The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-30

DeOpl0 OH CtllS uluIIoA VI AAOO 100
| have my doubts of its being a
panacea for existing evils, but am
utterly skeptical of the pictures
that it's opponents draw of wide
spread disaster and financial ruin.
The American people are too SEN
sible [ think, to be humbugged
with such ghost stories. AT all
events there is nothing half as bad
in the Chicago platform as return
to McKinleyism.
From Tuesdays Daily.
HON. S. ID. IGLI<INS.
This distinguished gentleman
speaks at the court house to-day,
and will no doubt tell the
people all about gold, and
what good thing it is to have as
standard of value in the United
States. However, as late as two
years ago he was an ardent FREE
SILVER ADVOCATE. The people are
curious to know what speech he
will make to-day, whether it will
be his Fairmont speech of June
10Th, 1894, or the speech he deliv-
cred at Parkersburg, July %, 1896,
and the same speech he is making
in his present tour of the State.
Senator Elkins, in his speech
before the State League of Repub-
lican clubs, held at Fairmont, w.
Va, on June 10, 1894, used the
following languages:
OPPOSED TO GOLD BASIS.
"The President, followed by
that section of the party, the Sgold
monometallists, who advocate
gold basis, which means increasing
tho debts of the debtor classes and
decreasing the value of property,
seized upon the pretext that the
Sherman act was the cause of the
panic and trouble, and declared its
repeal would restore prosperity"
THE CRIME AGAINST SILVER.
"But in all this there was great
wrong done; it was the crime
against silver. The President and
the gold monometallists who fol-
low him in attempting to account
for the panic under false pretenses,
discredited silver at home and
abroad, and dealt it the worst blow
it ever had, although England and
Germany are now moving for bi.
metallism and the larger use of
silver, the President remains 81
lent and sends no representatives,
of our government abroad to CO.
operate in this movement"
SILVER THE MONEY OF THE CoNsTI-
TUITION.
"Silver is the money of the con-
stitution as much as gold, the PEG.
pie will have silver for money and
fight for it, and tho contest will
not end until it has its proper
place in the monetary system of
the country"
GOLD PRODUCTION DIMINISHING.
"The people are too intelligent
to permit values to be measured
by gold alone. the production of
which is relatively diminishing in
the world"
DEARER MONEY AND CHEAPER PROP
ERTY. I
"This would make money dearer
and property cheaper. Silver
should be used as well as gold and
the parity between both maintain
ed"
TOO LITTLE SILVER.
"The time will come when the
silver in the treasury will perform
the functions of money as of gold,
and the trouble will be that there
is not too much of it, but too lit
tle."
Gen. Watts makes fair and
open fight. He acts on the dead
square wherever he goes. His
speeches have telling effect, and
the people are more and more for
him. His enemies would vicious
ly attack him if they knew how,
but he is beyond their attacks. He
represents the masses of the State
and no special classes. AS target
to be shot at by corporations and
monopolists he proves invulnera-
BILE and every time they lose. Their
better judgment should teach them
to desist their underhanded game.
-Clarksburg News.
Hon. j. B. Menager, of Mason
county, made three speeches in this
county last week. Mr.. Menager is
an able speaker thoroughly post