The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-16
Free silver ana Labor.

fairly make the welkin ring in their
noisy efforts to persuade labor that
single gold standard is its only
hope of prosperity, and that the
free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer would be disastrous to it all
along the line. They preach this
doctrine by the mouth of the rail
road president, who speaks as one
in authority, garland it about with
the rhetoric of snowy but empty
Cochran, whose Madison Square
Garden speech has forever blasted
his reputation for ability, and with
cred all faith in his honesty. But
strive MS they will by cunning arti-
fee and insolent power, the fact is
becoming painfully and certainly
apparent to them that the honestly
directed intelligence of tho laborer
himself has little difficulty in
snatching away the veil and expos
ing the rottenness and dead mems
bones behind.
What are the facts? Let us state
them by an illustration easily COM
pretended and applicable to every
section of the country and ramify-
ing every department of industry
and trade. 1t is admitted by every
body, not only by the Republicans,
but by the scarce money party it
self, that farm products have had
falling market since and under
the decentralization of silver; also
that they will experience a rise in
price in the event of the restoration
of that metal. Taking this then as
basis, it is easy to see the effect
of both systems upon labor of all
kinds. The one smonetization,
SCAM money, single standard, or
whatever you choose to call it, re-
duces the employment of labor to
minimum in many departments
of trade and absolutely and literal
ly destroys it in others; while the
other, that is, free and unlimited
coinage, increases prices, and i'll
consequence business activity, re-
sulting in additional and regular
employment everywhere.
Now for the proof: The farmer
can get so little for the products of
his farm under the present system
that he is compelled to postpone
the payment of the little bill he
owes the retail merchant. The re-
tail merchant, in consequence, and
on account of bad collections, is
compelled to postpone the whole
sale man, and the wholesale man
whose revenues are thus diminish
ed, countermands his order placed
with the factory. The factory, be-
ing thus left without orders, is
compelled to shut down, and turn
it's employees loose to shift for
themselves, and, after its doors are
closed and its fires eXtinguished, it
is no lnger consumer of coal, and
the next thing we hear is that the
output of the coal mines has di-
minshed or entirely ceased, while
the miners are engaged i'll reading
of the beauties of n single stand
ard. This is at once followed by
the transportation of less freight
over the lines of railway, the run
ming of n smaller number of freight
trains, and the employment of a
less number of mon in their ma
chine shops. And still labor is
told that it must, in its own inter
est, fight Democracy and free sill
yer. Such an invitation and effort
at deception would be criminal, if
there were the slightest hope of
success. But we believe that those
who extend it ure in the situation
of him who would spread pesti-
lence, but upon whom the warming
pustule is in plain view, and from
whom the people will flee as from
the wrath to como.
No Danger.
AS long as mortgaged man
keeps his interest paid up there isn't
much LIKELIHOOD of him being sold
out, either under gold standard
or free silver But the great dan
ger staring a mortgaged man in the
face, is that under continued gold
standard he will not be able to,
keep up the interest on his mort
gage, on account of the scarcity of
money and falling prices for farm