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Exhibit "K".

Contd.

AN HONEST DOLLAR IS

But this is not all. Even if you keep your job you gain nothing. If wages trail after prices, there are some things that trail after wages. House rent, fees of doctor or lawyer, taxes, all manner of salaries, the transportation charges for every article in the retail market - these remain on the former level after your wages have fallen. So that for everything the workingman gets from the classes, behind him he pays more than he ought to. We have only to remember that many of these payments are concealed in the prices of the groceries or dry goods he buys, to perceive that lower prices at farm or factory do not at once mean cheap groceries, or fuel, or clothes, or furniture for the working man. So that the wage-earner's interest, like that of any other producer, must always be not with the APPRECIATING gold dollar, but the HONEST dollar bimetallism will give.

The argument that the workingman can grow fat while falling prices are crushing the life out of his employer does not fit easily in the mouths of men who have always told the workingman that the only way to benefit him was by making his employer prosperous by a protective tariff.

We insist that this whole question is A MATTER OF JUSTICE - of simple, strict and elementary justice. The American wealth producer should not be the object of mawkish sentimentality or blubbering philanthropy. The bread poultics and little pills of charity he abhors. He wants NOT ALMS, BUT OPPORTUNITY. To the well-meaning men who offer him help, but deny him justice, he says - as said the sturdy Diogenes to Alexander: "Get out of my sunshine."

[PICTURE]

Philanthropic Goldite. "Well, my friends, I am sorry to see you this way. What can I do for you?"
Producers: "Just get out of our sunshine,"

Another example of what Profs. Seligman, Gardner and Farnam, and 15 Leading Economists deem the proper expression of an "Economist's" mind and manners. From Ross's Honest Dollars, pp. 62, 63.