The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-06-15

forms OF panic from which we have ever
suffered
Are we to consummate the present
universal depression by the curse Of q
peFpstuaiiy osclliatHg standard u
values. depriving commerce OF It's sta
bIlity and driving foreign customers
from our markets.
Are we 10 emhlrrass ourselves with
obstacles 10 commerce from which IL
may take a generation 10 cmaDCipate
ourselves
These are questions which tn" cunclu-
siOns u the impending conventions
must 80 FAR towards solving II rs not
surprising that such a prospect
holds men OF business, and men ~
property, and families with Invest
mcnts. In lntolerablc suspense. The men
who show such Il keen professional zsst
IN the excitement NJ the preparation for
tlt,se gatherings iittle understand what
the people feel To- b. at stake In the
game they ara playing. The situation
brings over honorable minds a deep
sense OF national humiliation that our
elective Institutions should b. thus
prostltutpd 70 purposes so fundamen-
tally dlshOnornbic and 60 destructive to
their tendency.
Aud yet these serious possibilities ad-
init OF muth hope. Surely We have not,
as people sunk So low In morals and
Intelligence that we may not safely hes
itate TO credit the possibility that such
legislation as the silveTites propose
could ever BE- enacted our national
self-rspect lnCaplcithtes us for yet
concedinE such possibility; and while
W. use every means for combating
these widespread errors, yet we have
sufficient self-appreciati1n 10 withhold
assent TO the proposition that ma
jority or the American PcOplc are fools.
II, In spite OF tn" alarm that has been
created 10y the recent spread n the sill
yer fanatiClsm. there IL apparently
satisfactory evidence that while one
Of the conventions Is likely 20 be cap
turcd by the sIlvGri;eE, the other, with
Il good pOpulnr majority behind II. may
be rrckonrd as for the gold standard.
II Is this hope which Is now prevent
lnC the complete overthrow OF public
confidence. II the seemingly Impossible
should happen and the Republican plat
form should prove to b. unsDund on the
money question. the effects Will not
tarry; and the politicians learn IN
stanter from acts and conditions. what
the people think OF the silver policy.
H. huwever.-as Is now confidently cN-
peCtrd.-the 81 Louis convention
should arord satisfactory assurances
on the money question, nothing can pre-
vent q broad and immediate recovery
Of confidence and revival OF business
at large may b. looked for. The morul
Of general revival 81 business follow
Ing the defeat Of silver would have an
Important innueno. upon thu elections,
as It would Enthusiastically show the
sentiment " the business community
on that issue
The election Of a Republican ProsI-
dent and house, upon square gold
platform. would make legislation secure
Tor four years 20 come against further
nggrcsgiOns from silver. With that
period Tor remedial action, there. should
be no dunlcuty inputtiHga anal guietus
upon this hgrcsy. Four years more
lime. IN tho hnuds 0f those who may ha
trusted against any form OF unrpGub
money. would also have very
direct effect upon the misgivinEs now
directed against our investments by
foreign capital on the whole. there
FORE. we may venture to hope for large
mitiEatlOns Of tho prevailing pesst-
nIstic tone OF BUSINESS As the result
OF IN" action at St Louis next week.
HENRY CLEWS.