The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-03-05

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decided another way, would simply leave
the people to seek their own interests and
pursue their enterprises on the broad plat
form OF political equality and general law.
1t Is, therefore, not matter Of surprise
that the intelligent majority oil which l
have spoken should be composed Of the
best elements Of those other parties, who
have felt themselves compelled to stand
by the Constitution as it is, by the States
as intregal parts OF that Constitution, and
by the liberties OF the people, which can
only survive as these others survive.
Nations that are known TO US are only
prosperous in the large aCcumulatlons OF
individual wealth. Railroads are the great
ciVilizing agencies Of this age OF the world.
AS q nation we have more than any other
nation; snd as State we would be greatly
benefited by more OF them. They de.
velop all the industrial pursuits OF the
people, open up unbroken forests, exca-
vste the mountains for their minerals,
build immense establishments, and keep
the world busy. AS result our manu-:
featuring system, in proportion to our
population, is the largest and most tlonr.
ishing in the world; our agricultural in.
terests cover larger area OF cultivation
than any other space belonging to one
people on tho globe. Along with these
we have a corresponding increase OF that
population whose sole or main capital
Is their daily labor. No other people
OF the world have the same amount oil
population, with the same amount Of In.
telIigence and skill, and work OF brain
and hand go devoted to all the pursuits Of
life. Thanks to our Tree government and
our system OF common schools. It lis for
the welfare OF all these people that our
government Ia in existence, and 10 PEI.
petuate that form Of government which has
produced all these results In 30 short pc.
Rod OF history, and conferred these bles.
sings on such numbers 1t Is vastly i'm.
portant that our principles should he
clearly stated, our measures vel matured
by looking to all interests, and that our
energies be fairly and fully directed, and
above all that the government OF which
these are the legitimate fruits should be
preserved In that form and spirit which
has produced such fruits.
Believing that these views are Charac.
terlstlC oil the majority OF the people OF
West Virginia, | am grAtihed In having
been called to hold the most prominent
official position as the States representa-.
tive. Ispeak Tor those who have no capital
but their labor. l speak for the capitalists
who employ their means TO give oCCupa'
ton and support 10 those men, speak
for that great class OF our farmer popula.
ton who must unite their labor and their
moderate capital for the support Of their
families, and In the production Of food
and textile material wood, flax and hemp)
and who contribute so largely to al other
industries by the consumption Of tho pro-
ducts Of the mechanics and the manu-.
faClurers OF all kinds; that taxation shall
be kept as near as possible to the minimum
that no one class Of our people shall be
sacrificed to another, and that all shall
bear the burthens Of government in just
proportions.
Although speak oil minimum taxation,
| do not mean niggardly system, that
will sacrifice great interests, whether con.
neCted with material prosperity or our In.
teleGtual and moral standing among our
sister commonwealth.
AS the subject oil the currency entered
somewhat into the late canvass, | may be
pardOned for referring TO II here.
In the National Constitution provision
was made for a solid and substantial
money. CurrepCy comes from ingenious
devices 10 eVade and 80 far nullify the
Constitution and supplant money by pa.
per, which can be contracted and expand.
ed In volume to suit the designs and pur.
poses Of capitalists, who have their own
ends Of aulassng veal tn In view, or TO suit
the more dangerous designs OF an ambi.
tioua and interruptions administration, by
contraction, Withholding bread from the
laborer aud teaching him subservience,
and by expansion teaching him venality;
by contraction sacrificing all men who
have incurred debts to capital, and who
In depleted currency are not able 10 pay;
and by expansion or initiation (hiling with
wind) again increasing prices, and ena.
bling the same capitalists to sell at high
prices, what they had taken from their
miserable victims by the contraction. So
this contraction and initiation Affects the
tariff, until Il is very grave question
tvheihcr Nth this and other causes, projection
does protect.
II q tariff Is laid when there Ia q con.
traction OF the currency, and the price
OF materials down, and labor Is cheap, and
All initiation oil the paper currency Ia made
or takes place, new tariff becomes an alb.
solnte necessity.
We can see that those who have control
Of the paper currency have the whole
issues OF lie and death, as It were, not
only to the industries OF the country,
but oil the ContraCtions which place
the property OF millions Of our
fellow.citizens at the mercy OF these
men. We can SEQ that with green.
back currency there never can be pro.
teCLive tariff any six months together, and
that all these other evils will be intensely
aggravated by such power over the cur.
renoy. The Constitution provides for
money, not currency. Money, like the
waters OF the ocean, seeks common level
over the whole world, and 10 the extent
that any nation furnishes currency as q
substitute for money, the money so
displaced from circulation will seek
It's level In some other country
where II Is needed, and where there
Ia no currency 10 exCludeit. The country
with the largest amount OF enterprise and
industries oil oil kinds, with the least pro.
portlonal amount OF currency will have
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least lluctuatiOn In business, and the most
permanent prosperity. And this Ia the
very spirit Of the Constitution, aud comes
the nearest 10 representing the Democratic
idea OF q Republican Government. With
the Democratic party money--moaey as The
solid and permanent basis Of all Of our
great operations is a principle. With the
Republican party II Is measure only, but
II is measure by which they can move
all those springs Of action and make
whom Il will and destroy whom II pleases
Of those who commit tlleir business and
their lives TO its contraCtions and inaa.
tons.
Republics are only safe with an eduCa
ted people. instruction az distinguished
from education, which is so largely given
by some OF The European Empires makes
but machine men for The use oil the gov.
eminent, In such governments they will