The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-05

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ILLNESS of Cornelius Vanderbilt.
This shows among other things
that it is only by the peculiar for
tune of having a succession of able
| financiers in family that immense
wealth can be kept long intact
Post.
1t shows something more. The
people of this country have paid
and are still paying dearly to ena-
BILE any man to accnmulate'such a
fortune as that of Vanderbilts. He
is one of lob men in the city of
Now York, who, the Now York
Tribune, the great organ of the
Gold Bugs boosted recently, could
buy every foot of land from Mary
land to Texas, at it's assessed valu-
alton. His wealth is estimated at
S1OO,OOOOOO. VIM. Waldorf Astor,
Minister to Italy under Harrison,
is worth even more, and has moved
to London, e;patriated his country
to roll in his wealth with the aris-
tocracy of our greatest foe and who
are exacting tributes from us in
gold.
Blaine said in his speech advo-
eating the unlimited coinage of
silver in the Senate, February Z,
1878: "The exclusively gold nation
like England, may show the most
massive fortunes in theru1ing class
es, but shows also the most help-
less and hopcleSS 0oocrty IN tie
humGle, acolhS oflitc."
This is part of Blaine's great
speech that the State Gazette,
through it's ferocious editor, the
Right Honorable G.. Poffenbarger
neglected to include in what he
called Blaine's speech as he gave it,
in that paper on Tuesday last
(See Cong. Record, Vol. 7, part l,
45 Cong pages 800, 824.) George
V did not desire that the Republi-
cans of Mason county should have
in their hands the authority of the
magnetic Blaine for the statement
of the fact that single gold stand
ard country like England had pro-
duced "3'uIing classes" but masses
whose poccrty was "AelpIcss and
| hOpcleSS," because this self-same
George V had always heretofore
educated the Republicans to be-
lieve that the mission of the Re-
publicans had been to bust up
CLASS and build up the "masses."
Sanator Foraker boosted i'll his
speech at the ratification meeting
following McKinley's nomination,
i (See Cincinnati Commercial, June
81 last, that "Silver was demone-
tized in 1878 and ever since then
we have been on single gOl0
standard basis"
| Truly have we been on gold
basis and truly do the lordly mill
ionaires desire it's continuance, for
"In 1860 there were but two million
aires in the United States, and no
tramps; but to-day there are 80, 900
millionaires and 100000 tramps."
1t is labor that erects the splendid
palace, and yet is forbidden to en-
ter it; it is labor that makes the
silk and broadcloth, and yet is for
biddcn to wear it; it is labor that
spreads the magnificent feast and
banquent, and yet is forbidden to
taste them, and it is labor that con-
verts the forest into building ma
terial for the home, and yet is for
hidden to occupy it.
Caesar had his Brutus, Charles
[ his Cromwell, and George Ill
had 100000 Americans whom he
charged with treason, but whose
patriotism laid the foundations of
this Republic, which George V is
now trying to return to his Kingly
Ancestors, by his wild and frantic
cry of
"Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold
Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
Molten, craven, hammered and rolled;
Heavy to get and light to hold;
Hoarded, bartered, bought and sold;
Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled;
Spurned by the young, but Rugged
by the old
To the very verge of the churchyard
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Price of many IL crime untold.
| Gold! Gold! Gold! Goldw
Capt. Thornburg's letter in this
paper is we'll worth the perusal of
every man, and more particularly
the farmer. He has always been,
and is now Republican, but
claims that his party has left him
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