Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-10-11


When taken at the food leads on 10
Fortune, -
Omitted. and all their life is bound IN
shadows and miseries."
JUS so il is in this nation. There is
tide we call the food tide, and taken
at the proper time will lead us on TO
prosperity. 49,
The fundamental principles OF THIS
government is that all men are created
free and equal, and when anything
comes up that is objectionable to the
peoDle thew have the right to raise their
voice against il. -
There is something wrong with TINS
government, something radically Wroh9'
and there is a cause for this wrong. II
is cur duty 10 find out the cause ana
then the remedy would suggest ltseiI.
Mr.. Brittell. after few closing re-
marks gave away to the speaker or the
evening. Mr.. John Sovereign, Granu
Master Workman OF the Knights or La
Dor.
When Mr. Sovereign took the stand
there was applause loud and long. In
part he said:
Mr.. Chairman Ladies and Gentlemen:
tt affords me more than passing pleas
ure 10 b. with you this evening.
Our opponents charge us with array
ing the masses against the classes. That
claim deny, for the classes have array
ed themselves agains, the MASSES.
Ny friends. eighteen months ago ali
these Eastern clubs who say they are
advocating sound money, met in tXecu-
tive session for about six weeks, and in
that time agreed and decided 10 send
pamphlets on. over the country advo-
eating their views. Not only that, they
agreed to furnish all the leading news
papers with stereoyped matter, free o1
charge. providing they would publish II
and consequently we have very few
newspapers with us.
[ submit. without fear of contradic-
ton. that all persons favOring the gold
standard. favor less of it, while those
who favor the free coinage Of silver,
favor more OF it and the government is
sue Of all money.
[ say to YOU without hesitation that
YOU have not read phamphlet or do
cument from your opponents that did
no, contain some threat That you have
not heard a speech made by gold
standard advocate that did not contain
threat.
They say free silver VIII drive all the
gold out of the country; will cause
bankruptcy and pauperize the American
people. Tha. is not all the farther they
60. They go into the home and tell the
wage Garner that he must either vote
the gold standard or do without bread.
TIL rights of every citizen is 10 vote
his own convictions. and when this can
not be done his rights are taken from
him. That is the condition in this
country just at present.
say if free silver will drive the gold
on. Of the country, let it go; but if free
silver will drive it out any faster than
The gold standard has. I would like to
know how il is going to do it. Why. il
drove il out so fast that we had to bond
the American people in order to get some
of il back, to see what il looked like.
and see if il was the same as when we
last looked at it.
Now there is only three ways in
which il could get out. viz: first, through
commercial transactions; second, be-
cause those who want it would invest in
bonds. and third, it must be, because II
don't belong to US, It already belongs
TO somebody else, and that somebody
else lives in foreign country. The
very best money this country ever had
was the kind thai stayed at home and
did not go across the waters to be melted
into coins of other countries.
They tell YOU that before We can have
a free coinage Of silver we must have
an international agreement. This is
the only point they have to rest on. Do
YOU know what an international agree
mCnt means? An international agree
ment could not be brought around with
out an international treaty. Then
what? Suppose the treaty is violated
by us. the other nations could call us TO
account. and l never will be ready to
favor such a thing as that TO endanger
the nation.
Monarchial and despOtic forms of gov
eminent rest on two things: first. on a
landed system of eXacting money from
the poor for the support Of the nobility;
second a financial system binding the
common people. According to the his
torians the people of the world are ruled
by the following three kinds of govern
ment: Ignorance and iGOlatry, arbitrary
and force. and a government by COM
pact. Our government is the last form
and is the hardest to maintain and the
easiest to destroy Our form of gov
ernme1t appeals directly to the patriot
ism and vigilance of the common man.
When they talk to you Of an in
ternatonal agreement they practically
tell you that The very kind of law that
gives life to the Russian Empire is the
kind we ought to have for the seventy
millions Of people in America.
I am a free born American citizen.
and l wi! never get down on my knees
and ask Great Britain what we shall do
We never did surrender to Great Brit
ain and I am not in favor OF it now,
even if Mark Hanna does say so.
You cannot find a mOnarchial form OF
qoverpmen, on this earth that does not
hate America. They are afraid Of the OBJ
iect lesson we hold up 10 their subjects,
and have fear for their safety.
They say that if we have a free coin
aga Of silver You will food the country
With 50-cent dollars. and YOU working
men will not have your full one hun
drei cent dollar Just think of hose
large. briny tears that are b5ing shed
over YOU working men. Oh, they are
taking a wonderful interest just now as
TO what YOU shall be paid with
This fifty cent dollar harangue is al
nonsense. for the law says you must
have dollar worth one hundred cents.
What would you think Of me if would
get ND here and talk to YOU about
two-ouart gallon and a six inch foot.
NlnLE.nlor sa,.s Nnn cannnt lapislate Xalua