Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-13


liavs it is good for others. Il Is only
when thsy believe th2- Jhey prosper by
others adversely. that you hear them
standing up and denying th3t they nave
ans pecuuiary interest in IL.
You ask one Of those great hnanciers
why he is i'm favor OF the gold standard.
Does ne give the reason il Is good Ior
him? You never heard one OF them say
f. What is lt they say? Why, some
of them say thar free coinage will be
good for them and that they do not
wan anything good for them. They say
.hsv wan, gold standard because it
IS o good thing for the labOring man.
Yes. my friends. those fnsnciers are so
worried about the labOr.ng mans in
,a..-.s that when one of them gets sick
and goes TO physician and tells him
h7 cannot sleep. The yhysician does nor
ask Vh3- is The matter, but he JUS
SAYS 3r him 20 qui, worrying about the
olcr'ng man. Why, fnancier says
d is in favor of q gold standard because
il is gOOd for the farmer, because iJ IS
good for the business man. and you tell
l.m that the lab0ring man and the buSi-
ness man and the farmer. all of these
-ra willing 10 risk b;metallism and
does he say? He rises up 10 the full
height OF ais moral stature and he says:
'>lal / .6J them hurt themselves? No"
ie saws: 'I viii ram the gold stand
ara down their thrOats wh,her they want
DC Cr not. because / love them better than
I love myself
do you believe it. my friends? 1 don't
say that the inanc.er IS just as good
as anybody else, bur | tany that he IS
any better. We are in favor of bi-metal-
Ism and we supper, our claim by logic
which cannot be answered, and our Op-
r1lelrs confess their inability TO meet
us ON -his question when they attempt
% turn the discussion on TO say other
question.
/ am not surprised that in Minnesota
and all over this country Republicans
are leaving the Republican party when
hey md that il is drawing TO the Re-
publican party all those Democrats
whom the Republicans in the past have
been i'm the habit of denouncing. And,
my friends, YOU Republicans who are
joining with us in this campaign have
the consolation of knowing that you
ara doing it without having to abandon
.he convictions That YOU fOlliwed in
years past.
There is this difference between the
Republicans who come TO us and the
ID mocra,s who so from us. The Dem
oc-a-s who go from Us have 20 60 down
on their knees and beg pardon OF John
sherman for all Jhe bad words the Dem
Ocr3tic party has spoken against him,
while the Republicans who come 10 US,
come bringing in their hands the Re
publican platform which was adopted in
,lis hall four years ago. The Republl
cans who come 10 us come with nothing
to- conceal and are perfectly willing to
tell where they stand and why they
stand th re, and they are among the
most jealous recruits we have. Those
who 20 rom us are only to say in eX
plana-ion Of their conduct that if we had
the free coinage Of silver il would be
aWui awful Ny friends, there are rea-
sons for bimetallism and those reasons
are so plain and simple that they can be
Unders Ood and when We preach bimetal-
lism we give our reson for our faith.
we are told that an we need is conf
'delce, confidence. Ny friends, this con-
fience idea is not a new one. Il is at
least 1900 years old. I was reading this
in the Bibe: these words which r5bUked
the same kind of confidence that we have
preached to-day. Il q brother or sister
he naked. or destitute and one of you
say unto them depart in peace. be warm
cd and fed. Notwithstanding YOU give
them not those things which are need
H.rf f,r. rrr 7.- u fr 10
You tell them that the labOrer is idle
iu the streets because the gold standard
has made # more profitable to hoard
money than it is TO employ labor in devel-
oping the resources of the country Tell
them that these men are naked and hum
cry. and what do they say? They say:
CBe yet fed and clothed without giving
them anything to eat or 10 put on,
We have waited for twenty years for
foreign aid 20 come 10 us. We have sent
commissions abroad and they have come
back empty handed and three parties
have declared that the time for waiting
has passed.
We have not gold enough i'm this coun-
try To- pay oue-tenth of our Indebtedness,
and If our foreign creditors attempted 10
draw it AN out they would have to take
uine-tenths of it I'm silver and i'm product;
aye. the very moment they found the
American people had opened their mints
TO the free and unlimited coinage of sill
with sold. so shrdlu mcfywp vbgkqjjjjj
ver and had made silver legal tender
equal with gold. so an the coin obligations
would De cancelled i'm silver. then our cred
itors would become interested with us in
making the silver dollar as good as the
gold dollar so they would not lose any
thing themselves.
We have their seldshness against us.
and we have suffered from il. open the
mint 90 the free and unlimited coinage OF
s.'rer ana we will have their selfish inter
es-s or our side.
We expect the support of the men who
nave made profit out of the adversiries of
me government; who have brought those
.RNersiues upon the government. I be
N.Fe "e ought to be able TO appeal to
lAoSe of 2l parties who believe as Abra-
nam Lincoln believed. that a government
OF The people. by the people and for the
people could not perish.
AGAINST THE GOLD BUGS.
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