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Labor Wants Good Money

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
October
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mr. Powdcrly made a very sensible addresa in New York city Thursday night. He showed that workiugmeu oould not reasonably hope to gain anything by airee and unlimited silver coinage polícy. He showed that workingmen should have the very best money as compensation for their labor. This extract f rom his speech is worth preserving: What about labor with the nation on a silvor basis instead of a gold basis? One silver dollar then will buy but half what it will now, and the man werking for a dollar a day will then have to work tvvo days in order to purchase as much for two silver dollars as he now obtains for oue dollar of gold, or silver, or paper bfised on gold. The proposition that the silver dollar is the poor man's dollar is pure gush. The dollar of the poor man is the dollar which he earns, whether it be gold or silver. The workingman is entitled to the best in the market, the gold dollar is as much his dollar as it is the dollar of the millionaire, and instead of joining in the shout for a cheap hi Klqould inspribe on his banner: "Tha

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier