The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-09-01

pastnrea and watched them IA thew In
taking their noon day rest under Tim
slumpa Of dark green trees TINT ON.
nelllaf, the landscapes. I am Inform
g thnt there are not half ns many
anu not half 80 profitable aS tirsy wrrS
before wool went on the free lat 7
wonder howitherc Is any prolt In shcen,
ralsinB and think there is none Hhd
YET " there Is any ono lnluNtry thai
sh9uld lead III this state It ia ahesp
raising, How thu mountain farmers Of
either party Gun vote for Bryan with.
hiS trce wool record Is tOoond my ken.
To drop from the mountain to5s 10
knnnwhn tInxctte which I honOr for
OFT trs state h0uHe yoke and.
neaNinS torth az u free paper should.
silver agninRt tho gold bug views or ths
MacCorkle ring. ttells theotruth as II
sees u anu 10 consistent. Is there n
Democrat who does not remember That
last spring the Gazette sent 'oltt a cir.
cular letter asking the opinion Of the
leading Democrats OF tho atlte on be-
tween silver ami gold, md that the
majority favored silver. But when the
state executive committee, with viii.
Chlltan anu the state hOlise ring In the
saddle. met at ParkergburE shortly
thereafter they refused "a even cunsId-
'er the question. Watts. MnCCorklr
Clifton and even Il. W. Wilson recelv-
ed .ot these letters. Did they reply?
Not much. They were resting on the,r
oars TO see which way the tide would
turn. In other words they were for
gold and are yet. but were afraid that
the people might knock them out of
some soft political snap. VIII the peo-
pie now endorse them when they re-
fused to even listen to the voice OF the
people as expressed through the Ga
Zette. BY tho way thls ought % make
h Gazette honestly luke-warm on
watts. But I dlgressed, What I want
= 20 say Tint In n late Gazette was
published q list OF the leading Euro
pean countries which had abandoned
the silver standard for gold. Among
the nations was France. Tho date OF
her gold was In lS71, Does not the
Gazette remember the Franco-Prrss-
Ian war OF 1870 and II, when Germany
whipped France ut Sedan and took
from tho latter her rich provinces OF
.Alsace n Lornlne? That besides the
enormous war debt caused by placing
her citizens on a war footing, the de-
~vast2tion OF nearly the whole nation,
that Germany eXacted an indemnity of
6o,OO0,O0o trancs2. This left frances
debt larger than any nation in the
world. She changed from silver to gold
and In ten years had recovered her ma
tional prosperity and paid OF that enor.
nous German indemnity, Had she not
have changed her standard could she
have done this?And to-day she uses
with her gold standard as much silver
as we do and more than this country
did In 1879 and Is really the most pros
porous country In Europe. She has
virtually no national resources as COM
pared with the United States. But her
peHsantry has more silver in her saw
ings banks than the American people.
Her per capita is double. Yet all this
was lone when she became a Republic
and changed from silver to gold. Gold
did o drive out her silver. But silver
has driven out gold in all silver coun-
tries.
There Is on deposit by the laboring
classes OF this country In the building
and loan associations many million dol
lars. The savings Of many years. The
nest-egR for future homes. II free sIl-
yer should pass the depositors would
be paid hut little over onc.half Of their
a learned savings. How do the peo-
pie of this country. especially those OF
the knnawha valley. relish CHANGING
the loss OF over half their saving, az
they would be paid In silver dollars
worth Atty cents, when they paid In to
the associations dollars OF gold or dol
lars as rood?
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