The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-03
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is not fair sailing in the Republican
camp, on the silver question we
publish the following editorial from
"The Emporium" Republican
newspaper published in Kansas
This editor has evidently not yet
heard of that Republican unanimity
for the gold standard; and while he
mixes religion and politics in a way
that should make the spirit of the
Rev Cotton Mather turn green with
envy, yet he don't take kindly to
the Wall Street idea of financial
system.
"Three thousand and eight hund.
red years ago, according to the BIZ
BILE, Abraham weighed to Ephron
"four hundred shekels of silver, cur
rent money with the merchant for
field with a cave in which to bury
Sarah. Did old Abraham pay Eph-
ron in dishonest money? The bible
don't say SO. On the other hand
the bible clearly recognizes silver as
honest money, equal with, if not
preferable, to gold. The bible says
Abraham, who was man of God
was every rich in cattle, in silver
and in gold" The bible does not
discriminate against silver. 1t has
been reserved to the ungodly at the
close of the 10Th Countrywide days
of avarice-to shut out the light of
the bible and destroy silver as one
of the money metals of the world.
The next most sacred writing is the
constitution of the United States.
1t recognizes silver as the equal of
gold. 1t prohibits any state from
making anything but gold and sill
yer a legal tender in payment of
debts" 1t don't say "gold," but it
does say "goId and silver. By the
legislation of 70 and on down to the
present time the bible has been ig.
nored and the constitution disre.
garded by CONSCIOUSNESS set of men,
infinitely worse than Tom Payne.
Tom Payne, although an arch inf
del, was true patriot. "When the
wicked rule the people mourn" By
the observance of the bible and the
constitution of the United States the
people can be made to rejoice.
There was, probably, more silver in
the days of Abraham in proportion
to population than there is today.
But even rich old Abraham did not
ask to have it demonetized. If the
country had been on an exclusively
gold basis, at the time it is doubtful
If Abraham could have bought a
burial place for his wife, as there is
no business transaction of his going
to show that hereally ever had any
gold, but he did pay for the field in
shekels of silver
"However, we will not deny that
he was erich in cattle, in silver and
in gold" We know he had the sill
yer and as that was the equivalent of
gold in those days, in purchasing
power the words "silver and gold"
were evidently interconvertable and
Synonymous terms. The silver men
stand on the bible and the constitu.
ton, They do not wish to drive
gold out but they do wish to drive
silver in and makes the laws of the
country harmonic with the bible
and the constitution. The country
is drifting into the condition in
which it was found when Christ
overlhrew the money changers; and
so, the silver men have both the old
and new testament as a guide in the
contest with the infidels. 1t will not
do to say that conditions have
changed. If there are more people
and greater volume of business
there is the greater need of more
money and if we must have
more money is it not better to have
silver rather than wild cat or fat pa
per? Better unite on silver before the
people become desperate and go to
an extreme on the money question.