The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-07-11
Mr. HARRIS TALK.
The Currency was the Topic lie Dis
eu.sed-Free Silver Fniiacy.

The Currency was INC loFic nc bis'
e~u,sei-Free Silver Faiiacy.
Mr.. Hart spoke on the currency qucs-
ton and his remarks were interrupted
frequently by applause. The attention
given to the question 50 closely defined
showed that the pcople'dceply interest
ed in this subject. Mr.. Hart said:
Mr.. Chairman and Fellow cItizcns:-
You get too much wages. Your wages
should be cut In half
You have saved 500 in the bank.
When you need 1t for Il rniny day anu
go 10 draw 1t out, you should get but
You have $500 in the building assoc
citation. II you wish TO draw II out, You
should get bur $3.50.
BY toll and close economy you have
| carried an Insurance OF $1,000 on your
life. When the last hour has come and
the tired hands nre stiff In death. your
widow and fatherlesS children should
receive but $500 for the $1,000 You work.
cd for and stinted for and paid for.
There Is no stain on your cOuntry's
honor. There should be on 1t at least
one big black blot.
This is the voice OF free silver cry
llE III EilG SdSG uElI vi NobNA "a NAAhA
Idaho and Nevada and Montana and
MorInondUtn.
II sixteen ounces OF silver would sell
| anywhere In the world for one ounce
| OF sold-il anybody who has one ounce
OF gold were willing to let It 20 for six
| teen ounces OF ~Silver-there would be no
l6 to ! question In politics. II an ounce
| OF silver would bring 81 % In any mar
kct, the silver mine operators would
call In their speakers and send their
free coinage literature TO the. junk
| shop. Because no human being in the
world Will give ar ounce OF gold for
sixteen ounces OF silver the people OF
the United States are asked 10 take II
Mt that price. Because silver Is worth
| only Il little more than half 81 % nm
ounce the government OF the United
States IS threatened with trouble un-
less II declares that all the silver In the
world Is worth double Its market val
lie.
Trade Fixes Value.
Government can make the dcclara-
ton. but 1t cannot make the value.
Its declaration will not change the
fact. E,hen IN act OF Congress can
| blow out the sun light. or IL the
| OlliO llNCA ~ v tAhN AbAl Nv 'aAA
OF Mexico TO the Allegheny mountains,
It can do this other Impossible thing,
II any sane man were asked whether
| he thinks Congress can make n ounce
| OF silver two ounces by declaring that
II Is so, he would think the question too
| foolish TO answer. To suppose thai
Congress can double the quantity Is
not more foolish than 70 suppose that
Congress cnn double the market value,
Trade conditions fix market values.
| Silver and gold nrc merchandise be-
FIRE they are money, and h world OF
trade wants to know whit coined met
ais are worth with the mint stamp on
them. Then the world OF truIlc Is
ready to figure how much iron or cloth
or pottery or wheat II Will give for ont
OF them.
In my left hand I hold n $40 gold piece
In my right hnnd hold ten silver dol.
lars. l will let anybody melt the gold
piece, for after It Is melted 1t will still
| be worth $40. l will not let anybody
melt the ten silver dollars. for after thcy
are melted | shall have left but S. .;
worth OF metal. I should lose 81 IL by
the melting. The, world OF trade under
stands this and governs Itself accord,
ingly.
l # Il . . sA'N
The silver mine owners Side of tbs
case Is plain enough. He wants tn
government compelled to take from hin
the amount OF silver now In n dollar
52Its cents worth, stamp It zone dollar.
and hnnd It back to him free OF COS: I,
70 along on even footing with the EolL
dollar, which IL worth 100 cents every,
where. lie wants to buy twice as mucl
with his silver us he can buy now :
twice M much iron, twice rs mucl
Q~uccnSwarc, twice uS much wheat
twice MS much labor. il must be al
mittcd that II Il comes out this way AM
stays this way II will be n good thing 70
the silver mine owner. We shall lav
begun then 10 breed Il real race OF none,
kings whose true life story will max
Monte Crlstn" seem commonplace am
fiat. and whose power will BE lImitc,
only by the number OF tons they cal
take out OF the enrtil. Last year, the sill
yer producers OF the United State
mined 1900, 900 ounces of silver. In tn
market tr~,r product was Narth $4,000
600. Coined It would have made Ia
them CO., 06t. 900 silver dollars. They hn'
to sell Il for the $40, 900, 900. They asl
you and me TO help them to SO: tn
$50. 100000.
The Peoples Pork.
Where nrc We 10 come III? II We hclI
them to Increase their gains by 10000,
900 what nrc they going To do for us?
by our votes WI double the value Of thcI
product, how nrc they going TO help u
10 double the value OF Il products ar o
cur labor? Somewhere in the barre
there should be n piece OF pork for thns
OF ua who W no silver mines. WhCr
Is IL and how hiE IL It?
The silver mine owners and pO!it!
claus who DO their tnlking for them mr.
ready with tho answer. They promise
That there shall he more money In III
country and that n silver dollar ShRl
buy ns much as now