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What The Result Will Be

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
October
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

If McKinley is elected the American workingtnan will continue to receive his wages iu dollars having the purchasing power of gold. If Bryan is eleeted he will be paid in a dollar haring the purchasing power of sifver. If silver does not advance after free coinage the purchasing power of wages will be reduced 50 cents on the dollar. If silver does advance 10 cents on the do ar the purchasing power of wages will tall only 40 cents, and so on. When Gov. Altgeld, who furnishes the brains to the Bryan campaign, makes his rents payable in gold, even he admits that silver might not go to par, and, if so, that the value of the then current dollar would be inferior to the present current dollar. If the workingman could stipulate for payment of his wages in gold he mieht contémplate the introduction of a depreciated currency with as much

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Courier