The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-09-01
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The Hanks, tho People uni the Cumpnfgm.
The Pittsburgh Post ,hlnta II Is doing
n noble thlIs for the cause OF tho syndl.
cate OF millionaire silver kings by pub.
fishing u circular scnt by Chairman.
llannn to n number OF bankers asklng
tl,cir cooperation In the campaign TO
preserve tho Integrity Ut tho govern.
mcnt and Its financial honor.
: The Posts Idea, or course, Is to mako
It appear that only the banks and capt.
tnllsts are to benefit by tho maintenance
OF n sound dollar, and It appeals to tho
prejudice which tho Popocrats are en-
dcavorlng to create In tho minds OF tho
people against tho banks OF tho country.
1t is the very essence OF demnEogy aud
Ia an attempt to create hostility to bank
ers for Il partisan purpose.
The appeal will not infect any but
the most ignorant. who do not conaldcr
that the dcposltors and the Stockholders
OF banks are the millions OF common
people: that these millions are the credit
tors Of the banks and that It Is the
soundness OF their money which the Re-
publican party stands pledged To main:
tain.
a reading or the circular referred to
shows TINT there is nothing In It which
should excite anybody, Chairman Han
ma set forth the crisis that Ia facing the
country In the attempt to force us to an
unsafe and unstable monetary standard,
and details tho character OF the cam
palgn being made, for which funds arc
needed. Similar circulars are sent to all
classes OF people, Just Ns they, are sent
In all campaigns by both parties. The
circular says:
The national committee will Immediately
enter upon the most vigorous campaign
In every city, town and hamlet OF every
state, doubtful or non.doubtful, through
approved speakers and through the dIITii-
sion OF the best tracts which have been
written upon the several subjects. II Is
also our wish TINT every thoughtful citl-
zen, no matter OF what party, will join
GAR,IRy! H oS % TTk coN %E INT \ DTS TO
THAT WE ARE ALI. MEMBERS OF
ONE COUNTRY, NIT RELIEVING
THAT MANY HONEST MEN ARE UN-
DER 4 DELCSION WHICH ARGU-
MENT WILL REMOVE, md TINT many
others are mlsled by those who have not
the interests OF the country ut heart.
No reasonable man will see In this
anything which Is unpatriotic or calcu-
lated to array class against class, such
as we find In the speeches OF William ].
Bryan md the appeals OF his campaign
managers. The people of this country
are intelligent enough not to be affected
by a silly attempt to make them believe
that II a hundred cent dollar Is good for
M man Is not also good for another.
AS Chairman Hanna says, "all
are members of one country" and equal
~ interested In a victory for honest
money, based on the safest and best
standard.
The sound money people In this cam
paIgn. from William Mckinley down to
the humblest voter. are not carrying on
their campaign by appeals to class pre-
judice, nor to d~emagoglc i%ndulSences In
attempts to arouse passion. but are CON
Quoting the contest In a reasoning spirit
everywhere. from Maine to California.
The common people" about whom
Mr.. Bryan has so much 10 say. are COM
Ing more and more TO realize this fact.
In a great crisis in the country's history
they may be relied upon to stand by the
national honor and dcafen theIc ears t
the political demngosues as faithfully
as they did in 1861.
AS 10 the attempt to induce the work
ing classes TO believe that the moneyed
classes are arrayed against them. why
are the PopocratIc newspapers so silent
about the fact that back OF this free sill
yer movement is the enormous wealth OF
q little coterie OF silver mine owners
whose aggregate capital is nearly six
hundred millions of dollars, and that II
Is their money which Is furnishing the
DElllCllhl ESltIIst VI NIG VI a
sentiment which will enable them to
double their wealth. while they offer
nothing to the laborcr In return but a
deprecated dollar and higher cost of
living?
The money with which the banks do
business Is not their own; It Is the money
intrusted to their care by the people of
the country, the wage worker rs well as
the capitalist, and the subject of the
soundncss OF the currency Is OF no more
interest to them than 1t Is to these mil
lions OF deposltors.
It Is not a partisan question. rs the
Popocratlc banker who sent the Pitts
burgh Post the Hanna circular says It Is.
1t Is q BUSINESS question which has
broken party ties. and the people are all
alike Interested In Its settlement-from
the humblest citizen In the land to the
most ailluent.
Campaign Literature.