The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-09-15

TO IN wlNn enterprises wilt In times
OF dlstrust and anxiety. Do you know
why this country Is not now In per-
lod OF prosperity? Such period Is
long past due, Good times and bad
times have followed each other alter
nately throughout all history. Some
time ago a new period OF prosperity
began TO unfold In Europe. England,
France and Germany recovered from
their depression long ago. Money now
clrculates freely In those Countries, and
confidence rules supreme In all the
financial centres Of the old world We
will tell you why this country has not
emerged from depression, why farm
products nre kept down. and why our
manufactures stand Idle. There IRE
certain fanatics In this country who
nre III dangerous as criminals. There
Rre some men who seem Ia dislike
work, and leave their homes like Cox
ey, TO march about In demonstration
against law and order. There are 9th.
er men like Debs, who try 10 get what
they want by melting riots. There are
still Others, like Altgcld, who propose
TO get possession OF this government.
Their candidate came to New York and
held receptions here. Az far as we
know. outside OF political circles, no
individual OF distinguished social posi-
ton attended those receptions. As far
as We arc aware, not one man OF really
high grade who lives In New York City
will vote for him. The reasons are not
personal Mr.. Bryan Is the front OF
combination which includes the enc
niles OF mankind. Sensitive men. with
an eye single to the best good OF their
country must shun him.
Where He Looks FOR Votes,
Bryan and his associates undertook
TO get possession OF this government
by relying upon the votes OF dlsap-
pointed citizens. They tempted men
who are goaded by personal misfortune
by promising them new shuttle OF
values. They tempted one class of cltl-
zens to vote In a manner which would
cheat the others. and asked all of us
TO join, together TO cheat the creditors
OF the nation. In the entire history of
civilization. no more disreputable at
temp; was ever made TO poison the
morals and mutllate the good name
OF prosperous people. As the issues
Of this campaign become clear In the
public mind. business men will lose
credit and private individuals will lose
the respect OF their associates II they
favor Bryan. To this low level will h.
come at last. Their plan was to catch
the farmer vote. They do not seem to
respect the Judgment and integrity OF
farmers. Their candidate. paradinS
his unblaclcd boots and coat, con-
spicuous for oheapness, travels across
the country. crying aloud: 81 eat corn
three times a day." Does he take the
farmers for fools? Does he Imagine
that men who understand The laws OF
nature. and how TO conform to them,
will fail TO appreciate this cheap cloth
Ing for the scarecrow which 1t IL?
Vote for me-" says this sycophant
candidate. 81 wear farmers boots and
eat corn"
Was there ever such absence OF dig
nifty In q candidate for the presidency
OF this great republic?t Was there ever
such AFFECT and shameful humiliation
as this SILLY pretense reveals? Sensible
men dress in accordance with their
pursuits. When farmers become prcst-
dents they do not appear In working
clothes AS fishermen spin silver
spoon to tcatch stupid Victims, this can
d!date tries to deceive farmers by pro-
missing silver legislation. Forsooth he
will advance prices with silver enact
ment. All men who think clearly un-
derstand that legislation cannot nd
vance values. Legislation can do no
more than give upright men the fruits
OF their honorable efforts. No leGisla-
ture will ever assemble, no Congress
Will ever convene, which will cause one
acre OF land 10 produce more wheat
or sustain the price of silver to the
value OF n single penny The man who
travels across this country preaching
that silver free coinage VIII improve
the moral tone and comfort OF our pco-
Pile Is n qunck, n charlatan. He Is worse
than that. He Is the enemy OF the pub
lie good. He is reckless wanderer In
the fields OF finance. burning barns and
destroying homes. He Is teaching men
TO rebel against fruEality, industry and
virtue, In order TO revel In riot. repudl-
alton and crime.
1t Is With the f-coplc at large as with
each individual. There Is hut one road
to prosperity. md that IL the plain path
Of industry and honor. 1t Is
with nations as with individuals.
None OF us can steal all OF us must
earn. Organism would not advance the
price of anything, except the price
which all would have to pay for the use
OF money. There Is no export merchant
in New York so berert Of reason that he
would expect Europe TO pay more for
cargo OF wheat from n country which Is
| on a silver basis than It would pay for
n similar cargo from country on
| gold basis. II Is true TINT our govern
ment could create a legal tender money
| OF low value, but 1t cannot sustain the
value of products, II Is true we could
have adultcrnted money, and 1t might
become necessary for cach OF us to get
more Of that money together In order to
buy things, but such conditions would
not mean hotter times They would
make hard times. II they would seem
to bring imitation It would be nothing
but temporary intoxlcation, or. rather,
1t would be deceptive prosperity"
like the gains Of the poor girl who leavcG
her country home TO burn her short life
AWAY In city dissipation. 1t would not
be farm products which would advance,
II would he the value OF the money
which would decline. Organism would
destroy the buying power Of people
generally. restrict consumption, destroy
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