Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-09-23
OUR KINDERGARTEN DEPART
MENT.

J yeligencer is again a-ttI IhIO' 4li'' '''-
on the money question. Il asks some
questions which appear to have
sprung ND in is mind in connection
with the joint debate at Petersburg, be-
tween Gen. Watts and Hon. Joe Gail
ION on ;ae one hand and Mr.. Dayton
and Hon. John ". Mason, on the other.
/ The Register devoted several columns 10
this interesting eye2s and gave the
speeches. queries and replies as fully and
fairly as possible. Our esteemed Four
tenth street pupil, we believe, devoted
something like less than half a column
10 the meeting, although our neighbor
had a reporter on the ground, who
heard The whole four-cornered debate.
| Our neighbor, however. believes it TO be
It's duty as a good Hanna organ to reply
TO the points in the Queri and addresses
of Messrs. Watts and Chiffon, which it
Inolds are vulnerable, and open to Hanna
shafts. We viii give all of our neigh
bor's arguments in full, which the
Inteligencer has ne We, dared do with
any free coinage argument. Here is
No. 1:
ar. Chlton's first proposition was that
rov.re sor he Se Ss on rgbf to G5r coin
ropey. ana it stiiPulates HAT the money
gan take one money away without a VIC
oH s G 5 t lat t Co@sJ,go ON which is based
The cry for ne money Of the CQ 2
pc are crying for. me answer is SO sim
61 Sb5n " 6e ashamed % 45 4 io make l' the
'4r.ono 81 49,. u,o.... .,o+ -, CON
sti,auoa does not "stip1late" that the
o Conc. and 10y [nS o sG5 5sit I Mr. Ire
Chaon. nor any other silyerits can point
N s.c5i5a 81 article Of the Constitution
,eo of Go6sra is 'G In G ibS mater Of
-.u."g money Il says that the Con 5ais
late the value thereof and Of foreisn
c Ss o y' ferS 9 I' in tn ' entire const
tuition 70 silver or s2id Il Is IN IN Sefion AVE- .
set lortn It is there stated thar no state
a n ar[ hing 65t golG ' or silver silver tender
in ,n, Of ee6,s. ,o WE n, TrpI@;t 5 4ow1g 19
any "stipu,a'ion'' that money coined ,l,.5 by
or Hat hey sbali be coined on equal terms.
This is our este med Fourteenth 81
pupils argument, quoted N full and we
wish our readers to look over 1t care
( fully.
First we will quote in full the Con
siuJ.cn of the United States on the
| points mentioned. Section 10, Paragraph
Of Article 1, has this TO say On the
/ coinage question:
NO state shall enter into any treaty,
/ alliance, or confederation, grant letters
I Of marque or reprisaL coin money, emit
bills Of credit MAKE ANYTHING But
GOLD AND SILVER COIN A TENDER
i'm PAYMENT OF DEBTS ETC.
That is all that section Of the Consd-
tuition has to say on the question. That
| is sufficiently plain, and needs no further
eluc;i1do1 Now We come TO Article
/ +. Section s. Paragraph ., which tells
of the powers vested in Congress on
this pointin the fundamental law oil the
land. 1t reads: The Congress shall
have power:
80. To coin money, regulate the value
areof. and of foreign coin, and fix the
standard of weights and measures.
Thus reads the Constitution OF thq
United States on this coinage question
/ If The reader will again carefully peruse
Che above quoted paragraphs Irom our
ne:ghbor, he will see that that organ
advances the claim mat the Oons-l'u ION ION
while It is binding on the states - Nv NJ,
BINDING on THE CONGHE9o. ] MS
is a monsrous proposldon' II n'
Constitution, The fundamental Ia" Oh 'ne
United States. is mo- binding on eAe Con
grsss. in the name OF JUST COD "na'
law under heaven IS: OuI ne'suooI
contention Is tnat me CONSTITUTION ooeS
no. STlPULATE that both gold and Sill
YER shall be our money metals we VIII
ask our neigh6or what 1uriher s,lpuia-
,Cion j, desires than the century-oid Ia"
/ that we have quoted above winch was
eyaded twenty years ago only oy a Trick
which no one Ane" OF at Ins ume Ou-
the perpe-r3,or' Inc Cons'-'u.-on say
that no Stale snail make any '1lns Out