The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-04-10
THE ISSUE
In the MOmentOus Struggle OF the Next
Campaign VS.. Silver is
the War CRY.

hAH DO AN5oA NSN 90 bhO On PlOSoiOh
of the views of that great body of
silver men of whom the Senator is
an able representative.
The letter is addressed to Joseph
c. Hendrix, President of the Ma
tional Union Bank, New York.
Says the Senator:
81 hail the bold language that
you employ. 1 rejoice that your
position is Endorsed by the bankers
and gold press of New York. 1 am
glad that those for whom you speak
are at last willing to abandon their
tactics of fraud and cunning and do
battle for the classes in the open
field. If your language had been
employed in 1873 there would have
been no battle of the standards. If
you had told the people of the
United States twenty two years ago
last February that you would de-
stroy one half of the worlds money
by excluding silver from the minis
for the purpose of enhancing the
other half, and doubling the obliga
tions of contracts, no mar in either
House of Congress would have dared
to be a party to deceiving the Amer
lean people by smuggling q provis
ion in a codification law
DEMoNETIZING SILVER.
Every step that you have taken to
enhance the value of money and de-
preciate the price of property by
the destruction of silver has been
accomplished by the methods of de-
ception which you now condemn.
1t may be that the gold combina-
ton which you represent is strong
enough to throw off all disguise and
appropriate the earnings of the
masses by force without strategy.
l have known for many years of the
ombinations of the monarchs of the
old world with the gold trust on
both sides of the Atlantic to destroy
Democracy throughout the civilized
world by monopolizing the circu
lating medium, creating falling
prices, want and dependence. 1
have been aware of the union be.
tween hereditary aristocracy and
gold monopoly to reduce the masses
to subsection through misery and
want. had not supposed that the
combined forces of monarchy and
goldocracy were sufficiently conf
dent in their purpose and throw off
the mask. l did not know that
their contempt for American man
hood had made them so arrogant as
to suppose the people of this coun-
try would submit without a struggle
or that the people were sufficiently
impoverished to make resistance
TO THE GOLD POWER IMPOSSIBLE.
You have great advantages. Ev-
cry monarch and every money
changer of Europe is in your COM
bination. You have on your side
the allied banks of Europe and
America, the press, the telegraph
and the railroads controlled by the
banks. You have two great parties
one called Republican and the
other Democratic-and you control
the machinery of both.
But you overestimate the power
of gold monopoly, which on the sur
face seems omnipotent. You can
own everything but the people of
the United States. You have i'm
poverished them by deceiving them,
but you do not own them. Your
open declaration of war will be ac-
cepted. The gage of battle, which
you have thrown down, will be ia
ken up, and the question will be
settled in the campaign of 1896.
that's RIGHT.
Neither of the two old parties
has succeeded for the last II years
upon its own merits, but its success
bad depended upon the shortcom-
ings of its adversary. The reason
is you have controlled both parties
and made them instruments of fraud
and oppression until the names of
both have become q stencil in the
nostrils of honest men.
Change the name. Call it "Gold
party" and come forward to the
battle.
Your advice to let silver men
choose of their number will be fol-
lowed. Do not fail to follow your
own advice, to let the single gold
standard men choose of their num-
l.