Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-07-29
= NOT A DISSENTING VOTE

carried bv reclamation, every meHOer
OF the Convention arose 10 MS Iee''
CApplause) .,,
r. has been said that we are Anarch-
-Populis-s-that we TGnled 10 ue-
s-roy the government and the country.
IL was suggested. therefore, hat the roll
should be called. and we should ascer-
tain how many old soldiers were tnere'
Well in that Convention, II turned oul
shere were one hundred and nlneiy-StA
Union soldiers and thirJy-One Conieu-
crate soldiers, representing every battle
field of the war and that most OF them
had proven their patriotism by sheuulns
their own blood on one field or another.
II was suggested that the true patriots
were the Sanhed-ins down in THAI part
of New Y0r0k known as the British
possessi ons-knCwn as Wall Street
The real patrio,s and saviOrs of the couu-
try were those who subscribed for the
bonds YOU know-at Ten millions profit
on a deal. and that Il was no, safe 20
en-rusL the country again to the patriots
who saved it on the battlefield we
must thus, them aside and look now
for our saviors down there on Wall
street. 10 AlNl n. JULIUS "a ~ ----N-
ding of blood but by buying bonds
AT A LARGE PROFIT.
that the government is to be saved
hereafter.
Well another Convention was helU'
There were some dissensiCns out there
was an overwhelming majority in IA
vor of the head of our ticket and as
everything has been left to q Commit
tee. 1 think il will be satisfactorily ar
ranged. and / believe that Bryan ana
SewaU VIII carry every State south OF
the Potomac and every State west or the
mississippi river. Without dollar or
q speaker being put into the far West,
I want 20 say 70 YOU that II YOU want
70 find earnest and determined silver
men YOU must go out among those
States. among the Republicans. /
haven't heard such a denunciation OF
McKinleyism and The ST. Louis Repu2-
lican Convention anywhere as ! heard
from the Republicans, especially from
the agricultural States west Of the Mis-
slssippi river. They are honest and de-
termined. and they viii carry out their
purpose al the polls. There is no QueS-
ton about that. (Applause)
Now having said so much OF the Con
ven-On, let us talk little about the
issue. Say what YOU will, there is but
one real issue-Only one-and that is
the money question. + is whether We
shall perpe-Ua-e and fasten upon the
people of the United States perpetualiy
the single gold standard. TO DE sustain
ca. as il necessarily must, by gold bonds,
and then we cannot permanently main
tain 20 with National banks TO supply
the paper currency OF the peOple-the
whole taken or Of The government; or.
whether the money of The faJhers-the
money OF The Cousci.U-on-gold and
slyer-which Webster and al the early
statesmen declared Congress had no
mower 10 alter-wherher we shall re-
store to The people of the country
THE CONSTITUTIONAL STANDARD
Of gold or silver. That is the issue, and
there Is no other. Gold ana silver con-
i0iu Is. il an ages of the world con-
s-itu-ed Jhe standard OF value, and down
20 1873 conformity was the standard OF
value. no. only OF all the Western na-
lions of Europe bus all the nations Of
the Western world including the Uni
ted States. The change in that stand
ard was made for some purpose. Why
was It made? Why. in 1873, viii any
body tell me. this ancient money stand
ard. that had stood throughout the ages,
made conformity Of The two metals
gold and Silyer-as The one standard val
Ne as though the TWO had been fused
together before being coined and then
coined as compound metal. everywhere
constituted the standard and determiu-
ing the price levels of the world-why
was that changed in 1873? Was Il in
The Interests of the masses of the people
OF This country, or Of any other coun-
Try2 Have YOU ever tried 20 answer
ta7t question? The United States hS1
just passed through one Of the greatest
wars Of all history. We had created a
debt In round numbers. Of $2S25. O00.-
eco. The Franco rUssian war had
JUS come 20 an end. increasing The
debts of Europe by a sum even larger
than thar. After Jhe NaDOleouic wars.
VIII n vast debts had been created we
find one country changing the money
standard, or attempting TO. Now. will
You tell us why. taking this country
alone, Why was such q debt hanging
over us, not one dollar of which had
been paid nor one step been taken to-
ward specie resumDti0n2 WHY. on
earth did he people OF the United States.
a- such q time. destroy half of the mon
ey fin which
THAT DEBT WAS PAYABLE?
can anybody answer that? Why.
would we not Justly Pc written down
as the bigges, fools on this earth If. de-
I1era-ely. the people of the United
States had. az such q time. before IL had
paid q dollar Of tina debt. destroyed half
of The money. or half of the metal. In
which tha, debt was payable? Would
we deliberately have done that? Would
Jhe people Of this country have taken
such q step. if they had known VIVA.
was being done? Or if they had realized
The 'ar-oif bU- Inevitable consequences
of what such on act must necessarily
le3 Why. certainly not.
There are TWO ways to double the
value OF metallic money. and two wavs
20 diminish IL, and only TWO. One way
oy which it can DE doubled is to double
the weight o, coin made from the metal
Then it is plain that only half as many
pieces could be made Of the same ouan-
ty of metal Tina, hes been done lime
and again I'm the world One of the an
ciell Roman Emper0rs promised his
people be would cUt I'm two their taxes
L,e did SO. a. The same tine he doubled
the weight Of gold money. ana demand
al half as many pieces He go the same
t0Nes as before though only received
Fn|t --r number of 0inccS TNa- IS an,