Tli- gold zlamlard advocates having dis
tributed quietly on the sly a circular pur
porting io give the average weekly wages
in tho Vnlted States, as cnmnareil with
.Mexico, Japan, China and Peru, our at
tention has been called 1 to same and we
affirm that they have attempted to prac
tice a fraud upon and deceive the lalior
ing people.
They do not draw a comparison between
th** United States and European gold
standard countries, nor do they truthfully
quote the wages paid now. but they men
tion the scale of wages paid in the United
States in IMHi and PHI, when the Sherman
act was in force and silver was being
coined at the rate of 4,500,000 ounces per
month; while in P'.'fi, after the mints wore
closed to silver c-dnage by the uncon
ditional repeal of the purchasing clause of
Hit* Sherman act, wages dropped about
one-haJf.
Then, on the other hand, they mentioned
tiie wages that were paid in Mexico, China
and Peru in INS 4, while in ix:«i they are
about 5o per cent higher, and Iti Japan in
1592, while they are now much higher. That
in these foreign free silver countries
wug> are steadily rising each year, while
in Hie United States they are and have
been steadily falling since 1893, is a fact
that cannot be controvedted.
They did not tell of the ruinous wages
paal in Egypt, Turkey and all European
gold standard countries.
The average weekly wages paid the gen
eral trades in gold standard England,
which had held to that policy since 1816,
are given here. They are compared with
the United States in 1891, when we were
coining and using both metals to redeem
our obligations.
