The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-07-17
CARLISLE, Five Points on Money.

Cariislc's Five Points on Money.
Happy Is the man who can say great
deal In few words. and boil down his
facts and figures into real nuggets OF in
formation. The average reader has
neither time nor inclination to read long
speeches, but he has both time and DIS
I position TO read, and even rc-rcad, the
nuggets OF real information contained
IN good speeches II they are served to
him in compact shape.
Happy also Is the plea that can be
truthtully and favorably and strongly
presented In ajfew words. Truth Is al
ways, like pure gold, capable OF being
compressed into short space.
The 1ntelltSenccr reproduccs day after
day five nuggets OF pure gold from the
/ able and convincing speeches made by
Secretary Carlisle. in Kentucky, las;
year on behalf OF sound money. 1t
Z would be greatly pleased II all It's read
sers had the time to read In full the
speeches from which these nuggets of
pure gold are extracted. They are
equal TO the great speeches OF Garfield
during the igrceuback craze twenty
years ago, and that Is saying very much
indeed for them.
:aI There Is more real value In the five
propositions laid down BY the highly in
formed and clear-headed secretary than
in all the drivel that found expression
Z, at Chicago las. week. And just here we
I. abuse leveled at the secretary and the
/ President In that convention, no one Of
the orators from AltGeld 10 TIllman
dared to tackle the five propositions to
be found on this page. We have YET to
see any free silver orator or editor who
can tackle them. For nearly year
they, have been before the country. They
stand out az clear aud distinct as so
I many mathematical propositions. Each
: one OF them Is n matter Of fact and not
= OF theory. II there had been naw.in
them--a single Semblance Of untruth-
/; It would have been pointed out and ex-
pozed long ago. Each one OF them has
y stood the ordeal OF rigid investigation
and, each one remains unassailed and
/ unassailable.
Thislbeing the case. what Is there left
OF the whole free silver craze? The very
first OF the sccretary's propositions goes
through their contention like a ten-inch
/ shell. For instance. they profess to be
In favor OF bImetalIIsm. or, In other
words. the equal coinage OF gold and sill
yer and they contend that by rcopcninS
& the minis to silver VIC would have this
equal coinage and secure practical bi-
metallism. And this plea they make In
the face OF the fact that nowhere In the
world does such q state OF things exist.
There Is no free silver coinage country
that coins any gold or has any gold. and
there is no such country that Is not on an
{ exclusive silver basis. Not one. They
4 have driven out gold with dcbascd silver
and we are invited to do the same thing
4 In this country.
The silver craze rests mainly on the
Il contention that we need n larger per
!. capita OF money. This. ton, notwlth-
! standing we have now much more than
twice the per capita we had In 1871. And
! this, too, In spite OF the fact that there 8.
i az the secretary points out. no silver
country in the world that has more than
one-third the per capita that this gold
q standard country enjoys.
But the shot from the sccrstnry's
locker that IL especially to he dreaded
by the slverItc5 In that one In which he
challenges them TO show n silver cOun-
try In the world where laborInG man
receives fair pay for days work. Os.
tcpsIbly, the agitation for flee silver
coinage IS carried on under the ElilHc OF
I. labor championship. The Chicago nom
inee calls the present coinage, whereby
we have more than doubled the volume
{ OF money In twenty-thrcc years. ana
whereby labor Is paid In money OF the
: hIEheat purchasing power. Il crown Of
thorns on It's head, and he speaks OF
gold M a cross on which somcbody la
n trying to cruelty mankind.
y II some ono had risen up In that con-
[ycntlon ana asked the boy orator OF the
5pIntte" to explain In sober words OF TACT
tust what nc meant by such an e%prca-
sion, we think he would nave been
grcatlyp 10 to frame mn answer. sup
b pose. for instance, some one had taken