The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-09-23
{ AS A PREACHER VIEWS IT.

hev. Thomas Dixon, OF New York,
breaches Against Free slIvcr.From the
Text, "rhou Shalt Not stenl.u "A n
New York Press: "Thou sbnlt not
steal" were the words that Rev. Thomas
Dixon yesterday morning hurled at the
siilver-crazed Bryanites who ii week ago
Interrupted his sermon In the Academy OF
,,SS ,ho Yesterday lie had lot of police
Before the sermon the preacher mn.
hounced that. as far us helwas concerned,
niS hearers could say what they ple sed
whenever they saw lit. But the trustees
t iau ,rSsau i that he should announce
tnat they would not tolerate any disorder,
anu mat any one disturbing tho service
would be arrested. Z; -.
~, Ihou shalt not steal" said the speaker,
,o,.n tne iirst time In the history OF tho
mas been made the issue between the two
political parties. Free silver Is nothing
more nor less than scheme OF the silver
NINE owners to; boom their holding by
s'eanhS halt or the workman's earnings.
AZ Alchlniey's election Is the one thing,
me only thing. that will save the country
from riot. disorder and perhaps civil war,
an iss restore confidence in business circles.
Sollcltous friends tell me that do not
system. Though have made It a study
Tor years, l will admit that | do not uri-
derstand Its intrlcacies, but do know
ho.nTsessty from from dishonesty;
tne rest Of the world coin ,fltty-three
cents worth Of silver Into a dollar. and
by the authority OF Its army and Its courts
tSree II upon the people Is the plan OF
me free silver; alyocat ties. . 1t is a pro-
posal to repeal the Eighth Commandment,
to contiscate .one-halfa the. property, one.
hall the labor OF the nation. z7.1 ?.
Inc ratio OF l6 to. Is false. (VoIce
IRON II the q gallery "Why7'y Because The
Because one ounce OF gold the world over
VIII BUY thirty ounces of silver. II the
silver mine owenrs will SAY, Coin our
silver at Its market value. that's hon
Crime OF 20. Stun and nonsense, There
was comparatively no silver in circulation
then-only SS000,000. Since then $500. COO. 900
IN silver has been put in; circulation.
silver at premium OF two cents In
- kept II from being coined. That mis-
cradle. paltry two cents smothered the
patriotic souls OF silver mine owners. They
would let the nation go to hell for two
cents. Now these patriots offer to !coln
AZ they've got for the trlhlnE consIdera-
ion OF forty-seven cents on the dollar
~ silver has no stability. 1t has fallen
~ per cent In single day. Is that lust
weight or measure for n government?
IA. man was arrested as swindler in
New Jersey the other day for passing
trade dollars-whIcheco contain more silver
than the Bryan dollars-as godd dollars,
Is tho United States government to 20
into the counterfeiting business, too?
THE silver men say that the silver dol
lar Will rise In value to dollar. 1t Is
their assumption that 1t will rise You
can raise an assumption with the jaw
bone OF an ass. sSI. 80 -
Thomas Jefferson stopped the free
coinage of silver for thlrty-ono years,
Does anyone call him an enemy OF the
human race? 1t remained for Bryan. the
apostle OF panic, to discover these things,
II free cionage comes, and silver does
not rise. your dollar will be worth half
a dollar. II 1t does rise. oil products will
rise with it. and II will take two dollars
to buy one dollars worth Of goods. g.sy 3s7.
You can call n peck a bushel,if you
wish to. but you have no more potatoes
than you had before; call fifty cents a
dollar but you will not he any richer.
The silver men have adopted a new
code OF ethics. 1n7 their opinion money
borrowed belongs to the borrower.
suppose all these things are true about
England and Wall street, from whom we,
as nation, have borrowed: had we bor-
rowed from the devil In hell the honor
OF seventy millions of people is pledged
money. p s1-5-fII7'55t; 713';. -i,IT'"G-.
Il have not been preaching politics. but
gospel. Honesty is honesty. and Thou
shalt not steal applies to us as a nation
as much, as to us as individuals"