Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-09-29

sane man knows that the cause OF free
coinage will never win through the ef-
forts of the Republican party, as now
constituted. organized and controlled in
its leadership. All the leaders, the plat
form. everyone connected with that or
garization are irrevocably and unreserv-
edlv committed to the single gold stand
ard-to the MONEY OF THE RICH
MAN. as Mckinley called it in recent
campaign-and are controlled absolutely
by European and Wall ST. influences,
the same men who have made tens
of millions out OF the recog-
milton of the gold standard I'M
lawfully by The Secretary OF the
Treasury and his Republican predeces-
sor. and by manipulating the gold which
they alone control. These syndicated
sharks have increased the public debt
hundreds of millions Of dollars in the
last few years, since Secretary Foster,
under Mr.. Harrison's administration,
first surrendered the governments OPP
ton to pay the governments obligations
in silver or gold, and making it the op-
ton of the bondholder and the note
holder. as 10 whether they should receive
silver or gold. There would have been
no raids on the treasury, no gold bond
Iissues-sold at an enormous sacrifice-if
Secretary Foster and Secretary Carlisle
had followed the plan of Secretary Man
ming. who maintained the lawful option
of the government by paying out silver
when il was most convenient for the gov
ernment to pay in that coin. Under his
truly Democratic administration of the
Treasury Department there we're no
raids on the Treasury gold reserve by
Heidelbach, Ickelheimer & Co. and the
other gold pirates of Wall St. and their
European clients, and at the same time
the absolute parity of the two metals was
maintained by Secretary Manning VINO
forced tie banded gold interests 10 rec
ognize the same by exercising the gov
ernments option. He compelled the
gold gamblers TO recognize the fact that
this government recognized that silver
was as good money as gold. It has been
only since the miserable surrender Of
this lawful option of the government to
the bond syndicates that the gold re-
serve has been attacked.
Now, as Senator Wolcott knows, the
men who have been at the head and front
of the raids on the Treasury gold are
the very men, who, by their power and
influence, forced the single gold standard
plank into the ST. Louis platform, al
though it constituted a complete and
shameful qualification of the party and
its candidate. These men are now on
Mark Hannas committee to gather
funds for McKinley's campaign, and in
their own private fortunes represent
more than half a billion dollars.
These men make millions out of the
single gold standard, whenever they
choose to turn greenbacks into gold,
draining the treasury reserve and COM
pelling nice fat bond issue in order 10
maintain" the gold reserve and the
parity of all our money with gold"
They are not doing this raiding just at
present. They fear the effect another
looting of the treasury and another bond
issue would have on the campaign.
Indeed. they are even giving up gold to
keep the reserve up to the mark; their
European clients have been sending it
in by the million; but every Intelligent
man knows that another bond issue
would have been forced long ago, if it
had not been that a campaign was on
in which the maintenance of robbery Of
the American people was an issue. These
are the people, these are the influences
that are backing the Republican party
in this campaign, yet Senator WolcotJ
has the effrontery to tell his hearers out
in Colorado that their only hope OF get
ting free coinage lies in voting the Re-
publican ticket, in other words, voting
TO turn over 70 the gold sharks the Treas
ury Of the United States. Senator VOL
cott's attitude in this campaign is little
short OF shameful.
your interests and mine" said he
smoothly to mis- hearers, ARE all in Col
orado." But he did not tell them that
his interests were all in gold mines.
The New York World has a page de-
voted to a couple Of interesting para
graphs, one from Edwin Gould on the
subject of If I Were a Tramp and the
other from a notorious "hobo" called
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