The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-07-01
Tho Lies are Faced.


temptible methods of the most de-
PRAYED and slavish of the goldbug
papers, in their futile attempts to
stay the onward flow of the silver
tide.
A late one if it's editorials con
tains more condensed falsehoods
about silver and it's friends than
has yet appeared in the same space.
1t commences with the statement
that silver demonetized itself in
1873" This is followed with the
statement that cit was left out of
the coinage act of that year because
the silver in dollar was worth
more than dollar"
Nobody wanted" it says, "to
waste money by coming at is to l.,
silver which was worth 1 for every
1 for 1892 as mere metal"
Did silver demonetize itself2 1t
required an act of congress, sneak
ed through under the direction of
John Sherman but short while
after his return from the trip to
Europe, on which he sold his soul
to the Band of England, and
earned its price by the act OF
which he was the author.
1t says that "by 1873 silver had
so increased in production and so
fallen in price that it would have
required ratio of 1874 to l to
make good money of it," Produc-
ton of silver had somewhat in
creased but it fell in price solely
because the strong supporting arm
of the law was taken from it in
l1973, while it remained under
gold. Silver was no longer money
only commodity, since that
fatal day.
1t affirms that "the friends of
silver called upon the government
to restore the value of the metal by
passing the Bland-Allison act, and
Congress did So" This the World
knows is false. The friends of
silver" demanded, not the Bland
Allison act, but free coinage act.
They passed free coinage act
through the House in 1873, and in
the Senate Allison and other gold
bug Senators emasculated it of
every essential feature and forced
the House to accept, rather than
obtain nothing, that abortion in fl
nancial legislation.
Then it takes up the Sherman
act of 1890. 1t says of it that "the
Sherman law was passed requiring
the government to buy 54,O00,O00
ounces of silver each year. This
the silver leaders declared would at
once put silver back to its old ratio
with gold by absorbing the whole
American product. A more brazen
lie was never written. That act
was another of John Shernan's de-
vices to defeat the free coinage act
in the House, which had already
passed the Senate. On its passage
every Democratic Senator and
member, without single excep-
ton, voted against it, and the sill
yer Republican Senators and NOM
bers voted for it under protest-all
alike, silver Democrats and Repub-
Leans, protesting that it was de-
fusion and snare, and would not do
what the World says they main
tanned it would do.
And SO this lying goes on. A
goldbug newspaper could not tell
the truth if it would upon any
phase of the silver controversy.
Silver men have declared from the
first that the only law that could
restore equality to the gold and
silver in the two dollars is free
coinage law Upon that they have
never wavered. The trouble has
has been to make the people see it,
which it has been difficult to do in
the face of the awful and persistent
falsehoods with which such papers
as the World have deceived them.
But the day for the newspaper
liar upon the financial question
has passed. Through ruin and
suffering the people have learned
the truth, and in the fires of it, the
falsehoods of the World and other
kindred sheets are shriveled into
nothingness powerless to longer
fool the people.
Gen, Watts Will BE Nominated.
KanRwha Gazette.
The Democratic conventions of
both Pocahontas and Ritchie
counties have instructed their