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It Ia "indefensible."

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Day
2
Month
September
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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There are about 300,000 coal miner in the United States who are deeply interested in Mr. Bryan's statement, made in Congxess in the course of the debate on the Wilson bill, and recently unearthed and widely republished, that "a duty on coal is indefensibie." These minera receive in wages, annually, about $110,000,000, and the work in most states is fairly steady the year round. The question which concerns this great army of workmen is: "Will f ree co tend to better our condition?" If Mr. Bryan's view prevails will the coal miners of British Columbia, England, Australia and far-off Japan hare less to do, and the miners of the United State mor employment? At the present time BTitisb. miners are working on an average of three dayu in the week, but there is no question that the election of Mr. Bryan and a Congress in sympathy with his idea that a "duty on coal is indefensibie" will greatly stimulate coal mining in foreign countries, and every bushei so mined and imported into the United States free of duty will displace just that much of the American product and a corresponding amount of American labor. There are about 25,000 coal miners in Missouri and Kansas whq are personally interested in this question. It is a matter which touches their pocketbooks and should be seriously considered when they are discussing the question of how best to vote. It is evident that Mr. Bryan Is trying to conveythe idea to laboring men that free silver is tne pancea for all their lis and that when it Is achieved --ffvtrrythrasr will como- thtílr vray. But it needs no argument to show that if thera ia no work for the coal miner all th free ilrer In the world will not replenlsh hif dinner pail or clothe hia llttle ones. The present case of the liexiean dollar is th nrst en record in which there wa aotlrt damand for mout y simply to demonttrat kow littl it vu wortk. __

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