Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-08-20

This is not the first time Mr.. Cochran
has mace this assertion, which is not less
brutal than it is unruthful and an af-
front to the homer and intelligence Of
the masses Of The people, who are de-
handing a reurn to the money of the
Constitution. Who is Bourke Cochran
that with breath he can reverse all
history and our laws and make that dis
homes, which has always hitherto been
honest? We have better and ADLER men
than he taking issue with him on this
point. Mr.. Cochran surely remembers
the Stanley Mathews resolution which
passed Congress in 1878. Ii was as fol-
lows:
Resolved. That all the bonds of the
United States issued or authorized 10 De
issued under the said acts OF congress
hereinbeioTe rccited are paNao!e pTll ,, ~
e,Gy-I-f3S,ffE%T OF THE UNITED
STATES iu silver dollars of the coinage
of the United States. containing az
grains each of standard silver, @lu nc ~
restore TO its coinage Sucn SllNeI Guns o.
"a legal tender i'm payment 81 S.tlH " 3yIO
, principal and interest IS MOI ~ NN lG57
I.ATT0N OF THE PUBLIC FAITH, y u -
IN pEROGATION OF THE RlOli1o VI
THE PUBLIC CREDITORS.
VIII Mr.. Cochran digest that last eX-
messed sentiment and then repeat his
howl that those who upaOld the Chi
c9go platform are dishonest? This res
olutfon was passed by the Senate by
vote Of 10 yeas-23 Democrats, IS Re
Dublicans and / Independent voting for
#. The nays were only %, and were
made up Of Z Democrats and Is Repuo-
Iicqns. In the House the resolution
Dassed by a vote Of 1S9 yeas-116 Dem
ocra.s and 10 Republicans-to ~ nays
. % Democrats and Sc Republicans. The
resolu ion passed both houses by a two
thirds vote. In the House, General
Bragg of Wisconsin; John G. Carlisle,
of kentucky: General Keller. Of Ohio;
Major william Mckinley. Of Ohio; VIII
liam r. Morrison. of Illinois; William
Springer. of Illinois, and Secretary of
the Navy Hilary \. Herbert voted for
the measure. In the Senate William
Allison. of Iowa: James B. Beck Of Ken
lucky: Joseph Z. Macdonald, Of Indi-
ana: Richard Oglesby of Illinois; viii
liam Window. of Minnesota, and 4S
other Senator's in high standing sup
ported the measure with their votes.
VIII Mr.. Bourke Cochran state that
these distinguished men Of all parties
were dishonest in their votes at that
time? If Mr.. Cochran is right now
they mus, have been dishonest If they
were not Mr.. Cochran has deliberately
falsifed the issue and slandered the
masses Of The people who support the
CHICAGO platform.
"The people of this country" says
Mr.. Cochran enthusiastically. will not
change the institutions that have stood
the tests and experiences Of century"
Presumably Mr. Cochran means to con-
vey the impression that the single gold
standard is one Of these century-old in
s.i.u.ions. Now the yeriest schoolboy
knows thar the reverse is true and hat
bime.aIlism. the free coinage of gold
and silver is the cenury-old institution
and that the single gold standard Is an
exDerimen,-and a disastrous one
dating only from 1873.
sir. Cochran could lot refrain from
INDUCING in he usual rot about The
Chicago attack on the Supreme Court"
constituting a very mild and jus, cri,i-
cism Of that Court, which is not infalli-
bic. as a plot to overthrow it. Com
pared to some attacks that have been
made upon that body by some Of the
foremost and most honored statesmen
of their time the Chicago criticism is
extremely mild. Il is certainly just.
Mr.. Cochran devoted the major por-
ton of his speech to an attempt 10 show
that under free coinage labor would be
paid in ffty-cent dollars, or in other
words, that wages would be cul in
half Now Mr.. Bourke Cochran has
snmcien. knowledge Of human nature
and the average employer Of labor to
know that if they believed any such ar
rant nonsense as this that the big cap
ijalists and heavy employers of labor,
instead of being almost solid for the sin
gle gold standard would be falling over
one another to support free coinage.
TIE reconciliation of silver, the doub-
ling of the naion's money of final re-
demp.ion. will double the value of
every commodity, including that which
the work.ngman has TO sell-his labor.
BY making money plenty and easy free
coinage would inevitably inaugurate
one of he grandesc revivals in business
and Industry that the country has ever
witnessed. 1t would be solid prosperity
and in this prosperity labor would come
for its full share, for this is a nation of
laborers. and what benefits the nation
benefits labor. Everybody knows that
tigh. money, a contracted currency,
mean hard times. and that easy and
plentiful money means good times, and
that in sood times industry prospers
and wages advance. All the windy