The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-06-01
THE FINANCIAL CRISIS.
,rs CAUSE AND HE REMEDY.
49,, Hon wi iISOn tells the Washing
ION Reporter of tne Register all
About iI-NId He will Tell
the county also if He
can get the Floor.
,o.rortothe Register.

WASHINGTON, May so.
The Washington end OF the REGIsTEB
-.D scsins. Col. Ben Wilson and ask, d
him if he believed IN ali this bugsbeo
about commuuistic uprising this sum-
NOR and whether the idle men of Wheel
,og spd vicinity would take "a hand
.No to both questions replied Col,
Wilson. 1T is all nonsence to
T., ,ap about the commune IN this
c,gnlry. know something about work
fogmen. and l know we have no more
Isw-sb,ding people as rule. But our
vorkingmen are hungry, and their fam
lies are in want. Is there anything
more natural thsn that they should COM
rl,in of their treatment? Congress has
Ia,i.Is,ed them into wasn't. Now let Con-
ores, legislale them back where it found
,ben.'
Colonel, to what particular legislation
do YOU attribute the present crisis"
That is the word exactly. Its crisis
and nothing less, and the conspiracy Of
the money power against the honest in
dgs.ry OF the country has precipits!ed it.
The people have been patient under
r-ieyous wrong, but they will be robbed
no lgr-sr. He is blind man who does
no. see the handwriting on the wall"
But the result, Colonel?"
I'm coming to that. First look at
the situation. We came out o. the re-
behon in pretty tsir condition, and
in two wears we had reached 3 comPara-
lively prosperous condition. In 1867
basiress was gcoi, money plenty, and the
workinEmau was well paid. Then we
b.I-in round uumbers-$l, 81 100000
Last vear We could show but S73l ,OOO,-
600 and the distribution OF what we
have ia enough to srray the country
s-,ln.t the money power. l have looked
fa.o this mstter very carefully. The
rrs.. bulk of the money
q concentrated in the East
,ae lions share is held by the money
sharks. and OF course it is impossible to
say how much of this capital is locked
up DO YOU su , pose the West and South
have t,ir chance on that basis? In the
whole country we average Sl46O per
csnita. No other civilized country has less
than twice thai. You might as well pass
law forbIdding people to do business
10 close up the mills and put the fires
ON. in the furnaces, rs expect the
by.rness of this county to be prosperous
on that basis Congress must act; it
ra.-, undo what it has done, in so far as
..-!.Iation can effect that end. We have
ued the hands of the people; now We
mss. loose them.
DWol, what are you gong TO DO about
j., CoI0neI;
aI would 60 some wholesome repeal /.
., There was the act of lSGs-'t
strengthen In" public credit 1T ought to
,.r. I....,. ,..I.r "a AN act To strengthen
. .,l r.lf.r At the eyoeDse
d.. the people. This WAS TO add
... ..-..,.'.. ..',.p IN the value of IS 20
I.,G. .,sr4.n we're bouoht with green
back, were w,.tH only fifty cents on tie
4...-. This neat bu. expensive work
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... Isnotber freud-
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