Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-17


add we.gl. and proof to the argument
CT the Democrats.
Now. for the next proposition Of our
SLOW pupil on Fourteenth street:
Second. there is no dearth of silver
money. There are over 300 OOO,O0O tull
legal tender silver dollars lying in the
treasury, which the people will not use.
The best way to answer this PROPOSE
ton would be for the teacher in this
kindergarten to use a strap on the pu-
pills seat Of understanding, for it is
nothing more nor lcss than falsehood,
and a deliberate one at that, and it
should be the duty of every teacher to
punish his scholars when they tell tios.
And our Fourteenth 81. pupil knows
that this is a delib rate fib, for he knows
that every silver dollar in the treasury
is IN circulation through its paper rep
resertative. Silver dollars are bulky
and the people prefer 20 use ne paper
representatives of these silver dollars,
tn silver certificates. which call for sill
yer dollars en- pres NATION ct the Treas
ury Department, although Carlisle says
they call for gold on demand. Our
mendacious pupil ought to be ashamed
OF himself for declaring that these sill
yer dollars are not in use by tn people,
when he knows they are, through their
pape- representatives,. Il may be thar
the Fourteenth s.. youngstsr means TO
convey the false impression TO mis- read
er that under free coinage we would
have to lug about with Us pounds OF
silver and hire a boy 10 carry our monay
when we went to market. This pitiful
falsehood has been advanced before III
this campaign and as our pupil is none
TOO quick il may be that le has just
caught up with II. Under frea ana
unlimited coinage Of silver we would be
no more burdened With silver than we
nre al present, for instead Of the coins
b.ing pu, into circulation, their paper
representatives, as at present, would be
issued, and only so many Of the
actual coins paid out as were called for.
A silver certificate means that Uncle
Sans Treasury vaults hold in trus, the
silver dollars Ghe certificate calls for
and which will be paid to the holder
of The certificate on demand.
Now for our pupils final proposition:
Third. the government has not stopped
coinage So far this year nearly as many
silver dollars have been coined as were
coined in the eighty years previous TO
1873 The government will continue TO
coin silver dollars so long as trade de-
mands them.
This is answered in the answer TO the
first proposition. But we would advise
our pupil not to go a5ou, shouting this
proposition out of school; for, While the
government has not stopped silver coin
age entirely and has given it quite a
squirt during the present campaign Gor
what purpose cur readers are al liberty
10 guess). it was practically stopped after
the repeal of the Sherman act, that is
only enough silver dollars were coined
TO keep the mint machinery from rust
ing in idleness, and the amount coined
was an insignificant quantity until the
question of free coinage-the return to
the money Of the COnsti,ution-sud-
denly became the paramount issue in our
national politics, and the crime of '73-
the Hanna press can sheer at this char
acterization of it. but they know it was
crime and a secret crime-in which
silver was struck down as money metal
in the United States, was suddenly pre-
sented in a strong light through the gold
bond issues TO tn gold syndicate, show
Ing that gold is our only real money
through the rulings of the Treasury de-
partment, and silver not monsy Of final
redemption. At this juncture the L. S.
minis were set to work coming silver
dollars in the campaign year Of 1896, and
they are hus,ling at it now. 1t is like
the Rothschilds's and the Bank OF Eng
lands game to influence sentiment in
this campaign by suddenly reversing
their robber tactics and depressing the
rate of exchange so that gold would flow
this way, when every intelligent man
knows that if campaign were not on, in
which the gold gamblers have
big stake, the gold would
still be going the othsr way
and another big gold bond issue would
be the result. It is only thin trick
10 fool the people, and as for the present
coinage Of silver dollars by the minis,
thoss dollars, as we have said, might
as well be paper dollars, for under the
single gold standard they are only token
money and not money of final redemp-
ton. no. money in which Uncls Sam
can pay mis- debts, although they always
were prior TO 1873.
We would add to this lesson by in
forming our pupil that his talk about
Republication" and that me free coinage
advocates desire to pay in deprecated
dollars a debt that was contracted in