Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-09-20
GEN. c. c. WATTS At Davis.
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ed the passage Of the act of 1869, max
Ing the bonds payable in coin. and then
they proceeded 20 tel what coins they
wanted. by striking silver down, max
ing gold the only money metal Shsr-
man saws the white metal was demon
etized in 1878. on account Of is incOn-
veaiencs in size. weight and form.
The Constitution expressly s,ipuiateS
.hat the currency OF the United States
shall be both gold and silver. The coin
age of the white metal has been advo-
Gated By all the great leaders N the
Republican party Silver fought the
or at wars of the nation, and maintain
ed IT'S parity alongside Of gold without
legislation. Il was struck down n 1873
for whom? No; for the people OF
West Virginia, &. OF the country, but in
the interest OF the spectators. who
cared for you only to the extent that
they could drain you Of your earnings.
and your pOss =ssl0ns. Barnes history,
taught in your public schools. is good
authority. and ia saws that silver was
dsnOne,ized IN 1873. end that god new
sr sold az par IN New York until 1879.
EFFECTS Or DEMCNETIZATICN.
Meanwhile. your products were going
i-xu in price Everything you raised
T-s higher in 1873 than to-day, or al
1-v Tine since the act of that year To-
l2y tae mortgages on real estate in
WEs- Virginia amount TO S19,7O2.50S.
Think Of IT, Farmers and real estate
owners have .pcum bT91Ces upon their
property, anOunIng 10 nearly twenty
millions And YOU are asked 10 SO 10
the polls sEd vote for a financial policy
which VII make Ii impossible for you 10
pay of -hes mortgages, and will I'm
pOver.sh YOU to pay even The Interest
upon them. Is 4; not time for The peo-
pie 70 demand of the sseU,atiTes that
they ord r the money power 10 take Us
hands from the threats Of the people?
Redpa-h. the eminent his
torian. SAYS that The twenty years prior
TO 1878. were the most prosperous in
the history Of the world. Prices had
steadily advanced during that period,
but since 1873 they have rapidly and
surely declined
Gen. Watts showed Nd tbs record Of
Stephen p. Elk.ns on silver. contrasting
his recent utteIances with his address
made l. fore the meeting of Republican
clubs az Fa,rmoct. TWO years ago He
read from q phanplet publication of
the speech. circulated by the Repu6l-
can Committee. This was greeted with
prolonged cheers. Continuing. he said
that prior TO -. The farmers owned
more than 50 per cent. OF the wealth ~
'tis coun nv: to-day they own less tlan
20 per cent. The people have become
impoverished, and mil!iOnair5s have
multiplied. Why was silver stricken
down? For whose benefit?
From 1892 to 1873 over $1G5 100000 Of
silver money was coinsd In the United
States. and we had besides tGe Spanish
Mill Dollar, and the silver coins OF other
nations Republican speakers are at
tempting TO deceive YOU with the stat
ment that only $S,000,0C0 were coined.
That was the number OF dollars, my
friends. but the amount of silver money
in all the demon nations VS. S105,OJ0.
600. Silver in bullion was above par,
and that Is one reason why more OF it
was not coined There never was 4
year. or 3 month. or day. or an lOur,
from 1892 20 1873. that one could not
take your bullion TO the minis and have
Il coined INTO money. applause.
VALUE OF THE SILVER DOLLAR.
Yet YOU are told by the money power,
which is behind h single gold stand
ard. that they favor silver, provided Won
can secure the concurrent action OF all
the civilized nations. Why. my friends
Jim Hullng was nominated and elected
in my district two yeats ago, dpon a sill
yer platform. Mckinney had an almost
unbroken record In Congress n favor
of silver. The lines to-day are drawn.
not between the parties, but between
the money power and the people.
But they say the silver dollar Is worth
only 50 cents. Have any Of You ever
seen q silver dollar. with the United
States government. stamp upon Il. WORTH
less than q hundred cents. Cod n His
nfuite wisdom. placed silver in me
ground alongside OF gold, and hnth.
from Biblical times % the pres ent, nave
been used as money metals. Cen
Watts continued At some leng,h. his
argument showing tina. under free coin
age silver viii appreciate IN value. IN
nj the ratio between the two money
metals will be 16 to 1. as 1t always was,
approximately. before the white meal
was 6enone,lze3. He closed with an
eloouen. eu,ogy of Bryan, and 4 pero-
ration in which he asked his hearers to
rebuke the money power, and vote Tor
Bryan, fire. silver and prosperity.
Gen. Watts was followed with a brief
speech by Chairman Cornwall, Of the
Congressional committee
HARRY Y. ARKLE.
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