Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1896 — From Free Silver Honduras. [ARTICLE]

From Free Silver Honduras.

The following clipping from an Oakland, Jll., paper, showing the wretched wages; from 18. to 25 cents of our money, .which Hondurian’ laborers receive, is a good commentary on Stump Ashby’s assertion that the American people are the most poverty stricken on earth. The persons mentioned in the clipping are well known and their standing vouched fir by our townsmen, J. W. Burgett. Following is the clipping: C. E. Tihimons, formerly of Oakland, Knff who went from Perris, Cali,, to Honduras, where last February he and a friend purchased a coffee plantation, writes thus to C. E. Williams, of the labor and financial situation in that beautiful free silver country: “We pay, in the interior, from thirty-seven and a half to fifty cents a day for a man, ana give him his rations, also; but, as that is in Honduranean money, and we can buy S2OB of that with a SIOO draft, on New York, you can see 1 bat. wages are low.” Here is an object lesson for our free-silver-crazy Democratic laboring friends. It is but another illustration of the condition that prevails in all Jree siver countries, and which will prevail in this country if the free-silver fanatics are allowed to have, their way. If you want to be classed with the pauper laborers of China, Mexico, and all other free-silver countries, just put in your time from now until election day in working for the Democratic party and platform.