Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-09-13

of the dollar has increased, and debts
have bsen doubled The wealth. Of the
country has been transferred into the
hands Of few, and yet, according to
the Republican doctrine, everything is
TO be measured by gold.
O The Republicans say they will gst
rid OF the gold standard. But when?
When England and Germany and
It will get rid OF il at once, and without
the consent Of any one. applause.
You will nsver get an international
agreement, fer it is not TO the interest
Of Great Britain, Germany or France
to have one. Never while the sun
shines, grass grows or water runs will
England consent to The free coinage Of
silver. II is our duty 10 protect our
selves, and avail ourselves Of Inc
money metals God has given us, and so
the Democratic party said a Chicago
that if you elect Bryan they would coin
all the gold and silver that could %
dug from the hills and the mountains,
at a ratio Of sixten to one.
l have heard a gret deal as to the
effect Of This from Republicans. They
say il will be a cheap and a appreciated
currency, but they don't tell YOU why.
They give you no solid reason. The
other day | was surprised, in Wheeling,
to hear a great Republican orator say
what I had held for 2 long time, and
that was. that the American silver dol
lar American gold dollar and the
American green5ack were equally good
the world over. ! always held that.
hut the cher d8v Senator ThurstCn-
and you will see II in the Wheeling In
telligsncer-said That was trUe-th2.
the silver dollar was as good in France
or Germany, or Great Britain as here a.
home That is fact The American
silver dollar viii buy Just as much in
the markets OF the world as gold. The
C,.sr day a Republican friend said 70
me: How is Il that a silver and q gold
dollar are worth 1C0 cents, but if you
melt the gold dollar up ii Will still be
worth 100 cents. while if you melt a
silver dollar u1 It will only be worth
SO cents?" l said: do you know
why the gold is worth a
dollar? Il is because yCu can
take it to the mint and have It coined
into a dollar again, but The silver, the
moment ii leaves the shape and form OF
a dollar is only lump silver, and The
law don't permit re TO have il coined
over again. If il did, it would be worth
Just rs muCA as the gold. and that IS the
trouble | said to him: Suppose
England. and France, and Germany al
csmoneJized gold and said i. should no
longer b coined, and then You melted
gold dollar up What would IL be
worth? Simply what it would be worth
ss metal for use in the ar.s. and silver
would double in value, iusr as gold has"
And he had to admit tina, that was
true
They say that silver is deprecated
currency. | want 10 tell YOU that SIX
teen ounces Of silver. while being coined
into money. was never worth less han
an ounce Of gold. Mr.. Poadleton here
quoted history to prove this fact Pro-
ceed.Ig he said:
What has deprecated silver. Il is
now only used in tho ar,s. l. IS no
longer redemption money, Is IL used q
be. But restore 10 silver It's oil power
and coin it again and declare by law
that 1t shall have the same value as
god, and wher. is the fool who Will sa,.
you an ounce OF silver for 50 cents?
Where is he, un.ess he is some Republ:-
can jackass, who don't know what he
is talking about. (Applsuse) They
tell ne that when We declare for free
silver people will buy up 50 cents worth
of silver and have it coined into a dol
lar? Il is preposterous. Silver will %
up. and Il Mr. Mckinley would 50
through Mexico from the north 10 the
south ne could not buy an ounce Of sill
Yer for less than We have declared it is
worth.
Mr.. Pend,eton then explained what is
meant by the free coinage Of silver, and
followed this by a very lucid eXplana-
ton os what would follow the remOne-
tization Of silver. On this topic he
said:
/ know William Mckinley personally,
and he has. time after time, voted in
favor of the Bryan policy and has
worked for silver. and never did he dare
to lift that voice Of his against silver
until Mark Hanna, with the dollar
marks all over his body, took him TO
the top of high mountain and showed
him the White House in the dim dis
lance. and told him that he could never
get the Republican nomination for the
Presidency until he recanted the faith
of a lifetime
Mr.. Pend,eton closed with a brilliant
peroratio1, and was cheered to the
pchO