Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-02-15
JOEN SHERMAN

t.c Con-. -' Ao Has Brought Upon
'''' Discussed by Wnuau> N.
p. ..s Editor Of the Register.
me- oack' rolls the tide Of mono
w isn. The refuleent light of BIZ
...@n is looming up. That terrible
f,- 'osity "A single bold standard"
great country. is stranded and
-eous form is now. for the first
oeing dissected so an can see it's
IA ~. .-ies. Ii is the first great Octopus
fr.- .ool upon American soil and OBJ
ir mold with a sciptiIIo of LAW aid
s--c.. - lls onward march i'm the de
lo-o-., u- every interest and time
ana 5o,- uSase our people hold near
o..,,. =, Not only that it has for its
str... 'ue overthrow of American in
v.. is Toy the 0brOgation and per
+-, or The constitution of our coun-
Ctt- "a senator of long standing from
r. l'AeelFed Jhis idea. and it came
49,. through English nobility and
o.1 capitalists who we're Jealous
-Lral and noble system of finance
-o 1913. 10 prevented the concen-
~ ol our money in The hands of
~ ana Kept 10 distributed amongst
81 -oie' and this LETT an on an equal
-.-, They knew III the single
49,, Standard could be instituted there
$50, pc noble picking here for sur
.a english capital and soon differ
STATE OF affairs would exist. the
OF jhe people would Doe absorbed
,-s Few, and we would soon lose our
OF equality and De bound TO
--l- Tor an favors, and they could then
-lA mere with the same hand. I'm the
way they govern the financial
P-eaion of England This Senator
rs not asked 10y am American citizen.
-' -lS or dead. having at least our
t-are as q nation. 90 have this sys-
'-n or single gold standard" Daug-
D.e-ea. nor was he asked bv any iudi-
'I-uai not engrafted into some money
syndicate, 10 domOnctize silver. The
Aoole senator started the bail rollins
Nhen he made this a law. and the rest
A9 lcomplshed by intrigue under the
C.l.A OF the Secretary of The Treasury
U.IIns The administration of President
-tal es. The same deity that carved the
Oe5-ny OF this nation i'm battle during
y-e revolutionary war. and aided our
lo'e-athers i'm prescribing our cOnsti-
luuon and Keeping ont of it's touets.
.1e doctrines of the Sherman of the
day. Alexander Hamilton. viii see the
present system abrOgated. for the hand
writing isl already upon the wall. and
Tho Democracy of Jefferson. Jackson
and Buchanan viii again be asserted.
and the m0ns-rOus tide of hypocrisy
that has ioisted itself upon this coun-
trN calling itself democratic viii lose
-oothoId and assume their true place
under the banner of John sherman.
whom they now follow and proclaim
their leader. q man who at heart de-
srIsos every interest the Democratic
party ever fCstered. man who has
lifted his hand ON am occasions. to de-
tIe Democracy; a man who stands by
The EDe.ish capitalists and the syndi-
cafe OF his own country admOnishing
them to reap the rich harvest ne has
prepared i1rthem by his feats of ledger
domain in the manipulation of the
financial question of this nation in their
behalf Everybody else is ignored
exists amongst the toll
ers of the2'ntN their wealth is i'm the
hands Ofh b. and the trail of for
- 1 has been wiped out
80. y -. -rsChO' when ne first
elsaved TO destroy the legal tender sill
vkr money. declared i'm 1872 90 the great
ftancal authorities of Europe that
Cd he American people were fin favor OF
TIE British policy OF single gold stand
etd OF legal tender money. Where
dtd he learn this2 Whom did he talk
tb2 let him give the authority / do
MOT believe it, His characterization act
1Ee created more trouble, more misery
tb tine people and more anxiety TO the
nation than any dozen acts that ever
Occupied space I'm our law books. This
man wears q coat of many COlOrS. and
Chow arc i'm keeping with his party and
chose who follow him. Mckinley on the
C,. hand and "golj standard on the
other. the first TO levy tax TO keep
tbo humble citizen i'm bondage, the
other to.disrupt the price of his labor
and his products. SO he can only pay
bis trx and gain mere subsistence.
vvo cannot see how any man who has
~ssnert for the law. and who desires TO
Coo if administered as 10 stands upon
,.,,, sfatutp books. can take the position
t,rt silver has been ignored and turned
es-fo as q money of resumption and
o-r~o+ De considered ON equal footing
,,,-b cold I'm payment of an debts. There
rofa seintilla of law from first TO last
-ra- authorizes this position. All our
1-e-s since 1870 relating TO bonds, say
tr.- shall De paid i'm coin. and this
,,-o,,1d have been done. only for the
irtrieue of the wonderful NAPOLEON OF
enorce from Ohio. I'm 1873. Stanley
--,.-+,s,ge n senator from Ohio. offered
-,., sollovine resolution. and il passed
o.Pesolved. That an bonds of the
r.-...5 States issued. or authorized to