Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-20

t&rN REFORM STANDS as the UfSC requisite.
No policy, however promising OF good
results, can take its place. Continua-
ton druing the next four years upon
the present financial system will bring
down upon the American people that
cloud OF impending evil, to avert which
should be the first thought Of statesmen
and the first prayer of patriots. Our
very institutions are az stake. To-day
with rapidly increasing population,
with widely swelling demands, the basis
OF cur money is relatively contracting;
and the people are passing into 4 servi-
Juds al the more dangerous because
it not physically apparent. The na-
ton Itself. as 20 other nations, is losing
the sturdy courage which could make
il defiant in the face of injustice and
wrong. From the farmer and the
tradesman 10 the government there is
apparent the shrinking from giving CT
fenSeleSt the vengeance OF some finan-
Cial power should descend. The bus.n-
eas man submits some portion OF his
judgment and his will, and the nation
submits some portion of its interna-
,.ODal right lest some mighty foreign
creditor ShCul6 make destructive de-
mands. Where will all this end if the
people shall decline TO assert them
selves? Where viii It end if the older
parties in their determination 10 main
tain themselves in power for powers
sake alone shall refuse TO recognize
the right and the hope OF humanity?
This country cannot much longer
remain free and independent against
the rest Of the world, nor can its people
much longer be free in the nOblest sense
of The term Of the United States,
debtor nation. shall follow policy die
tated by creditor nations We produce
all of the necessaries Of life. Other ma
tiOns consume our product. In the race
for existence il is q constant struggle
between producer and consumer. Our
present system OF money deliberately
submits 10 the desire and the profit o.
creditor nations, leaving us in the mass.
and as individuals. a prey to the old
world. As the debt 10 creditors abroad
increases on the masses of the nation,
the price OF human production on the
farm and in the workshop is decreased
with appalling rapidity, eXacting more
and more toll from our citizens TO meet
the given demand and holding over
their heads a threat Of the day when
cOnfscation to meet their obligations
will leave them bare and defenseless.
The only remedy is to stop falling
prices-the deadiest curse Of national
life. Prices will never cease falling
under the single gold standard. The
restoration of bimetallism by this coun-
try will double the basis Of our money
system In time il will double The
stock of primary money of the world
will stop falling prices and steadily ele-
vate them until they will regain their
normal relation to the volume OF de6ts
and credits in the world. Bimetallism
Will help 10 bring about the hope of
every social refOrmer. every believer in
the advancement of the race who re-
alizes that the instability Of prices has
been the deadly foe of our tOilers and
the servant of the foreign interest gath
erer Bimetallism will help 10 bring the
time when a certain expenditure ot hu-
man toll will produce a certain financial
result. Who among the great masses
of the people in the United States but
feels that his lot would De made better,
his aspirations take new wings if he
could know in the performance OF his
labor what would be the price OF his
product?
rs not this purpose worth the atten-
ton of the people as individuals, and
worth the attention of the political con-
ventions vet to be held in this year
1862 Is not this so great an end that
all who believe in the possibility OF at
tanning il by the means proposed can
Weld something OF their partsanship
bosh in conventions and at the polls?
II IS in the hope that the masses and the
remaining conventions will have the
courage and the generosity TO unite for
this purpose that we have dared TO
cffer our views TO the people of the
United States: and because in the past
there has lacked a rallying point Tor
the masses who hold as we do 10 TINS
belief. We venture an act. trusting II
will be received in the same spirit OF
cancellation, concession and hope with
which we nut it forth.
eve have endeavored in a plain way
10 set the matter before the eyes OF our
fellow citizens. We invoke the union
OF all men and all parties who believe
that the time has come for the triumph
Of Justice. It is an hour when the peo-
ple may speak for themselves as lndl-
viduals and through conventions yet 10
be held. IL is the right OF every citizen
10 indicate his preference. With this
in view we offer 10 the forthcoming
convention and 10 the people the name
of man for the Presidency of the
United States whose life in public and
in private represents those distinguish
cd virtues which adorned the days and
the deeds of the earlier time of this re-
nublic. a return TO which virtues is re
nuisite for the prosperity and content
ment OF the people and the perpetuity
and commanding example OF free insd-
tutions. That name is Henry NJ. Teller
"a man of the people and for the peo-
n1e He Is OF no section. His expert
ence and service. his devotion TO the
commoa Justice and the common cause
of his fellow citizens has been as wide
ss his country. We believe the people
of the United States have him in their
hearts as he has had their interests in
his purpose through all the work OF his
exalted life.
1T is not merely as the exponent OF
monetary reform that We present this
man 10 the people. 1t is true that he
has vaged a mighty war for the resto-
ration of the money of the constitution
and his name has been Identified as that
of no other living man with this great
cause. But had his services been less
demanded and less noticed in this di-