Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 39, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 February 1898 — Page 5

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BRYAN IN MEXICO. ■ - : %X ■ , ■ \ ■. ’■&! ■ Glowing Report of the Sister Republic. t -- Prosperity is General and Wages Steadily Rising. How the Free Coinage of Silver Operates in that Onntry. Capital anO Labor are Drawn (raw Other Countries. j.

William Jenuings Bryan has given to the public his impression of Mexico which be formed on his recent -visit to our sister republic, fl is letter is too long to give in the Democrat but what he says of the money question is given in full. During his three weeks stay in that country he was the recipient of every hospitality aud the greatest opportunity to study the condition of the Mexican. The first jwrt of his letter is devoted to a description of the .country, the people and their surroundings. He found it a delight - I ful place to live, the Mexican# very hospital and firm iu the support of the Monroe doctrine, He sj»estks in the highest pra;-*? of her public men and s§ys that they are making substantial gains in education. Coming down to the money question he says: 9. That the free coinage of silver is entirely satisfactory to the people of Mexico. They have had a chance to test their system thoroughly and compare it with the systems of the Cm ted States, England, France and Germany, and I found no disposition either among the officials or among the people to favor the gold standard. The Federal Government pays about six millions annually on gold obligations.* and while it is coinfadied to collect over $12.£K 0.000 in silver to cover tins interest account, it has no difficulty iu doing so, liecause of the prosperous condition of the nations industries. The government is not only meeting its expenses, but has a surplus. In Mexico the producers of wealth have not encountered the disastrous fad in prices which has afflicted all the gold standard countries since 1873. While exchange has fluctuated, the «{fluctuation has only affected foreign trade, and that fluctuation, while of small importance when compared with the great advantage of maintaining the level of {•rices, will entirely disappear when the jarity betweet?gold and stiver is restored. I found quite a number of Mexicans who went so far as to express the hope that the United States would continue the gold standard*, because of the advantage wh<eh Mexican manufacturers find in a high-rate exchange, but t iu- majority oiJ.he people with whom I talked desire the restoration of bimetallism in the United States m order that lability in exchange may be added to stability in price. y The Uirited States has had the gold standard for 23 years, and the system has proved -o unsatisfactory that at the last election (1,300,000 voters expressed a desire for independent bimetallism, while 7,000,000 ca t their votes for candidates p edged to international hi metallism. The gold standard has been so disastrous that even arepublican administration is asking foreign uatiotis to help us to get rid of it. The people of Mexico could adopt the gold standard it they desired to do so, and yet no considerable number of them wish to

abandon silver. 10. That Mexico is more prosperous today than ever before. Her industries are increasing in number and importance. Near Orizaba is s^cotton mill of immense proportions. The company ope rules 18,000 h»ms and 70.000 spindles. The plant has earned more than 16 per cent a year on the capital stock during the last five years, has been enlarged at the rate of more than 10 per ceut p»-r annum during that time, and the comi<any is preparing to add 500 looms and 12a-*o0 spijidn-sdhis year. At San Luis Potosi I found a cotton factory owned by an American. The proprietor told me that h' had been enlarging his plant and found the business profitable. I went through a new cotton factory at Monterey and learned of a large mill now under construction at Guadalajara. There are a number of cot ton mills also in the neighborhood of Pueblo. The manufacture* of woolen gocjds, the manufacture of hats, the manufacturer of boots and shoes and the brewing of beer are all growing industries. The silk industry is in its infancy, but a Frenchman has planted over 8.000.000 mulberry trees in the state of Guanajuato within the last few years, and is much encouraged over the success thus far achieved. I visit id a silk factory which he had recently opened in the Suburbs of the City of Mexico. The premium cm gold has acted as a wall to keep out foreign competition and at the same time has given a substantial bounty upon exporta While l was in Mexico the gold premium varied from $1.05 to $1.15, and I shall therefore take $1.10 as an avecage. In 1878 the Mexican dollar commanded a premium of about 8 cent over our gold dollar: At that time a yard of ckth worth a dollar in the United Slates or

Europe, when imported by Mexico, would i be worth about 97 cents in Mexican money, : plus transportation aqd tariff. Now with . gold at a premium of $1.10, a yard of doth i worth a dollar in the United States or . Europe is«worth $3.10 in Mexican money, i plus transportion and tariff. Where the ] gold price has fallen one half, the Mexican i price is about the same that it was in 1878. ] On the other hand, those who export from < Mexico have a great advantage over competitors living in gold standard countries. For instance, a coffee raiser in Mexico, 1 because of the rise in exchange has fared ] much better than the planter who has < cultivated coffee on a gold basis and who i has found his income diminishing while his i debts and fixed charges refused to fall. ' One of the gold men of my own state has ] - laid aside his political scruples sufficiently i to invest in a large tract of land pear < Tampico upon which he is planting coffee i

berry. He is not the only American citizen i who is seeking in Mexico the prosperity i for which he voted in the United States.!: The cotton mills of Mexico now consume j i more cotton than Mexico produces, but j acreage is increasing. If. as some expect, 1 they find it possible to produce upon Mexican soil all the cotton needed by their mills the Mexicans will become dangerous competitors of the gold standard countries. At < present they are handicapped by having to import so large a projtortion of their raw material. In reply to the argument that is sometimes made, namely, that we can protect our manufacturers by still higher duties, I contend that we can only do so by increasing the disadvantage under whieh American farmers now labor. The lot of our farmer is hard enough when the price of what be buys bills in the same proportion as the price of his awn produce, because even then his taxes, debts and other fixed charges do not fall. If. however, we maintain the price of manufactured goods by a high tariff, the burdens of the fanner will be so increased as to make his ultimate bankruptcy certain. I might mention in this connection that I found many of our protected manufacturers selling their wares in Mexico in competition with their European rivals. At one store < I found lamps and lamp chimneys made in ; Missouri, hammers and shovels made in Philadelphia, cutlery• made in Massachu- : setts; also Yale locks, Disston saws atul ' hinges made in the United States. CaliI forma wines and canned fruits and Chicago canned meats find a market in Mexico. At Guanajuato is a theater.reeently completed, the structural iron of which came from the United States. At several places I saw electrical apparatus of American construction, and many instances additional discount is given by American manufacturers upon exported goods.

11. Ibat wages are not only higher on an average lb an ever iwfore, twit still ri>iug. Progress or retrogression can lie determined only by comparing the present with the past. The condition of the laboring classes in Mexico can be improved, but it is a fact that they are in better condition than they 1 were in 1873, when the Mexican dollar was • worth more than our gold dollar, ami 1; believe that their condition ts much better , j today than it would have been if Mexico ; | hail adopted the gold standard when the j i I'nited States did. It is not fair to com- | jwire the wages in one country with the j wages in another country without first, j making allowance for difference in efficien- | ey. difference in climatic conditions, differ-1 ence in habits, tte. Eyen within the boundaries of our own country there are differences too great^to be ignored. During President Harrison's j administration Secretary Rusk issued a! document entitled “Wages of Farm i.abor in the United States,1* (Report No. 4, year 1893). Page 16 of this report contains a table showing that in 1893 the average wage< for fahn labor (without board) was #13.50 ;>er month in South Carolina, #13.30 in North Carolina. #13.50 in Georgia and ! #13.75 in Alabama, while in California the •wages paid were #36.50. and in the state of ; Washington #37 50, the average for all the ! states for the year being #18.60. For farm 1 labor with board the wages varied from #8.40 to #35, an average of $12.54. The report states that Caucasian labor received j for farm work in the United States #283 per annum, and suggests that the samel labor received about $150 in Great Britain ; and #90 in Germany. I refer to this report i because it was issued by republican author- I ’ity and shows that uuder the operation of j j the same financial system and the same ! . tariff system farm labor received three j times a- much in one part of the Union as it did in another part. When it is reraem- j bered that the wages paid in each state I were ascertained by averages it will be seen that the difference between the best paid labor and the poorest paid labor is stilFl greater. The report also shows that in the United States Caucasian farm labor receives j more than three times as much as the same | labor receives in Germany, although both countries have a gold standard and protective tariff. Between 1816 and 1834 England had a gold standard and the United i States had a double standard, with silver I as the money iu common use. and yet! laboring men were better off here than in <- England. Turkey is one of the gold stand, nrd nations, and Japan, until recently, coined silver at a ratio almost identical with ours, and yet the progress of Japan was so great that Mr.Cieveiaud commented upon it in a message during a second term, j The gold standard advocate who would j consider it unfair to compare Japan and i Turkey does not hesitate to blame silver j • for the low wages of the peons of Mexico. | In all the leading cities of Sfcxioo can be , found people from the United States, Eng- j laud. Germany and France—all drawn from gold standard countries by the advantages offered in Mexico. Few have gone from tbs United States to Canada, where 1

hey have the gold standard and speak the English Language, bat in Mexico, where an American citizen has to learn an entirely Jew language, there are already several American colonies, and the number is constantly increasing. Some are in business or themselves, some working for wages, md they stay there, although they are at iberty to return whenever they see an ►pportunitv to better their condition in the [Jnited States. » 19. Real estate is rising iu Mexico. Public and private improvements are in irogi-ess. 6uudalaiara, one of the largest •ities of the republic, and surpassed by lone in beauty, has recently decided to put n a complete system of sewerage and water rorks. The work of constructing the sewers ras let to a New Jersey contractor last nonth. Monterev has recently laid considfrabiie brick pavement, and the capitol has learly completed a sewerage tunnel through i mountain range. Electricity is taking he place of the old time street lantern: the ‘hoe is gradually supolanting the sandal, ind the coat is winuing against the serape.

It would be unfair to give to Mexico s Inancial policy credit for all the progress? vhichi the country has made in the last 25 rears. Her government and her governnent officials have contributed much to her ievelopment by security to life, protection ;o property ami stimulus to education.. If :he »dvt>cates of the gold standard insist :hat her financial system has been a hindranee, and that she has gone forward not aecause of if . but in spite of it, I reply that my observation, as well as my reason, leads tne to believe that the use of silver has been :>f material advantage to Mexico, and I am moie than ever convinced that fhe best interests of our own people demand the immediate restoration of the free ami unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the present legal ratio of 10 to 1, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other natibu. Mexico is not strong enough to maintain he parity between the metals, bat the people of the United States are. Mexico aas by the u<e of silver avoided the tall in prices, but has suffered to a certain extent from the fluctuations in exchange. By opening our mints to the free coinage of •ilver we, too, shall escape from falling srices, and, by maintaining the parity, we •ha.ll, in addition, avoid fluctuation in ex•hange. W. J. Bryan*. ' A Short Sad Story. A Cold. Neglect. Pneumonia. Grief. Rad Foley’s Honey and Tar been used, ,his story would have had a happier ending. Bergen aud Oliphant. f

Governor Pingree Talks. Buffalo K.Y^an. 19.—Governor Hazen A. Pingree of Michigan, in a speech before he Independent Club of Buffalo to-night, •rented a sensation by iiis attack on “socalled republican leaders" who value the power of the dollar to bring them success more than they do that of the vote. Governor Pingree at the outset quoted Abraham Lincoln's declaration on the field i>f Gettysburg: “The government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not |»erish from the earth." He continued: “To-day all the tru>ts and monopolies which are bleeding the country having taken refuge under the wing qf the republican party, because they fear the democratic party, which has kicked them out. In my own state the railroads, which have never paid their just $ham of the taxes, have been a faithful ally of the republican partv. I have had something to do with the effort of the people of Miehigtiii to get a real justment of railroad taxation and rates, and every railroad attorney and railroad doctor, every little'eeHAtry newspaper wh»> has a pass, every politician who hopcs^foFfi'Uaniial favors t«Xh* p re-elect diluT^is—cut of J breath crying “Pltn^eej^io^a republican.’ They cry this because l was elected on the republican ticket by a majority of 96,000 and they do not want me re-elected.- King Boodle cries: *1 am the party and there is none beside me.’ *‘I say that any so-called republican who thinks that the interests of railroads, trusts, monopolies or'syndicates are of more importance than the interests of the average man hail better get out of the republican party in Michigau, for l am going to fight it out on Lincoln's platform no matter what they call me. “The monopolist, the franchise grabber, the lobbyist are all extreme partisans, and when anyone opposes their -schemes they cry, ‘You are attacking the party.’ When they elect themselves to office by force of money, they ascribe, it to divjne intervention ot Providence ir behalf of the nation and its honor. Thomas.- -s of the republican party do not want to stand sponsor for those agencies which are playing the mischief with^ids c<>uutry’s we.fare any more than the democrats do. We have, however, some so-called leaders in our party who have more faith in the power of money than in the power of the voting masses. “Your membership is composed of men of all parties. 1 believe in independence in politics, Fam somewhat of an independent myself. Those of ns who believe in govern- j meat for'the people should not hesitate to! ienounce the men of our own party who j would make ours only a government for j the benefit of the almighty dollar and the possessors thereof.” Burkina's Arnica Mai re. The best salve in the . world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, feveri sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, .oms »ml all akin eruptions, and positive- ; iy cuns piles or no pay required. It is s guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or1 nosey refuuded. Price 25 cents per box, ! For sale by J. B. Adams A Son.

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