Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-03

10 Wheeling and consented 10 make sew
anal snaaches here. addressed an enthu-
siastic crowd of 2.0o0 persons on lower
Market Square last night. Mr. Turner Is
plain but very forcible speaker. he
presents his facts in very attractive FORM
and his arguments can DE readily under
stood He invited questions from the au-
dieuce. and several persons responded last
night.
The sneaker was introduced by Mr.. Van
Clear- and was greeted with applause
In his Introductory remarks he spoke Oh
The political situation in New York Clty
and state His eulogy of Bryan created
great enthusiasm. He ridIculed the idea
that t was purely curiosity which at
tracrsi the people 20 the Bryan meetings
The FIGHT I'M this campaign is peculiar.
II Is tho first time n platform is present
"a which has been framed In the interests
of the common people. IL is. therefore
GOOD time for the Republican workingmen
IN break away from party allegiance and
ioin the vast army Of workinsmen. The
sneaker took up the money question and
said there was no mystery In it. IL doesn'
take n banker to understand it; it doesn't
take philosopher TO comprehend H. we
.-ar-sl ont on the theory that the COM
mon people know what they want. For
8, eu the worlds history. there have been
some people who didn't want TO trust all
the people, and these people are the ones
who want an the money
The money question is simply one OF
sllpplv and demand II there is a snort
wheat crop. wheat goes up. doesnt II!
The same thing is true of money. one Oh
the greatest philosophers the world ever
saw John Stuart Anlls-and l might quote
from Aristotle and Hume-Mills says the
amount Of money. other things being
equal fixes the price of money. Wheeling
produces a great deal of iron. When there
is lots OF 10 the price goes down. Now Tor
four thousand years the world used all
the gold and silver and made money out
of both What DO YOU suppose would hap
.pen If. O. law was passed that you could no
longer make bread out of spring wheat?
Wouldn't the price Of fall wheat 90 up?
In 1873 q law was made demouetizing sill
yer. and of course gold went up. The de-
manI for the remaining metal was
doubled
What was the effect? Every time we go
10 buy a COLLAR we have TO give twice as
r..
MANY tons of iron as before here I'm Wheel
nr. don't you2 Bourke Cochran speak
ing iu Madison Square Garden. said he
knew farm products would 20 up, but the
wage Garner is arrayed against the farmer
I'm this campaign. and he took the side OF
the wage Garner. But they say the rate
of wages has been kept up. l have said
that DC requires twice as much product
TO set q dollar. but they say wages have
gone up Now. I don't know much about
the iron industry. but isn't IL true that
for the same wages an ironworker has 10
turn out more than twice as much prod
uct2
This question was answered with Yes
That's right" etc. from an parts of the
audience. He took up i'm this connection
the Republican contention that labor
saving machinery is responsible. Wages,
De said. have been kept mp 10y organized
labor and increas ed product.
Ii is question between those who have
the dollars 90 loan and those who have
the money 20 get Money obeys the mex
orabIe law of supply and demand. We
are a great. growing nation. adding to
our population. but not 10 our money. APP
ply this proposition 10 other products.
The wheat which feeds G0o0O.0oO Of people
will mo-, Poe enough for 70000oO0, will il?
Mr.. Mckinley has suddenly discovered
that we have money enough I'm the coun-
try. 7 saw suddenly. because he had not
discovered fl five or six years ago. In
1888 We had $3.50 per capita; to-day S2llo,
less money than We had three years ago.
III The Republican party comes into power
and stays for twenty years how are we
gong 90 get another dollar2 If any Re
publican can answer that let him send his
answer 10 Mckinley. and if elected he will
make him Secretary of the Treasury.
How are prices of labor i'm cities affect
ed You turn out iron and steel products.
and if the farmers cannot buy them i'm
dustry IS paralyzed. Republicans say we
want restoration of confidence. l agree
with them. bat the only way to restore
confidence is ou rising market. not on
falling market. Are your houses going
down in price, You answer Yes then
who win buy II ne expects TO lose if he
sells AGAIN I'm year? That is lack of con-
hdence. A man would be- a fool 10 trade
a gold dollar that is going up for wheat
that IS COINS down. Unless YOU add TO
the money of the country prices will 20
down. there will Dee q lack of confidence.
and hard times VIII continue.
The speaker quoted from Mckinley in
1891 that cleveland IN his first administra-
ton dd everything to increase the price
OF money. and lower the price of every
thing else. But that was before Mark
Hanna bought him. As the money gets
scarce-aud 10 is bound TO DO that with an
increasing popUHtion-I want to Impress
that one fact ON you. But the Republican
party declares for bimetolism. when We
have the consent OF the commercial ma
ticus q the world Why. IL the gold
standard is good thing. is Mckinley
pledged I'm his letter of acceptance to de
part from it2 But they say We need the
worlds concurrence. it's worlds dis
ease and needs worlds remedy. Now
let me ask a question II half dozen Of
MS had the itch couldn't one of us scratch
until his ueigbbors fen i'm?
What benefits will accrue from the free
coinage of silvero We will add 10 the coin
money OF this country about S7o00000O
year. the product OF all the silver mines
OF this country. That would add about
one dollar per capita every year. Wei.
what cood viii it do9 They say the mine
owner sets &c. We'll If I ann q mine own
er and Eet my bullion stamped into money.
won't D invest it. or no worst won't I put
e. I'm bank and n I DO. won't the bank lend
it out and thus get fl fin circulation? That
viii restore confidence. and by and by
prices viii stop falling and start to rise
They say We must wait for Englands
consent. We owe England seven thou
sand millions Don't YOU suppose they