Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-09

sire TO express my remarks. Cheering
| and applause) My friend has declared
his preference for Mr.. Mckinley.
want to ask him which Mckinley he is
for, the Mckinley of 1890 or tle McKin-
ley of 1895? NOng cheering)
Let me read you what Mr.. Mckinley
said in 1890 when he was advocating the
Sherman law, which added to the VOL
ume of the nations money. He said
in that speech, But all agree that we
must have a larger volume Of money
| and that the added volume shall be sill
yer or its equivalent based on silver.
At that time we were putting into circu-
lation about S24.000,000 a year under
the Bland act and Mr.. Mckinley advo-
Gated the Sherman act on the ground
that it would increase the amount OF
money to be put in circulation among
the people. Let me read you what he
said then:
We propose to give to this country
what gentlemen upon the other side
of the house could not do, what they
did not dare to do for four years. We
propose to give TO the country a silver
bill that Will take al Of tne silver, prac-
tica,ty, Of the United States and make
ii available for the use Of the people"
Again he said: 80, Mr.. Speaker, this
bill is just to the silver producers of the
United States, for it does what thepres-
ent law as demonstrated by every ad-
ministration for ten years has not done.
1t takes every dollar of silver bullion
that is purchased in the United States
and places it at the disposal of the peo-
| pie as money"
And again he said: 81 will not vote
against this bill and thus deprive my
| people and my country and the la0orers
and the producers and the industries of
my country of 30000000 annually of
additional circulating medium"
In 1890 Mr.. Mckinley declared that
in the interests of his country, in the
interest of the laborers, in the interest
| pf producers, in the interts of the in
dustries of the country he would vote
to add to the increase Of $24,00OO00 an
additional increase Of $90,0OO,O 900. Tha-
was the Mckinley Of 1890. Let me read
you the Mckinley of 1896:
1T is not more money We want. What
we want is to put all the money we have
already at work.
In 1890 when he advocated more mon
ey, we already added S24,O00,O0O to the
circulation each year. This year we
have no such provision. We have re-
pealed the Sherman law and the Bland
act and making no provision to utilize
silver, no provision to add to the cur
rency by the increase in our silver mOr-
eg and yet when the currency is de-
creasing and we have decreased the mon
ey in circulation in the last two years
by $3.50. 100000, and yet when money is
decreasing instead of increasing the same
Mr.. MCKINLEY who wanted more mon
ey in 1890, tells you now that il IS not
more money we need, but TO put the mon
ey we could have more work. WhicS
does my friend favor? The McKinle1
Of 1890, who wanted more money, or the
Mckinley Of 1895? Great applause and
cries of '1S90.) More than that: Mr..
Mckinley said in 1891, in a speech Il
Toledo, Ohio. that Mr.. Cleveland had
been discriminating against silver, had
been trying to degrade it, lad been try
ing 10 contract the currency, and that by
lessening the currency he made money
dearer by making it scarcer, and max
ing money the master and all things else
the servants. 1t was wrong for Mr..
Cleveland to make money dear by max
ing it scarce and money the master and
all things else the servants; it is right
for Mckinley to try to make money the
master and all things else the servant
(Applause and cries of no. non
Ny friends, w can support our cause
by appealing to Republican testimony.
Wscan support every contention wemake
by quoting Republican authorities, and
therefore, Republicans who come to us
in this campaign do not change their
convictions; they simply change their
party name when their party has aban-
dOned ne position ii used to ocupy, and
now demands that you shall surrender
the convictions of a lifetime.
Somebody may feel like cheering for
ex-Pres.dent Harrison. If so l will read
what he said: EXPresident Harrison
sent a message TO Congress on the first
Of December, 1890. You will remember
that in 1890 they passed what was
known as the Sherman law, which pro-
vided for the purchase Of four million
ounces Of silver each year. After the
passage of that bill the price of silver
went up and as the price of silver went
up prices generally began to rise, and on
the first of December Mr. Harrison, then
President, sent to Congress a message
from which 1 read the following ex-
tracts:
The enlargement of our currency by
the silver bill undoubtedly gave an up
ward tendency to trade and had a mark
ed effect on prices, but this natural
and decided effect of the silver ,egisla-
ton was by many enormously attrib-
u,ed to the tariff act
Mr.. Harrison said that the passage Of
that silver bill undoubtedly gave an
upward tendency to trade and had a
marked effect on prices You tell US
that We canont raise the value OF silver
by law. | point to you that law which
was not as broad as the one which we
propose. I point you to a limited use Of
silver. not an unlimited one Ike We
propose. and according to the President
gave an upward tendency to the market
and had a marked effect on prices. And
then he turned and rebuked those who
had Ettributed this to the tariff act and
told them that it was due not to tariff
legislation but to silver legislation. ZAP
plause)
Here, my friends, is authority that sill
yer legislation will do just what We
claim that it will do, more than that,
Mr.. Harrison says that was not only
the natural effect, but the desired effect
of such legislation. Now, they tell us
that they do not want prices TO rise for
fear the laboring mans wages would
not go so far. and then they said il was
desired effect. Since when, my