The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-19
"A Lawyers Advice.
Plttsburg Post.

Plttsburg Post.
In the past few weeks I have
been frequently approached for adj
vice by clients and others who are
compelled, by reason of the hard
times, to borrow money, as to
whether or not it would be advis-
able to sign mortgage STIMULATING
for interest and principal to be
paid in gold.
My borrowing friends, the first
question to ask yourselves under
such circumstances is, do you be,
lieve in the free and unlimited
coinage of both gold and silver,
and do you believe that the free
silver movement will win in No
vember? If yes, you need have no
hesitancy in signing the gold clause
mortgage. Why? Because the
very meaning of the free coinage
of silver ut the ratio of is to | is
the legal establishment of the pari-
ty of the two money metals at the
ratio of Is to 1, thus making the
silver dollar as valuable as the gold
dollar, with the same debt paying
power as the gold dollar. In other
words, the silver dollar is made by
law a legal tender for the payment
of all debts, both public and pri-
vate. So that when your gold
clause mortgage falls due you can
do one of the two things, viz, pay
it off with the legal tender silver,
for it will not be refused, or, if it
is refused, take your silver and get
the gold, for, be it remembered,
your 5000 silver dollars will buy
5000 gold dollars, and you will not
have to pay any premium for the
gold when we have free coinage of
silver BE it further remembered
that the abolition and displacement
of premiums on gold will be the first
blessing and godsend to the poor
of this nation. The very purpose
of the law is to replace the white
metallic life-blood of this country,
and place it upon an equal foot
ing with gold, in every channel of
trade, both foreign and domestic,
Just as it was prior to the vicious
legislation of 1878. So sign the
gold mortgage, if you will work for
free silver and Bryan and have
faith in their triumph next
November.
But, if you believe gold and the
gold forces will win, | warn you
beware of the gold clause mortgage.
1t is commanding,a premium to-
day in different parts of this coun-
try, to say nothing about its pre-
miums in foreign countries, and
will command much greater pre-
MUM if the single gold standard is
continued by the results of the No
vember election. Beware of the
this artifice, this trick, this often
repeated fraud of bankers and
money brokers to scare the people,
and especially the poor laborer, in
to supporting the gold standard
and to induce them to believe that
gold will not command premium
If gold wins. It is only for the
purpose of diverting your minds
from proper understanding of the
question.
Also, be it remembered, when
you hear such bosh, that to-day we
have a rich money gold at a pre-
mium) and poor mans money
(demonetized eilver.) The poor
do not ask for class legislation, for
they are honest and fair, nor do
they request more for themselves
than they are willing to give to
their neighbor banker, but they
do ask that by the free coinage of
silver their deprecated money be-
restored to and placed on an equal
ity with gold by the free and un-
limited coinage of both gold and
silver at the ratio of 16 to l, with
the same debt-paying power of our
robber gold. b. j. KENT.
Forty-fve millionaires residing