The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-05-19
1he Rerl,,er 1, N Troahle.

The ReglIter Is In Trouble.
The Braxton Democrat calls the Reg
lister q "goId-buG'' and by doing 50
arouses that amlable newspapers ire.
The Register is disturbed because Just
d this time 1t is embarrassing for a
Democratic newspaper, especially a
Democratic newspaper In West Virginia,
10 be called a "Gold-buS." Tho most
probable thing in the world is that the
Democratic national convention will de-
clare in favor Of the free coinage Of Rll-
vsr. and the Register will have to en-
dorse that declaration.
In any case the Democratic party in
west Virginia is a free silver party. 1t
win send to the Chicago convention a
majority of It's delegation. perhaps the
whole OF 1t, to fight for free silver. The
men tits grooming to run for Congress
expect to run on free silver platform.
SO II comes about that the Register
thinks 1t Is not nice to be called gold
bug'' and that the foul lmputatlon must
be resented and proceeds to resent 1t in
he following bungltnE and altogether
SHY way:
The Register stands for sound money
that T.. the money Of the constitution 6.
IA I policy that WILL reduce our currency
% the single silver standard any more
than Il believes In tho other extreme pol.
Icy that would maintain the single gold
standard. The question Is TO provide for
the coinage OF these precious metals on
p1Flty which viii keep them In circula.
don Side by side in the channelE OF trade
ana not make money Of one and com
modify Of the other, which must be the
result Of coinage At an unjust ratio.
Anybody who can discover what all
this means will understand It. The glst
oft seems to be that the Register doss
not believe in a single gold standard. In
other words, the Register does not be-
iIsve in standard Of silver alone and
does not believe in a standard Of gold
alone This means a double standard,
II II means anything.
Now a double monetary standard Il as
impossible as a double potato standard.
we can no more have two kinds Of
standard money than we can have two
peek measures of different capacities
and make both pecks bring the same In
the potato market. The real peck viii
sell for a peck; the abort peck will sell
fnr what It Is.
what Is standard? webptcr's Die.
tionary defines a standard to be: That
which Is established by law 81 rule for
the measure Of quantity. extent. value
or quality; especially the original specl-
men weight or measure sanctioned by
government. as the standard pound,
gallon or yard" And again: THE pro-
portion OF weights Of fine metal and al
10y established by authority"
What would be thought OF govern
ment that would estabIlsh two standard
pounds. one containing sixteen ounces
more than the other; two standard gal
Ions. one containing four quarts more
than the other; two standard yards, one
containing thirty-six inches more than
the other. This Is precisely the double
monetary standard proposition to which
the Register. in a heavy stress of
weather, commits itself.
What we can have 10 what
we have nov. one standard for
the measure OF all moneys.
and oil other moneys than those OF the
standard itself kept going on nm cHuaIl-
" with the money Of tho standard. Or,
we could change the standard In silver