The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-12-02
FROM BEl.lsAlRE.
A Workingman Desires TO Express
His Views. which are in Many Re-
specis, QuIte NOTeI-The Financial
and Labor Problem.
BELLAIRE, OHIO, Decembcr J.

and Labor Problem.
-s.- BELLAIRE, ONO December !.
Editors Of the Register:
When | sat down to take my pen in
hand" intended to give you my opinion
of the financial situation, rs nearly every
branch OF business presents It's views,
some of which are very conflicting. |
may not be amiss if | conflict somewhat
with all of them.
The gold basis for healthy financial
operations is gradually and surcIy-in
the no distan. future going to b" THOR
uushly exploded. Every intelligent man
knows that there can be no such thing ~
metallic currency to do the business OF
the country, and as for basis Tor the re-
demptiUn OF paper money, such thing
never had any real existence III this coun-
try, and never can have; and those wise
men who talk that kind OF stutl, only do
so to pull the wool over the eyes oil Us
poor devils Of workingmen. Now then
| let us show an ordinary amount OF COM
mon sense, aud have II currency that Will
! suit our American pc"p'", without
l. forever making asses of ourselves about
what foreigners may think OF Us,
and quit this balderdaSh about the world ;
currency. Gold-god having intrinsic,
cxtrnsic and the Lord only knows how
many other kinds oil value.
We need II currency with which we
can buy nothing in Europe, or in any
other foreign country. If foreigners
want to sell their products in this coun-
try let them bring them here and eX-
change them for or currency, then II
they don't want to take it out OF the
country, they will find no trouble in buy
ing gold cheap.
| would have the Government furnish
| al! the money necessary for business IN
paper, which she certainly has the con-
stltutional power to do.
Let the custom duties be paid in paper
money and the gold necessary 10 pay IN
tcrest on our bonds could be bought by
! the Guvcrnmantut considerable less than
par, BY this plan / know that inste d
| ot gold standing at a premium, So called,
| it would stand NJ discount, and the glor-
ious green buck would look rs biz rs Il
suntower.
Now, then, | have said about enough
on that subject, for know that you aud
your many readers know all that Is
worth knowing about gold and rag
babies, rs the Republican fathers csIl
their children.
Not knowing how much this letter
will take up in your paper, or whether
| YOU will let 1t take up any space at all,
makes me feel like stopping. But no! l
have got started, and here goes again
with my pen in hand
| You know what an Internal huD-bub
the ten hour law, the eight hour law,
aud heaven only knows how many other
laws have been enacted in the various
States and the United States to crafty
us working people, and secure the cleo
ton OF some setsacrIiiclnS champion OF
workingmcn rights, and we also know
that we are no better of than We were
forty years ago in securing Il reduction
OF the hours of labor. Now rs this
governmental machine has run nearly
one hundred years, propose that new
departure be taken, and while We make
II BIZ show at Philadelphia, and many u
biz fellow will swell up with National
pride over the display Of the products of
workingmen's brains, it is but right that
We commence on the 9Th of July,
1876. To reduce the number of days
of labor to "a decimal fraction.
Make five days constitute weeks work.
Let Saturday forever hereafter b. II holt
day. Let u, do rs we will to gam pleas
urr on Saturday, as good citizens, and
We Will Dee better prepared to go to
church on SUNDAY. \ movement will
soon be inauguratcd right here in Bell.
are, and the first thing you know Bell
alrc Will be better known in the United
States than Wheeling. though you do
make good nails up there. &. VS..