Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-09-01

| in the White House he found the
| greatest over-production there ever was.
Il was this that caused mills and fac
tories 10 close and flood the country
with tramps.
This country is in a condition it has
not been N for many years, and the cap
| italists dealing in money, stock ana
bonds are more prosperous than ever,
while the laborirg man and the farmer
are suffering worse to-day than at amy
time in our history.
Since Inc laSC Confederate soldier laid
/ down his arms there has been no leg s
lation favoring the masses o. the psopie'
| and | think that if | can make matlerS
clear 10 my Republican friends mere
thew will with one accord rally about
William ]. Bryan, of Nebraska, the next
| grand republican President.
Mr.. Pendleton here went back to the
time of the close of the war and gave
. \ description of the legislation OF he
Republicans: how they made all their
bonds and the interest on tlem pay
able in gold. and by doing so almost
doubled the national debt. All foreign
money lenders discovered that this was
. country with vast resources and began
lending money here. Why, nearly every
railroad in the United States mas a
mortgage on it for its full value held Dy
the money kings OF Lombard street IN
London. You think the B. & o. and
Chic River roads are owned by people
of the United States. The money lend
era of Lombard street hold mortgages
on them.
Our western silver mines began to
open I'D and these foreign countries got
together and discussed the matter over.
The consequence was they sent man
Ernest Sacle-over here. He was
! here several months. 1t was
not long until John Sherman introduced
| a bill containing about 5000 words and
a clause demoneizing silver 1t was not
noticed by the President when he signed
| il. With silver struck down as money
YOU found yourself having to pay these
! foreign bondholders with gold. There
was another class benefited by the adop-
| ton of the gold standard and these were
| the men holding securities and stocks.
for if a silver dollar will pay the same
debt as a gold dollar, it is just as good.
! The free coinage Of gold and silver
means that all gold and silver shall be
coined side by side at a ratio of 10
ounces of siver TO one of gold, or BIN
grains Of pure silver in a silver dollar
| to % grains of pure gold in a gold dol
! lar. Al the same time you will have a
silver dollar equal to a gold dollar, and
they will range side by side. Gold will
not be boarded as it is to-day, but will
come out into circulation.
If American people desire to make
money tighter and times harder, you
will vote for a gold dollar, but if you
do kind act toward yourselves, you will
vote for the free coinage of silver and
see better times come before you.
The Republican platform says we will
coin silver soon as an international
agreement can be reached. It will
never be reached. for those countries we
owe will never consent to the free coin
age of silver when they can get gold in
payment for the bonds they hold. And
! here VIM Mckinley asks you 10 bow
! trle knee 10 England-a country to which
we demonstrated many years ago that
! we could run our own dHdlTS. ne
monopolis.s are leaving our party all
over the country, and you know from
that what party IS favorlng the masses
OF the peope say to you, be man,
fight for your homes and families strike
for the right. and when the sun goes
down on election day. though I am no
prophet, the American people will vo'-
the right way. and that will be for VIM.
Jennings Bryan.
During the entire speech tie ardor
and spirit Of the audience was shown by
the frequent bursts OF appause
Tonight Mr.. Pendle,On and Ross
/ Alexander will speak al Martins Ferry,
under the auspices Of the Bryan Bime-
tallic Club, and big time is expected.