Economic Conditions
Free silver
A 1896 Republican poster warns against free silver. A man holding a baby and a woman carrying a basket of food read "Vote for Free Silver" posters outside the Democratic Campaign Headquarters. They carry out the following conversation: "'What awful poor wages they have in all those free silver countries, John!' 'That's so, wife, but the politicians say it will be different in America.' 'I wouldn't take any chances on it, John, It's easy to lower wages and hard to raise them. Politicians will tell you anything. We know there was good wages when we had protection. We could never buy clothes for the children on what they given in free silver countries, could we?"
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