The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-26

famous, as to where gold could bc
d--eyerywhere.even among the san
Domingo negroes but could not be
found In the United States.
'.They determined they would have
gold. What did they do7 An act wac
passed BY a Democratic Congress anu
signed by Andrew jackson in 1881, an6
amended In 1887. which has established
the ratlo OF &c to | that YOU hear 10
much about-ls to l that people bow
down and worship. IT Is sort OF Aus.
tralisn clan deity-a kind OF beast that
you IRE to get up and worship. CAP
plause.) Sixteen to one. y Is not quite
accurate, It Is 159Ss, which Is close
enough to BIO sixteen. Sixteen ounces
OF silver were TO be coined Into Just
as many dollars as one ounce OF gold.
Sixteen ounces OF silver would pay the
same amount OF debt that one ounce OF
gold would pay. Now II turned out. and
II was well known that II would turn
out that way. for they said they want
cd to bring gold In Silver had been as
they called It undervalued, that rs 20
say! sixteen ounces of silver were
worth about 20 1 per cent more In the
market than one ounce OF god, II the
fellows who had the gold and silver
wanted to swap the man who held the
sixteen ounces Of silver would say: Il
can get mora from the man who wants
to make spoons out of II aud can SET
more from the man who wants TO send
1t abroad or from the. man who makes
ornaments than Lean byttaldng 1t TO
the mint" What was the result? No
silver coined. And i once offered to bet
a senator of the United States hun,
drcd dollars that he had never seen a
silver dollar In his life until 1878. and
there Is No man In this audience who
ever saw N silver dollar until 1878, eX-
cept as q matter OF curiosity. This
"dollnr OF the fathers" that they talk
about Is the dollar the fathers kicked
out In 1894 under TIL, lead OF jackson
and Old Bullion for the purpose of
bringing In this horr!G gold bug" dol
lar. and from 1874 I'm the war, from
1879, tho resumption OF specie pay
ments, until to-day. this country has
been upon gold basis and is on a
gold basis to-day; and now 1t Is pro-
posed with that experience, we shall
change It, In the twinkling Of an eye,
and go back to the rejected basis that
was thrown aside sixty years ago. Not
only has England adopted the gold
standard, but France, Germany. Switz-
crland, and Russia. but we ourselves
under Democratic lead with the grand
old jackson and grand old Benton at
the head deliberately adopted the gold
standard sixty odd years ago and we
are asked by the boy Orator OF the
Platte" to change It.. daughter and APP
plausc.)
5}. Why Should We ChnnIei
Nov / an going to ask why should
-We change It? That comes directly
home to the specific arguments that
Intend to address to this specific audi
cncc OF railroad men. You have the
gold dollar to-day. The paper you are
paid in that is the grcenback. Is eX-
changeable for gold. These treasury
notes Issued under the act OF 1890, you
can 20 to the treasury and get gold Tor.
II It Is a silver certificate, you can take
1t to the custom house of the United
States and practically exchange 1t for
gold. 1t Is all upon a gold basis, and
although the silver in the dollar Is
worth but about lifty-one cents to-day,
the government Is behind 1t and has
promised by statute that 1t shall be
equal to gold, and that promise, faith
fully performed by Grover Clevcland,is
what makes 1t equal to gold to-day.
(Applause)
Now why should you change It, you
railroad men? You are asked 10 vote to
vote to change It. Your wages are paid
In money. You don't want the money
except for the purposes OF Investing II
IN something else. You no longer hide
1t In stockings. You cont put II In the
chink Of the house. If You have 1t to
invest you take 1t to the savings bank
or to other banks, or You put 1t into
home. or you buy those things which in
civilized life we regard as necessary
for the comforts of life. Now You are
deliberately asked in this campaign by
Bryan to declare that this country
shall go back 10 silver standard and
get of the gold basis: that we shall
now coin silver Mt the ratio OF 16 10 J..
You all know,for you have heard It told
over and over again, that 1t takes about
thirty-two ounces OF silver TO buy one
ounce OF gold.
ct am vice president OF a silver conf
pany. am one of these silver fellows
In that respect. The company was re-
fcrred to by Senator Camden when he
gave an account of how the fall in sill
Yer affected the wages In that COM
pany, and he told the exact truth.
When we began mining. silver was
worth about ninety cents. 1t fell 10
iifty-five and is down now TO. sixty
four. Everything has gone up In Mex
leo. everything that those people have
TO buy has gone up, but the wages? Oh,
no. They stand exactly. where they
did, and he might have added that tai
low candles were being melted upon the
steam pipes for the purpose of spread
ing them on the corn pone. (Applause)
You know ittakes thlrty-two ounces
Of silver to buy one Of gold. You have
free coinage 16 10 l. Gold leaves you
just as 1t did In 1872, just US silver left
In 1884 and stayed away except for the
subsidiary coinage. So gold would pass
away. You would be on n silver basis
and that dollar would be worth Its
bullion value. II they would make an
honest dollar Of silver, thirty-two to
one, that would make Z Very good :
wheel. (Applause) Showing. sample
OF a th!rty-two 10 one doliar) That Is
on the basis OF what l show you. But
they don't propose 10 make an honest
dollar. II Is not honesty they are after.
They purpose 10 make dishonest dol
lar. They purpose to declare that six
teen ounces of silver shall be equal to
one OF gold, and they reduce the value
OF the dollar to flfty-one cents Is that
a good thing FOR you? (Cries of no.)
baltimore Is Ohio Pay Rolls. *
LET us get ut 1t from your own pay.
rolls. your own personal experience.
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