The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-01-23
CoNFEnRFT K ROADS,
WIun isIN Tux stats Nv RENIuCKY,
I.nnaFy n 1871

WtCu Il IN TUK STATS Nv KENTUCKY,
January II, 1873
nm not satisfied with silver now that
hey given the subject Nv currency that
%attenshun wiclf 10 important q matter
demands. ] understand that silver kin be
prodoost in unlimited quantities in the
territories, and Their amt RELY any limit
4, the amount that kin be put upon the
markit, Also | understand, and nj ap'
preshiate the fact, that the man witch is
IN debt and in distress, and wicl ia hun
grin and thirstin 10 git out, wich hez
snthln,kin make that suthin available by
hein able to yoose silver in the payin Nv
hiA debts.
But that don't help us Nv the Corners.
Silver is n parshel r%cleei, but il don't
strike that vast army uv men wich amt
col nulhin. Wat good ia il 10 say TO me,
GYoo .bel he released from yoOr debts on
tie payment NV % cents on the dollar"
when / haynt got tue twenty-five cents.
and can't ace my way cleer TO get EN-?
II ia askin for bred and givin me q stun.
IL il holdin out false Endorsements wlch
amount TO nuthin.
Wat the Corners want and wat the
Corners must hey, is a medium wich Is
more easily p~rocoored than silver: The
remonetiEashun Nv silver wood help U
the bonanza men, and them ez hey suthin
on wich they kin git silver at the discount
il will 90 to, but that don't do uS here in
the Corners. For while j WIZ advocatin
the Silver bill the other day, and urgin
that il wood enable us to pay of our debts
at a discount, Joe Bigler kun mp, and
sed he:
"Bnt, parson, 'spose 700 Good pay of
at IS cents on the dollar with silver,
where are 700 going to git the rs cents 7"
That remark NV his opened to me a wide
field nv conjeCtor. Silver won't do for us
for il has some intrinsic valyoo. The
debtor claas wants 10 be relieved in hole
mot in part. Wewanta currency wich
ia Available to the meanest ez well ez the
\ nOblest.
sejeSt leaiherl
VA ] want ia a currency made NV
leather. Leather ia perdoosed in all the
States NV the Yooninn, and is accessible
to the most humble citizen Nv the Repnb.
lie. Wherever there il u COW and a tan
nery, leather kin be perdOoscd, and why
We shoOdent yoose that ez n medium Nv
exchange, bcels me.
What il a dollar2 A dollar is idee.
Whatever the Government puts its stamp
onto Ia a dollar. The bonanza men IN
Colorado want the Government to put ia
stamp onto silver, and mako dollars nv
silver, becoz they happen 10 own the
mines wich perdoose silver. They will
then deliberately quit lloodin their mines
and pay off their debts with II, and see
their titles cleer TO the property they now
owe for, and will retire in alluence, and
conscious they hev done a smart hnanshel
thing. But wat good will that du na NV
the Corners wich can't sit Their silver
Watts the yoose nv sayin TO n starvin
person that he kin git bread at 3 cents a
loaf II he heEen't got the 5 cents? We
hain't got 70 cents on the dollar nv wat
we owe, and the passage Nv the silver bill
is only goin 10 help the parshelly le'
Coonius. -,
Waive want ia full and entire releei
We want n currency witch We ourselves
kin furnish, and that / am going TO move
for, | want silver coined and made legle
tender for the benefit NV the West, and
want leather coined and made legal ten.
der for the benefit NV the Middle States
and the East. In this holy croosade agili
the creditor class ! insist that NIL seek
shuns shall start fair, and that no one
seckshnn shell hev an advantage over the
other. /,
want leather coined into dollars. !
want every man wich heE a side nv first
rate sole leather TO hev the privilege nv
depOsitin II ip u mint Nv the foonited
| States, and heyin 1t stamped into pieces
wich shel represent dollars, and that them
dollars shell be legal tender for any debt,
public or private, that we may owe.
U~nderatand me, 1 am no ~inllashunistr
nor do | desire to infer the public credit
desire that everything shel go along
smoothly and properly. An to that end
shel insist that
lsL-The leather shell be sole, Nv first
quality, hcmlock-tanned, and entirely
merchantable.
2d.-That ii shall not be in the power
nv everybody 10 coin leather. l won't
hev every man which kin git n punch and
a stamp making his own money, for then
ther wood be an over-ishoo. To prevent
that | shel require that the coinin Nv
leather shell be done at reglerly inSii-
fooled Government minis, and by nobody
else. So much to perfect the currency
"a, To perfect the people and 10 be
shOor that enur currency shall be FUR
nisht 10 supply the wants Of trade, l in;
sisl that every man witch kills a bull shel
be privileged 10 hev the hide tanned, and
shel be allowed to take that hide, when
tanned, to a mint and hev II stamped into
money, each piece TO weigh so much, and
that when the government stamp IS onto
it. tshel be legle tender for a dollar.
The simple process will eIualiEe the
East and West. Silver kin be lifted out
in Colorado and them sechuns eL easily
et cattle kin DO killed in the East, and el
they want Their mejum with witch to pay
their debts, nv course we want ours 10 pay
ours, We hev cattle and they have sill
NeEs l Al With tney huei maNo ieNVa
tender Nv their silver-I want TO make
legle tender nv a small part NV n cattle
Etit is urged that II will prevent oul
hevin SIGH shoes cz We ought TO hey, my
anser isreSdy. The Corners hewitt %orr
ShOes to any extent for a great many
yeCra. The Corners hez other yoose FOL
is money.
The advantages otthis medium are oh
vious. While We want more money We
want money that anybody kin git holt
Nv. When we ask Tor a iinanshel i.l
wat Is tho use Of oiIcrin US a stun Of Hil
YER? III We amt got the silver We are e
had off e1 before. We want 10 pay on
dsbb and git out. Leather Ia attainAblt
by the most humble. He Ia y poor ma
indeed who heIu't got a bull to kill, AM
then kin sell the carcass and coin tn
hide he kin pay. Then he Is solvent
Then he kin start new and 20 into deb
agth conshus that the meens Nv paymen
are AllnE within his reach. The govern
inent stamp unto Il pertects II and make
llgoOd, and what more does any want
Do l heer AcArper cay that other coun