Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-09-16
NUMBER 43.
ALEX. m'vslcA MILLER.
One OF the Most i'somInsnt Drsmesrassu
Leaders Rcsigns.

One OF the s1ost i'sominsnt Drunosrasss
Leaders Rcsigns.
Mr.. Alcx Mcveigh Miller of Aldcrson
Is and has been riunhbor of the Demo-
cratic committee of Grccnbricr county.
He was elected member of that CONE
mittee in 1897 ami was reelected this
year. He is n resident of Anderson for
over 20 years. Is native Of this state
and prosperous, cnterprising business
man. Ho can not stand Organism and
the Now" Democracy and resigned his
position III she following iurceful letter,
worthy of being read and preserved:
AlDEssoS, w. Va, Aug. 81, 1896.
Dr. =. IL. Austin, Chairman, l.cwl3-
burg, w. Va.
DEAR SIR-Plcasc accept my rcsignn-
tion as n member o; the Democratic Exc
cutivc Committee of Grccnbrier county
for the following roasous:
The Democratic platform. adopted nj
Chicago, Is In favor of the free and un-
limited coinage of 53 cents worth of all
vcr into loyal tender dollar. am on
posed to this. II tae governments hss
the right TO make 55 cents worth Of sill
yer dollar. IL can make 10 cents worth
dollar, and who knows how soon the
silver mining trust will demand that 10
conts worth of silver be made legal
tender dollarY II the mine owners were
acting in good faith, they would AJAX to
have thcir silver coined into hon est dol
lars. containing q dollars worth Of sill
yer. Instead of this they have che gall
to ask tho government to double their
enormous wealth, by coining them, free
OF charge, two dollars out of every ono
dollars worth Of silver they tsrko 10 the
mint More than this thoy want the
government to say that every lnborinR
man. who agrees to do n days work for
dollar. shall be icompcllcd to take M
his pay this trust-croatcd 03-cent dollar.
The laboring men aluno will defeat
this great swindle when they. come TO
realize that they aro being used by tho
silver trust I'd perretuate this great
fraud on them. ! am opposed to free
coinage because no country. OH silver
basis, has ever prospcrod as has ours ON
sound money basis. All the most en-
hghtened countries Of the world are ON
q sound money basis. and in oil of them
wages nrc higher than In tho silver
standard countries Yet I'm the silver
countries the nocessnrics Of life ara nj.
most double. The free coinage of silver
will benefit no one but the silver ,niners
OF the west. who represent one af '.
most gigantic niOnopolics the VIZ. i.i u..A
ever seen, tho aggregate wealth ueinR
$545. .000. 10000. In all silver countries
the rate OF interest Is very much higher
than III sound money countries. In
England money Is only worth from
~ per cont, while in free silver ma
tions the rate is from 10 TO 10 per cent.
i um opposed to free silver, becnuso irf
all silver standard countries gold does
not circulate, but is driven out Of the
country by silver !.
II we adopt free silver, mt tho fatf0 Or
10 TO l. wo drive out of circulation
5000. .0O0, 900 in gold, which is about one
third OF all our money. This lis th0
opinion Of our best fiuanoiers.
To replace this with even 63-ccnt dol
lars. IL would require from six to ten
years OF silver mining with the mints
running night and day; and long before
this gold could bo replaced by cheap sill
Yer every debtor in this broad land
would be financially ruined, for money
would be so scarce it would be ifnpossi-
BILE 70 get enough TO pay our debts.
All creditors would be trying TO coll
lect at the same time, and no one will
ing TO loan. There is 10 doubt that inn
mediatcly after the election of Mr.. Bryun
| (if we should be so unfortunate as 20
elect him) there would commence the
worst financial panic the world has ever
seen, in which thousands Of business
men would DO ruined, and the laboring
man would have TO face privation and
want for himself and his family.
Factories would DO closed and the
country flooded with unfortunate mei
! begging bread. In manufacturing and
mining districts. where thousands de-
! pend upon their daily labor for living,
there would bo bread riots in which the
women and children would DO the great
est sufferers
III the wage carIcrs and debtors Of
this country could but sec the niilo OF
ruin and disaster beneath their feot.
To which they arc about 20 apply the
match, they would flee from 10 (fiee sill
ver) as they world fruIn pestilence.
death or he'll. Why should the people
| OF the East and South be anxious TO
mako millionairos of the Western silver
mine owners, when the West has al.
| ready ruined our markets with her
cheap grain aud meats? Making mil.
honn1res OF tho mine owners will not
help as 20 compete with the cheap prod
ucts Of the West
was told by "a Democratic politician
Of this county year ago that we must
have something besides tariff to catch
votes this fall, and that free silver was
the best thing wc could get. Is Il pos
sible that our people can be hoodooei
into voting for Mr.. Bryan by this cry OF
cheap money, raised by the mine owns
ers, and echoed by the place hnnfers
and ofiice-seekinR demagogues Haven.e q
we already had four years of hard times
In place Of the great prosperity promised
us by tho free wool, tariff reforming
politicians, who now want TO stop talk.
ing tariff and free trade aud raise the
cry Of free silverY The Philadelphin
Times, an able Democrntic paper, has
the Chicago platform in a nutshell like
this; "They propose free trade. FREQ
silver, free not and free hell
must, my dear sir, ask % be excused
from helping TO bring this great cala14l-