The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-09-24

III The line OF march was up Market to
Eleventh. down Eleventh to Main, up
Main to Tenth and over the suspension
bridge to the place OF speaking.
The meeting was held In front of the
Republican headquarters, on South
Broadway, and about 1000 people had
congregated there to hear Prof. ]. Nc
Henry Jones and Mr.. Charles Burdett
Hart discuss the issues OF the hour. The
night air was very chilly, but that did
not keep the people from standing lis
tening and applauding the truths as
they came from the mouths of the
speakers.
when the clubs were finally settled,
the meeting was called to order by Mr..
W. P. McKelvey, who in brief speech
introduced Prof. Jones.
Professor Jones, Address.
AS the popular professor stepped for
ward, he was greeted with a cheer that
could be heard all over the Island. He
began by saying that there were two
classes OF men who were not supposed
to take any part In politics. one Is the
preacher, and the other Is the school
teacher. The preacher must content
himself by voting the Prohibition ticket
and saying nothing, the school teach
er must sit by with bland smile on
his countenance and say nothing.
But as there are no school teachers in
Wheeling who have made the break to
express themselves, thought would
be a novelty and therefore would be
allowed to do so.
Four years ago in the midst OF I'M
precedented prosperity. the American
people were induced to swap horses In
the middle OF the stream:
Confidence fled to the cave OF dis
trust, hope and faith followed In their
wake. The people were cheated. Their
only hope was that the worst would not
be realized and that some kind proTl-
dence would save them from their own
folly, but what had been done could
not be undoue and the most disastrous
business depression resulted. The var
ious trades and businesses wereirrepar-
ably injured. Labor for the first time
was free to walk around the streets
and sit on store boxes and white.
We have come now after four years,
to again decide whether we are salts
fed with the bargain OF 1882. We are
to have another campaign of education.
II appears to me that on the Popocratic
side OF the fence, 1t Is a campaign OF
noise Mr.. Bryan, the boy orator OF
the Platte, Is going about the country
telling the people all he knows and
some things he thinks he knows. OF
silver.
Nursery rhymes and boy orators may.
amuse children. but 1t requires arsu-
ments to convince ~the voters OF the
United States this year.
The past four years have been dis
tressingly educational. The people OF
this country have learned that every
article made on the other side of the
ocean takes 1t from the manufacturers
and laborers In this country.
The farmer has learned that the best
market in the world Is the home mar:
wages, he can eat more, and the
laborer is working and making good
wages, he can eat more, and when the
Republican party is the only party, he
can trust for giving him market for
his goods and give him good prices for
his products.
The business man has learned some-,
thing also. He is taking more OF an
interest in the campaign this year.
You don't hear any OF them saying
they wish the election would only. roll
around every eight years, as they did
when we had good old Republican
times.
They promised four years ago that
everything would be cheaper. Products
were to go down and money would go
up? Don't you remember that argu-
ment they used, that what II your,
products do go down. the money viii
appreciate and be worth twice as
much They were in favor of sound
money then. now they are trying to
fool you with. a new issue.
Cannot Afford to Experiment.
We cannot afford to experiment We
have glorious country. In fact the
grandest in the world. We have tried
one experiment to our detriment. Is 1t
reasonable or sensible to try another
such experiment as they have sprung
upon us within the past six months.
The speaker ut this point entered
into discussion OF the money ,ques-'
ton, and showed TO the audience that
the free coinage OF silver would drive
out all the gold In the country.
We have coined more money since
last November than we did In the his
tory OF the country UP to the year 1873,
when the Popocrats say We demone-
tized silver.
The government cannot legislate an
lmpossibillty. 1t can not make SIX
inches foot. 1t cannot make two
quarts a gallon, 1t cannot make fifty
cents a dollar. Nor can 1t change; the
laws OF trade.
We do not want silver monometal-
llsm and that Is what the free coinage
OF silver means. We believe In paying
our honest debts, and we believe that
when our government makes a con-
tract, that contract should be filled to
the letter.
ar there was any dickerIng about
the selling of the bonds under the
Cleveland administration. the Republic
cans had no finger In the pie. 81
Mr.. Bryan goes about the country
talking about the bond issue and what
caused II. The truth of II Is, as you
and / well know. 1t was the reduction
OF the tariff, and Mr. Bryan stood up
In the halls OF Congress and said the
only ttdng he had against the Wllson
bill was that It. did not place enough
articles on tho free list but that 1T was
a step In the right direction and the
work OF destroying the protective tariff
had Just begun. H,
Take. gold dollar and melt 1t ina,
pot and 1t comes !out one hundred
cents; take "a silver dollar and melt IT,
in n pot and 1T comes out fifty cents,
The Republican party intends to keep
tho gold back OF tn. silver. and paper