The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-09-23
WHEELING vEDSFsDAY
GENERAIIl HARDIN.


OF iStntuthy. presrh,sa Free SILVER Ser
mon II Arion Hail TO q i.argc Audle,,re.
something OF iiis Peculiar Ltne orAr,
gunisnt. . i so " l N "
Gen. +. wat Hardin, defeated two
years ago for governor Of Kentucky BY,
Gen. W.T. o. Bradley, held forth 10 the,
silver Democrats last night In Arion hall.
THE hall was well flllsd With q crowd cue
irlous TO hear the free silver argument
presented. The burden or General Har-
idIn's speech was that we need more
metal, silver (, OF course. He IL an clo-
i1uent speaker, but on the issue at stake
Us not a convincing speaker. Il
The meeting was D, have been an
open air one on the Island. but the In
element weather forced the change 10
Arlon hall, a carriage containing the
speaker. DR.. i. Z. Myers, Mr.. T. M. Dar--
jrah and Mr.. w. O.. HAndlan was escorted,
by tho Young Mems Democratic club
and the Bryan and Sewall club. These
clubs did not show UP strong. on an ac-
!tual count, "a men were IN the former.
and SO In the latter. These were the
only men In line. A brass band headed
the escort Gen. HardInwas introduced
by the chairman. DR.. u. c. Myers, land
his speech, substantially I. follows:
Standing by the beautiful stream
flowing by your doors, ask whence
comes this stream2 It.cumes from the
kraindrops OF heaven. It Is no less TRUE
that the stream OF wealth flowing to tile
manufacturers come from the producers
of this wealth. When these PRODUCERS
received enough for their product they
had enough to purchase from the manu-
factories Of the country. And unless
you restore prices adequate to tho farm
ers for their labor you can't add to The
purses. of thes manufactured. II our
manhood has to be surrendered we
don't deserve to be called free. Manu-
facturers are telling and commanding
thtlr employees to vote for Mckinley.
This Is unjust, and II hurts me to think
by their employers.
II ask your patient attention why
favor more money. u appeal to your
reason alone. We should cast aside pre-
1udlce and let reason ,rule. There Is
nothing In this world that exchanges for
something else that the law OF supply
and demand does not regulate. No po-
$lltical economist denies this. The law
7 OF supply and demand Is as Inevitable o
law as that OF gravltatlon. 1t deter
mines the exchange value Of money.
John Sherman and John c. Carlisle adj
nit this truth. Therefore. destroying
silver, YOU double the value OF gold.
Blaine admitted this. The number Of
money units in circulation determines
the. value OF money. II political econo-
mists and history deny, this, I'll not only
ngree to vote for Mckinley but even for
Mark Hanna.
mo historian ever said a country was
injured by having too much OF both
metals. All history shows that when
the precious metals grew scarce, there
was not too much money. In q case like
that the Shylocks tried to absorb all the
money. YOU must increase the volume
OF our money. ~. 4,
You protectionists understand the
law OF supply and demand. 1fyou In.
crease the supply Of goods at home, your
prices go down, as you well know. All
classes oflab0r know that when the sup
ply Is great and the demand little, wages
must come down. z v
We all understand this law OF supply
and demand. Our gold bug friends tell
US 1t Is over-productlon that brought sill
yer down. 1t Isn't because You produce
more than men need; but more than men
buy or can buy. The meanest thing the
gold bugs say Is that the more you pros
duce the poorer you get. tits not over
production to what people want, but
overproductlon to what they can buy.
Our railroad corporations are bonded.
They We're given grants OF land to
open our western territory. Then rail-
road facilities a
OF the mines. Don't you think they
know how over-production came about
when they closed those mines In 1873?
They wanted tolcut OF one-half of the
worlds redemption money. They want
ed to wipe out the creditor class and aid
the debtor class. There Is O money In
terest always ready TO make their CAPT.
tai represent more value f5,Si
Il want to answer some OF the sophist-
ries presented by our opponents. say
we have not too much silver until you
restore the relation 1t bore to this law Of
supply and demand. We owe six, billion
dollars to Europe. This must be paid
by your labor and products. As our
products are decreasing In price every
year, some day we Will have to pay
Europe double. T.. .!
Time contracts are common. Out OF
|st'NsS DIV by
time contracts we multiplied our indebt-,
edness to England and other European
countries. Money measures all proper
ty. A dollar cannot change. There Is
no analogy between dollar and a yard !
stick. We have o model yard-stick Sc
inches long. at Washington. It Is the
unitiof measurement. We have model
dollar at Washington at the mint, but.
the government doesn't allow the people
to use 1t. The government will meas
ure q quantity Of your cloth by the yard
stick, but will not measure your metal
by Its dollar. So there is no analogy
VALUE is snid to be intrinsic. i say It
Is eXtrlnslc. .can't measure a dollar
unless / measure 1t by something else.
Apples, for instance. as compared with
potatoes, have no Etendy ratio. There
Is no such n thing as intrinsic value.
Value Is a relation. "a horse, a horse!
My kingdom for horse!" cried Richard.
Why the kingdom? Because the de-
mand was great.
"Whcn was there a panic by increas-
Ing the volume of money? Why is want
of confidence feared? Because they
don't know how high money will 90, thor
how low property will fall. & II lay my
money In vault and It increases 10 per
cent In n year, that pays me better than
IL invested 1t In property. S.
IF such n thing is possible as a so
cent dollar, there must also be a 200