The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-06-27

few sentences from speech delivered by
the honorable gentleman, that his views
may be fully understood by those who
are advocating the necessity Of change
in our present financial system. DE said,
in speaking of the distress aud want at
every hand, "Enterprises OF all kinds
have been stopped; millions OF our
laborers have been forced into idleness,
and cut of from the means OF earning q
subsistence; many Of our workshops are
idle, and our jsIls, penitentlarles, and
poor houses are d led; gloom hangs over
the country, aud the land is filled with
disquietude and want. Run your eye
over tue recent past and see how 1t was Il
few wears ago. The country was then
prosperous, and the people were happy.
What is II tha! has hUshed the active
hum of business industry, and stricken
down great numbers OF our people from
prosperity to pauperism? WHAT Is 1t
that has driven millions OF our labOrers
out of employment aud torn away from
men OF moderate means their little homes,
filing the land with beggars, tramps and
criminslS2
He contended, and ably too, that the
trouble has grown out OF Congressional
legislation, touching government bonds,
coin, and currency. lie characterlzes
the decentralization Of silver as ian otielse
against God snd man.
To fortlfy his former declaration that
the depressed condition OF the country
grew out of the legislation OF Congress
hands and he
referred to the legislation OF the years
1869 10 1916, inclusive, and showed that
about two-thirds OF the indebtedness; OF
the country was represented by 5:2O
bonds, the principal OF these bonds being
PAYABLE in coin or lawful money ut the
pleasure OF the Government, and he
meant by lawful money the legal tender.
non-iuterest bearing notes commonly
called greenb backs. He contended that
with the affairs OF the government econ
omicaly administered, and the various
industries OF the country encouraged, that
debt could have been paid OF and 40 man
or section would have been distressed by
II; but the money power OF the country
couspired iCT their own gain and de-
manded otherwise, and Congress, IN an
evil hour. welded to that demand.
The first move Of the conspiracy was to
have passed an sct entitled, can act to
strengthen the public credit approved
MMrcn IS. 1868 The 5-2J bonds had
been purchased with grceubacks when
green backs were worth about fifty Ceuis
on the dollar. Tho act Of March Is,
1868, falsely declared that they were pay
able IN coin, and the immediate effect OF
the act was 10 enhance the value OF the
bonds to the extent OF $5OO,OOO,OOO, and
10 that extent the burdens OF the people
increased, and the bondholders were
benefited. He couteuGcl that If 1t was
true thst tho bonds were so payable in
coin, then there YVES no necessity for that
act but il it WAS not true, and they were
not so payabl', the ACT contalued false.
hood upon its face and operated as u
fraud and swindle upon the community.
The stand taken by Colonel Wilson
IN Congress in advocacy OF the repeal OF
the resumption act; the retention OF 5:lO
bonds IN green backs; the putting INTO
circulation OF over S4OOOOO,UOO more
currency than we now have; his indie
pendence IN the advocacy Of every ques-
ton calculated to smeiIorate the condition
of tie working classes; his ignoring eau
Gus dIctatlOn where the interests Of his
constituents aud the workingmen at large
were affected, should endear MIN to eV-
cry voter in the district, irrespective OF
party ties.
In speaking of the sensational stories
hn ,pnTinrn pf tho
press in West Virginia, relative to CON-
munism, he said hg desired "to repudiste
the idea that there was a COmmunistic
element IN his State. 1t is true that there
was an uprising last summer, and if the
epprehensions Of gentlemen are well
founded there may be similar uprlslngs
in the future; but these did not, and
would not, grow out OF any vicious desire
to reorgsnIze society, or to disturb or de-
s,roy the rights OF others. Such uprisings
rs have occurred, and such as may un-
fortunately hereafter occur, have been
and will be purely attributable to tho
sutierings Of the people. Such men rs
have struck, or may strike, for remuner
alive wages, have done and would do
no more than the millonslres of the
country would do If they were similarly
situated"
We are taught by the essays of Lord
Bacon, written three hundred years ago,
that OF all the rebellions known to man,
''The rebellion of the belly is the worst.
Fsnaticlsm may be sppeased, political
uprisings may be quoted, sectional dis.
cords adjusted, but 1.-The rebellion OF the
belly" knows no law, and will yield to
no compromise that does not satisfy the
cravings of hunger. Elevated states
manship wIil not Justify the Use Of force
to suppress "the rebellion of the belly"
The crack Of the musket is not the prop
er answer to the cry for bread; nor is the
plunge of the bsyOnet the remedy. Self
preservation is the first law of nature.
When q man is starving 1t is his God
given right to protest against the cause
of his distress. Whenever that distress
and suffering is produced by unwise legls-
laLion, gentlemen will find it to be u
costly, and sad mistake to use the army
against the sufferers. An army double
or quadruple the $40 of our present army
raised Tor this purpose would disappear
before al indignant people, rs frost be-
fore the morning SUI.
The action of Colonel Wilson, beyond
q doubt, renders him worthy the support
OF the Green back Labor Party. His
persistency in advocating the enactment
of such laws as would tend to better the
condition of the masses Of the people
should be recognized by the working
men in making him the congressional
nominee of the convention, thereby
showing that the new party mot formed
for the purpose of eIecting men to office
who cannot be elevated TO an official pc
sitjon by the party they have affiliated
with. By nominating Colonel Wilson
on the GreenbaCk platform oar success
will De n certainty. Let us show by our
actions thst We mean what we preach.
Let 70 dscord come between US that
will tend to Illustrate the success o. the
grand achievement we have started out
TO accomplish.
1t masters nothing to u', gentlemen,
under what banner candidate, or posi-
ble candidate, has had his political train