a Samuel Gompers, president 4 - CIRCULATION OVER 1700, nire 1] 14 mocral, . SCHOLARSHIP CONTEST Wm B, Rerie " Miss Mary Twitmyer, EVE od dram (Particulars on Sth page) CHAS. R. KURTZ, Ed. and Prop LABOR'S CALL FOR BRYAN. Labor Leaders Unanimous for Free Silver---Gold would only Inten- sify Workingmens' Wrongs. The laboringmen of this country should be intensely interested in the pres- ent campaign. weaith., created, and are the few who control the They represent the great majority and are the producers of | There is another class who do not labor but speculate on the wealth immense fortunes. This latter class are trying to force the continuance of the present monetary system by the election of McKinley. trusts and syvundicates. enjoy. crushing exactions. The laboringma Their interests are not identical. To-day the wealthy classes are They embrace the money lenders, bankers, rich corporations, great n created, originally, the wealth they Labor must always struggle from their gold and dear money. But the following will show where the laboringman's interests are: Labor's Attitude to Silver. The American Federation of Labor, one of the strongest labor organizations in the world, has declared in its national conventions in Chicago (1893), Denver (1894), and New York (18¢3), for the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1. The resol- | ution follows: Resolved. That it isthe deliberate judg- | ment of The American Federation of | Labor in delegate convention assembled, | that Congress should re-enact the law of | 1837 which provided for the free and un- | limited coinage of both silver and gold at | the ratio of 16 to 1, thus restoring the American law of coinage as it was until 1873, when silver was demonetized with- out debate and without the knowledge of he American people, and that ihis should be done at once, without waiting for the co-operation of any other nation in the world. Gomper's Significant Talk. of the American Federation of Labor has said The American has three times declared itself for silver, It is in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for action by any other nation or nations. These declarations were made at the conventious held by the Federation at Chicago in 1893, Den- ver in 18g4, and in this city in 180s. “How do you stand politically?’ Mr. Gompers was then asked. “Iam a loyal union man,” significant reply. - was the Brvan May Carry Even Ohio, John McGrath is organizer for. the | American Federation of Labor for the Southern District of Ohio. In an inter- view at Zanesville recently, he said: I find many 16to 1 laboringmen. They are thoroughly dissatisfied with the dem- ocrats and republicans, and will vote the democratic ticket this fall simply because they regard the situation so changed that now it 13 the masses against capital. The republican managers will be surprised at the silver sentiment in this state among the working people. It is 16 whom I find forit to 1 against, and if there is no change in the situation, Bryan will come very close to carrying Ohio. Bryan Strong in New York. John Bogert is the New York state or- labor. In a recent letter to Secretary Stover, of the Bryan and Silver League, he wrote: “I believe nine-tenths of the organized workers of this state and three-fifths of the farmers will support Mr. Bryan for the presidency. This opinion is based u 1. The declaration of the American Federation of Labor in favor of free sil- i ver coinage. 2. Personal acquaintance with politi- cal sentiments of the labor leaders in the industrial centres of the state, who are practically unanimous in declaring that the time has come for organized labor to assert itself on public questions. There is much prospective benefit to organized labor from support of all the principles involved in Bryan's candidacy. | The “Anarchists” of 1776. In a signed communication recently published M. J. Bishop, General Worthy Foreman of the Knights of Labor, wrote as follows, comparing the Bryan "An. archists” and ‘“Hayseeds’’ with the revo- lutionary patriots: The fearless honest, upright, ‘‘hayseed”’ and ‘odorous’ wageworkers (as our modern critic is pleased to style them, ) were those who lifted one form of British yoke from the shoulders of Columbia and their latter day prototypes will finish what they so well began. Tory newspapers, misrepresentation and abuse, not even the ever potent gold, will save the treacherous crew. The peo- ple have seized the lever and have de, manded right of way for the popular re. form train, and the man or thing putting any obstacle on the track to retard or wreck its progress will be dealt with in as summary a manner as his Tory progen- itors of the past. The “Industrial Cannibal.” General Master Workmen Soverign of the Knights of Labor, in a recent inter- view, spoke of Mark A. Hanna head of syndicate of millionaires who paid Me. Kinley’s debts in order to make him their tool, and who still hold the notes, as: “HANNA, THE INDUSTRIAL CANNINAL." He justfied this characterization by Hanna's long record as an opponent and oppressor of union labor, Sauce for the Goose. The Union Priuters’' Sliver Club of Chicago has passed the following reso. Federation of Labor | anizer for the American Federation of | men in all branches of industry to re. frain from patronizing any firm or cor- | poration that attemps in any way,by the | use of the Mexico dollar or the money of | any third or fourth rate nation, to cast discredit on the credit money of the United States; and be it further. REsorLvep. That we advise working. men to demand of all corporations and business firms who claim gold as the only proper, lawful and honest dollar to pay their employes their wages in gold, and we recommend that all labor organi | zations be requested to have their wages | paid them jn that kind of money which bondholders and | money lenders say is the only honest dollar id nil the bankers and the the dollar. Why Wall Street Trembles REV. W fectures ‘Back of M¢Kin! the manufacturers, the railroad magnates, the established press, the overwhelming majority of the clergy, the unthinking clerking class, the satellites of money in every form, at least £50,000,000,000, and yet realize that Mr. Bryan may win. Why? Because back of him for every { banker will be 100 men who have no | money in any bank ; for every manufac- | turer count at least five unprotected and unpurchased employes; for every mag. | nate write fifty emiploves weary of being | mangled to coin dividends; for every | capitalist paper write 100 readers who believe that its editorials are dictated by i the advertisers, for every pale-faced clerk | there are six still paler farmers’ wives: | for every million count 1 mien whose votes are not for sale. us reckoned, one can understand why Wall street is beginning to the hedge for a defeat.” Voice of the Labor Press. i The influcnge and ability of the labor press are undivided. Among such men | as Hanna it is feared. Quotations from { recent utterances of labor journals of ey count the bank rs, iven below louRNAL, flofficial | promincuce are g KNIGHTS oF LAnor organ of the order Bryan is the man of the hour, brought forth by the necessities of the occasion Bryan's whole course as a politician has becu clean, consistent, forceful, manly. There are no dubious utterances of his to explain away; his position upon the chief issues has been long and definitely estabuished, and in their defence he had ! already won his spurs before his name | was dreamed of in connection with the Presidency. All the powers of wealth and the in- | fluence it brings are already at work to | compass his defeat. Every legal robber fin the United States, regardless of his | former politics, every man whose interest lies in the continued subjugation of the wage earner and farmer, ewery sheet which has prospered and grown upon subsidies to be obtained for treachery; all this tremendous foree is already mov- ing to prevent the coming triumph of the | plain le. The Whitney.Cleveland Democracy | joining hands with the Hauna-Depew | Republicans, all recognize the danger to | the continuance of their reign of inso- | lence, intolerance and usurpation, and nothing will be left untried to stay the coming of the devastating flood.” The Benevolent Gold Buge. Knights of Labor Jourmal=""The deep interest which the gold bug bankers are manifesting in the welfare of the work- ingmen in these presidential election times is something truly touching, These | benevolent financiers are positively pan. | icstricken over the impending danger to | the workingmen (rom free coinage and an increased volume of money." How Mark is Viewed at Home. Cleveland Citizens (official organ Cleve. | land Central Labor Union)—At a regu. lar meeting of the Cleveland (0.) Central . Labor Union, the Committee on Legisla. | ion made the following report : “To the Republican Trades Unionists i of the United States : Realizing that in a few short months the union workingmen | of this county will be again asked to | cast their ballots for President, we, the | delegates of the organized laboring | people of Cleveland, appeal to republican wage workers, who haye been repeated. | ly told by thels party newspapers and politicians that they must imitate capital and organize if they would enjoy the benefits of a higher tariff, to ar] that the Hon. Marcus A. Hanua, the | principal manager of William McKinley | (who, it is stated, will be a member of ! the latter's Cabinet in case he 1s elected), | explain his attitude relative to labor or. | ganizations : “5. Ask the Hon. M, A. Hauna if he did | uot aid in destroying the seaman’s unions of the lower lake regions and then con. tribute to a fund to send A. RK. Rumsey, his scab procurer, on a pleasure trip around the world, 2. Ask Major McKinley.s ‘bosom friend,’ the Hon, M. A. Hanna, if lic has not taken a prominent part in wreckin the mine workers’ unions Pennsyl. lutions: REsoLvED, That we advise working. | Tn newspapers opened {to be broken; the | the realization of fact that all must { have equal recognition before the law: | that all must share in the prosperity that | thought, brain and muscle have created, | and that arc entitled tv equal liberty and | opportunity, | fm | 18 the entering wedge of a mammoth re. | form, which will restore to the { control of the natural | mono | free the people, and appeal to the { they have berrayed to “wait unti {land gives her consent” to change our | coinage basig.”’ | Pa, Gazette : vania. “3 Ask the Hon, M.A. Hausa if he BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1806. did not destroy the street railway to allow employes and positively refuse them to organize. 4 Ask Hanna “ploy 30 perday i when « but if 1 would f hey woul fF pays if he is mansion IC nnscl pot at this moment ere for his son and employing sci disregarding the wage rate hour day of the "6. Finally ask Mr. Hanna if destroy- ing workingmen's unions and paying pauper wages for long hours of toil is his interpretation of protection to American labor and prosperity and patriotism." On mation the resolution was adopted and the secretary instructed to forward MT ana eight- bla and yailding trades it to the Chairman of the National Re.) publican Committee. More Numerous Than Crazy. HE RECEIVES VANDERBILT'S £100,000 CHECK. ~Brooklyn Citizen FREE SILVER 0X ROAST of the age of Penns and | parts of the county 1A | * 11 Your re) . wl wi AGG TICSseQ ing A. is considered Spangier and Hon. Geo. Jenks, Brookville, who the ablest platform orator in this state Another the evening to be addressed by other prom. meeting will © 1 w held in inent speakers who will discuss the mon- ey question | Columbus (Ohio) Record (John McBride, | late president of the American Federation of Labor. Editor. tis time Eastern capitalists and East. | their eyes to the fact that friends of free silver are mo numerous than crazy. The Farmers Alliance, the Knights of Labor. the American Federation of Labor, the Popu lists, the Republicans of the several here ’ GEORGIA and FLORIDA tofore Republican States, a large portion | of the Prohibition party and organized | general have declared in favor | of the free and unlimted coinage of silver | labor in at the ratio of 16 01. The army of silver cranks is a large ons and if they can be mustered under one banner there will be | such a political revolution this Fall that | the gold Lugs of the East will find their power to oppress the common people for. | ever gone, and to our mind it cannot be | gotton rid of any too soon.” Hot Shot for Bond Brokers Monthly Journal (official organ of the In. ternational Association of Machinists) “Great and startling changes are tak- ing place; history is being made. Party politics are all shaken up; party lines | are strained. Fealty to party and advo. | cacy of partisanship are giv { honesty of purpose and devotion ing place to to principal. Ou the one side is produc. {ing labor; on the other side the money | power; strongly intrenched in official power by years of scheming and corrup- tion, pulling and straining for supremacy. Never before has the outlook been so | cheering. The governmental partner. ship that is in existence with the powers that be and the favored classes, is about le have come to —— Free Silver Ouly a Part. | Labor Advocate organ of the Troy (N. V.) Central Federation of Labor. *“The issue of 16 to 1 is not the only is. sue of the campaign. The other planks in the Chicago platform are of greater rt than even the money clause. It people and artificial lies of the country, now held by individuals and used as an engine of op- | pression against the people, To-day the ‘'‘free”’ workingmen of America are the actual slaves of the mon. | ey combination. That is why the money “patriots” of both parties how! down as { “Anarchists”’ and “repudiation” the mex and measures that would undertake to people Fn ni a—— : y Severely Shaken. 5 The following is from the Drift gb eh CYCLONE IN GEORGIA. | On Wednesday, an election was held in | Georgia, and many republicans predict. the result ea uncertain, the state dou. | ful. The returns this Thursday morn- ing, indicate a Democratic majority of It It means that it is time for | 40,000 ! a : | everybody, in doubt, to get aboard the How is that for doubtful ? is “corker.” | “Democratic band wagon” at “once, or | or they will get left in Novemver. Florida aod Georgia did nobly. Yes indeed. FLOR! .— DA IN LINE On Tuesday an election was held in Florida. called it a doubtful state, For some time republicans That settied effectually by a majority of about was is in line, and will be in November. .——— HEAR GEO. A. JENKS, Next Wednesday evening 14th, this hear the Hon, Geo. A. Jenks, of Brookville, House. Mr. Jenks, without doubt, is one of our ablest attorneys and platform ora- ing, and no doubt the building will be casion. Mr. Jenks will speak at Mill. heim on Thursday, The Junior Bryan aud Sewall Club will turn out in full uniform on that oc- Cason, - .——— Another Fire at Nittany, Piper, on the turnpike about two miles fotally destroyed by fire last Thursday night together with all the contents, The bacco shed, which was filled with hay. The season’s crops and all the imple- ments were also consumed, Good. Business. The miners about Snow Shoe have oc. cision to rejoice, there is plenty of work and the mines are being operated night and day. More work is being done in that vicinity than for a long time. It is } 10 be hoped that such times will continue, VOL. 18. XO. go. | RESULT OF BRYAN'S ELECTION. “Coin” Harvey Tells How Remonetization would | Jring Prosperity to the American People. In preparing an article upon curr answers to the following questions: “What will happen if a free silver president and cor “Will there be a panic?” ent issues I have devoted my atte ntion 10 ILress are elected?! "Will silver begin to appreciate at once?" “What will it be worth by the tim ¢ Congress can pa pass a free silver bill?” “What is your reply to the so-cent doilar cry?” Preliminary to answering these ques- | tions I will briefly state what bimetallism is. gold or silver as primary money. in competition with the other, Under such a law, if our trade relations or the laws of other nations take our gold away, | silver. If silver is taken away, we have gold. And aseither ans. wers the purpose of primary money, no then we have serious injury occurs. The vital principle in bimetall right to use either metal grows less on one, we have the oue is cornered, we use nn parts of silver to the more useful ris plied to the nx he the two 1 ine CS, ANG 8 1 morc \ y . servicealsie toman 101 wials The two metals are alike inthis : Neither will corrode or rust. both are orderless and stainless and possess substantially the same chemical | 34 ' ¥ ¥ i and gold, are in competition with each i other to supply the demand for money So long as pork and mutton are in com- | petition with beef for meat, beef cannot | rise unduly in value and threaten health of the nation. of this nation if silver tion with it as money. Under such a Taw (bimetallisti)the op ton was given to the debtor to pay in money made from either This caused the demand to be shifted metal. debtor to the cheaper or more § and with the de. a metal, if either was, mand thus regulated, ‘comm parity was maintained at the legal ratio | i on which the two metals were coined in- to money for the demand to operate. th If silver became the cheaper, the le. mand was shifted to it, and at the same time withdrawn Gom gold, thus ing the price of silver and lowering value of gold. If gold became the cheaper, the debtor {government or individual )shifted the de. mand to gold, thus increasing its value : and at the same time lowering the value of silver by withdrawing the demand from it. Thus the two metals were kept constantly in competition with each other, to supply the demand for money, and the demand being regulated by the debt. or, a commercial parity was maintained | at the legal ratio at which the two metals 30,0:0 which is liableto increase. Florida | | two metals, community will have the opportunity to | discuss the money question in the Court | were coined into money. To understand how the shifting of the demand maintained the commercial par- ity one must consider the supply of the All the gold iv the world, at the present time, available for use as money, is $4,000,000,000. There is 19,- 258 ounces of gold in a solid cast cubic foot of gold. By taking the value of an ounce of gold, as expressed in dollars, any onc can make the calealation and | find that all the gold in the world avail | able for use as money atthe present time tors in this state. He will be worth hear. | Will £0 in a cube of twenty-two feet. It will go in the bank vanlts of a single one packed to its utmost capacity on this oc- | of your leading banks in San Francisco. | By a similar calculation it will be found { that all the silver in the world available | for use as money ($4,000,000,000) will go in the space of sixty-six feet each way. | It will go in the bank vaults of your city The large barn on the farm of George | above Farst’'s mill, Clinton county, was | and leave none for the balance of the world. You thus have in this way plainly be. fore you inthe way of an object lesson the supply of the two metals of the world | at the present time on which the demand, i i { : under a bimetallic law, would operate. oss is estimated at $2,000 and is fully | Under this bimetailic law prior to 1873, j covered by insurance. The origig of the | the shilling of the demand by the debtor tire is unknown but it is believed to be | Tegniated the commercial parity of the L¢ incendiary. two metals substantially at a parity with With the bars was burned a large to- | the legal ratio, When J say commercial parity at the legal ratio I have reference to a silver dollar weighing from fifteen to sixteen times as much as the gold | dollar. When the small supply of the two metals is thus considered it is pot difficult to see the powerful effect produced by the shifting demand from one to the other, The most humble citizen is familiar with the law of trade kyown as and demand.” It was to this law t the science of bimetallism was i Lie Bimetallism is the right to use either | One is | Under free coinage both metals, silver | the | And gold could | not, asit is doing now, threaten the credit | were in competi. | by the | entifal | ncreas- | the | | and it was wrought out of the unselfish | wisdom forefathers, who studying the common good of our were From 1792 the date of our first coinage { law, to 1850 the world's production was | $2 of silver to one of g In other gold. it was thirty-two ounces of silver words, to one ounce of g production of silver old—a tremendous over. conditions were more thar ig that peri tion of the two 1 sed 5 1 5 Das silver to $1 of gold 158% the world’s production uts to $1 of gold. And o this eves , botwithstanding n supply in the world’s production of the two metals, and for most of that period an under. production of silver, the two metals have parted company from the legal ratio—so per cent i +R» hahat | The reason is that the law of imetal- It closed the inints as to silver and | took away from the debtor the option to { pay in eithér meal. The demand that { had, therefore, existed on both metals, 3 destroyed the principles if ! | lism, | and automatically regulated by the debt. or, was thereafter shifted to one metal only The Blasd-Allison 2 the ~8 restored legal tender character of the silver dollar, but provided that it was the legal | tender “except where otherwise provid. ed in the contract This was an adroit law to transfer the law of 1873 to the written contracts (notes, bonds and mort. | gages) to be thereafler executed, and to i take advautage of the constitutional pro- | visions against the impairment of con. tracts, Under the Government dictated what was legal tender money. Under the act of 1878 the Government delegated to the individual the right to say what was legal tender money. Un. der the law prior to 1873, the debtor had the opinion as to which of the two mon- eys be would pay in, and shifted the de- mand to the cheaper metal if either was, and automatically maintained a com- mercial parity between the two metals. Under the Jaw of 1878, the opfion was transferred to the creditor, who would naturally select the dearer metal, and the dearer it got the more apt he would be to demand it. By the act of 1873 and subsequent leg. islation, silver has been reduced to the position of token money, redeemable in gold. At the psesent time this is the ad. mitted position of silver to gold (see Senator Foraker's recent speech at Columbus, Ohio.) With silver as re. presentative money, the issuance of any guantiity of it, no matter how latge, can furnisd no relief, Wien our representative snoney is in volume so large as to shake confidence in tie ability of the Government to vedeem it in the established primary money, we have an unsound financial system and a general lack of confidence therein, What we need is to reconstruct the foundation of our financial system-—primary money. Now to the questions: The first is. "What will happen if a freesilver Presi. dent and Congress are elected I My answer is based upon the presump tion that there will be no attempt to count them out. That they will be permitted peacefully to assemble and enact Jaw. First Mr. Cleveland makes up his mind 10 say “I told you #0," there will be interminable confusion. Ie will jet the Wall Street gamblors raid the Treas. ury,and a general financial and business confugion will exist until Bryan gets at the helm. It is not likely, however, that the business interests of the country will permit Lim to fly in the face of a policy proclaimed by the people. bimetallism
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