Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-09

| the nearly four years OF the mckinley
tariff which we have just passed
through. That time, which HARRISON
appropriately has called the slough Of
despond," was one Of depression,
strikes, lockouts, reductions Of wages,
war on organized labor and finally act
ual business panic. In the first two
years of McKinleyism there were Zoo
strikes, lockouts and wage reductions.
Can it be that the InteItigencer has for
got such recent history? Labor hasn't
forgot it.
1t is proposition so simple as to be
by this time a veritable truism, that a
tariff cannot have any effect upon wages
except to lessen their purchasing power,
where trust by means of the tart # has
been enabled to artifically enhance
prices. and that wages are governed
wholly and solely by the memorable law
of supply and demand. Were it other
wise wages would not have decreased
while the tariff was being showed higher
and higher at the Lehest Of the trusts,
nor reached the lowest point under the
highest tariff in the world. 1t is no
longer possible to fool labor on this
point, and the ENtClHgencGr would better
be saving over its conscience, if it
possesses one, than further irritating it
By repeating campaign falsehOods that
were abandoned several years ago as
fat, stale and Improbable.
Silver decentralization, as Mr.. Pol
LOCK points out, also has its full
share to answer for OF this down
ward trend of wages, of farm
values and of prices OF the farmers
commodities, and the IntelJigencer can
not get away from, nor befog the fact
by crying free silver" The people, the
farmers particularly, are not getting
frightened at that cry anymore 1t
taxes its place on the shelf with the
absurd old free true" scarecrow. In
fact "free silver has decidedly at.
tractiVe s3and to d very large and
growing number of people and it is a
most ticklish subject with the politi-
clans, Out west MCKINLEY has been
doing his level best to pose as a free
silver man and the other day to a
western audience actually took on an
Apologize tone regarding the repeal of
the Sherman act and blamed it on the
Democrats, which was true MCKINLEY
is quick to note the direction of the wind
and to trim his sails accordingly. As to
debaSed or inflated currency the Intel
LigerlCer should read the platform of its
party in Pennsylvania and the Republi-
can platforms in a good many other
States. 1t will find Republican money
planks that out-PefTer PETER. Our
neighbor should brush up on these fine
political points. 1t is decidedly danger
Gus for it to go pitching into free sill
yer in its present reckless fashion for
we should not be at all surprised IL
poll showed majority for straight out
free silver, without any trimmings in
tBe. way Of coinage ratio, ADD tisdODars
silverites to-day would be found wear
ing the ReDublican badge
Mr.. POLLOCK and the Democratic
party and the people regardless OF
party, outside of the bondholders and
money kings Of the East are unani-
mously for the money of the Constitu-
ton, which declares unequivocally that
our money shall be gold and silver"
And did the Constitution call for "de-
based currency" as the InteLligencer
puts it? To-day the only money we
have, which we can make sure OF is
gold. And who has the gold? Not the
people. They have the silver, which Is
worth but soc in the worlds market,
because silver is not recognized as q
money metal with gold, but as COM
modify. Hence. the money kings, the
gold owners, have their money doubled.
Every one OF their dollars equals two OF
the PEOPLES silver dollars and they con-
troll the money market at will. 1t is
not so long since these gold bugs had
the United States Treasury at their
mercy and compelled another bond
issue, though the Treasury vaults were
overfowing with silver.
1t is this thing which Mr.. POLLOCK
and the people generally, regardless OF
party, cry out against. They demand
the return Of silver to its proper place
as a money metal. as provided by the
Constitution of our fathers. 1t a grow
ing demand that comes from no party
in particular, but from all the people,
and the lntelligepccr would better be-
ware how it ashes out against IL and
stigmatizes the true money OF the Con-
stitution as DECEASED currency" One
half of our currency could hardly be
more debased than the decentralization
of silver has made IL.
AS we have before stated, however,
the difficulty with the Inteuigcncsr is
II does not know what it is talking
about. while Mr.. POLLOCK is thorough
| " familiar with his subject.