Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-01
THE VICE PRESIDENT.
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Mckinley. declaring for 1.-The largest use
/ Of both gold and SILVER" and against a
discrimination against either metal.
The speaker showed that both parties
have always favored bimetallism. and
! followed this by reading Blaine's utter
( ances, remarking that it was no wonder
/ tens Of thousands of Republicans are re-
/ fusing TO be bound hand and foot in the
I camp of the gold bugs. In this year the
/ Democratic party reafirmed its faith in
bimetalusm: the Republican party met in
I St. Louis and declared against silver until
{ the consent TO its coinage can be secured
! by international agreement. 1t matters
not that the gold standard has brought
distress and deholauon. has caused the
products of the farm and factories TO go
I down i'm value; they say it must be main
tanned until England consents to the free
( coinage OF silver Either the gold stand
ard is right. or il is wrong.
If it is right. why is there a
suggestion in the Republican plat
form looking to international agree
ment for bringing about something which
is not for the countrys good. It is q
confession that the gold standard has not
been for the best interests of the country.
VIII England consent? Does any sane
man believe that England, with her hoard
ed gold, will reverse a policy of seventy
five years, TO make 1t easier for the peo
pie OF the country to pay their debts?
Washington warned the people in his
farewell address that there can be no dis
interested friendship between countries.
Gladstone, when Prime Minister, declared
that England was the creditor nation OF
the world TO the extent of ten thousand
millions. our country is one Of the debtor
nations. Win England consent to free
coinage Of silver?
The speaker here read an extract from
an editorial in the London Financial
News. sounding q warning cry TO the
English people, over the prospect of the
triumph Of free silver in the United
States.
Old issues, said the spetker, have been
broken down, and the supreme importance
Of the money question cannot be treated
lightly on one side it is promised that the
gold standard shall pe the permanent
policy of the country; on the other,
promise of the restoration of the money of
the people, the money of the constitution.
Shall we wait until England, in a generous
mood, consents to the restoration Of sill
yer? (Cries of Never" and applause)
Bismarl, the greatest statesman Of Ger
many. in a letter 10 Governor Culbertson,
says: u have always had a prediction
for bimetallIsm. hold to this very hour
that IL would be advisable to bring about
a mutual agreement in favor OF the
establishment of bimetallism. IL
the people Of the United States should
ind it compatible with their interests to
take independent action in favor of BIZ
metaIlism. / cannot but believe that such
action would exert a most salutary in
fuence in favor of international bimetal-
ism" (Cheers.)
The Vice President called attention to
the effort to alarm the people by the buga-
boo that other countries will dump their
silver into this country. He asked his
hearers not to lose any sleep over the fear
that foreign nations will bring their sill
YER and take away our gold. He charac-
terized this as idle talk. If the silver
were brought. 1t would DO coined by the
United States into silver dollars. and each
dollar win be worth as much as gold
dollar. How would they get this silver
into circulation? There are but two ways
of getting these dollars into the pockets Of
the american people-one to give them
away. and the other to buy the products
of your farms and to pay for the labor Of
your hands. (Cheers.)
An increase in the circulating medium
of the country, keeping pace somewhat
with the increase I'm the population and
commerce. is absolutely essential to the
prosperity Of the country. Have no fears
of a ffty-three cent dollar. The speaker
related a conversation between wealthy
man and his coachman. Don't you know,
Pat" said the former that if Bryan IS
successful, you will be paid off in fifty
cent dollars?" Faith an don't believe
that" said Pat for If that was true,
you'd vote for him yourself"
Vice President Stevenson spoke an hour
and fifteen minutes. and held the closest
attention of his audience throughout. He
closed with an appeal for Bryan. which
was greeted with tumultuous applause.