Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-27
CARLISLE CALLED DOWN.
A Correspondent Replies to His rive 'ur'
rency "Axioms" With Ten Others

Weston, w. Va, June 20.
To the Editor of the Register,
notice that the Intelligencer Is running
in black type at the head of its eGltorial
column Hon. John G.. Carlisle's so-called
axioms. five in number. l enclose you an
answer made to them by myself October,
1So5 in the State Times, at this place:
The Hon. John G. Carlisle in one OF MS
speeches tickled the ear of the gold bugs
bv delivering himself of five co-calied AK
IONS. which the gold press throughout the
country is circulating as something won
derful, profound an unansweraole. 1hey
are as follows:
First-There is not free coinage country
IN the world to-day that is not on silver
basis.
Second-There' is not a gold standard
country in the world to-day that does not
use silver money along with gold.
Third-There is not a silver standard
conntrv in the world to-day that uses any
gold along with silver.
Eourtb-There is not silver standard
country in the world to-day that has more
than one-third of the circulation per cap
tia that he United States mas.
Fifth-There is not a silver standard
country in the world to-day where the Ia
boring man receives fair pay for his days
work.
We Offset them with ten others. which
Is two to one; but if necessary We can fun
nish 16 to l.
First-Therc is not free coinage country
in the world to-day that is not enjoying
unexampled prosperity, the only drawback
being a foreign debt contracted on the gold
basis.
second-There is not gold standard
country in the world. to-day, outside of
the United States, but whose population
has fallen off from 20 to 40 per cent. in TIE
last twenty-one years; and not one In
which there is not unexampled depression
distress, sorrow, idleness, souphouses and
poverty.
Third-There is not a silver standard
country in the world to-day that has any
need of gold money except TO settle foreign
balances and the interest on the bonds
bs,d Inv ]. Bull, Rothschilds' combination
and Wall street.
Fourth-There is not a gold standard
country in the world to-day that the bulk
Of the gold is not locked up in the treas
urv or in the banks, or stored away by
those who are always trying to corner it,
n order to bleed the people, and there fore
the people are suffering from Sound
money asphyxia.
Fifth-There is not silver standard
country in the world to-day where there
are any idle deposits lying in the banks,
all the money being in active circulation
and drawing large interest. and the circu-
lation per capita in the United States, of
actual money, is just about what it is in
Mexico. nearly all the money of ultimate
redemption being hid away in the vaults
of the treasury and national banks.
Sixth-There is not silver standard
country in the world to-day where the la
boring man is not receiving full pay and
more regular work than ne ever received
before. And there is not gold standard
country in the world to-day where vast
proportion of the people are not idle, and
where wages are above the rate Of 1919,
EXCEPT where they have been maintained
bv the stubborn persistence of the labor
unions.
Seventh-There is not a silver standard
country in the world to-day where the peo-
DIE are not doing better than ever before.
Eighth-There is not gold standard
country in the world to-day where the peo-
ple are not in more distress and suffering
more loss and more apprehension than ever
before.
Ninth-There is not a silver standard
country in the world to-day that has to
employ Rothschilds combinations to keep
the country from bankruptcy.
Tenth-There is not a gold standard
country in the world to-day but whose peo-
pie are clammoring for bimetallism and
the determined 10 have it.