The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-10-10

we're ready for any change. VOW! Y
all these elements ut work in the district
/ knew that on some points OF the hnan'
cial question We could agree; at least Y
would make q rope long enough for Us al
to take hold Of. The trouble has been
that we have had nothing to cling TO here
tofore. The result you know"
ais the overthrow alasting one?
"Yes, sir. Blaine and Hale are polti'
cally dead in this State. They never can
get back 10 power after their present terms
expire, and from the correspondence re.
ceive | believe the movement here viii
run through the country TO 4 greater OF
less extent and for the same reasons. II
Is the stepping-stone TO 4 great change
one that will wind up Tom Scott and Jay
Gould's power with legislation; one that
will restrict government legislation within
constitutional limits. mi that will make il
impossible for men to so 10 Congress poor
and come ont in u few years millionaireS.
OF course l don't mean TO say that there
will be no corruption. But the tendency
will be the other way. When the new
party gets old and corrupt 1t must give way
10 another"
NrRcH's DEA ABOUT FINANCE
"Now as to the financial views Of the
Maine Greenback party"
ave have been widely misrepreSented.
We have been called ~inf1ationists. deny
that emphatically. | am not, anyway.
We are called regulators. That l deny.
w are said 10 be in favor Of irredeemable
paper money. That is false. Ny views
can be given in q few words, and I think
they ART the same as Of a vast majority Of
those who voted for me. OF course, there
are some details OF the financial question
upon which my mind Is not fully made up.
Ny idea is that the Government should be
the sole issuing source Of money. Let
banks do business Il anybody wants to do
business with them, but they must not
issue currency. Now there should be q
fixed limit for such Government issue also
much per capita OF the population. l can
not now say just what Some authorities
90 as low as SIS. and some as high as $50
per capita. Ibelieve that this limit settles
the matter Of imitation, and | would be
ready to insert q limiting clause In the
constitution. OF course, at each census,
Is the per capita increased, the currency
would increase; but the proportion would
remain the same. Now, ! believe that the
Government ought to honor lis oWn mon.
ey, and take it for all debts, taxes and GUS
tom dues. have no objection Il coin
and paper issues, although | cannot see
the necessity of coming bullion, except for
certain purposes. The full legal tender
value OF the greenback will keep the
currency At par with gold. But
1t Is q tact that when specie pay
ments are nominally in force, coin
isn't used excepting for subsidiary
currency Now this greenback currency
ought to be redeeRahle, whether the re
deemability should be confined TO one
metal Is . question, | rather think so, ]
believe our bonds ought TO be paid In &C
cordance with the original contract. II
that specified coin, then coin; il so-called
~greenbacks, then by this money. Now ]
sec that complications mus. arise; there
are differences Of opinion about many de-
tails. COopers idea OF the government
lOaning out the g~reerbacks ! am hardly
prepared to approve. As to the Issuing Of
this money by the government, Think the
matter ought not TO be decided without
careful study and deliheratlon, but | am
inclined to think that, ifany interest is to
be paid By any one, the government ought
to receive it, instead Of paying it. But, Of
all things, l am frmly convinced that
measures should be taken to stop uslry
and anything but a low rate OF Interest.
These high rates have sapped the life from
labor. They are the necessary concomit-
ants OF the credit system, and l believe
the tFuo greenback theory is one that
will make the credit system unnecessary.
That is the root Of all our evil. That Is
what makes labor uneasy and what bur
dens it On the cash basis our labor can
compete with foreign manufactures, and
We should need no protective tariff. On
the credit system, which is q fellow OF the
present financial system, l think 4 high
protective tariff a necessity. I Am inclined
10 follow Humans financial views, aud
l believe thai i what greenbackism means
in Maine. As said, however, there are
many details that are not fully clear TO my
mind. Therefore, upon these l don't care
to express an opinion"
WHAT HE THINK ABOUT MS TrruRE.
"Do you think you can compass all these
things when in Congress-"
Why" said Mr.. Murch, laughing, u
am only one man, and a new one. / don't
TO make q great revolution nor to
my place in Congress rs q brilliant
But ! shall use all my efforts mod
but firmly, l trust, TO bring about
such reforms as think needful, and 10
end / shall cooperate with all others
similarly disposed. One united effort
ought TO do something. by the way"
he continued, did you eve hear such an
charge as that one about mt ina
bility TO read or write? 1t was absurd,
because II those who made it had stopped
to think they would have remembered
hat ! would have been ineligible for elec-
ton, because ! could not have been made
q citizen"
You met with much abuse in the can.
"Gh, yes. OF course I did not ike it;
but, at the same time, l knew it would
react in my favor afterward. One thing
is c~ertAin-no charge vas eve made g
my moral character
Now, Mr.. Murch, what do you regard
as the greatest feature Of your election"
'|The proof it gives Of the soundness OF
the American principle OF government. It
shows that the people are capable Of self
government, not because ! was elected,
but because any one was elected in oppo-
to the ring rule that has cursed
Maine so long. The people are apt TO be
lOng-sufFeriug, but when they do rise they
rise with tremendous power"
"Do you regard the office OF Congress
man as an influential one?"
at ought to be. l have no sympathy
this habit Of making sport Of our leg
bodies. II they become objects Of
what will become OF US? You
may bring individual members OF the body
to task, but always honor the body. The
office is IN honorable one, and it is an
honorable ambition for any n to desire
at is said, Mr.. Murch, that you boosted
that you did not own an inch OF soil?'
THE charge is untrue in both respects,
for l never said so, and do own an acre Of
land that I have been trying to induce a
winters supply OF potatoes to grow upon.
| wish l had more property. think it
the duty Of every man to try to accumu-