People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1896 — Bourke Cockran's Proposition. [ARTICLE]

Bourke Cockran's Proposition.

What is said by M. F. W., under “Should the Wage Earner Vote for Free Silver?” on Sept. 26, reminds me of \Vhat was said by Bourke Cockran in the speech given in Omaha recently, which seems to illustrate how illogical the “gold men” are. “Why,” said -Cochran speaking to the wage earners, “wherein would you be benefited if, after we had free coinage, your wages were raised 25 per cent and your cost of living 25 per cent?” and the poor deluded laboring men nod ded their assent. It is such specious propositions as this that are leading many poor men astray. If my salary is £lO per week and expenses *6, I can save $4 per week. If each (income and expenses) is raised 25 percent the income will be £12.50 and the outgo £7.50 and I can save £5. E. J. L. Omaha. Neb., Sept. 29. Who can doubt that if our industries had been unimpeded by falling prices for the last twenty years the accumulation of wealth would have been vastly greater and’ its distribution far more eq uitable than it has been? There would have been more to divide and labor, having been kept employed, would have had a much larger share. Speed and safety are the watch worde of the age. One Minute Cough Cure acta speedily, safely and never fails. Asthma, bronchitis, coughs artd colds are cured by it. A, F. Long.