The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1896-09-25
Arrx MrvsIcA MILLER.


$500 w = ~ :. Z. ~ -. - X Z
one 81 the Most Prominent Democratic
Leaders Resigns.
Mr.. Alex Mcveigh Miller Of Anderson
Is and has besn D member Of the Demo
cratic committee Of Greenbrier county.
He was elected q member Of that com
mittee In 1899 and was reelected this
year. He Is . resident OF Anderson for
over 20 years, Is o native Of this state
anda prosperous, enterprising business
man. He. can not stand Organism and
the New" Democracy and resigned his
position In the following forceful letter.
worthy Of being read and preserved;
ANDERSON, W. Va, Aug. 81, 1895.
DR.. 8. u. Austin, Chairman, Lewis
burg, w. Va.
ton as o member Of the Democratic Exc.
for the following reasons:
The Democratic platform. adopted ut
| Chicago, Is in favor Of the free and un.
yer into q legal tender dollar. am op.
posed 70 this. II the government has
the right 20 make So cents worth Of sill.
o dollar, and who knows how soon the
cents worth Of silver be made q legal
tender dollars II the mine owners were
acting in good fnith, they would ask to
have their silver coined into honest dol
lars. containing q dollars worth OF sill
yer. Instead Of this they have the gall
to ask the government to double their
q
of charge, TWO dollars out Of every one
dollars worth of silver they TAKE to the
mint. More than this they want the
government to say that every laboring
man, who agrees 70 do days work for
o dollar, shall be compelled to take as
his pay this 'trust.created 53-cent dollar.
The laboring men alone will defeat
this great swindle when they come to
realize that they ore being used by the
silver trust 10 perpetuate this great
fraud on them. /. am opposed to free
coinage because no country. on o silver
basis, has ever prospered as has ours on
q sound money basis. All the most en-.
Gghtened countries Of the world are on
sound money basis. and in all Of them
wages are higher than in the silver
standard countries. Yet in the silver
countries the necessaries Of life are oil.
most double. The free coinage Of silver
will benefit no one but the silver miners
of the west, who represent one Of the
most gigantic monopolies the world has
ever seen, the aggregate wealth being
$545. 000, 10000. In all silver countries
the rate Of interest is very much higher
than in sound money countries. In
England money is only worth from 9
TO a per cent, while in free silver na-
hqns the rate is from 10 to 10 per cent.
am opposed to free silver, because In
all silver standard countries gold does
not circulate, but Is driven out of the
country by silver.
II we adopt free silver, ut the ratio of
10 to l. we drive out Of circulation
5000, 200, 900 in gold, which is about one.
third of all our money. This is the
opinion Of our best financiers.
To replace this with even, 5S-cent dol.
lars, 1t would require from six to ten
years OF silver mining with the mints
running night and day; and long before
this gold could be replaced by cheap sill.
yer every debtor in this broad land
would be financially ruined, for money
would be SO scarce It would be iinpossi.
BILE to get enough to pay our debts.
All creditors would be trying to coll
lect ut the same time, and no one will.
ing to loan. There is no doubt that i'm.
mediately after the election Of Mr.. Bryan
Iii we should be SO unfortunate as to
elect him) there would commence the
worst financial panic the world has ever
seen, In which thousands OF business
men would be ruined, and the laborink
man would have to face priyation and
want for himself and his family.
Factories would be closed and the
country flooded with unfortunate men
begging bread. In manufacturing and
mining districts. where thousands de.
pend upon their daily labor for q living,
there would be bread riots in which the
women and children would be the great.
est sufferers.
II the wage earners ind debtors Of
this country could but see the mine of
rnin and disaster beneath their feet.
to which they are about to apply the
match, they would flee from 1t (free sill.
ver) as they would from pestilence,
death or hell. Why should the people
OF the East and South be anxious to
make millionaires of the Western silver
mine owners, when the West has al
ready ruined our markets with her
cheap grain and meats? Making mil.
lionaires Of the mine owners will not
help US to compete with the cheap prod.
ucts of the West.
Twas told by Democratic politician
OF this county q year ago that we must
have something besides tariff to catch
votes this fall, and that free silver was
the best thing we could get. Is il pos.
sible that our people can be hoodooed
into voting for Mr.. Bryan by this cry of
cheap money, raised by the mine own.
ers, and echoed by the place hunters
and oflice-seeking demagogues Haven. /
we already had four years of hard time s
in place of the great prospeassy promised
us by the frce-wool, taritf-reforminS
politicians, who now want to stop talk.
ing tariff and free trade and raise the
cry of free silver? The Philadelphia
Times, an able Democratic paper, has
the Chicago platform in nutshell like
this: They propose free trade. free
silver. free riot and free hell"
must, my dear sir, ask to be excused
from helping to bring this great calam.
! ity on our country. Very respect.
fully, ALEX. McyEIaH MILLER.
VERMONT HAS SPOKEN.
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