The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-27
OF VALUES.
Plain Business Truths Told by
Gen. R. A. Alger.
THE CAUSE OF ITAS CLEAR As day
A Convincing speeoh-Therc Is No
Such Thing as obscuring the Issues
in the Ohio OampaiGn-somo Object
Lessons That Arc Easily Understood
in These Democratic Times.

Taylor came up from Lebanon yester-
day and found q big crowd waiting at
the depot to greet them.
A tremendous crowd greeted the
speakers when tho hour Of tho meeting
arrived.
Gen. Alger deprecateS his powers as a
public speaker, but those who hear him
are always satisfied. He is not brill
liant orator, as such arc measured and
esteemed, but he is earnest in manner,
has most genial, fraternizing manner
and does not consume time in wordy
nothings as brilliant orators are wont
TO do. Everything that he aayo has Il
meaning, and he speaks convincingly,
dealing out solid information with u
bounteonsuess that professional speak
ers would condemn as prodigal; for he
delivers in q quarter OF an hour the os'
sence Of two.hour speech. II you ever
get 4 chance to hear him don't fail to
take advantage OF it. He is helping
Mckinley by his terae, practical, COM
mon sense talks.
Yesterday he spoke first and, after
some preliminary remarks, proceeded
TO say what he had to say. 1t was this:
"The gread cause OF the bread winners
is on trial to-day. The rich man whose
circumstances place him beyond the
mutabilities OF the times, can afford to
wait until the present uncertainty and
distress have abated before reaching
out, making new investments or start.
ing new mills, but the poor man out OF
employment, with his wife aud his chill.
dren asking for bread, cannot wait The
cause is on trial in this one district OF
the great court OF the nation.
''1he cause is being presented; the
attorneys are arguing it before you to-
day, and on the eth OF next November
you are to deliver your verdict; aud ii
that verdict is not in favor OF America
for Americana, ii it is not in favor of re.
storing our lost prosperity, il it is not
in favor OF the American farm and work
shop, then we might as well give up the
ship and go down with it.
~ have few figures as to the losses
that have already been sustained by
this country since the ascendancy oil
Democracy into national power In my
own State Of Michigan we can easily fig
ure loss OF Sl0O,O00,00O. You can go
over the country, frat to the state Of
New York and to the great city oil that
great state. There the fnanciers will
tell you that the shrinkage Of the value
Of securities has been more than 81 ,OOO,-
100000.
go to your farms, 90 to the products
OF your farms and note the decrease OF
the valuation OF them. Go to the man
ufactories and to the mines; you will
find that there has been greater loss
in value there than was sustained dur
ing the war. We little realize the enor-
NOUS aggregate OF the shrinkage OF val
ues until we look over the statistics OF
the country and SEQ where we stand to-
day.
I'm my own state the great iron mines
OF the northern peninsula and the great
iron mills in the southern peninsula
are nearly all idle. And what is true of
Michigan is true OF Ohio. used to live
in Akron, this state, before tho war, and
/ still have some interests there that
have shrunk in value during the last six
months not less than 20 per cent In
my own city OF Detroit We have 5000
men out Of employment, and God only
knows how they are going to get through
the coming winter.
'In Ohio you are to talk on this sub
joct, all OF you, on the 9TH ofNovember.
Everyone Of you will on that day take
tho platform, and we in Michigan want
to know whether you ere going to vote
for the change or whether you will vote
to reverse the order OF things and give
TO the man that employs men and the
bread.winners Themselves n chance
again. Loud cries Of "We'll do it. gem
eral."1 We know there is no question
OF the election of your governor, but it
is question as to what majority you
will give him. Don't give him q plural
iiy OF 5000, but give him 100000. and
we will take up the song and in 1894 We
in Michigan will carry on the grand
work commenced by you, and We will
finish 1t. Great applause.
"a concern in which ain interested
sold last week ON the docks in Cleve-
land, 10000 tons OF iron for s. 20 ton
that cost us 81 70 ton 10 deliver there,
and we were mighty glad thnt the
change did not take more than fifty.
six cents a ton away from us. II this
state Of things continues, II the fires
continue out the furnaces in the great
manufacturing centers, the iron ore
will not be worth the digging.
II had conversation with gentle
man In New York. whose name / hesi-
tate to speak for fear he might think l
had not been properly observant OF q
confidence, who is wealthy lie has
been in business in Michigan and New
York tor tho last sixty years, and has
accumulated fortune OF S5,000000.
lie said to me that having passed his
four score years he had put hrs accumu-
lations into securities so no could leave
them to his family and some charitable
institutions at his death.
ale told me that he had paid 5000
900 for these securities, which he had
placed in a safety deposit box in New
York city and that to-day those same
securities were not worth more than
S4OO0OOO. Gov. McKinley'wlll tell you
that II that man, who earned, by indus.
try and shrewdness, every dollar he
has. had invested his money in bonds
OF the United States government his
wealth would still have dwindled. for
even the bonds OF our government have
deprecated in valuessinee the Democra-
tic party obtained control Of the govern.
ment.
"of you men who will control tho
election next month, We ask that you
will render verdict by your votes that
will show us that Ohio has resumed her
old place"
There were nnsworingshouts OF "We'll