The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-02


exist and the cloth merchant would
have been cheated out OF tho half o.. his
Just due. That Is Just what the Pop
ulist programme proposes 10 DO. and
the Important question that arises 10
the workman In this country Is, who
are the creditors and who are the debt.
ors in this land?
An interruption.
/ tell YOU. gentlemen, Democrats
and Popullsts cannot stand together
on the same platform. "a volceA"wc
don't want you in the Democratic
party any morc.'':-laughter.) I Will
stop here Just long enough to say that
tonight no Democrat viii Interrupt
that typical Popnlist by telling him
that he cannot return to the Demo-
eraic party. prolonged cheers and
laughter.) ] have no objection 20 an
Interruption 50 long as II is good
one, but Railways thought and heard a
PopulIst could create disorder. Our
friend has proved II. CHEERS and a
voice cries ''Hit him again, Bourke."-
Laughter.)
The speaker said he hoped there
would, be no interruption at the Bryan
meeting. He said that In this cam
pnign he was engaged In u respectable
discussion OF the issues, and said that
no man present could say, he had not
been fair. CApplause.) The fact that
a man loses his temper Is q pretty
good Indication that the other fellow IL
getting the best OF the argument. "a
Voice-"Hurrah for Bryan."J 4 venture
to say. said the speaker. that that Is
the most Intelligent utterance that fell
low has made since he was born.
daughter and ~applause)k
Resuming the argument Mr.. Cock
ran proceeded to tear the platform of
the Popullstlc Democrats Numerically.
He said they had said silver was
demonetlzed. yet in the same breath
they admit that In 1873 It sold at a
premium OF four cents. MI, Bryan says
the stamp OF the government on any
thing Will increase Its value, then why
didn't the stamp OF the government
even on a gold dollar In 1873 bring x
up to the standard OF the silver dol
lar. which was only four cents higher?
As II IL now we keep 5000, 900. 900 of sill
yer dollars circulating and keep It on
atppr with gold.
Mr.. Bryan says the price given for
silver at the mlnts ot.the United States
would bring up the price OF the bullion
all over the world. Under the free and
unlimited coinage OF silver there
would be no price fixed at the mint.
The government would not buy II;
they would simply coin the silver as 1t
was brought 10 them and return 1t
coined to the mine owner to do with as
he chooses. II you Want those dollars
YOU VIII have to work Just as hard
for them as you do for your dollar now,
and 1t VIII only be worth half as
much. The value OF the dollar will be
simply what its bullion IS worth IN the
markets. The proposition that free
silver would make the silver dollar
equal In value to the gold dollar, Is pre-
p%osterous; ridiculous, absurd. Cap
platse.)
E In Mexico.
The speaker then described the condi-
ton of labor In free silver Mexico and
quoted prices of products and necessa-
rles of life and compared them with ours.
He said to cross the Rio Grande from
the United States Is like stepping into
another planet, so great Is the change.
He admitted that Mexico was not up to
our standard, but thought-it should show
some proportion Of prosperity as COM
pared with our own.
In speaking OF the assertion made by
Mr.. Bryan that W. must adopt an inde-
pendent policy In the United States. the.
speaker said We can't be Independent OF
foreign countries SO long as we trade
with them. He spoke al length of the
English financial system and eN-
planned how that country prospered af-
ter 1t had left the free silver coinage.
200 years ago. He said England has no
such land as ours and no such men, and
the United States, given the same wea-
pom; would lay England PROSTATE in a
short time.
He called attention to the fact that
three days wages to-day buys as much
as fira days wages did In 1873.
The Effect mt Home.
He. said you have here In your city a
great manufacturing establishment
known as the Riverside iron works. In
1873 they employed 900 men; to-day they
employ $500 men when they are work.
Ing. They pay out antlmmense amount
OF money annually. To-day that manu-
featuring establishment Is closed, all on
account OF the uncertainty OF the money
market. They cannot borrow money;
men have no money to loan nov when
they don't know what kind OF coin they
are to be paid back in. (Applause.)
illustrating another point, he said:
Let us take for instance this gold
watch case. Itis worth Its bullion value
plus the labor that has been expended
on II. II l melt 1t down into a ten dol
lar gold pieoe II Is worth nothing but its
bullion value, I could not buy a similar
watch case with the coin which would be
coined out OF this me-. Here there would
be an increase In the quantity of my
MONEY, but . decrease In the quantity Of
my wealth. The p~retence that men can
be enriched by swelling the volume OF
the currency Is a delusion which has
affected mankind at recurring intervals
since the dawn of civilization. Gap
plause.)
One Helping the Other.
]. have said that the laborer is the OBJ
ject of this conspiracy. and he is. But
let no man imagine that IL 1t were sue
~cessful the injury would all be borne by
the man who works with his hands.
He would be the first to suffer and the
last to recover from Its effects But
every producer OF commodities, the
farmer"as well as the manufacturer,
would be impoverished by the ruin Of.
those upon whose purchasing power the.
profits OF production depend; while the.
shock 10 civilization which would ensue
from such a breach OF public and pri-
vate faith would be irreparable. Its eff
feet no man could measure from any ex-
p%erience OF the human race. We can
not tell to what degree 1t would paralyze
Industry Ill were asked to define CIV
ilization,1 should say 1t was industrial
cooperation" Everything that a man
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