Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 17 October 1896 — Page 7

SOVEREIGN TO THE WORKINGMEN

The Grand Master Workman Shows Conclusively That the Farmer's and the Workingman's

Interests Are Identical. 'v'

SILVER LABOR CAMPAIGN BUREAU

Graml Mustvr Workman Sovereign, at tho head oi' tin* Knights nl' Labor, has issued tin1 following exhortation to •workiiitfineii in stand fast, 1 their chosen leader,William .!• *imilifjs JJryau: l-iilxtr L'nltrsl:iii(ls tlu» "The writer herewith ventures the, opinion that when lahor understands that this struggle is a crucial test between industrial freedom and tin.-sor-did interests of a selfish lew, the one Fide holding out the liberal hand of trti" Democracy and the other tin: scepter of plutocratic government when labor understands that

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volved tin la.rl (rreat- problem of civilization, human equality that a single gold standard means what it lias always meant,dear money and cheap men when labor under.-ianils that this cl imiir of gold under tlie delusive pica for honest money is clamor for a kind of money that is insufheient in volume to enable the bankers, who cry the loudest, for it, to pay oven per et ut of their debts that, the national debts of the civilized world,whicn labor must pay, now aggregate 000,0(10.OOd, or 87 of national debt for every dollar of gold in the •world, and that there is not enough gold in the world to pay SI on every ,s:iOf private and corporate debts now in 'force, and flint gold is owned by the parties who hold the debts against the people when labor understands that all •money is a mad power in the hands of somebody ail the time, that a tree bears lruit because tlie fruit grows out of the. vitality of the tree, that money has no power to boar other money because it contains no power to reproduce itself, •and, therefore, money loaned at interest. cannot rep,'iv ln-th principal and interest out of the original sum that there lmu.t be a sullieient increase of money through •artificial sources to meet the interestcharge, and employ labor or productive! Industry, and labor itself must surrender to the avarice of the few—when la-1 bor understands all these problems i:

and written in the blood of careworn •widows and innocent babes the song of -death on the face of it land as redundant |in production as the fabled gardens ol LElysium. The iveord of their crimes from the soriowful black Friday to the .'•infamous bond sale to the Belmont-Mor-gan syndicate should be all the evidence labor needs to prove the evil of tlieirde•inands in this campaign.' "It is not because silver is* better !i:in -gold e,r other material for use as money ••(that labor should advocate its free and 'Unlimited coinage, but because a whole'gome volume of primary money is absolutely necessary to the welfare of labor and industry, and becausi1 there is not -DOW. there never was and there neve:

Will be a iiuflieieiicy of gold to aile"quately reward labor for its contribu'tions to the wealth of the world. "The effort to suspend the coinage o! •silver is prompted bv the desire to limit the debr-paj-ing money of the country to the metal most easily controlled 1) money-lenders, it is a scheme to increase and perpetuate incomes founded on debt. It is a scheme designed to

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more bonds and mortgages on the (people. It is more: It is a conspiracy 'designed to appreciate debts and dopreIciate labor and commodities by forcing [the payment of existingdebts in a dearer ikinil of money than existed when the 'debts were contracted. "To concoal the real intentions of the conspirators and ffive their cunningly [devised scheme tho outward appearance Bf exalted honesty, the claim is made Slhat a silver dollar of 412% grains is a feishonest dollar that it is only a 53-cent [dollar that it has been padded out with *7 cents' -worth of fiat and that the

poor man is entitled to just as od a dollar as the rich man's dollar, and on that lin they i-.re now shedding gn at, briny, hm:::d tears. Oh. iod! how they do ap] ear to love the poor man now! 01»M»rvo tin* Preoption, "Let no workinginan be decniv by these alluring entreaties of this -ial spider to the industrial fly. It is not the silver dollar that, has been padded our with -17 cents' worth of liar it is the gold dollar that has been everpadded with -I cents' worth of discriminating legislation and a one-sided public policy against silver in the payment of public obligations for which silver h::s alwaybeen a legal tender. The padding has till been on the gold side in the interest of the coupon clippers. The silver dollar pays just us much rent and tax'-s and buys inst as much foed and clothing for the poor man as the best: gold dollar that was ever coined. It is a full 100-cent dollar in all the multifarious exchanges that administer to the wants and comforts of human life, and till this cry of li •.-honesty comes from the clubrooms oi' the associated shyloeks whe have conspired to make it a ":j-ccnt dollar at the counters of the interest taker. The whole scheme is a villainous plot intended to change the standard of values in the interest of the credit oi. classes and to force from the industrial classes-i7 per cent more of labor aiulj products in the liquidation of interest and debts. "Every dollar issued by the United States is a luo-ceiu dollar. It would In as sensible to talk about a two-quart gallon, a two-peck bushel or a six-inch foot as to talk about a dollar containing less than 100 cents. A dollar is a unit containing 100 cents used in computing actual value, and is established by law, and not by the quantity or quality of its material composition. If it is necessary to put- material costing a dollar into a dollar in order to make it good, then it holds true that our present gold money is as cheap money as the poorest silver dollar this government ever coined, and the argument so often made that'JS..r grains, of gold is a dollar because it cost a dollar's worth of labor to produce it falls to the ground. "In fact, tins whole theory that every coined dollar should contain a dollar's worth of metal is absurd, for the reason' that tlu-re is no way of determining whether a dollar contain a dollarV worth of metai or nor except by determining its actual value by the legal value of itself or by the legal value of some other kind of a dollar whose value I is established and regulated by it law of congress and not- by its real worth as a commodity. Jf i.iort in creating rlu: first man, Adam, had said: y.'Let us put. a man's worth of clay in a man,'

Adam could never have been created and a gold bug could never have been born for th"\vant of a measure with which to determine a man's worth e.i clay. Vet a proposition of that kind would have been no more ridiculous than is the proposition to put a dollar's worth of silver or any other metal in a dollar. Weights and measures cannot weigh and measure themselves becausi they are the produce of law. Their accuracy can tie determined only by tin law creating them. Eleven inches cannot constitute a foot, not because any material thing forbids it, but because the law forbids it. The inch had its oritrin far back in the age of ignorance and superstition, and was determined by the length of three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise, but who this ago of enlightment would be willing to make himself so ridiculous a.to assume that the ever fluctuating length of I nice grains of barley should determine the length of our unit ol distance? Yet such a position could be no more irrational than the claim thai the ever fluctuating commercial value of any uinil of metal should determim the legal value of our medium of exchange or that we should declare a lawful dollar dishonest lv-cause its value was not determined by an exploded theory that was born in the ignoranci of a barbarous and superstitions age.'--: hw oMsi-tcncy ol MoMnHid aHism. "The relative, value of money mailt from the different kinds of material cat: onlj* be influenced by the legal advantages one kind may have ovei1 another. It the law of the nation a !non/.es th( free and unlimited coinage of one kind oi metai'i'nto money and restricts tin coinage of another and demonetize.1' till restn* ted coitl in the pavnioiir of certain obligations, the v.due of the metal represented by the restricted coin will metal admitted

will understand that this struggle with the money power involves our national existence, industrial prosperity and individual security. Labor will then underStand why some persons ill this and other countries hold to thedoctrine that gold only is suitable metal for money, and why they reverently style it '(tod's money' ami 'the money of the world.' and labor will then, as ii always has, rally to the defense of liberty and justice, and neither the millions of Mark Hanna nor the intimidation of the corporations will have, the slightc.-t influence upon the working people. liiic C':t11it ill !I)Mtrs» "(^noting .nv own remarks in a recent public speech, 'the idle holders of idle capital, who are now loreniosr in the demand for a single gold standard, are the same men who sent their hired emissaries to congress and secured the demonetization of silver, and as a mark of respect to their American progeny the Loudon money power decorated the most conspicuous place on the walls of the Manic ol England with a lile-size portrait of Senator Sherman of Ohio, Tile history of these men is one nil-' broken chain of crime and conspiracy against labor, and every attempt to suspend the coinage of silver in whole or d'n part is chargeable to the schemes of these gold worshiping idlers. They represent the perfidious class who always "Canonize robbery as business success and legalized fraud as righteous law. Their aim in life has been to corrupt the masses, marshal lobbies against legislatures, convert wealth into nontaxable "•'Lonrls, oveiv.we the pople with r.reeis of bankruptcy and rob labor through interest and taxation. They have sold 'their consciences and their Clod for gold, I depreciate, and tin

unlimited coinage, and made when sc

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if produced in limited quantities, will appreciate in value because of its legal powers and privileges over the other. Herein lies the inconsistency of the advocates of a single gold standard. They are unwilling to restore silver to formei legal powers and privileges wirn gold, and to adjust tlie ratio at which the twe metal'- shall be coined afterward. What honesty of purpose could be ascribed tc the person who would, without cause oi provocation, silently steal up to a fellow man under cover of the night and deliberately stab linn in the back, and then insist upon the right tc stab him again on the ground that tin? loss of blood from the first wound had greatly reduced the strength and I vitality of his innocent victim? Such a person would be denounced as a coward I and a villain. Yet- this is a perfect' illnstration of the treatment silver has received at the hand of the money power.

They sent an assassin to Washington in 1873 and silver was stabbed in the back when it was strong and vigorous, and when it, commanded a premium over gold. The stabbing was done in the silent hours of a night so dark that- tlicact escaped public observation at the time. But shyloek grew drunk on the blood from the wound during the dark days of misery, bankruptcy and poverty that followed. The people camo to the rescue and succeeded in partially healing the wound. But now this unscrupulous money power, grown haughty on the fruits of its plundor, insists on the right to stab its victim again because of the weakness resulting from tho wound of '78. "It is tho duty of labor to demand that the wound inflicted on the silver dollar by tho legislative dagger of 1878, and probed by labor's enemies ever since,

TlilC I1A AT.) THAI' WILL SETTLE MATTLK& TH18 FALL. —-Dnlrolt Ne.wfi

bo I" or tiv t'he restoration of that doll ,- to ail the rights and. t-owr it posses.se-" p'io to its demoiieri'/arion. When such demand is granted silver will then come a paritv with gold on a ratio ol 10 to 1. "T/'t r'-f-re bo no surrender to the mi-j fair c.iid tmjii-! proposition of the advo-li cafes of a single gold standard, in which they demand rhat the ratio of coinage,, shall be based on the commercial value! of gold at a time when its commercial]: value is increased and the commercial] valu- of silver is decreased by discriini-1 nating laws in favor of gold and against I silver. Any such proposition is designed to make money scarcer and dearer, that the few may continue to rob the many without oppposition of restraint..

IloiU'^i .Moih'.v Caul.

"Mow many of our working people can be deceived liv this nstant cry from Wall street for what tie1 goid bugs call 'honest money?' How many can be influenced into a passive acquiesee.nce to the will of the money kings by the! false promise that tlie poor man's dolhir will be made as good as the rich

Hence the money lending class oppose it, and. its labor cannot "gather grapes from thorns nor figs from thistles.' it should support, it.

A Campaign Kurcuu "If the character of it single gold standard is to be judged by itsinfluenei in this campaign it must be conceded that its only viissi«p on carth is to make threats again-! ind '•••. in imidate the wi if Mir e--o

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iV.t j-i orilo on inn i'n even at» systei iin: oi .- to bid :d-'for-ee tlie: t-i wear Mcbe -1 :-i, whether they want, to or ,d ll !1 go on e.vcur-

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Gaetoii, "gai'wt their will, mfiici with the ciirit" of a Hepubveniment. .--no ton contemptible mam tie- .-iuooort of a patriotic, lovieg people. "in accordant with previous anlionneenients- I have established the national Rrvan tree silver camriaiirn labor bureau ill: i:!l iUonrocstroet. Room

Tliis bureau is under ve.iie ami labor organi"•it -iiied by voluntary 11 will direct a labor doubtful states. Labor

110:i. (JhieaL'o. the e.spices '.-f zat.ons iii'il m" contribut ton .-. cal l1 a li1 t'1-spi•*-ii- rs will ue literature dis'ril and contributd W- rkinr: p. op: conei-i-ui11tr iIn1 gold power iieed not fear that their poMi.ons will be endangered, for their mimes will n- t, he dven to the public. My .rne-t thanks are due tho friends of our came for the aid and encouragement already received. Yours truly, "J. K. SOVKKEION, "Grand Master Workman, K. of L."

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Chicago, Oct. 8.

in the field and

utcd. Correspondence are earnestly solicited. who keep mo posted •oercive methods of the

THE BRIBERS ARE BALKED.

The Man Who Offers the Bribe i| Criminally Liable even If the Goods Are Not Delivered.

man's dollar? I want to say to you, my brothers. t,hat if the history of t.he past is any guide fort he present, Wali street is always on the wrong side of every. great public question. The test of niein-j bershit) on W ill street is based on sup-' port-of fr,.uv,i and deception, and therefore vfJint Wall street calls honest- is always dishonest. "When "Wall street! cries out- for the poor it is always for the thev rich. It is the caldron of hypocrisy and crime, ami if the working people wi'il first learn what Wall street wants, and then vote tho other way. they will always be right. There is no such thing as a poor man's dollar, 'and it is out of the i'oar that a dollar mav be made that will pay tii-' debts of the people, and bless the home of tlie poor, and for the use which Shvlock cannot exact his pound of flesh, that Wall street and the gold gamblers of the world are opposed to the free coinage of silver. "A careful study of the circulation of moil" .- this country reveals the astounding fact that the entire circulating medium of this nation must change ownership on an average of every six days, and even at that- rapid rate it is only sufficient, in volume to practically meet tie1 ''cipuremeuts of business. On an .iv- rage once every eight months a sum vf mom equal to our entire circulating medium must be paid into our munieip, !. county, state and national treasuries to support our various inst itutions of go\ online.i*" for which payment tin1 people receive neither food, clothing nor shelter, l-'roin this fact may be gathered an impression .of the. burdens of taxation. But such burdens fall into insignfieance when we realize that everv dollar of everv kind of money in circulation in this country. or it sum equal thereto, must, pass into the hands of the in-terest-takers on iin vera ire once everv six months, and that rlie people tire conieelled to borrow it back with new.«ecnrities, pledging the r-turn of the rwifieinal. ith interest a' si'painted time-" -The -tveam is con-tantly p.Hiring into the coders of the money loaiters and out again to the peonle. The period ofVotatioii, by reason of the great volume, of debts, is contracted to the short stiaee of six months. The free and unlimited coinage of silver will lengthen this period of rotation and render the people less dependent upon the money lenders for the necessary money with which to do the business of the country.

VIGILANCE. WILL DEFEAT HANNA.

If the silver men are lgil.int Mark Hanna's millions will not be of much use in Indiana under the decision of the appellate court luitided down Tuesday, I use of money in cam-pin-poseur influencing ctiealiv be done away persoii unscrupulous his vote can accept- a then turn around and the statutory limi- I 'man who attempts

Sept. ). The' paigns for the voters will pra with, as the enough to sell proposition and. sue for and recover ration, from rhi to debauch

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-.pp''llat'.e court, .oss. ts given Ijiionipson vs. the John Melimney.

The case wi'is Hent from Knox to Uibson county on a change of venue and there tried, and an appeal -was taken to the appellate court from the decision of the lower court. The parries to the suit live in Vinccnnes and in the presidential election of 18'.)'.' Thompson attempted to influence McKinney to vote for the Hepublican candidates sind offered him to do so. or. if not to vote for the Republican candidates to remain away from the polls. MeKinney accepted the S-'i. but: went to the polls and voted and then sued Thompson to recover

The action was brought for the violation of Sec. 05}2.*t, Burn's R. S., J.SiM. to recover the penalty provided for its violation. 'We 'quote the law and resume of the ease and finding below, ami it found very interesting matter interested in the nuritv of the

will be for 1:11 ballot:

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or 111Ior hiitnl!««•• uiv money or oIIhm* nirutis, knovviiiy lie snuir is to Inii» «5 to iimIiht. Iirri1 or huv any prison

votr or n-lr-jnn Jr votiuy jidv tirkct or for uitv ciuuli hitc for any iillici' al any 'U-rtion 111 I (i pursuant to law, or at any primary clcrlion or ronv'iiti»n oi any politiral party, then 1!it* prrsou »»o oll' 'iil« in anv mil' ol the parlicnlars iiiul all oM|r persons aidim aIm*U ini rouitsrlim rnronra^im^ or ailviMn sncli jK-ts lisi 11 tln'irliv Ihwoiuo lia! l«' jointly ami severally to the person hire-.l, hmi^lit or iuln-ed l« vote or retrain from voting by (he inciiib ::lo\e ennmera:e.i, in the ••'urn ot KliOd iukI reasonable a11 ornr,\ fes lor eolleetinu the same in an artion to lr hriMi^bt hereinalU'r provided on tho relation the voter in whose favor the liability is ereated by this seetion/' litMimc ol the 'ase.

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Me Kinney, who w.asii duly (pialified and legiil voter at the general election held in lS'.rj. on election day went t. the proper voting place to cast his vote but was approached by Thompson and paid jsa not to vote, but to tro away and refrain from voting. Later he returned to the polls and voted and notwithstanding be failed to comply with hi.» contract with Thompson he sued to recover tin1 penally.

It was contended bv counsel for Thompson that no recovery could be had unless it was shown in addition td the fact that McKiniiev was hired by Thompson to refrain from voting, that did not in fact cast a vote at the election: that ii' he wiis hired to go away from the polls mid refrain from voting ill the time lie went there for that purpose. but sul.'se-pieiitly returned and then cast his vote, the statute was not violated: that lie did eventually cast his vote, no daniatie was done and McKinney having lost no right, could not recover under the statute.

Construing the statute the court said: "The section of the statute under which this action was instituted defines a number of otl'enses, namely: (1), For hiring or buying any person, directly or indirectly, to vote any ticket or for any particular candidate (a), for hiring or buying any person, directly or indirectly, to refrain from voting any ticket or for any candidate: (!3), for handling any money or other means, knowing the same is to be used to induce, hire or buy any person either to vote or to refrain from voting any ticket or for any candidate, and (4), for aiding, abetting, counseling, encouraging or advising either the hiring or buying of a voter either to vote or refrain from voting any ticket or for any candidate. An per-

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