The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-19

for four wears to como, and by the same
suTraee and nj the same time, to choose
n national house of representatives, VINO
ehall have control for two years 10
come Of the important legislation 1
this vast country. This suffrage snoIIu
be free and fearless; should be lnde-
pendent and fair. u;ia
not a government by the people Il lof
all the people. .b;s
government is no what our fathers IN
tended it should be. 1t should be 2
government based upon the consent Of
all the governed and a rightful use ana
exercise fits great privileges. mo- only
by intelligent, but OF conscientious cit-
zens be united for its conservation
THE CITIZENS DUTY.
There is no moro important duty
resting upon tho citizen than the use
OF q suffrage in the interest oil what nc
believes is best for his own home ana
for his own country. But he can
make this suffrage effective except
through onesor the other oil Inc great
carbohydrates of the nation, tor either
the Republican or the Democratic party,
will this year be clothed with federal
control, and a vote given in any other
direction is 4 vote in tho air, ana Is
thrown away. Besides that, we cannot,
as individual citizens, expect to preside
over any national legislation or any M.
tional administration; and the only.
Way we can make our convictions oil
public questions and OF public admins
trations at all effective, is through one
: OF the great political parties OF the ma
ton. ,..
II Ia because We must use p%oIitica!
parties to embody our purposes ana
our views in public laws, that am mere
today to address the people touGnihg
the differences between tho Republican
and Democratic parties, as well as TO
discuss the purposes OF both as
pressed in their latest platform utter
ances. You can only judge OF what
party will do, eitheriby what 1t has
done in the past or by what 1t proposes
TO do in its official and authoritative ut
terances, given inthe platforms OF the
conventions OF the parties, and pro-
pose to-day not to try the Republican
or Democratic parties by what they
have done in the past, but what they
propose TO do in the future.
II is enough for all OF us to
know that whatever OF good either
the one or the other OF these
parties have done for the coun-
try is assured to all Of us. 1t would be
both pleasant and profitable for me, as
q Republican, to call your attention to
the splendid achievements OF tho Re
publican party oftthe past, but it is not
my purpose here to-day to do so;
need only to say that there has been no
action by the Republicans IN the past
thirty years that has not been in the
interestDof1the people, and therei is not
any patriotic citizen who would not
sanction it or any lover Of his country
who would not give it his approval.
No, not N [Applausel.
TWO STRIKING HING
There,are Two striking, indeed aston
fishing things, in the National Dem
ocratic'platform.of1S02 The first one
is its bold utterance in favor OF the
British doctrine of free trade and the
other one is.itsmo less bold declaration
in favor ola ten per cent tax upon state
bank circulation.
You will remember that during the
war the Congress of the United States
imposed,a ta1,of ten per cent upon all
state banks that had tho power to issue
circulating money. The purpose of that
tax was not to raise revenue, but it was
forthe purpose'of retiring such banks,
and substituting in their place national
money. 1t had the desired effect. No
state bank could continue in business
that was subiect.to the tax OF 10 per
cent, andgth Congress OF the United
States, without any c%oncealment i'm
posed that 40 per cent tax upon state
banks for the purpose OF destroying
them. WeShad q nation to save, and 1t
Required national assistance to do it, 1t
was, done, and that national money is
what We have in. circulation to-day.
Tits proposed now, alter thirty years, to
Teincorporate these. old banks; to give
chem lifesand vitality, and to give them
power ASA circulating medium for the
country.
PERHAPS IT WAS STATE RIGHTS.
have never been enabled to discov-
or from any source why this PROPOSE
ton was,made. l can imagine no rea.
con, unless it is that old feeling which
existed for so many years, that the
states were better than the nation-but
the people have learned that the war
meantsomething and that'this is a ma.
ton and not a confederacy Of states.
i(Applause.) There are many young
men in this audience who never saw a
state bank. They went out before they
came in, and with the experience the
older men have had they may be
thankful it was the case. Some one
hands me one OF those old notes. Under
the state bank circulation we had
as many kinds of notes rs
we had states in the union. Every
state fixed its own regulation and fixed
the security which was to be given by
the state banks MS q condition to their
issuance of money.
DANIEL WEBSTER IN WHEELING.
Sixty years ago last May Daniel Web
ster spoke in the city of Wheeling, and
for all 1 know he may have spoken on
this very ground, but wherever he was
this is what he said them His speech
was made on the 18th of May, 1887.
Speaking ofstate banksthis is what no
saws;
'These banks lie under no restraint
from the general government or,any of
Its institutions, and uses paper money
corresponding to their own n OF
their immediate interests and hopes Of
gain. l believe, gentlemen, that this
experiment Of state banks must fall