The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1896-08-14

find that did not venture any dennncia-
ton which depicts one-tenth Of the evil
which has happened. When l told You two
years ago what VIC Republicans would do
II chosen, l drew no fine picture, bnt sim
ply said to you that all we could do would
be to prevent evil. That We did, and 1t
takes II good deal Of sense sometimes to do
nd evil. We tried to do better, and had
the Democrats from the north risen above
party for good as tho six silver senators
sunk below party for evil tho revenues of
this country would have been equal to It's
expenditures, and wc should hlye been
two years nearer prosperity.
Greeting you this time with the same
frankncss, IAN bound to say that the evil
which has come to us by an unwisc reyi.
sion of the tariff has been greatly aggrayat-
cd by one OF Its conscqu enees-our loss of
revenue. Had there been no deficit, then
500, O00, 900 of borrowed gold would have
carried us through the crisis safe and
sound. As it was, the constant drain of
the deficit, continually COMPOUNDED with
the redemption of gold, has 50 afflicted the
Imagination Of our people that confidence
cannot commence to be restored until our
revenues equal our expenses.
The New Cure For Hard Times.
Periods Of depression ore common to the
human race. Doubtless you and Ithink
that If we had had the world to make we
would have had human progress arranged
on continuous upgrade, ten fest or bet
ter to the mile. But God knows human
nature more perfectly and knows we could
never stand such monotcny and must 90
up hill and down dale But while depres-
sions are common they have their agra
waiting causes, which must DO removed.
Then, when confidence comes, prosperity
follows How think that can DO reached
will tell you soon
Meantime let US see what Is proposed by
those gentlemen who within tho last two
months have discovered a new cure for all
the ills flesh Is heir to and who proclaim,
as they did four years ago, that they alone
hold prosperity in their grasp
Their remedy Is the coinage Of silver at
10 to 1. What does that mcans
Heretofore whenever gold and silver have
stood together 1t has been at the market
value When we tried to make gold and
silver circulate together, we have always
married them according to their market
value Today we find them not 10 toll,
but 81 to l, and we are going, they say, to
lift silver to twice its value, not BY tho
universal sense of mankind, which alone
makes values, but by the statute Of the
United States, single handed against the
civilized world
Why should the United States try to do
this alones
II the characterization of silver Is o dis
ease at oil, 1t Is world disease. i defy
anybody to find a single argument which
proves That tho characterization Of silver
would DO good for the United Stntes that
does not prove that 1t would be good for
the whole world. II tits world disease,
how can 1t be reached except by world
remedy International bimetallismI can
understand, but this driving out Of gold
and substitution Of silver Il only silver
monometallism for the United States. :
It is not bimetallism for the world and
stable currency, but the shifting from
gold currency and civilized Europe and
going over 70 silver and Mexico, Japan,
India and China. oh, but China, and
Japan, India and Mcyic6 are prosperous
Just pawi Yes but what kind Of prosper