West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-10-23

PeoPlc ~ sAt.fO per capita, Wniic ~ Is
but S2.72 per capita with US. With more
silver products than all the world beside.
the people of the United States are de-
handing fair play for silver money and
The assistance and stimulus Of its unlimit-
cd coiH,ge and circulation. With all the
sncers and calumpies that have been
heaped upon 1t, gold can buy no more in
the markets than silver. and can carry it's
aristocratic head no higher than the dol
lnr Of the fathers. The adoption Of the
free coinage of silver will mark an era Of
prosperity TO the American farmer and to
all the industrial classes.
Fourth. Another measure Of relief for
the embarrassment and depression of
agricultural interests and the disturbance
oil their markets should be the prompt en-
aetment OF laws, either by Congress or by
the States, or by both, Furnishing with
States prison imprisonment those who
speculate on the great food products of
the world ana gamble on their future
prices, without ever having owned a
bushel Of corn OF wheat, or q pound of
beef or pork, or of any other commodity
which they assume to buy and sell. This
is an interference with the honest, legiti-
mate trade of the farmer which should be
made y felony, ard punished as such
Fifth. To the foregoing proposition in
the interest Of the farmer i would add q
liberal policy of pensions aud full and
generous recognition of those who served
their country in the hour of peril. Money
paid in pensions TO the soldiers is not only
a benefit and blessiDgto him and those who
are dear 10 him, but also TO the produce
dealer, the merchant, and TO all within
the range of its circulation. But for the
large sums which for years have been dis
bursed by the Pension Office and thus
reached nearly every neighborhood in the
United States and gone into general circu-
iation the present financial crisis amongst
the farmers aud laborers would have
come at an earlier day. As beneficial
measure, therefore, to all, as we'll as a
| duty of the most sacred character, the SOL
dier should be paid by his Government as
one who was willing to die for his Gov
eminent. On that lofty basis his equities
are without limit, and justice should at
all times stand ready TO enforce them.
THE WORK ASD THE FATE OF REFoRMERs
Mr.. President, those who have
sought to reform the enormous
abuses growing out of consolidated
wealth, legalized evarice and educated
rapacity, have in all ages been met
with the most vindictive, unsparing and
sanguinary hostility Of which history
makes any record in the affairs of men.
Those who have invaded the seats O {
ancient wrong and disturbed the enjoy
nent Of privileged oppression, have. in
every era of human progress been assailed
as enemies of law and order, seeking to
break down the safeguards of society; as
agltators, fre-brands, iconoclasts and
traitors to their government.
Evils which have grown venerable and
hoary in plundering the toiling masses of
mankind have always been upheld by
caste and aTistocracy, whether in council.
debate, or by the steel clad hand of war;
or by the CHASTITY gibbet. 1t was the aw-
lul depunciation of the mighty Nazarene
hurled against those who were ''full of
extortlon and excesso rather than the
preaching of new dispensation which
inspired the accusations before Pontius
PLATE; and those who followed Him with
bltterest executions and most inselent
triumph to his death agony on the cross
were the usurers, the money changers, the
accursed plutocracy of Judea. And from
that great hour to this the resentment of
chronic and corrupt riches, intrenched be-
hind accumulated laws and constructions
has known no bounds at the intrusion of
the reformer. IT has been the most en-
venomed and merciless sentiment ever
known to infest and pcllute the human
soul.
Ao NDiOob SthtcoIldn ana inc DrOQCeSt
philanthropists have not been spared
when found, in any age or In any part of
the globe, laboring to reform the abuses
of concentrated wealth. John Bright led
the column of reform for the repeal Of the
corn laws OF England, laws imposing tariff
duties on the importation Of corn into
Great Britain, thereby protecting the
landed aristocracy in selling their corn at
high prices to the laborinz classes. who
were com PEELED TO have it or starve. He
took the side OF Justice to the working
people AZ against the proprietors OF vast
estates, and recent writer says:
For many years Mr. Bright was assalled inces
rtneor, and as an inCendary agitater Who provoked
TIE poor 20 regard Ia. rich with envy Jealousy and
,trOy all those ancient las tituons which had made
enemies II his countey; 80 4 traitoy Who srsd ,ob
ing f,r her safety aid honor Now shat The s.ornieet
Whit bitterness AID passion even those Who were
vas sa psSs lHs pa may By sss nat i
been regarded ~ a. retOlutOuist. H0r during tie
greater r Of his political c he was the strenuous
ailant Of laws and installations v hich we're orc
tesitl ~ the neres- ~ ths asctioas, BY Tie con-
most powerful classes in the state lie became S,s
tie corn iaS He si'd 5of l ~ ne attae.ed
AZ economically indefeisOle. denounced them a.
Thomas Jefferson, more than hundred
I
laws Of primogeniture, the laws Of entail.
and the union Of church and state. and as
consequence was painted - q Jacobin
and atheist, an enemy 20 God end man.
by the orders Of privileged society. and
by the same powerful classes which after
wards 20 deroely sought the destruction
Of the great British Statesman and re-
former 40 one need suppose that the
same rule viii not prevail now. The
tariff Trf0rmers Of the United States in
the present crisis will encounter q hos
tility illed with al the wiekednoss. cor.
ruption, and mal0vOlence which more
than $500, 900, 600 y year as q clear rob.
berry from the IsoPle, and a clear bonus
TO procur monopoly, can inspire.
All that money can do 10 subsidize the
press and 81 its columns with false arQu.
Dients, false statements and false aceuso.
tious against tariff reform and tariT re-
formers will be done; All that corruption
funds can do IN carrying elections by We
nal blocks Of Eve, and in thus defeatinQ
the advocates Of honest and equal taxa
ton, viii BE- accomplished and ali the
arts Of intimidation On one hand, aud al
Turing seduction on the other in the be-
stowal Of Office and the distribution Of
Official patronage will be res0rted to. in