partnership of throne a deleterious effect on the country.
and altar that then prevailed was fair- Labor suffered from its competition,
ly reeking with corruption. The tem- manufacturers had no markets for their
ples of God smoked with the fumes of goods. Slaves, having no money, could
the burning flesh of men who had con- purchase no wares of the merchant;
sciences and had the courage to utter while a customer is said to be the im-
their honest thoughts. The imple- mediate jewel of the English and Yankee
ments of torture and persecution were soul. Slavery also demoralized southern
—
worked day and night 60,000 murdered manhood. It was the moth of our so-

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 and Lincoln declared: "This mendiciUlta begging for breiul." The
cial fabric,
country cannot long endure half slave conllict is here. The debt contracted
and half free." Yet before this brazen dviring the war has furnished the basis
iniage of slavery, humbly paying- de- of linancial opex-atiuns and finesse to
\otion, wsis the ermine of the bench, establish a gold standard that, ever ap-
with its Dred Scott decision, princely preciating, acts alchemj^-like in trans-
merchants with their heartless gold, forming the fruits of incessant toil into
time-serving politicians and the obse- creditors' gold. It also led to granting
>luious ministry. Now that the clouds to private corporations, known as Na-
of prejudice have cleared away we see tional Banks, the power to issue and
the cupidity, moral turpitude, sijurious control our currency. Right here it
patriotism and political blindness of the may not be amiss to quote from a doc-
I ime. ument of that period, the famous Haz-
(iarrison, Lovejoy, Phillips, all ijhilan- ard circular, issued by the London to
thropists and friends of man, were de- the New York bankers in 1862, which
iiou'iced as their country's enemies and states that slavery is to be abolished,
attacked by mobs, while the petty nin- and that the European jjlan of controll-
compoops of part}' were given the seaLs ing labor by controlling wages is prefer-
of olHce and hailed as statesmen. able, as it does not carry the responsi-
'I'iiink of it, slavery proclaimed the bility of caring for the laborers, and
token of peace, the bond of union and goes on to state: "This can be done
the sum of national greatness! Al- by controlling the mioney. The great
uiost incredible, it stands a fact in his- debt that capitalists will .see to it is
tory; the awful spectacle in the mem- made out of the war, must be used as
ory of living men. a means to control the volume of money;
But the pomp, noise and authority to accomplish this, the bonds must be
«)f this gigantic wrong didn't overawe used as a. banking basis. We are now
manhood, silence the voice of con- waiting for the Treasurer to make rec-
'^cience. nor confound the abiding wis- ommendations to congress. It will not
<lom of the race. Freedom had its do to allow the greenbacks to circulate
thrilling poetry and inspiring
as mone^' any length of time, as we can-
song.
Slavery had but. vapid verse and moody not control them."
melod}'. Freedom had oratory, earnest^ We all know to our sorrow how well
ness and logic. Slavery, rant, fustian the bankers and capitalists have car-
and sophistry. Finally the irrepressi- ried out to the letter the suggestion,
or, more appropriately, conspiracy. A
ble conflict came and the United States
laid the flower of its youth on the
word as to industrial evolution. Cen-
altar, and with the ruddy currents of tralization is the sj^irit of the age. Men
patriotic blood purged lis system of cooperate and form corporations. Cor-
the monsti'ous iniquity. poratiouiS combine and form trusts, and
Lincoln, Seward, Sumner, Longfel- utilize to the fullest extent the mar-
low, Ih-yant, Phillips and others, were velous inventions of genius. Manufac-
the men of heroic statesmanship, tal- turing has proceeded along that line
ent and moi-al grandeur that carried till large factories with their labor-
the noble cause to its glorious consum- saving machinery have abstracted the
mation and success. independence from the artisan and me-
Slavery abolished and the people chanic with the silent and resistless
practically on an force of gravitation. The workingman
equality, unprece-
dented prosperity burst into bloom, has been divorced from his tools. Skill
but soon withered and decaj'ed on ac- has been superseded by the great ma-
count of industrial evolution, consti- chines, which have almost become hu-
tutional defects, and the evils restilt- man in their complexity, perfection
ing therefrom under the play of venal- and automatic devices. Children can
ity and perfidy in the people's repre- 0|>erate them as easily as men, as the
sentatives. work is always divided into special de-
The Rebellion sowed the seeds of l)artments; and as they can be hired
aristocracy. Few discerned it. Im- for less, generally get the jobs, throw-
mortal Lincoln did, and thus prophe- ing their fathers into involuntary idle-
sied: "As a result of the war corpo7-a- ness, thus making the child su^jport
tions will be enthroned and corruption the parent, overturning immemorial
in office ensue, and there will come a custom and reversing nature's imperial
conflict; on one hand corporations, decree.
united, arrogant and grasping every- IMMIGRATION, CORRUPTION, ETC.
thing in sight; on the other labor, weak Another matter that must not be
and disorganized and treated like hase iQst sight of in summing up the causes
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 of our distress is the fiact that immi- where the citizens are the sovereigns,
'4ration has been landing- on our shores as a matter of self-preservation, if

^^o iiiillions of ijaupers and ignorant for- nothing moi-e, it should ste to it that
^ t igners till the overworked and disor- the youth of to-day, who will be the
dered bowels of our republic cannot sovereigns of to-morrow, are properly
iissimilate them into our system of educated and trained for the respon'^^
iiulependence and free institutions, bilit\'. These children are in ; ..icure's
These things, together with corrup- stage of growth, but the Jaoor and re-
tion in oihce and favoritism in legisla- quirements of the trades stunt their
tion, such, for instance, as allowing iu- physical, check their intellectual and
<lividuals the special privilege of issu- dwarf their moral development. They
ing money (a function of government) are not only turned out of the highways
to the extent of 90 per cent, of the face of a noble life but lower the level of
of United States bonds, gilt-edgtd se- \\ages and throw out of employment
curity bearing interest; and also going- able-bodied men. These helpless chil-
sponsor on private corporations' bonds dren need protection, not that of the
in the construction of railroads and do- tinkered tariff schedule, but the moth-
nating them land in the bargain; con- erly embrace of some statute that pro-
gress has granted to these corporations hibits the sacrilege of child labor un-
land amounting in area to the states der the ages of 16 or 17 years. Some
of New Hamjishire, New Jersey, Con- parents may interject that it is
necticut, Maryland, West Virginia, Mas- absolutely necessary that their chil-
sachusetts, Vermont, Pennsylvania, dren be taken from school and sent to
Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana. All these \vork. So it may
be, under present
things, I repeat, have lowered respect for cii'cumstances,but the remedies and
law and banished confidence in its ad- reforms here proposed will change con-
ministration, has filled our asylums ditions and make it unnecessary.
with the mentally deranged, depressed EIGHT-HOUR DAY.
the iiroud spirit of American manhood, Another way workingmen could be
driven thousands to suicide, drunken- benefited would be by making the
ness and shame, caused crime to in- ^vorking day eight hours instead often.
crease over 500 per cent, in the last de-This would give emiiloyment to nearly
cade, while population has increased 20 per cent, more peo^ile. Ten and 12
but 15, and in stamping in black letters hour dajs exhaust the system, tire the
'Hopelessly ^lortgaged" on the farms energies and leave one without any
and possessions of the middle classes, disposition for rational entertainment,
who are disappearing before the Jug- reading or the cultivation of the higher
gernaut of monopoly like the buffalo be- faculties. It rather leaves the system
fore the train of progress. Even now craving- stimulants and excitement. As
less than one per cent, of our population a matter of scientific and social truth
owns more than the other 99. The shorter hours should go hand in hand
rumbling thunders of universal discon- with labor-saving' machinery in this
tent ominously suggests where it may land of unbounded resources. There
end. should be a department of Labor in
REMEDIES, CHILD LABOR. the President's cabinet similar to that
Let us consider some of the remedies of Agriculture. Government Bureaus
that would immediately send to exile of Labor and Statistics, bj' which al)
this awful spectre of want that now facts and data of importance to trade,
• stalks about in the land. Beginning labor and commerce would be collected
with a few minor ones lei us take up and preserved and faithfully given out
child labor. When mere infants of 12, to the public, Avould also be of inestima-
13 and 14 years are forced to enter ble value to the whole community.
.shops and fiactories, Avhere they are Business would be conducted on a more
cooped up for eight, ten and twelve intelligent and certain basis, and labor
hours a day. we may expect that on would not be ever groping in the dark
some sullen morning in the near future as to where it was in demand, the char-
the Goddess of Liberty will jumn from acter of the market, etc. Public em-
her pedestal of liberty enlightening the ployment bureaus should also be estab-
world to the bottom of the oblivious lished, that surplus labor could be aided
deep. The real greatness of a nation in securing something to do. And Con-
is not in the extravagance of its luxu- vict should not be permitted to compete
ries, the splendor of its edifices, nor with honest labor.
the numl^er of its forts and armories, RECIPROCITY.
but in the courage, intelligence and As Ave can with our resources, ma-
virtue of its citizens. In a republic, chinery, intelligence and industry pro-
 tluce abumlaijce, we should try to opeii
the closed gates of foreig-n markets.
This can be done with the key of reci-
procitj'. Many think because our home
trade is 95 per cent, of the whole the
ii'ih"'' five is so small and insignificant
that itV^oes not pay to trouble about it.
Rut when vre consider that our busi-
ness aggregates in the billions. fi%'e per
cent, looms up in huge proportions. In
many instances their commodities can-
not be produced in this country except
at great disadvantage, and vice versa.
Now, then, if we can get them to take
ntf the duties on our goods and thus
give our merchants an advantage over
others in their markets, and at tho same
time allow our people to purchase their
goods cheaper in our markets, let us
have it by all means, especially with our
sister members of the great family of
.Vmerican Republics. This sj^stem was
very aupiciouslv inaugurated by the
late James G. Blaine. Let the good work
go on.
PROTECTION.
. .Vs next in order let us consider pro-
let'tion. From talk sometimes heard
upon the streets one would suppose
this tariff was the peculiar property
of the Iiepublican party. But as a
matter of history and memory that
party rose to power on the wings of
other questions in the ])olitical dis-
turbances of 1856 and ISGO. Protection
has been the settled policy of the gov-
ernment from the beginning. Its first
|niriK)se was engender life into
to
.\merican industry. To encourage men
in manufacturing and in-otect the cap-
ital therein invested till they learned
the trade to efficiency and got firmly
established; when it was presumed
they could take care of themselves. The
statesmen of that ]3eriod reasoned that
it only required a little boosting to
enable the Yankee to take care of him-
and that his proverbial economy
•seif,
and characteristic inventive genius
would soon place his enterprise the
foremost in the world. They were
shrewd observers and reasoned well on
this a,s on other subjects. But little
did they imagine that these infant in-
dustries, strong, healthy, hungry and
cute, who always had received the best
of care, their mamma never turning
them over to the neighbors while she
attended the matinee, should after bear-
ing up boldly under all the summer
complaints, ills, trials and tribulations
of infancy, still bawl like babies for
parental nursing in the days of their
virility. But the tide of invention and
improvement has continued to flow in.
4.
a« was anticipated, till to-day many of
our manufacturers machines
sell their
and implements in foreign markets
after paj'ing transportation charges,
etc., cheaper than thej' do in our own
protected land. Sewing machines,
American make, for instance, are sold
in Europe for $17, while they want $50
for the same machine here. Let us
take the lantern of investigation and
try to penetrate into some of the inner
recesses of this boasted so-called pro-
tection scheme and note its real work-
ings. In 1860 there was no clamor about
raising the tariff schedule. During the
war it was raised, however, in order to
increase the revenue and assist in
carrying on hostilities. Duties were
put up very high, so high that objec-
tion began to take the place of popu-
lar disapproval, and it was defended
simply as a war measure demanded by
the exigencies of the case, and its re-
peal was promised on the restoration
of peace. The average was 18.84 per
cent, in 1861; in 1865 it averaged as
high as 40 per cent. Bear in mind that
these duties were levied on goods of
general consumption and that they pay
the running expenses of the govern-
ment. As almost all of this falls on
the people the wealthy escape their just
share of taxation. And note how quick
they are to get what their class wants;
the income tax was repealed the year
following the war. The common peo-
ple who pay a royalty, as it were, to
Uncle Sam on almost every article they
tise, for the privilege of living in a coun-
try with men who shirk just taxes,
have never yet had much relief. On
the contrary, the average rate is higher
to-day than in its balmiest days in the
'go's. It is now 51 and a fraction, under
the Wilson act, which is but seven per
cent, lower than the high water mark,
viz., the McKinley bill. Be candid and
honest, is a tax of one-half of one per
cent, on incomes more oppressive than
a tax of 80 per cent, on the woolen shirt
of the laborer? Some people have an
idea that tariff makes high wages. Let
us see. Wages are regulated by supply
and demand, the capacity of the laborer •
and his ability to do the work, the amount
of money in circulation, coal, steam,
machinery, climate, etc.* Many fac-
tors, you see, enter into the problem.
l)Ut the principal factors are thekind
of employment, productiveness of the
work-man, supply and demand. If high
tai*iff regulated wages, the wages in
the different states would be uniform,
for the tariff is the same from New York
to San Francisco. Wages are lower in
*
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Germany tliaai they are iu free-trade
England; and in China, the greatest
protective tarili! ciountry ever discov-
ered up to this year of our Lord, pays
the lowest wages. In this Flowery
Kingdom laborers get four cents from
sunrise to sunset, and a traveler can
get a seated vehicle and play horse
with a native all day for six or eight
cent's. Yes, this protection is ostensibly
for the working-man, yet it is a notori-
ous fact that wages iu protected indus-
tries are lower than in the unprotected.
In the mines and factories of the East,
in Massachnsetts and Pennsylvania, you
can hardly find an American or self-
respecting' foreigner, w ho has lived liere
tary of State siiid, speaking of the cot-
ton industry: "Undoubtedly the in-
equalities iu the wages of English and
Aiuerican operatives are more than
counlerbalanced by the greater elti-
cieucy of the latter," C. S. Hill, statisti-
cian, republican, in argument before
Tariff Commission, said our manufac-
turing product in 1«S2 was $8,000,000,-
000, made by hands; England's
5,250,000
$4,000,000,000,by 5,140,200 hands. Here
we see the American workman could be
paid double the wages of the British
without any tariff whatever. Our con-
sul at Tunstill, England, reported that
in cotton manufacture our productive
capacity is 33 per cent, g-reater than

any time, employed therein. On the England's and 72 per cent, greater than
contrary you will find depraved Poles Germany's; in woolen manufacture, 23
and Slavonians of the lowest strata of and 40 per cent, more respectively.
society getting the munificent wages TABLE, COMPILED FROM TENTH
of from 50 to 90 cents a day. The largest CENSUS, SHOWING VALUE OP VA-
protected concerns even had envoys RIOUS MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS.
sconring- Europe for the cheapest kind
PER CENT. OF LABOR COST AND
RATE OF DUTY EXISTING.
of labor, the system was even protected
by statutes giving a lien on all real es-
Value of -g-^ ?>-g
tate that mig-ht come to the hands of the Industries. product. Labor, i-— £1

laborer, and providing for a pledge of Ph o *

12 months' %vages to pay expenses of Carpets $31,792,802 $6,835,218 21.5 47
Cotton" goods.. .210,950,383 45,614,419 21.6 50
bringing over. Things really got so Iron pipe, wr't.. 13,292.162 1,788,258 13.5 20
odious under this state of affairs that Oil, castor 653,900 44,714 6.8 194
Oil, linseed 15,393,812 681,677 4.4
the law was repealed and such work Woolen .goods.. 160,606,721 25,836,392 16.1
54
70
condemned. r>ut only after the injury Worsted goods. 33,549,942 5,683,027 16.9 68
was done and our protected industries *P«r cent.
stocked with foreign cheaj) labor. See
These facts conclusively prove that
the report of the Blair Senate investi-
the workingman has received little
gating committee and testimony of
benefit from this protection that does
labor officials, etc. Whenever working-
not protect, and that the farmer and
men became dissatisfied with their
the great body of the people were put
w ages and would strike, the paui>ei*s of
would be brought \u under tribute to the big- manufactur-
TJussia, Italy, etc.,
ers. This it is that makes protection
totake their places. Whole colonies of
American workingmen have been swept
a fraud and a snare, breeds great trusts
away from these industries by this sys-
and makes the people distressingly
poor, while Carnegie and his ilk rear
tem. Because manufacturers have the
castles on the friths of Scotland and
prices of their products raised, thus
in Bingen on the Rhine. Is it possible
enabling them to pay better wages, does
that the people have forgotten the
not necessarily make them do so. Gould
could have afforded to jjaj' his bootblack days of the McKinley tariff in 1892,
five dollars, yet he but paid his little
when under a republican administra-
nickel. Supply and demand you know tion labor troubles broke out all over
comes in again, together with the rela- the. land; riots at Homestead, the mi-
litia called out in Montana, troops or-
tive resiilt accomplished. Here in the
United States more than in any other dered out in Tennessee, etc.? This it
country the' productivity has been on was that caused the avalanche in 1892,
the gain. An illustration of how w^ages in favor of wiping out the rotten sys-
are affected thereby: In 1850 in Mas- tem, and had Cleve land proved true to
sachusetts each laborer produced 43 the platform on which he was elected
yards of print cloths; in 18S4 he pro- and bj' w^hich he secured the votes of
duced 102 yards, an increase of 143 per the electorate, tariff would not be
cent., and his wages jumped from 05 heard of in a day's travel. The Loan
cents a day to $1.05, while the labor fisherman was elected on an anti-mo-
cost of the article decreased 33 per nopoly platform, but has shown him-
cent. .James G. Blaine, admittedly a self to be the agent of plutocracy and
good authority on tariff", while Secre- the pliant tool of Wall, Lombard St.
 brings enue will tall in that proportion ihis
& Co. Here is something that
of is what happened. Under the Me We;^^
out in bold relief the inadeyuaey
are bill the revenue was a surplus oi *y,yi4,-
nrot^ction as practiced. The duties
riommodities, thus protecting them 454 in 'D. m '.. ,G. «0. .00
deficit in '94 f .^^^^74
The VVilson bil took ei-
hom foreign competition. The com- feet July and left a deficit of
.rities are ownid by the big man-
1, '«J4,

$42,805,223 in From this we see

•acturer. The workingman owns
his
l.boi-this is not protected from cheap
comnetmon t le cheapest kinds of for-
"rabor coming into the United
States without imposts, let or hin-
drance, and underbidding the Ameri-
c?n Nearly 800.000 of these immi-
grants landed during the last two
years. John Bull says: "Blame h-your
bloomin' heyes, hif you don't let in
my goods, Hi'll bring' over my factory
and men." Foreign capitalists own and
control most of our large industries,
They and home capitalists combine to
further personal ends. When litiga-
tion was protracted, cumbersome and
expensive a century ago in England, a
hiwyer was defined as a gentleman
90.
that McKinleyism is far from a tonic,
The last year of the McKmley bill wit-
nessed a shrinkage of $72,000,000, while
the Wilson bill shovved an increase of
$27,000,000. The balm of free silver
must be put in Atlas' wounds ana his
tired feeling driven headlong before a
large bromo-seltzer dose of Bryanism.
This done. Atlas would rise to his full
stature of yore, i^rices would go up and
business boom. The following official
figures show that the Punch and Judy
]H-rformance of tariff and protection is
neither the cause of hard times nor the
remedy:
TARIFF RATES,
Ad Valorem Rate of Duty. 1892 1894

thai rescued your estate from your S^; ft^e/. uZam?faV^^red:;:: i:^ l^St
enemies and kept it himself. But pro- Iron, etc., manufactures 55.40 68.41

tected Barons transplant the laborer's ^elfher' and manufactures of:: 33:fi6 ll'^\
enemy into our midst and appropriate Distilled sinrits 171.34 108. .54

all the protection to themselves. The ^,^S|^ft^^fasses: etc::: :::::V;::: 19.1 13:%
charge is also made against the Wilson M^ood, etc 15.70 14.80

Protection bill that it provides insuffi- Wool, ^-^jf-^-- ed.::::::::: 41.07 4i:07
cient revenue. But it is not right
that all taxes should come out of the
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.
^ear Exports. Import..
common people, and the Income tax is9i $884,480,810 $S44,91fi.l9fi

would supplement it with abundance. 18| 930,278.148 827,402,462

The present tariff under normal con- jj;,94 S92'l43:547 654,995.151

ditions would even .supply the requisite 189,5'::. .! 807,508,165 731,969,965

amount. Everyone knows that con- According to the above, tariff makes
traction of the currency always entails little difference with the country's con-
a lowering of yirices. Now, our money ditions and the charge that importa-
supplpy was cut in twain in '73 by de- tions under the Wilson law were so
monetizing silver and retiring many enormous that the foreigner captured
greenbacks. This caused the panic of our markets and made our workshojjs
1873-77. be it remembered, when the idle is unqualifiedly false. In '93 the
Kepublica.ns were in full power. De- importations were $135,000,000 more
monetization inaugurated a falling of than under the Wilson bill. One of
prices, and sagacious statesmen of the the English gentry thought, from the
time predicted a continuing decline, high time the servants were having on
This decline was partially checked by one occasion, that they must have been
the partial recognition of silver as monkeying Avith the Avine and forth-
money from 1878 up to 1893, when the with proceeded to examine the top of
Sherman bill was rejiealed. ^Money is the cask, Avhen he was advised to exam-
nn holding on his shoulders the' ine underneath.
.\tlas "Blockhead," the
huge world of prices. In '93 he Avas so country gentleman stammered, "don't
wounded and maimed and Cleveland you see the wine is missing at the top,
made him so Aveary that he sunk terri- not the bottom?" This is the position
bly under his precious load, and prices of the mi.sguicled republicans to-day;
have been getting lower ever since, they see the deficiency at the surface
XoAv, as most of our tariff duties are and scorn to examine beneath. No, the
ad valorem (on the A-alue), it follows tariff is not an issue in politics this
that the rcA'cnue diminished. An in- year, and the difference between the
stance: If an import is Avorth one dol- McTvinley and Wilson bills is immaterial
]ar, and the duty is 50 per cent., the reA'- to the masses. No two tariffs Avere ever
enue Avill be 50 cents, but if the price alike, but these resemble each other al-
of the import falls 20 joer cent, the reA-- mostasmuchas Shakespeare's Dromios.
 i'resideut tjrant, in his messaj^e to Con- won't be long- ere they'll insist oji us
it

gress in 187.'!, advised tlie removal of the begging- on our vest buttons if we are
duty on certain Icinds of wool, and the fortunate to have any then."
McKinley bill had over :(,()()() articles on They have well followed out Josh Bil-
the free list, and whenever tariff sched- ling's recipe for making- rei)utations:
ules are ehanj^ed it is the bif>- establish- "Tew mak a, big reputashun, giv pub-
ments represented in the lobby that get licly and steal privately," and dazzled
the x)lums. Let us revert to the world with their public gifts. Yes,
these men are all honorable, and look
THE INCOME TAX, after the interests of the common people
something- more imjjortant. A small tax
with all the affectionate care that the
on incomes of $5,000 and upwards would Avolf lavishes upon the lamb. 'J'hese
swell to sutliciency the depleted streams
men have United States interest-beai--
of revenue. In 1805, when our aristoc- ing- bonds and under the National Baidc-
lacy, compared to what it is now. was
ing- law enacted for their benefit they
as a crawling- caterpillar to the gorgeous
init them in Uncle Sam's hands and
butterfly, it realized our g-overnment
forthwith issue currency to 90 per cent,
$72,000,000. This tax is just and politic.
of the face value thereof, while the
It does seem to me that such a, measure
farmer or store-keeper must put tlieiir
needs no plea, much less ajjology, on the seciiritles, on A\hich ])erhaps they draw-
rugged mountains, rolling- prairies and no interest, into the hands of the bank-
ill the pensive valleys of patriotic Amer-
ers, and get but 20 or 25 per cent, of
ica. It is the ]n-opcrt.y of the rich that
their real value and pay seven per cent,
imjilores protection. It is this that in- for it in the bargain. Any man with a
cites envy and invites lawlessness. This
pennyweight of brains in his head and
it is that is defended by armories, guard-
an ounce of candor in his make-U]) will
ed by the police and provided with the admit that the bankers have a rank
jiroteclion of the fire department. An s])ecial privilege. He also knows that
Income tax is a matter of justice. Be- there is not enoug-h of metallic money
sides it is the policy of government to to meet the demands of business and
]ay the burdens thereof ui^on those
that putting the issuing- of paper curency
wlio can best bear them and feel them into private hands is a mighty danger-
the least. It is really sad to see men ous expedient. Garfield said: "Who-
who struggle hard to keep the w^olf ever controls the volume of money of
of want from their door, echo the flimsy any country is absolute master of all
and dishonorable objections that plu- industry and commerce." Bankers own
tocracy makes against it. The man stock in other monopolies, and other
who makes $5,000 and over annually and monopolies own stock in the banks, so
objects to paying- his mite toward the v.lien the smaller business men need
maintenance of the g-overnment under money they have to go to their rivals
which he makes and enjoys it, is not fit to save them, thus the mono])olists have
to be an Anierican citizen. Like the been crushing out all their competitors.
man who has no music in his soid, "he It is imperative that this should be
is fit for treason, stratag-ems and spoils,"
stopped.
and should not be trusted. The income
When Reed, All ition and others screech
tax tacked on to the Wilson bill was
about Uncle Sam getting out of the
torn to pieces and declared unconstitu-
banking- business they are simjjly try-
tional by the watch dogs of plutocracy,
ing- to befog the issue, which is that
the supreme court. The Constitution the banks must get out of the govern-
can be changed if the court cannot. ing business. The leaders of the G.
Now we come to the cream of civiliza- O. P. were bold enough in tiheir last
tion, the backbone of the nation's sta-
convention to urge for the presidency
bility, the ]nire. philanthropic, sacri-
a. Londion banker, Levi jMorton. of the
ficing-, exemplary gentlemen of the
firm of Morton, Ilose & Co., and repub-
world, who wanf an TTonest Dollar (?) lican governor of ])lutocraticNew Y^'ork.
and condescend to run the financial If the republicans succeed this year
affairs of the ignorant, helpless people.
their logical candidate in 1900 will be
Of course, you anticipate whom I refer
Baron de Bothschiid, the lord high ex-
to, the immaculate.
ecutioner himself.
BANKERS. Let the g-overnment issue the ])a-
Josh Billings said: "Young- man, per direct to the people and more peo-
don't g-it down on yur knees before the ple will be employed in banking. Rates
—
world if \u do, it won't be long er the will come down, and the riet earnings
world will insist on yur giting down a go to carry on ])iiblic improvements and
peg lower. So if we kneel to the bankers lessen taxes. The jjcople should also

;\
 Over and above all, the earnings
equikible nienns of gelling- posses-
tiiul
wouldn't find their way into monopo-
sion of the
RAILROADS, lists' pockets, to round up in European

and regaining the empires of land pleasure-seeking, and the purchase of

There would be no
that hMve been shamelessly graitedto monarchial
titles.
On
scheming corporations styling them- more .$15,000,000 duke
transfers.

selves Union Pacific, Santa 1\', etc., the contrary, the

money would be cir-
ac- culating- among the people. I never saw
^vhere this can be legally done on
the gov-
count of broken agreements, violated a strong reason urged against
clKirters, etc. In the first place the ernment ownership of railroads. The
highways of a nation are the peoples'; objection that the government can't do
in the second plat^e franchises
an- spe- it is puerile. Does not the government
cial privileges and sliouldn't be
toler- run the Postal business? This putting

ated in a republic; in the third place, railroads in politics is all nonsense. The
ihey «in be run more economically by right kind of civil service will keep
t lie government without discrimina- the machinery in good working order.
tion's to places, houses and combines Even now the United States courts run
for patronage, and fourth, it would give many of the largest roads through re-
employment to twice the number of ceivers, and the curious pirt of it is
men now employed therein, raise w-hen the court gets it out of difficulty
wages, cut the rates to the people, and and on a good, paying basis, it turns 't
return a. stream of revenue into the over to monopolists and railway kings
nation's treasury. Last year the net to be wrecked again. A bachelor M-rot-^
earnings of the railroads in the United to a maid, in view of matrimony, of his
States were $o22, 539,276. Some Euro- virtues, ond went on to say he was pa-
])ean countries already own their rail- tient in afiiiction, as she could tell from
roads. (Germany operates hers, pays his large, classical nose. The mafd re-
higher wages than before, employs 13 plied: "He was patient indeed to bear
men to the mile, while here priA^ate cor- the affliction of that nose 40 years."
|)orations employ but four, and their The people are particularly patient to
rates have been not only cut down to the stand the beak of the Vampire Monojio-
])eo])le, but considerable amounxs are lists these many years. Pascal said:
annually paid into the coffers of the "If Cleopatra's nose had been a littl?
nation. Carefully compiler! statisticsgive. shorter, the face of the world would be
the cost of running 14 cents a mile a changed." If we would cut off the
coach, all told. This includes entire bloodsucking beaks of the banks and
outlay of the company, fuel, engineer, railroads the face of American civiliza-
etc., train and section hands, station tion Avould be beautiful, its ugly fea-
agents, cost of repairs, stilaries of all tures softened and the w-hole radiate
officials and employes, even covers lobby- with universal joy.
iiig and bribing at the various seats of
REFERENDUM AND PROPORTIONAL
legislation. As a coach carries 80 on an REPRESENTATION.
aveixige, it makes the total cost of travel As a tree is judged by its fruit, so
a mile ])er person, one-sixth of one cent, a government should be judged by its
or six miles for one cent. With such laws. Why is there so iTiuch special
rates people could occasionally visit legislation on our statute books, and
their sisters, cousins and aunts. If the so much corruption in office? Because
government ran the railroads, advan- the people have little to say about it.
tages Avould l)e numerous, more persons Their representatives are the masters
would be employed, better wages paid, and do as they please; no matter how
shorter hours and millions put into the treacherous to their constituency, or
nation's treasury, no tremendous strikes to what extent they violate the pledges
threatening to paraly/e trade (whoever on which they secured election, they
lieard of a strike in the Post Office?), cannot be removed. When another elec-
rates would be cut and freight lowered. tion comes around new questions arise
There was a time in '03 w-hen miners and command attention, old wrongs are
Av(>re starving and farmers burning forgotten or lost sight of and other un-
corn. They couldn't make a profitable trustworthy men sneak into office, to
exchange, because the railroads' was the again do the bidding of monopoly and
lion's share. With loAver freight, the neglect measures that w-ould promote
fruit rotting on the trees and ground of the general good. In a discussion over
California could be exchanged for the the official conduct of a legi-slator, one
products of our mills and factories, neighbor asked of another what he
providing, of course, if there was a suffi- really did, anyhow, and was answered:
cient medium of exchange (money). "What has he done? Wby, he built

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two houses and started a store." Is tion, by which the legislature and gov-
not this about all the general run of
ernment would be a true counterpart
and special interests of the people. Each party would be
them do? Local
represented in the halls of legislation
are served, the public domain freely
force and extent manifested in
granted in chunks as larg-e as princi- to the
palities without consulting- the owners,
the elections; no more, no less. Xo im;
much less gaining their aginary lines of district boundaries ai'e
the people,
government to be allowed to disfranchise minori-
eonsent. The policy of
ties and rob them of a voice in the gov-
should be to make it as easy as possible
ernment. The senate committee on rep-
to do right; to make dishonesty and
resentation once reported: "Propor-
bribery as hard as possible and remove
representation is a system of
unholy temptation. Our present sys- tional
wide great merit." Our system of districts
tem throws the doors of fraud
you readily see can be so arranged by
open and sets a pi-emium upon di.shon-
esty and perfidy. The people should
the party of power at the time of dis-
so as to capture for the party
have the veto pow er over special legis- tricting, as possible.
lation and franchises. The talk of as many of the districts
If 100,000 votes are cast and say 20 sen-
sending rich men to oftice because they
ators are to be elected, 5,000 should be
don't need bribe money is all bosh.
sufficient to elect one. If there are four
They may be honorary (onerary) and
parties, republican party casts 35,000
chaste, but are not the common people
the democrats 30,000, the populists f?5.-
intelligent and chased; the patches on
000 a.nd the prohibitionists 10,000 votes;
their trotisers seem to say so. The dogs
the repul)licans under our present sys-
of special legislation are ravenous and
cunning, lender normal couditions,
tem would likely elect all the senators,
while the other 65,000 people wouldn't
such as existed in the early days of the
be represented at all, whereas an equit-
republic, when the country could boast
able division would be seven repub-
of a sterling-charactered yeomanry, and
licans, six democrats, five populists and
before property was exalted and labor
two proihibitionists. Garfield showed in
degraded, when wealth was fairly well
the lower house, in '70, the non-effective-
distributed and ere ^Mammon and his
ness of the vote and annihilation of the
withering creed held sway o'er the na-
freeman's will: "In my judgment it is
tion, it was not so much needed; but
the weak point in representative gov-
now, since manhood ha.s l)een so under-
ernment, as now organized, that a large
mined, wealth so centralized, and cor-
portion of the people are disfranchised.
porate interests so inimical to the com-
There are 10,000 democrats in my dis-
mon welfare, it is a crying demand of
trict voting year after year without
the times. There will be no bribery and
to
any more hope of having a representa-
deals when there are no franchises
tive on this floor than in the commons
give away, and no selling of votes when Gerrymandering
cf Great Britain."
the votes do not insure the delivery of
should cease. It is high time the gov-
the goods. Xo, let the people take a
ernment should cease holding- ixp such
hand in legislation. They have been examples of injustice to the eyes of its
frozen out long enough. Adopt that
citizens. All these systems work splen-
statesmanlike, scientific, efficacious re-
didly in Switzerland, in several Eu-
form, the initiative and referendum,
ropean and American cities. "\Yherever
h\ ^^ hich the ])eo])le can initiate beiie-
tried proven a signal success.
it has
ticial by po))ular petition,
legislation
They verily could be called the acme
and also, when desirable, compel the ])urifiers of politics and legislation.
submission of any law to the great jury poet will feel com-
When put in use the
of the peo})le for approval or rejection.
to reverse his lines about the
[lelled
Then no such lobby poetry as the fol- world. After saying this is a pretty
lowing would be inspired:
good place to live in, he went on:
"Midas, they say, possessed the art, of old,
or beg or get one's own,
Of turning whatsoe'er he touched to gold; "But to borrow that ever was
It's the worst world
Modern monopolists reverse it with ease,
Touch with gold and turn 'em as they known."
please." WAR AND EDUCATION.
Campaigns would then reach a max- "Were half the power that fills the world
iinnm of education and a minimum of with terror,
Were the wealth bestowed on
half
])ers,onalities. This law should be sup-
camps and courts,
plemented with the imperial mandate Given to redeem the mind from error.
by which obnoxious officials could be There were no need of arsenals and
recalled during their tenure of office. forts."
It should also be supplemented by civil War, the wholesale murder of fathers,
service and proportional representa- husbands, brothers and sons, should

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be (liscouragecL Othello's occupation (.Miss representation in Congress would
slioukl be changed to the sohooliua.ster. not be as bad as our present Mr. mis-
The cxi>enclitiire of our War and jS'avy representation), with just this reminder
departments in '93 Avas $79,817,857— $49,- of the liquor traffic in the unique ver-
041,492 more than the expenses of main- biage of Mrs. Malaprop "intemperance is
taining- the ])ublic school system of the a monster with many heads, and creeps
combined divisions of the South jVtlan- into the family like any conda or alli-
tic.South Central and Western States. gator and destroys its peace and hajipi-
This excess for war, too, while the illit- ness forever. But thank heaven a new
erate above the ag-e of ten, according- to Erie has dawned upon the world and
the 1890 census, averag-ed, over 22 per soon the hydrant-headed monster will
cent. l'>rig-ham Young- said: "li tali's be overturned. Isn't it strange that
greatest resources were its women." men will put enemies in their mouths
And Brig-ham not only knew the re- to steal away their heads?" will be
sources of his state but also how to skipped, to come to money the great- —
husband them, even if he was Young-. est question that now agitates the pub-
We should have less military and more lic mind, the one that disrupted the po-
education, so t'hat the rising- citizens of litical parties and arrayed ])lutocracy
our states coidd know more of the g-ov- against the commonalty. The
ernment under which they live, its re- UNMISTAKABLE ISSUE
sources and how to husband them. A r the pending campaign is whether
(

word as to the character of education. we want a gold standard, gold bonds

It should not be a cramming process, and bank currency, or a bimetallic
and sliould be made as ag-reeable as pos- standard, government currency and no
sible. 1 often think the jjupils would g-et bonds, especiallj' in time of peace. The
along- as well and enjoy it more if they republican party stands for the former,
]/ut less dates in their heads and more the Jefferson ian democrats, Lincolnian
in their stomachs. Education shoidd republicans and populists for the lat-
flavor of the original significance of the ter. Let tis take a resume of financial
Latin term, e, out, duco, to lead; to lead history, state irrefrag'tble facts and '

the inner man into outer life. More
consideration should be given to the
unfolding- of the character. The educa-
tion should also be practical, with less
lang-uages, dead or living, (one tongue
is sutTicient, especiall}' for women),
geometry, etc., and more of that which
bears on humanity and everyday life,
draw the inevitable conclusions. In
1792, with almost the first breath of
national life, congress, acting on the
report of Hamilton, concurred in by
Jefferson, provided the young repub-
lic with a bimetallic system of money
at the ratio of fifteen to one, made the
silver dollar of 371^4 grains of pure
.

physically, mentally, morally, political-
ly, industrially, commercially, socially.
A comjjany of jokers were passing re-
marks ujjon the shortness of a certain
nuin's legs and one propounded: "How
long -should a man's legs be, anj^how?"
Bin Nye replied: "Long enough to
reach the ground." So our education
should reach the terra tirma of citizen-
ship and the laws that govern the
growth and health of the bodj% mind,
society and the state should be taught
and understood. Then if we had an
aristocracy it would be of nature's creat-
ing-. It would differ from t.hat described
in Pope's lines:
"Virtue they find too painful an endeavor,
And content themselves with decencies
forever."
But an all-pervading aristocracj' of
brains and character.
Other questions, such as alien owner-
shi]) of our land, (English and Scotch
hold 20,000.000 acres, a Hollond syndi-
cate "j.OOO.OOO, and a German 2,000,000,)
postal savings banks, good roads, gov-
ernment banking, land, and suffrage
silver the unit of value. In 1S34 the
ratio was changed to 15.9SS (called six-
teen) to one, but left the unit as before.
Our daddies decided that in case of a
change in the legal ratio the change
.should be made in the rich man's money.
Besides gold is more portable, and the
same quantity is 16 times as valuable as
silver, and instead of circulating- ac-
cumulates in vaults, etc. In 1853 a law-
was passed changing the weight, etc.,
of fractional coins and limiting their
legal tender to five dollars, but still
left the standard dollar unchanged. In
1373, without a word of warning and
with the sneaking stealth of a midnight
thief, John Sherman sli])ped through
congress an act under the unpreten-
tious title of "an act revising- and amend-
ing the laws relative to the mint, assay
ofRces and coinage," which in effect
struck down about half the supply of
our money. This assassination of sil-
ver is the crime that, like Banquo's
ghost, will not down, though the sheets
of otir dailies, which are likened to cot-
ton sheets, because so many lie in

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tiuMU, has ofttMi pi'onoimcod it dead, industry in the land in 48 hours, and
written its epitaj)!!: "Lunacy, once bring such a pressure to bear on con-
ciazy, now dead." It still walks the gress that it dare not resist its de-
i:if>ht and consigns to fast in the fires mands. My countrymen, we have now
ol public condemnation Cleveland, Sher- met this monster face to face; the
man et al., till the foul crime done in gauntlet has been picked up, and fight
its days of nature are burned and imrged we must. The enemy is now upon us
iiway in its complete remonetization. in the disguise of protection and "sound
Why did they do it? The answer is money." Shall this be a government of
])lain as way to parish church. the pampered few? or be in fact "The
The large holders of money and credits land of the free and home of the brave?"
have alwaj'shad their bloody hands u[X)n DEMONETIZATION CONSEQUENCES.
the fair throat of legislation; being Let's trace: The demonetization of
alert as towhat affects their interests silver apd the destruction of greenbacks
and immutably concerned in making most certainly caused the panic and
money (their property) scarce. Scarce hard times of 1873 to 1877. No change
money means dear money, and dear of tariff schedules induced it. The ever
money means cheap property. David operative law of supply and demand
ITume, the historian, says: "It is the affects the value of gold. The coinage
proportion between the circulating of silver about equaled that of gold.
money and the commodities in themar- The demand for both, as the people were
Ivct that determines ])rices." Ricardo developing the vast resources of the
and a host of economists agree with country, was great and increasing.
him; btit, bringing in the opinions of Therefore, cutting the supjjly of money
noted thinkers on this point is like one-half meant great appreciation of the
citing authorities on two and twomalve remainder, though ijerhajis not 50 per
four. In 1816 England, at tlie instance cent, at once. The gold then in circula-
of the incipient money power, went tion must be taken into consideration.
to a gold basis. By the same insidous in- At that time, though, little was circu-
fluence Germany went to a silver basis lating, as it was before the resumption
in 1857, as the discoveries of gold in of specie payments and Germany had
California indicated an increasing sup- just started to a gold basis, taking-
])ly of that metal. But later the gold most of the floating gold of this and
supply diminished, while silver in- other countries. This check in the
creased year after year. This led money supply started the money strin-
Germany to demonetize silver, making gency. As a matter of course prices
the first step in that direction in 1871, fell, and falling prices caused loss and
and completing it in 1873; the same business demoralization; they in turn
year France and the United States de- destroyed confidence, making a full-
monetized it. No satisfactory explana- fledged panic.
tion has ever been advanced for these This panic was not relieved till 1878,
acts, so vitally affecting property' and when the Bland-Allison act was passed
business. It was done so sleek here that through the agitation that took place
no one understood that was the purport in behalf of more money. This com-
of the innocent-looking bill excepting promise act (Bland intro<luced a free
Sherman and a few others. President coinage measure) provided for the pur-
Grant didn't know that it demonetized chase and coinage of silver of not less
silver till long after the trick was ac- than 2,000,000 nor more than 4,000,000
complished, and said he wouldn't have ounces a month. This checked the
signed it had he known its intent. From downward tendency of prices and
that day the money power has been revived business. This law was vetoed
growing stronger and absorbing the by President Hayes and the adminis-
wealth of nations, till to-day it is tre- tration was hostile to it, and Sherman,
mendous. The house of Rothschild con- secretary of the treasury, instead of
trol $2,000,000,000 of property, one-half coining 4.000,000 per month barely
in money and bonds and paper immedi- coined the minimum, and did in con-
ately convertible therein. The entire junction with banks everything in
stock of gold in the ^vorld is $4,080,800,- their power to discredit the silver dol-
000, so (he house of Rothschild controls lar, and called it, like their hii-elings do
one-quarter of the gold in the world. now, cheap and dishonest and excluded
Croesus wouldn't be in it to-day. Chaun- it form the New York clearing house.
cey ]\rontebank Depew said at a ban- In 1SS2 the banks began to contract
quet of magnates in New York not long their circulation and thus neutralized
since that they had a combination down the Bland law. Prices began to drop
there that could stop every wheel of and we again drifted into depression.

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were our markets. The I'nited States was

As most of the European nations
also on a gold basis prices fell
there. even threatened, but, happily, the Sher-
Distress was getting widespread
and man bill was passed in 1890, making it
intense and Great Britain appointed
a compulsory on the United Stales to
commission to investigate the depres- buy 4,500,000 ounces of silver per month.
sion of the kingdom. It reported
the The senate passed a free coinage act.
depression was universal in Europe and Although it is believed the house fa-
America, and iixed its commencement vored it, yet. the administration was
lit ISTIi, and advised a commission
for against it and put the question off with
looking' into the silver question. So
in the Sherman compromise. Had Harri-
18S7 the Jlo.val Gold and Silver
commis- son, Iveed and other leading republicans
sion was t'reated. It also reiwrted done their duty (a thing they know
business stagnation, beg-inning about little of and care less) the silver ques-

1S73; that prices fell on an average

30 tion would have been settled and the
per cent, and that the divergence of gold panic and hard times averted. As it
and silver was due to the demonetiza- was, this law added to our money slock
tion of that year. It also showed that about $50,000,000 a year, which supplied
silver fell tls measured in gold 30 per the place of the gold sent abroad on
rent., but that silver as measured in account of the Baring failure and Aus-
other c<mimodities had not fallen, but tria's wanting gold on account of her
woidd exchange for the same quantity changing her monetary system. This
(if other goods as formerly. This indi- law, you see, supplied the drain, kept
cates that in silver standard countries up the volume of money and
sustained
prices have not fallen, Avhich means prices and business. But in 1893 Cleve-
business prosperity. Let's apply the lalid, elected as he was on a platform
Touchstone of actual fact and see if essentially bimetallic, immed lately u])on
this is correct. In India, a silver-using taking his seat, as the tool and at the
country, cotton manufacturing has behest of this unholy money power,
gone on at a surpassing rate and cotton summoned congress in special session
and wheat exports have been increasing. to repeal this law that was pouring
In 1873 there were 450,000 spindles in $50,000,000 annually into the parched
India, in 1886 1,700,000 and in 1894 4,- channels of trade. The angelic bank-
OdO.OOO. In 1873 she exported less than ers, to give this queer, high-handed pro-
1,000,000 bushels of wheat, in 1886 40,- ceeding the color of common decency
000,000 and now 50,000,000, while the sent out the following circular urging
I'nited States exports have fallen from bankers to squeeze business men and
$150,712,509 in 1881 to $55,131,948 in make them think it is all due to want
1891. This is how the thing worked in of confidence in the stability of our
regard to the discrimination in our government on account of the Sherman
trade. India, while she sold her prod- law. O, Simple Simon business man.
uce for less in England, a gold market, how cruelly hast thou been cajoled?
she purchased articles she needed there, A law putting $50,000,000 of blood to cir-
as they were cheaper, thus evening u]). culate throiigh the industrial system,
T?ut. further, as silver was cheaper, mer- making the body politic languish.
chants could buy more of it with their Think on it. O. l)rethren, ere your
sovereigns and take it to India, where sleepless nights compel thee to
it could be converted into ruppees and $50,000,000 annually and not a dol-
ruppees would go as far as ever in lar below par; never in the history
India. This was an inducement to open of the country. Even admitting, for
cotton mills and other manufactures in sake of argument, tihe standard dollar
the orient. Thus you see how the gold wasn't as good as it might be. yet every-
standard has been even from the out- body knows that a large amount of
side crippling our industries. silver can be used and maintained with

RARING FAILURE AND SHERMAN g'old as a fellow metal and that silver
LAW. will do its function though overvalued
.\s other things w-ere favorable we by legal ratio. Even little Xetherlands,
struggled along till Baring Brothers a gold country like the United States,
failed in 1889 and shook the very founda- sustains a per capita circulation of
tion of the money centers of London $12.09 silver to but $5.87 of gold at about
i.nd the world. So limited is the ])ri- 151/0 to 1. Don't you think, brother
Tiiary money of the world when it comf s buisiness man. that the United States
lo settlement of debts. The Bank of with $9.09 in gold could not g-o more
England was hard pressed and bor- than .$9.08 in silver with a ratio at six-
rowed $15,000,000 from France, and teen to one. If Netherlands can keep
American securities were dumped upon $12.09 at par on $5.87 the United States

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 our families, liberty and
oould easy keep 17 of silver to 9.09 of striking for
land. The scene reminds nu-
gold so that the frig-htful Sherman law our native
might be doubled and yet require agen- of Mrs. Partington and
Isaac. Ike \va^
erationmoretoreachthatratioas gold is bolting a whole pie and she exclaimed:
glutinous, dear, or you'll
continually being added to our stock. "Don't be so
that business should be so get something in your elementary canal
'Po think
h(X)dooed is one of the miracles of the or sarcophagus
one of these days that
will kill you." If these bankers and
lattT day saints, alias baaikers. The next
persist in being so ravenous
time a banker offers you snuff, say "No, plutocrats
something into their
thank you, the last time I took your they will get
my busi- saroophagus, and it will be done with
liinih I blewthe profits out of
mighty little ceremony, too.
ness."
BONDS AND NATIONAL DEBT. It will require in principal and 'n-
—
The circular referred to issued March terest .$500,000,000 to pay for the bonds
].2, 1893, by the Bankers association so far issued and we've derived no ben-
io the national banks: efit from it whatever. A lady wishing
to preserve some small lieer asked her
"Dear Sir: The interests of national
bankers require immediate financial leg- butler what was the best way to
save
islation by congress. Silver, silver cer- it and he, very business-like, replied:
tificates and treasury notes must be re- "Put a barrel of good ale alongside of
tired and the national bank notes upon a
gold basis made the only money. This
il." The way to save our gold reserve
will requirie the authorization of $500,000,000 is to put lots of silver alongside of
it.

of bonds as a basis of circulation. You will The Tnited States could have coined the
at once retire one-third of your circulation seigniorage in the treasury, (it lay there
and call in one-half of your loans. Be care-
ful to make a money stringency felt among idle to theextent or tens of millions) or
patrons. Advocate an extra session for issued certificates therefor, or even is-
the repeal of the Sherman law and act sued greenbacks. If Bankers and For-
with other banks of your city in securing eigners will pay a premium for our
a petition to congrgess for its uncondition-
al repeal, per accompanying form. Use Bonds (payable in coin, g-old or silver)
personal influence with congressmen and I guesis the people will take their own
senators. The future life of national banks oreenbacks at par. Right here lets make
as fixed investments depends upon imme-
diate action, as there is an increasing sen- another comparison. Spain ha.s 2.20
timent in favor of government notes and in gold per capita and floats at nar
silver coinage." 11. SI in paper; Ca.nada. 1.92 in gold and
Their lackey press took up the hue 7.04 in pai>er; the United States has
and cr}' against silver and wantof confi- 9.09 in gold and we've only 6.90 in paper.
dence. It was no tariff panic; bankers See how many htmdreds of millions
didn't say so. Xo true statesman said we could safely have issued. That this
so, and old Sherman, who has been issuing of bonds in times of peace is
aj)tly termed the Mephistopheles of defended seems to me to add insult to
hnance, said in the debate on the re- injury, and shows their crocodile posi-
peal: "In ten days the skies will tion towards our free institutions. Do
brighten, business will resume its or- you know it takes more of the products
dinary course and the clouds that lower of labor to pay our national debt now
upon our house will be in the deep than it would right after the war? In
bosom of the ocean buried." Well, they '06 it was .$2.S27,sr)8.9.')9, since then we've
succeeded in repealing it, but times paid in interest alone $2,035,000,000 and
have htxn getting worse and worse and appliiKl the further sum of $1,700,000.-
instead of the clotnls that lower over otir 000 upon the principal, making a total
house being in the bosom of the ocean of $4,335,000,000, but still we owe Sl,-
buried, we ourselves are being swal- 237.500, and the eminent historian. Dr.
lowed up in the Red Sea of Bankruptcy Red path, has figured that even this re-
and distre'is. But the bankers have mainder of the debt is worth more to
gotten already more than half their it~s bloated holders than the entire debt
$.500,000,000 of bonds for their fleecing in 1806, and that to pay it off now re-
basis. The administration has issued quires 51,339,000 more barrels of pork,
.$202,000,000 bonds and thinks seriously 046,000,000 more bushels of wheat, 425,-
of issuing more. Not only this, but it 000,000 more pounds of cotton or 4,496,-
has the. brazen effrontery' of infernal OOO.OOOmore poundsof bar iron than itdid
treason to intimate that our greenbacks March 1. 1866, when the nominal amount
should all Ik? retired from circtilation. was 2^4 times greater than now and
Fellow citizens where is the end? Into after we have already paid on it almost
v> hat Dantiean regions is this Cleveland, twice the original sum. "The people
Bankers. McKinley, Rothschilds syndi- have paid and paid for 30 years and in
cate to lead us? It's time we were the end have paid just this Nothing." —
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 treatment, silvei' valiantly holds it.'- own.
IJouse ye. Amea-icons, oi- ye'll sui-i-ly bo
relation to other comiuodities.
slaves Avithout a home. Are ye satis-
in its

fied -svith the present conditions and An ounce of silver will buy as much col-
ton, corn, wheat, iron, labor, etc as it
going to vote for Mc-Kinley and their ,

continuance? ^'o, rise in your might ever would. Here is a table:

while you have the omnipotent ballot Year. Wheat, bu. Cotton, lbs. Silver, oz.
in your hands and in the name of Hu- 1S73 1.25 18.2 1.2!»

manity demand deliverance from this 1S76 1.20 12.9 • 1.15

1.07 9.9 1.12
all-devouring money power. 1879
11.4 1.13
1882 1.19
SHAVER 1885 86 10.6 1.06
Is the \)eople"s money. It circulates 1888 85 9.8 .93

among the people. Gold is the money of 1891 85 10.0 .90

80 8.7 .86
the classes and is kept for reserves, and 1892
7.0 .72 "
1893 63
finds its way into vaults and hidden
corners. It is easily cornered, and all This table shows conclusively that
of it can be j)ut in a room of 22 cubic gold must have appreciated. Mr. (iiffin,
feet. What are soiue of their snake ar- statistician of the London board of
guments against silver? That it is a trade, a goldbug, admits that gold has 1

cheap money. The money use of these doubled in purchasing power. In re-
precious metals constitutes almost 50 gard to the lumber illustration, it must
per cent, of the entire use. About 1873 not be forgotten that the demand for
the arts used less than 50 iier cent. money is always at a tension, while in
Therefore, when the use of silver as building it isn't, and again that the
money was surreptitiously taken away, supply of gold is limited, and that of
the demand for it fell over 50 per cent., brick and stone is not. The charge has
and the demand falling, the price liad to also been made that silver has fallen in
fall also. Some j)eople are so impreg- value because of improvements in and
nated with the idea that law can't put cheapness of its mining. But about the
\alne into anything, as to lose their rea- same kind of machinery is used in the
son on the subject. The silver advo- mining of gold, and as gold mining has
cates don't want the United States to been stimulated by its rising value, the
say that silver is worth so much, but improvements and inventions therein
they simply want the United States to are a little in advance of silver mining.
o])en its mints to silver as it does to Yet gold hasn't come down. Carlisle
gold. That is, make it possible to con- said in Congress in 1878 that he be-
vert silver into money, and as there is lieved the variance between gold and
an insatiate, I might say, demand, for silver teniporary, and that the single
money, the law of supply and domand or united action of nations interested
would come in and do the rest. An il- therein would establish the old ratir>
lustration: Congress wouldn't raise the firmer than ever, and that mankind
value of lumber by saying it should be would be fortunate if the production of
$100 a foot. But suppose Congress (if gold and silver would keep pace with
it had the power) should say that lum- the increase in population, commerce
ber shall not be used for anything but and industry, and continued: '"This
matches, under penalty of imprison- conspiracj^ which seems to have been
ment, how much do you suppose the formed here and in Europe to destroy
lumber in our lumber-yards would bo one-half of the metallic money of the
worth? This is exactly what Congress M'orld is the most gigantic crime of any
did with silver. It took away its free age, and its consummation would entail
access to the mints and limited its use more misery than war, ])estilencc and
to small change. Now, in the case of famine." This Judas Iscariot of democ-
lumber, other building materials, such racy, who hasn't manhood enough to
as brick and stone, would rise in vahio, hang himself, now says that the demon-
as there would be a greater demand for etization of silver in 1S73 was but the
them, as they would have to take the recognition of a condition that exi.sted.
])lace of lumber. Likewise, gold went that is, silver was getting so cheap and
u]i when it had to meet the old demand plentiful. This, too. in the face of the
of both gold and silver. These pluto- iindeniable fact that silver was worth
crats who demonetized silver, and now- three per cent, more than gold the very
set up the cry of cheap money, have day it was demonetized, and the relative
literally smitten Silver, the star-eyed output of these metals in weight didn't
(loddess of ])ros]^rity on both cheeks, exceed sixteen to one till 1882, nine years
and rai.sed the suspicion that the god- after the passage of the nefarious act.
dess blushes because of other im])roper The world's output in 1S73 was: gold.
conduct. But in spite of this da.stardly .$96,200,000; silver, $81,800,000. Here is

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n, table of the output from i;'.>:2 to man in some dark alley. No, it is under
i892: consumption, persons w ear one suit for
Year. Gold. Silver. years, where before tiiey'd have a now
17'j2-1J<00 $106,407,000 $328,800,000 for every season. They haven't
.•>uit
1801-10 118,152,000 371,677,000
1811-20 76,063,000 224,786,000 the wherewith to buy. Here is a table
15,21-SO 94,479,000 i;il,444,00(i of consumption of staple articles per
1831-40 134,841,000 247,930,000
1^41-48 291,144,000 25y,520,00ri capita ;n the I'nited States:
1851 67,000,000 40,000,000 Year. Cotton, lbs. Corn, bu.
1S61 113,800,000 44,700.011(1
24.03 30.33
1892
1871 107,000,000 61,050,0m) 1S93 17.17 23.66
ISSl 103,000,000 102,000,000 1894 15.91 22.76
1885 108,400,000 11S,.500,000
ISnO 118,849,000 172,235,000 Year. Wheat, bu. Coffee, lbs. Wine.
1892 138,861,000 196,459,000 1892 ..5.91 9.63 .44
1893 4.85 8.21 .48
Total 15,633,908,000 $5,004,961,000 1894 3.41 8.01 .31

In 1895 it was: gold, .•T;iTy,9G5,GU0; sil- Xo! Under-consumption. The only

ver, $215,404,000. While silver had as overproduction is tramps and million-
free access to the mints as g'old, it varied aires. It's right in order, though, for
little from sixteen to one in value; from some of these penny-in-the-slot-get-
1('S7 to 1S7;5 it never reached hig-her what-you-want professors to demon-
than 16. 17-100 to 1. The reason is clear, strate with their mathematical certain-
there is such an ever increasing- demand ties that this consuming- of less g-oods
tor money (\vhen silver can be con- is due to the improved methods of eat-
verted into money the demand extends ing-, less waste, etc. So many board
to silver) the value- will be sustained. —
out no^v in parks and highways.
.Metals that vary as litte as silver and Iiig'ht here let me touch on McKinley's
j^okl did during 200 years of equality, star sentence (granrlstand l)lay) "It :

when the relative outputs changed froni
time to time, changing- from three of
silver to one of g-old, from 1790 to 1840,
and from two of gold to one of silver
from 1340 to 187.'J, make good money
;incl the moment silver is restored to its
former equality with g-old the old ratio
will be easily maintained. There is in
the world to-day but 15^^ to 16 times
the amount of silver that there is of
gold. Silver as well as gold is the money
of the constit\ition, of our daddies, the
common people and ])rosperity. Let's
have more of it. There never can be a
general and substantial rise (though
there may be a local and temporary)
in prices and property without an in-
crease in the volume of money. Some
say falling- prices are due to inventions
and machinery, but wasn't the intro-
duction of machinery between 1S60 and
1873, relatively as great as between
1S73 and 1896? Yet prices rose 22 per
cent, in the former period and fe'l 30
up to 1893. Since then, in the varnacular
of Pat, they hev tak'n da dangdest fall
.since the fall of Adam.
:movement of prices in oold.
Year. Foods. Metals.
1872 122.2 117.3
1875 IIG.O 104.4
1878 r5.5 ?0.8
1881 lin.9 91.1
1884 10S.9 81.0
1S.<57 IOi.2 74.9
1S91 103.9 74.9
Others claim overproduction is the
cause of our distress. Overproduction!
When millions are going- aronnd half
clad and half fed. When we hear such
talk it's evident the Fool Killer must
have run up against the long and short
is better to open the mills to the labor
of America than to open the mints of
the United States to the silver of the
world." If McKinley wasn't the tool
of the money power,
he'd be consistent
enough to protect silver mining-, one of
the greatest industries of the west.
They would employ labor which in turn
would need food, clothing-, furniture,
etc. Open our mills. But will McKinley
inform us how industries can be run
without money? If he says: "On
credit."' why don't they run now? I
think I showed under "Protection,"' that
the McKinley and Wilson bills would al-
most be taken for twins, but does rais-
ing the tariff do away with the neces-
sity of money? If not, his remedy is
inadequate, for he ignores the scarcity
of money. All ought to know money is
needed to carry on industry and trade,
and without silver there's practically
no money for that purpose. One
doesn't meet a gold piece in a month's
journey. The merchants who are stoop-
ing- to the ^fexican dollar trick-mule
performances and railing against sil-
ver are stabbing- their best friend. The
AH prices. opjjosition coruscate many g-ems of
127 2 consistency, such as "Law^ can't add
113.4
9f).9 value toanything-"and"thissilverheresy
105.7 will simply enrich the silver mine own-
9t.4
ers." They also say the silver dollar is
92.
92.4 only worth 53 cents.yet they won't take 99
cents for one. (Silver, bear in mind, is
no more redeemable in gold than gold
is in silver.) But the ko-i-noor of these
brilliant gems is that "All the United
States can do is to stamp the weight and
fineness of the metal on the coin, law be-

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ing l)0^vel•less to ^'we valiif to anythinf^-.
Yet they tell us they want an interna-
tional agreement; that is. they think if
i:nglanri and Oerniany will also stamp
weight and fineness on silver the 53
eents of silver will climb to 100 cents.
l!iit these men view consistency in the
same light as the church sewing society
views silence; something not to be tol-
would only he getting, at $1.20 an ounce.
$100,000,000; this, distributed amon.g
71,000,000 people, would be about $1.40
per person. Sir Hector M. Hay, a mem-
ber of the largest bullion business firm
in the world, said last j-ear that "the
visible supply of silver in Europe didn't
exceed £3,000,000." So, you see, from
all sources the per capita wouldn't be

erated. raised to but $1.65. Do you think we

ICdward .\tkinson. the bull i)up of need an ark for such a deluge? Our in-
phitocracy, says if us half-witted and crea,sing population, industry and com-
idiotic followers of Jetferson and Lin- merce can take care of all and cry for
coln succeed in getting free coinage more.
we'll have a flood of silver and terribly PER CAPITA TABLE.
depreciated money. It never troubles Gold. Silver. Paper. Total.
this pugnacious, flea-flavored barker United States... 9.09 9.08 6.90 20. 07
United K'gdom.14.18 2.88 2.92 19. ^'S'
to point out where this vast reservoir France 21.54 12.85 2.31 36.70
of silver is. Even if we have a flood of Germany 12.65 4.35 1.78 IS. 78

silver, isn't that better than a dearth

Belgium 8.87 8.85 8.26 25.98
Austria 3.00 2.81 3.38
of gold? How much silver available for Mexico 41 4.13 .17 4.71
Ee-ypt 17.65 2.20 19.85
money is there in the world? The last Greece 23 1.36 19.09 20.68
mint rejjort estimated it at $4,070,500,- Netherlands .... 5.87 12.02 7.64 25.53
(100. I{us.sia and Egypt have $6.31,200,- Portugal 8.27 5.28 11.81 25.36

000 of it in subsidiary coin in ratios From above it is seen our per capita is
from 12.90 to 15.()5 to 1. Therefore, less than Belgium, Portugal, France and
we would get none of that. There is Netherlands. Although ours is figured
$;i.-)0,000.000 in India, $115,000,000 in at $25.07 yet, deducting the amount of
China, $(iS,00(),0()0 in Japan. Asia has money lost, destroyed and melted down
N00,()00,000 inhabitants, making its by smiths and uKinufacturers, which
money about $2.50 per capita, and little was estimated at about $4,000,000 in the
or no gold. Eurojie has 400,000,000 single year 1890, the amount taken
population and $1,000,000,000 full legal abroad by tourists, etc., will bring
tender silver, or .$2.50 per capita. These it below $20. I think tTie Americans can
people cannot get along without any stand a few more dollars. I've seen men
money at all in fact, it is hard to imag- with a biigg'er load than that, and they
;

ine them getting along with any less. managed to live through it. In fact, the
Who could collect this silver, distribu- days of our greatest prosperity was
ted as it is among 1,200.000,000 people when we had over $50 per capita, after
of all shades of color, language, politics the war. In estimating the circulation
and religion, and every j)erson averag- of that })eriod I don't overlook flu $700.-
ing over seven acres of territory? What 000.000 or $800,000,000 United States
would be exchanged for the silver? T-.'JO bonds, which were in small denomi-
(lold? Xo, for there is no more gold nations aiid legal tender. The Director
than silver in the world, so the exchange of the mint misrepresents the facts by-
would be even. In goods? In that not stating' this fact in the tables of
case, business would be benefited to those years, just like the goldbug niis-
meet the demand for wares, etc. But re]iresentations of the silver dollars
why go on? It would be as imiiossible coined prior to 187.3. They state only
to get all this silver into the (Tnited $8,000,000 silver dollars were coined,
States as to get all the water, creeks, leaving the inference that that was all
etc.. of the globe into the Atlantic ocean. the silver the Ignited States were using
As the prosjjectsof rain from this source under bimetallism, when the facts are.
are confessedly slim, let us turn to the $8,000,000 was coined in silver dollars.
annual output. In 1894 it was 167. 752,- $1.35,000,000 in fractional coins and $100,-
."•61 ounces. This was not fully traced 000.000 of the silver coins of other coun-
to its ultimate use, but it can be esti- tries were circtdating as legal tender
mated approxinuitely. About 100,000,- by virtue of United States laws. Prof.
000 ounces went to the coinages of the Langhlin, head of the economic depart-
difi'erent countries, and the remainder ment of the Standard Oil literary
to the arts and manufactures. Now, bureau, sometimes called out of respect
then, if we had free coinage, we proba- for learning the Chicago University,
bly would get the major portion. If says we don't need so much money as
we got 80,000,000 ounces, which is four- formerly, banking facilities are such,
fifths of the coinage of the world, we etc. Well, there has been no improve-

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ments in banking- since 1873. Prior
thereto we had a circulation of over $50
per capita (no more than it would no\\
be with the world's silver within our
borders), and times ^vere never better.
He also says that credits now gener-
ally take the place of money. If so, it
is a grievous fault and on-ievously have
we suffered from it^ Let's examine.
Credit depends upon in the last analy-
sis whether the person has money
or it is rea.sonably supposed he can get
it. Credit may increase the volume ol
business, and in that case, increases
the demand for money, and then if the
sons, from $1 to $3 a day; carpenters,
same; 1S95, carpenters, $1.50 to $3.50, and
mechanics, $1 to $5 a day, according to
skill. So, you see, Mexico's conditions,
while not as good as United States', are
better than gold Austria. Besides, busi-
ness is going right along in Mexico.
Kailroads are being built, and her re-
sources developed to a happy extent.
Was the United States uncivilized
prior to 1873, when we had the bimetal-
lic standard? Were Washington. Jef-
ferson, Franklin, Lincoln. Phillijjs and
Emerson barbarians. Xo, nol U. S.
went through the greatest civil

money is not there in quantities enough war in history and attained the lead-
to pay all, a crash comes and panic sets ership of the nations of the earth on
in. This is why America and England that basis. Germany rose to her im-
suffer so from which are almost
iKinics, perial greatness among the ])owers of
nnknown in France,where the per cap- Europe on a silver basis. Let's hear no
ita circulation is fairly large. We would more of this childish bosh of silver de-
like to know if the professor does grading us. Imagine Mexico trying to
9.":

l)er cent, of his business on credit? getalongon an exclusive gold basis with
CiTover didn't succeed that Avay. He $0.41 in gold per capita. Silver is a
needed money and. of course, it had to winner, its success is demonstrated, but
be the Mongolian metal. Another of the gold standard has been tried in the
their boggiemen is that silver will de- balance for 23 years and found wanting
grade lis to the —
the earth and the fullness thereof
LEVEL OF MEXICO turned over to the moneyholders. The
and China. What a splendid oppor- next thing encountered is this man of
tunity for some transcendant genius, straw solemnly christened.
some brilliant intellectual Murat Hal- INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT.
stead to predict that America will sink As a dummy it is a work of art. but
to the depths of Chinadom inside often let's examine its anatomy and see what's
.".ears becans?, forsooth, Ainericans nse realh' to it. It is the function of a sov-
rice. XoAv for the comparison of wages, ereign g'overnment to say what shall
etc. What if wages are lower in Mexico be the monej' of its people, and nations
and China than here? Those countries have always exercised it without regard
have very high tariffs and perhaps these to the feelings or dictates of others.
make wages low. But to be serious, we The only exception in all the eventful
have seen (under the head of protec- years of history was in 1865, when the
tion) that wages depend on many Latin Union, composed of France and
things, such as climate, people, ma- the smaller nations of Belgium, Switz-
chinery, productivity of labor, per cap- erland, Italj", later Greece. This was
ita of circulation, etc. [Mexico's circula- simply an agreement to mint coins of
tion is $4.71 per capita. China's is less. the same denomination and make them
In both these countries the climates are legal tender among them. But in all
against the inhabitants, who are, by likelihood the United States will never,
the way, only half civilized, and work or not for many years, succeed in bring-
with crude implements, thus producing ing England and Germany into such a
little, and that of the inferior kind. treaty. These nations are more hope-
lUit with these disad\'antages, le+'s see lessly dominated by the money power
ho^v Mexico's Morkmen compare Avith than the United States. The money
gold-standard Austria in wages. Offi- power will never consent to it. Several
cial statistics, Austria, 1894: Calkers, international conferences have been
painters, etc., from $.3 to $4.50 per week; held and nothing accomplished.
iron and brass workers, $2.40 to $3; Their only object is to fake the pub-
hemp mills in Buda-Pesth, laborers, lic. All have noticed that nothing is
$2.50; hacklers, $4.14, and breakers, heard about them until the people get
$r^..50. Mexico: C. A. Brown treasurer of warm and excited about their money
the Mexican Central 'railroad writes and wrongs, and then the papers are full
is quoted by W. C. Ford, of United of what is about to be done by inter-
States treasurj-- bureau of statistics. national agreement and that it will be
1800:Laborers, 50 to 75 cents a day; accomplished soon now if we only keep
breakmen, $45 to $50 per month; ma- cool and don't be so rash as to legislate
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 snap of being the money lender of
lor ourselves. A year or so ago, when
this
the world. In the later conferences the
silver was agitating the iieople, an as-
sociation of great banl<ers and repre-
objection that silver would make better
prices and times, has gotten stronger.
sentative business men, so called, was
henilded into being with great eclat by Alfred de Kothschild, a familiar and
tlie big dailies. They were going to la- profoundly respected figuie at these
agreement, meetings, in the Brussels confei-
l.or for the international
:uul no doubt soon get it. The silver ence of 1592 eulogized the fall of
prices: "I hold wheat at 30 instead of
sentiment after its season's work lied
Lo, the papers pro- 45 shillings; a quarter is a blessing."
down to sleep.
nounced it dead. As the silver craze The Baron likes to see the poor man
was dead we heard nothing of these get the most for his shilling. He and
liankers and
international crazers till just lately. his American cousins,
ones that clamor loud- plutocrats dearly love the ])eople; Ihey
The truth is, the
est for it want it least. This rainbow just worship the ground they stand on;
was just ahead in 1S78, but is farther they have also a fond eye for the build-
away now than ever. The influential ings thereon. The Irish tenantry :^nd
class of England is the greatest cred- peasantry of India
are indeed fine mor.-
itor class known, and London is the uments to England's humanity and
pawnshop of the world. They want philanthropy. The baron ended: "T
scarce money, which they control, thus venture to hope I have
conclusively
bringing debtors, the enterprising of shown that bimetallism for England
the world, to the feet of the drones of IS an Absolute Impossibility." I guess
society to implore mercy and favors. it is this that makes international agree-
Shylock must have his pound of flesh. ment makers so enthusiastic. A word
I stated that the international agree- as to the alleg-ed
ment was further away than in 1S78, REDUNDANCY AND FIXED INCOMES.
the money sharks have grown stronger Insufficient money or contraction of •
and bolder since. The Paris conference the currency causes prices to fall and
of ISTS resohed: business to become demoralized. There-
"That the selection for use of one or fore money is withdrawn from enter-
the other of the metals, or of both, ])rise and accumulated at centers and
should be governed by the position of there being apparently no use for it
eacli state or group of states." The there seems to be a surplus. The greater
United States Monetary Commission the contracfion of the money volume,
reported in 1877 "that the disaster of the worse business gets and the more
the dark ages were caused by decreas- idle money there is. Ergo redundancy
ing money and falling prices and the is evidence of the insufficiencj' of money.
recovery therefrom and comparative Gold is naturally indolent when it
|)rosperity which followed the discov- comes to its being worth more year
'ery of America were due to an increas- after year. It is jiarticularlj^ fond of
ing sup])]y of the precious metals and fattening in repose. As to incomes,
••ising prices Avill not seem unreasonable none are absolutely fixed. Those ev-
when the nobler functions of money gag-ed in insurance or railroad busi-
ai"e considered. !Money is the great in- ness or even the employes of the city
strument of association; the vitalizing government haven't fixed incomes,
force of industry; the protoplasm of much less clerks, wage- workers and pen-
civilization, and as essential to its ex- sioners. The oil to run all this machin-
istence as oxygen is to animal life. ery comes out of the producer. If the
Without money civilization -could not producer is pauperized everything goes
have had a beginning, and Avith a dimin- wrong. Insurance business fell off ter-
ishing supply it must languish, and un- ribly in the last couple of years and
less relii'ved ])erish. Falling prices and railroad earnings fell $125,000,000 in one
destitiition are inseparable companions. year, etc. IN'ow so far this has onl\
It is universally conceded that falling tended to lessen profits, but further
prices results from contraction of the falls must cut the average workman.
money." Gladstone said in the house Even salaries of our city officials have
of commons in 1893, on a motion that been lowered and the force cut down
the government urge the reassembling and still the city is without funds. The
of the monetary conference to promote delinquent tax list is greater than ever
bimetallism: "A year doesn't pass which before. If this continues the same
doesn't add largely to our mass of in- proce>ss mu.st;- continue and as to sol-
vestments abroad which exceed $10,- diers' pensions, they, unless a change
OftO.onn.non." and went on to make fun comes, will be swept away entirely.
of the idea that England would give up Even people fancying themselves se-
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 (-•lire on niortf>af^es will find the niort-was with siiver-nsing- countries. Again,
ijagor can't pay and that on the mined (Jermany had a silver standard between
market the secured property is without '57 and '73, but did you ever hear of
buyers and worthless. Thisg'old stand- German3^ being- shut off from the trad-
ard unless changed will honeycomb our ing- world? JN'ow let's consider:
civilization. This prating about not l>e- rpj^E PRESENT STANDARD.
ing big enough to mi i-x ,, ^ ^t
<•

I Jie goldites charge a.ll sorts of thuigs

'^ • i

LEGISLATE FOR OURSELVES. to the .silver men and sav villainy is

IS unAinencan. A\ hen we were but 13 afoot. Well, it's about time the pluto-
states along the wilderness of the east- ^-j.^ts were hoofing it. They, in alarm.
e.rn seaboard with 3.0()(),0()0 people we
ery: "The crazy silverites are going to
defied and conquered l':ngland. Are we trifle with the measure of values," but
now with KS states and other territories ^ve reply: "It is you that have trifled
and T1,()()0,()()() people going topusillani- ^^ith it, we but mean to restore it, and
mously surrender? The United States jf tbere is any honesty in you you'll
IS th*' greatest nation on the face of the
help do it. We feel the people are honest
earth in point of wealth, resources and now, they have been straightened by cir-
business. It leads in agTiculture, and curastances. The alarm is taken up by
according to Mulhall, the English sta- insurance, real estate and mortgage
tistician, is away ahead in manufac-
men. Thev talk of repudiation and
tures. In 'SS the United States stood .$7,- cheap money, look wise and speak with
2()0.()()0,00(): France, $2,300,000,000; Ger-
the air of authority, adding, they handle
many, $2,100,000,000; Austria, $1,200.- and deal in money and know whereof
000,000; Italy, $600,000,000. The United they speak. They have l>een likened to
States more than ecjualed tihe aggregate the'striped inmates of Jolict. who break
of the nations named. The carrying and cut stone all their lives, but know
trade of the world is 1.540,000.000 tons nothing of geology. These fellows
carried 100 miles annually; 1,400,000.000 i^iow about values," usury, etc., but are
J
in railroad traffic and the rest in ship- densely ignorant on the science of
ping. The United States carried SOO,- money. Tliey talk so because of their
000,000 on railroads, alone, which is 60,- contact with deep, wily bankers. I
000.000 more than the world's land and ^^ant to say right here the people don't
water traftic. Ifncle Sam is big enough believe in alchemy— they leave the black
to take care of himself and :\IcKinley art to such princes of darkness as Sher-
will have a hard time in convincing the man, Cleveland and their coterie,
old man he is still in bib and diapers. We THie country's indebtedness is, public
are also told we must have the same and private, $40,000,000,000. All our gold
standard 'as other nations or trade will will not pay interest thereon for three
be interferred with. Most of these ar- months. All the gold and silver
guments don't merit serious considera- wouldn't pay the appropriations of the
tion, but as they frequently emanate billion-dollar congress. Our foreign
from college professors, T don't see that debt is between $5,000,000,000 and $6.-
we can do anything but pity their jaun- 000.000,000. Forigners hold millions of
diced minds. They should be treated our National. st.Tte and municipal bonds,
rather than answered. I will advise most of our stock yards, railroads, many
them to go to some chemist and get a flour and steel mills, much land and all
mixture of five grains of the essense of the breweries. Interest, dividends, etc..
manhood, five drops of concentrated en this amount yearly to $250,000,000.
spirits of reason and a grain of silver to When times are fair the balance of trade
sweeten, and take three times a day in our favor is about $150,000,000, leav-
till cured. Nations trade back and ing $100,000,000 to pay in gold. Last
forth and all around. Exports and im- year we mined $17,000,000 (more than
ports are offset against each other and ever before.) The arts used more tban
by means of this clearing house system half. The amount used thus is con-
only balances, which are small, are set- stantly increasing. Table for the
tied in money. We trade in the Orient United States from Book on Coinage
and no ditiiculty is experienced by rea- Laws, etc.
son of our different money standard. Year. Production. Used in Arts.
England had a single standard since 1886 35,000,000 13,069.520
1861 the
loiii, i.iie Ignited double sta.na-
States a aouDie
I niieti r>TaTes stnnd- ''''*'*'S 33,175,000 16,514, 8-!2
^^^ 32,84.5,000 l7,6.55.fH;'.
. ard up to 1873, yet who ever heard of 1892 33,000,000 19,329,074
trade interference from that score. How long can we meet the gold in-
Ernest Seyd. the Englishman who ar- terest on our foreign debt? We are al-
ranged the deal with Sherman, said in ready on its way to chancery to be
'80 that 80 per cent, of England's trade wound up.
The gold standard means
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America't ruin ajitl civilization's
The num who don't know
these facts,
man who
is criminally ignorant and the
does and stUl talks gold utters treason
against his country and his fellow man.
THE SENTINELS OF LIBERTY.
The generals of humanity, who led
the march of civilization, have warned
us of our foe. .TefFerson, who had faith
in the people and wrote the Declaration
of
Independence without waiting for an
international agreement, said: •]^ank-
doom. are now in the heat of a political cam-
paign fraught with as momentous ques-
tions as ever confronted a sovereign
people resolved to be free. The money,
power ijaints and powders and looks
passable under the touching up and
hair dressing of Thurston and the other
eunuchs of King Money's household.
They are foxy.
Thei^ purposes they conceal
To mold our fate
And shape our state
And kill the common weal.

ing institutions are more dangerous They'll pinch, rob and knock us about
standing armies." Calhoun said
And put all the lights of freedom out.
tiian
in 1H34: "I'nder the operation of the HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
banking system there is a strong tend- The money power simulates chattel
ency to create a moneyed interest that slavery in the days of its haughtiest
is dangerously antagonistic to the com- supremacy'; it has control of the gov-
munity." Gen. Jacl<son opposed the re- ernment; the press is its servile tool;
chartering of the National bank be- congress is its den; the supreme court
cause of its great power, on that issue is its watchful dragon, and hands down
triumphed before the people. Lowell the new Dred Scott decision, the Debs
said: "Far-seeing men count the in- contempt imprisonment case, sustain-
creasing power of wealth and its com- ing Jeffery Woods in imprisoning a
bination as one of the chief dangers citizen for exercising the constitutional
with which our institutions are threat- right of free speech, and this, too. in vio-
ened." Webster said: "Liberty cannot lation of the constitutional guarantee
long endure in any country where the of trial by jury. Alammon has spoken
tendency of legislation is to concentrate from ]\Iount Sigh Nigh, so let every dog
\vealth in the hands of the few." Lin- hold his tongue. Its decalogue reads:
coln's message to congress in ]S()1: "I "Thou shalt not worshij) any god but
would scarcely be justified were I to me, for I am a jealous god." "Thou
omit to raise a warning voice against shalt not repudiate." "Thou shalt not
ajiproaching despotism. The effort is touch vested rights, but you may bribe
to place capital above labor in the struc- and intimidate officials in my holy name,
ture of government." Again: "If a and do all in j'our jiower to increase
government contracts a debt with a the pelf and imjiortance of thy lord;
<;ertain amount of money in circulation, and the pulpit and the x>ress of my land
and then contracts the money volume shall sustain thee in thy pious work."
before it is paid, it is the most heinous Lincoln's prediction came true. Cor-
crime a government could commit ],orations are enthroned, labor de-
against the people." In a letter, he said graded, corruption is in high office,
"As a residt of the war corporations and "the money power is seeking to
have beqn enthroned. An era of corrup- prolong its reign by working on the
tion in high places will follow, and the jirejudices of the people," and (recogniz-
Money Power of the country will en- ing the integrity of the American peo-
deavor to jn-olong its reign by working ple) have started the cry, "dishonest
on the prejudices of the people, until dollar." repudiation, etc., and, like the
ail wealth is aggregated in a few hands slave power, it is denouncing the real
and the republic destroyed: "Blaine, friend of man as the enemy of our coun-
1S7S: "I believe the struggle now go- try, calling him anarchist, etc.. and .>-ay-
ing on in this and other countries for ing he wants to ruin the credit of the
a gold standard will, if successful, pro- government." These so-called an-
duce widespread disaster. The destruc- archists have as lofty a conception of
tion of silver as money and establishing duty and a heart as responsive to the
gold as a unit of value must have a needs of the people as anybody that
ruinous effect upon all forms of prop- ever lived, and that is why they rebel
erty, except investments yielding a against the existing conditions.
fixed return in money. Silver being de- THE SITUATION.
monetized. I am in favor of remonetiz- The people are like the man in
i^g it." Will we heed the warning? Dante's "Inferno," who was doomed to
The prophesies are being fulfilled. A make a rope of hay to reach to the outer
crisis is upon ns. We must act with world of light and liberty, but while he
firmness and dispatch. If the remedy vvas intent on twisting his life rope
is delayed there will be revolution. We some wild asses were behind a wall.
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entinj;' itup with tranquil .-md perpet- liave thrown aside the petty distinc-
ual delight. So the active portion of the tions of party and under the banners of
people have been patientlj- working- to humanity and prosperity have rallied
of
p-et their life ropes to extend to the around the magnificent leadership
outer circle of liberty and debtless- William J. Bryan, the sturdy champion
uess, but the bloated asses of phitoc- of oppressed America. Who is he? is
laey. who place riches and vanity above it asked. He is the son of nature,
country and liumanity. have been ap- reared after her own heart, amid the
propriating the fruits of their labor, bloom of flowers, the song of birds, the
and they are as deep in the despond ripple of brooks, sunny slopes and rug-
of indebtedness as ever. It will even ged forests. Child of Destiny, Man
i;et worse if W. Buncombe McKinley of character, worth and ability; rising-
iiets in power. The greenbacks will like Lincoln by his own genius, enter-
then be retired and interest-bearing prise and perseverance from the hum-
bonds issued in lien thereof, so that blest station in life to the highest place
our decreasing stock of gold, stored in in the hearts of men. He served the
vanlts and held as reserves, will be our people of Nebraska honestly, faithfully
only money, except what the banks see and honorably two terms in congress.
fit to issue. They exjjand and contract He has the principle of Jefferson, the
the circulation at their sweet will, to judgment of Washington, the will
the people's bitter sorrow. The bank power of Jackson, the eloquence of
circulation was recently extended to Phillips and the statesmanship of Lin-
$-178,000,000. This will turn the coim- coln. Thrice blest man, with the char-
Iry over to the legal pillage of Eoths- ity- and enthusiasm of youth in his heart
child and his banking cousins as ef- and the learning and wisdom of age in
fectually as ancient Rome was turned liis head. His record is as untarnished
over to the plunder of Attila and the as he hopes to see the pi-osperity of his
I tuns. No one will have property he country. It has with eagle captious
can call his own or have rights that eye been scrutinized from infancy up.
they will be bound to respect. A30ung liis onlj' malfeasance is that he is 36
attorney was rising to flights in a case, ears of age. I've looked up the charge
.\

growing warm over angels, weeping in the Statutes and in the Draconian
willows, etc., when the judge inter- and ^Mdral codes. The crime isn't men-
rupted him, with: "Get down to busi- tioned in any law. But extortion,
ness; this is a case of hog stealing." bribery, usury, robbery and false pre-
80, when these tyros begin to rise to tenses are. The charge is nothing.
the heights of '"Dollars as untarnished Alexander of Macedon, after conquer-
as the national honor," they shoidd be ing the then known world, died sighing
reminded that this is a case of stealing. for other worlds to conquer at 32. Na-
If it were only hog stealing it wouldn't lX)leon invaded Austria at 28, and at 30
be so bad, for the hogs are in the banks was the rider of France. Jefferson
and monopolies, but it is a case where wrote the grandest of political docu-
the whole people are having their all ments, the Declaration of Independence,
filched from them by a subtle financial when 33. Pitt was prime minister of
system. The Shylocks and kindred England at 25 and Webster was the first
hordes under the once-glorious banner man in America at 30. William J. Bryan
of the republican party, with William stands clear of every charge, tried and
Buncombe ^NIcKinley at their head, are trusted.
LOW in the field. The note of dread- "Will the people's rights maintain
ful preparation has been sounded. Bim- Unawed by influence, unbribed by gain."
conibe fears there is more than one He knows it is one of the eternal
Richmond in the field. All the bankers, verities of nature, one of the funda-
all the bondholders and monopolists mental laws of the social organism
liave left thedemocratic party: all the that no state can enjoy permanent
big dealers have bolted the ticket, and prosperity, develop normally, attain
all the obsequious politicians and cor- real national greatness nor long en-
poration attorneys and unthinking- dure where injustice dwells in its sys-
business, laboring and professional tem, education neglected, equal oppor-
men have followed like a yellow poodle tunities denied, one class favored to the
after a stylish rig. On the other hand, detriment of the other. He said in his
all the farmers, the backbone of the re- Coliseum speech that the word business-
public, thinking business and intelligent man so long has been limited to the
laboring men and all statesmen who banker, the man who walks into the
"Will not narrow their mind board of trade and speculates on stocks
And give up to party what was meant for and the man who clips coupons and sits
mankind,"
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 back parlors and wrecks railroads, much in
evidence. All hail our deliver-
iu
the ought to be extended er. The plutocratic guns of two hemi-
and that title
spheres are turned on our dauntless
to the farmer who j^lows, the miner who
leader. Let's form a phalanxaround him.
digs ore out of the earth and the mer-
chant who keeps a corner grocery, etc., "Humanity with all its fears,
and that instead of legislating to make With all its hopes of future years
the rich prosperous, that their prosper- Hangs breathless on his fate."
ity might leak through on those below, Let's form the embattled square about
we ought to legislate to make the our gallant Wellington of America. We
masses prosperous, as such prosperity are in the thickest of the battle. Tor-
would find its way up to all. Every ad- rents of ijatriotism have fallen during
v.iuce in civilization is a broadening of the night and the moral foundations of
l)ase. and the leaders in this new move- the enemy's road have fallen in and^Mc-
ment for a broader fraternity, more jus- Kinley is trying to ride to victory over
tice, equality and prosperity are noble the prostrate form of our country and
men, all of them. Bryan, Altgeld. Wat- the bleeding bodies of his fellow-men.
son. Harvey, Teller, Weaver, Sibley, It is Waterloo. The combined forces
Pennoyer, Towne, Butler, Bland, Jones, of plutocracy have met the allied armies
Allen, Sewall, Waite, Donnelly, Stone, of humanity. That they will be van-
Taubeneck, Schilling, Warner, Petti- quished is the prayer of reform and the
grew, George, Coxey, Daniels, McGlynn, hope of thp people as they, with visions
Stewart, Tillman, Van Dervoort, etc. of the cross and thorns before their
Woman's inspiring and elevating influ- aching eyen, anxiously wait glad tidings
t nee in the sacred cause is also getting of success.

I isr r)
Pagre.
E x:. Page.
Civilization, church and state 1 Silver and commodities, table of 14

Slavery, abolition
its 1-2 Gold appreciating, prices, etc 14

Hazard circular, banks 2

Output of gold and silver 14
Overproduction 15
Rebellion and Lincoln's prophecy 2
IVIovement of prices 15
Centralization and machinery 2 McKinley' s star epigram 15
immigration, special laws, etc 2 Atkinson and flood of silver 15-lfi
Labor, child: eight-hour day ?, Per capita circulation IR
Reciprocity 3 Fixed incomes, etc 18
Protection, origin of, etc 4 Credits and banking facilities 16-17
Protection, average, during war 4 Level of Mexico, etc .. 17
Protection, average, W. and McK. bills 4 International trade , ... 19
Protection, factors in wage problem.. 4 International agreement ... 18
Protection, England, Germany, China 4 United States big enou.gh, etc.. ... 19
I'rotection, foreign paupers hired 4-5 Country's indebtedness ... 19
J-'rotcction, Blaine on wages 5 Insurance, real estate men, etc ... 19
Protection, table of labor cost, etc 5 History repeats itself ... 20
Protection, riots under McKinley law. 5 Gold used in arts .. 19
I'rotection to capital, not labor h Shylock under republican banners 21
Protection, immigration, .Tohn Bull 5 Bryan, alliances, etc 21
Protection, panic of 1S73, etc. Atlas... 6 Business men 21
I'rotection,revenue 1S92 to 1S95 6 Fundamental law, etc 21
Protection, rates, exports and imports (5 Quotation from Gladstone 18
Protection, free list. Grant, etc *; Quotation from Rothschild IS
Income tax C-7 Quotation from Lincoln 2,20
Bankers : 7 Quotation from Garfield 7, 9
Railroads 7-S Quotation from Blaine 5, 20
Referendum, representation, etc S-9 Quotation from Jefferson 20
War and education 9 Quotation from Calhoun 20
The issue, silver 9 Quotation from Jackson 20
Rothschild and world's gold 11 Quotation from Webster 20
Demonetizations of gold and silver 11 Quotation from Lowell 20
Demonetizations, consequences 11 Quotation from Carlisle 14
Bland-Allison act It Quotation from IT. S. Mon. Com. Rep.. IS
Royal gold and silver commission 11 Quotation from Grant 6, 11
Silver, India, etc 12 Quotation from Hume 10
Baring Bros.' failure 12 Quotation from Seyd 19
Sherman law and its repeal 12 Quotation from Giffen 14
National debt, etc 13 Quotation from Hay 16
 THE GOLD-BUG CREW,
Published in JS'A TIONA L BIME TA LL/ST, May, jSgd.

A favorite at commercial clubs' banquets, English operas, etc., and

special!)' adapted for Cleveland and the bankers.
Tune — from the opera, Pinafore.
Solo,
Cleveland — I am the captain of the gold-bug crew.
Chorls,
Bankers — And a right good captain, too.

Solo — You're very, very good, and be it understood,

I am in for the gold right through.

Chorus— We are very, very good, and be it understood.

He isin for the gold right through.
Solo — I can trim, fleece and steer, with any banker here,
And I manipulate for a big firm.
I hold in absolute scorn, those who' re lowly born
And I'll never take a third term.
Chorus — What, never? (Solo) — No, never.
What, never? (Solo) — they sever.
If

Chorus— If they sever, no more term.

Then here is a yell, and a big smile, too.
For the last-term captain of the gold-bug crew.
Solo —I've done my best to enrich you all.

Chorus — And with you everybod}' is content.

Solo — That's an everlasting whopper, and I think it onlv proper
To return the compliment.
Chorus— That's an everlasting whopper, and he thinks it only proper
To return the compliment.
Solo— With my foreign war jingo, I've concealed the gold lingo,
And fooled them with the noise.
But oh, this silver host, haunts me to the utmost;
But I ever fool these voting boys.
Chorus —What, ever? (Solo) — Yes, ever.
What, ever? (Solo)— Mostly ever.

Chorus — Mostly ever fool these voting boys.

Then here is a yell, and a good health, too.
For the bunko captain of the gold-bug crew.
Solo — Our gold bark is frail on this silver sea.
Chorus— Don't be afraid, w-e'll all back thee.
vSoLO — You're awful, awfully kind, but I think you rather blind;
But perhaps you'll not agree.
Chorus — We're awful, awfully kind, but he thinks us rather blind;
Now, we will not agree.
We'll support McKinley.
Solo — For bimetallism I'll declare, international though, beware;
And the daily press will be our wand.
I'll urge to partisan activities, appointees of all nativities;
And I'll never issue another bond. •

Chorus — What, never? (Solo)— No, never.

What, never? (Solo) Not for awhile. —
Chorus — Won't issue any more bonds for awhile.
—
Populace We'll surely go fo ruin, and hades, too.
While our Ship of State has a gold-bug crew.
Francis R. Cole.
Geniral Bragg is the logical candidate of the gold democrats i Hanna's
auxiliary ) as their movement is nothing but a general brag.

Reform's Motto — In non-essentials harmony, in essentials unity, in all

things charity.
 THE SPEECHES THAT BOOMED THIS SPRING.^
The speeches that boomed this spring, tra-la l^
Breathe promise of silver sunshine,
As the nightmares and terrors they bring, tra-la
To the Cleveland and Sherman ring, tra-la
And the whole Rothschild combine.
And the whole Rothschild combine.
And we feel things are brightening as we sing,
Of the significant speeches that boomed this spring.
Tra-la-la-la-la, tra-la-la-la-la,
The speeches that boomed this spring, tra-la, etc.

The speeches that boomed this spring, tra-la,

Papers say are not in the race.
Vampire of gold has under its wing, tra-la
Conspirators and that sort of thing, tra-la
With a philanthropy painted face.
With a philanthropy painted face.
We can see whenever they talk or sing.
They're bothered with the speeches that boomed this spring,
Tra-la-la-la-la, tra-la-la-la-la.
The speeches that boomed this spring, tra-la-la, etc.

The speeches of Bryan are grand, tra-la,

And have aroused this broad land.
We'll be brought to original barter, tra-la,
Little gold and much salaried barker, tra-la,
Prime money increase, not credits expand, (repeat)
Bimetallists have the faith of a martyr.
And these speeches are only a starter,
Tra-la-la-la-la, tra-la-la-la-la,
The hide of McKinley is tanned, tra-la-la, etc.

There is no gold in the sun tra-la,

So scientists have us advised,
And we think that they can't be in fun, tra-la.
Else our hash would be pretty well done, tra-la
And our sunshine demonitized. (repeat)
Isn'tit good, Sol is out of reach of their gun.
Or our days would be by Standard Oil run,
Tra-la-la-la-la, tra-la-la-la-la.
There is no gold in the sun, tra-la-la, etc.

Though we're in a very good humor, tra-la,

Uncle Samuel is very sick.
There are well founded rumors, tra-la,
That Uncle has monopoly tumors, tra-la.
All over his body politic, (repeat)
We mean that tumors and parasites all.
Will experience a most dreadful fall,
Tra-la-la-la-la, tra-la-la-la-la.
Though our humor is anything but gall, tra-la-la-la, etc.

Ther'e a i6 to i specific, tra-la,

That with fusion works like a charm.
Uncle Sam is industrially rheumatic, tra-la.
His Rothchildetis symptoms are emphatic, tra-la.
But this specific will banish the harm,
And raise the mortgage off the farm.
We've come to the sound conclusion.
That an international agreement is a delusion,
Tra-la-la-la-la, tra-la-la-la-la.
Uncle will take this specific with fusion, tra-la-la-la, etc.
Francis R. Cole.
 ; s

WE'VE GOT A LITTLE LIST.

Tune— from the Mikado.
Our distress is due to "Want of confidence" say the Two Johns.
And they show a long list, a very lengthy list, ,

Of business failures which they'll restore by issues of gold bonds.

But we think their game is this, we think their game is this,
To enslave our people by debt to lords at home and o'er the sea
And prepare for a king and a monied aristocrac3^
But of their -financial folly and crimes we've had to much
Of their perfidious inconsistency and Shylock's clutch.
In sophistry and servility they all may persist, <

They never will be missed. They never will be missed.

Chorus —We've got them on the list, we've got them on the list;
They'd none of them be missed, they'd none of them be rnts.se. I.

Foreign capitalists, to this country won't come to invest,

On in enterprises enlist; or in enterprises enlist.
Unless we have a single standard, Cleveland has confessed.
But they never would be missed. They never would be missed.
If our Statesmen would only to America be true
And recognize our silver, which is honest through and through,
And thus give real protection to our home industries.
And by more money, make us independent of the fleas,
Of fleas who banquet on our punches, and give us their big fist.
They never would be missed, they never would be missed.
Chorus —
Though Grover was elected on a plank of tariff reform,
That wasn't what was wished, so he went and'fished.
While his fellow lackeys over the Sherman Law did storm
It's repeal they wished; they had the turkey dished.
If that bill was only repealed then good times would come,
But huge debts and idle shops, is their promised millenium.
But Uncle Samuel knows exactly where to place the blame
When the Wilson and McKinley Bills differ little in the main.
Sam has a free silver remedy on which he will insist.
And he's making a long list of political physicians to be dismissed.
He's making up a list, of quacks to be dismissed. '

Chorus —
McKinley with his "Dollar", as the nation's honor untarnished,
"Sound Money and Protection", and other phrases elegantly varnishtii,
Has shown himself to be the very master of empty platitudes
And a candidate more fit for a wealthy pastorate, or tutorship of dudes.
Bryan is for the masses, has general honesty and an army of facts and figures,
That is slashing the opposition like razors and the niggers.
Bryan wants the prosperity that climbs up, not that of leaking down,
He wants to make the country thrive and good times settle in town.
So he has given Sam some lists of some large and small taitiff
Including all monopolists, with their unholy grists.
Chorus — Uncle Sam is now rolling up his sleeves,and doubling up his tist,
And Cleveland, Sherman and McKinley will unceremoniously
be dismissed.
None of them will be missed; Except by John Bull missed.
Francis R. Colk.
Speak thy thought if thou believest it,

Let it jostle whom it may,

Even although the foolish scorn it
Or the obstinate gainsay,
Every seed that grows tomorrow
Lies beneath the clod today.
Where would be our free opinion,
Where the right to speak at all.
If our sires, like some, mistrustful,
Had been deaf to duty's call.
And concealed the thoughts within them,
Lying down for fear to fall.
Chas. Mackey.
 — —

BEFORE TAKING. AFTER TAKING.

r>,.i:M ii.jiilers bou^'lit U. S. Bonds during the John Sherman, after Seyd, the bond broker
var in (greenbacks worth 45 to 60c. Sherman
speech Feb. 27, '67, "I say that equality hypnotized him in '73, and eased his itching

Hid justice are amply satistied if we redeem palm and taught him to become a millionaire
hose bonds in the Bame kind of money of tht \

on $5,000 a year. "To refuse,to pay these bonds

ame intrinsic value it bore at the time they
vf re issued." Again in a letter Feb. 20, '68. in gold would be repudiation and extortion."
'Tht' Vjund holder can command only the kind
)f money he paid, and is a repudiator find ex Speech, Aug. 15, "96. at Columbus. "This
ortioner to demand money more valuable than
matter of fiee coinage of silver and the de-
10 gave." Attain in a letter to W. S. Grosbeck,
,'ineinnati, O., "The uncertainty of the relation gradation of the standard of value involves noij
etween the two metals is one of the chief argu-
only questions of money, but honor and good
nentfl in favor of a monometallic system, but
irL'iiments. showing the dangerous effect upon faith. Contemplate for a while the inevitablt
ndustry by dropping 1 of the precious metals result of free coinage of silver. It would violate
lutweight in my mind all theoretical objections We
every money contract since '79. shrinii(
o the bimetallic system."'
C.\RLISLE.1878.— with an ample currency, : from any measure that will either robordo
m industrious people will speedily rebuild injustice to lender or borrower. Its impossible
heir works of internal improvement and re- to estimate the wrong done to creditors by the
pair losses of property, but no amount of in-
scaling off of nearly 3^ of debts due them.
liistry or economy on the part of the people
•an create money. When the government "Honest John Sherman didn't consider the
•reates and authorizes it, the citizen may debtors when he doubled their debts by strik-
icquire it, but do nothing more."' ing down silver {% their morey) in '73. Honest
C/iicax^o Trihuue: fan 14. 'y8.
Editorial.— Hamilton and Jefferson con- John Sherman. Carlisle and the TrihuUe are
•urrcd in the wisdom and necessity of having now busy trying to make it understood that a
I double standard, the purpose being to con- double standard is a me;e vagary and none but
Vr the option on >the debtor to pay in either idiots, fanatics and repudiationists and anarch-
netai. Tho.=e great statesmen clearly saw the
trouble and disaster that a single standard ists ever believed in such rot, and that govern-
would bring upon the country. The retention ment is powerless to make money, all it can d6
of til*' option by the debtor to pay in silver or is put its stamp on the metal and let it circu-
u'old is vitally important to the welfare of the
late at its market price, like potatoes or pork.
people and must nev^r be surrendered."'
Col. Cockrill, editor of the Commercial Aavertiser A", v., wrote a few years ago, a con-
fcssion, as it were, of the way papers are run at the present day. The article showed: let.
That the great metropolitan newspapers (especially of the East), are largely owned by non-
residents; 2nd. That the editor is a mere figure head, representing the European proprietor;
.'{rd. 'I'hat these papers have gone to seed in the last decade and run solely for money as the
proprietor dictates.
Specimens
of the i=eedy newspapers: "There seems to be but one remedy and it must
come— a change to land owners on one hand, and tenant farmers on the other, something!
similar to what exists in the old countries." N. V. Times (Rep )
'The American laborer must make up his mind henceforth not to be much better off than
the foreign laborers. Men
must be content to work for less wages. In this way the working-
man will be nearer that station of life to which it has pleased God to call him.'' A. F. liW/J —
(McKinley, Democrat.)
"There is too much freedom in this country rather than too little." India)iapolis Joiima,.
(Rep.)
"The most wealthy must govern in every state, and will, regardless of 'any attempt to
depiive them of that \\^\iX.''— Richmond, Va., Whig (McKinley, Democratic.)
astonishing, yea, startling, the extent faith prevails
'•It is in money circles in New York,-
t hat we ought
to have a king."' Whitelaw Reid, New York Tribune: — (This is the outlaw
Reid that ran for vice president on Republican ticket in '92.) Again the Republican caitiff
says: "The time is near when the banks will feel compelled to act strongly.
The machinery is now furnished by which, in any emergency, the financial incorporationf^
can act togeiher on a day's notice, with such power that no act of congress can resist its
decisions." James Buell, Secretary National Banker's Asfociation, often said: "We hav
arranged the program for both parties and the people can exercise their choice of men.
They haven't succeeded in arranging the program this year. The spirit of '76 has been re-
monetized and is good legal tender to pay off such debts of ingratitude evidenced by the
above. If the people don't rise in their might in this election, the ballot will be restricted
the middle class reduced to paupres. and liberty will be terribly depreciated and dis-
appear from the curr( ncy of independent thought, and repudiation of republican institu-
tions be the order of the day. Patriots awake !

Reverence no more the power,

That grinds you to the dust of misery.
"Hail that glorious season by gifted minds foretold
When men shall live by reason and not alone by gold."
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