Ex-gov. Boies And His Hired Man

Hired Man- I heard that in your Des Moines speech you said prices are so low that you have either got to get more for your oats or else cut my wages. Boies - You heard right. Hired Man- Wel], which are you golng to do? Boies - am going to get more for my oats. Hired Man- How? Boiee - By lessening the purchasing power of money. Free coinage will give us a dollar which will only buy flve bushels of oats instead of ten busheU, and that will be the same as getting 20 cents for my oats. Hired Man - Well, what are you going to do about my wages? Boies - Oh, I'll pay you juet the same as I'm paying you now, $20 a month. Hired Man - Are you going to pay me in these new dollars? Boies - Certainly the same kind of dollars that I get for my oats. Hired Man - Those dollars that can't buy only half as much of anything as the old dollars. Boies - Yes, yes; the same sort of dollars. Hired Man - Then, as I understand it, you propose to get twice as much for your oats and pay me only half what I'm getting now? Boies- Why, no. I'll still pay you f20. Hired Man- But this $20 won't buy only half as much stuff as now, you say, for the purchasing power is to be lessened one-half; so with my $20 I can only get $10 worth of stuff. Your scheme would bring you twice as much for your oats and bring me only half as much for my work. Is this fair, do you think? Boies - Well, every man has to look out for himself. Hired Man- So I see, and I think I'll look out for myself and vote for an íonest dollar for an honest day's