Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-16

it expressed any such opinions and that
the free silver cause spelled Reputation
and the withdrawal of English capital"
The gold bug press lied. The Republican
National Committee officially promulgated
a falsehood. The editorial of April 30,
1884, as above quoted. did appear in the
, London Financial News. It's absolute ac-
curacy has been sworn to by the cashier
Of the London Financial News by the
president of the Durrant Press Cuttings
an old and reputable London firm-and by
representative of the New York World,
who cabled this unwelcome fact to his pa
per. A copy of the paper is now in the
| possession of the Durrant Press Cuttings
and a certified copy of the same, as it is
on file in the British museum is in the pos
session of the Democratic National Com
mittee.
The alleged denying editorial from the
Financial News was undoubtedly n pure
fabrication. The desperate crew who have
undertaken the hopeless task of fostering
the English gold standard on the United
States are capable of any crime in the
category and regard forgery as mere di-
dersion.
On October 5, 1896. the Chicago Tribune
printed on its ninth page a cablegram from
London stating that the New York World
correspondent had examined the files of
the London Financial News. and had YER
flied the accuracy of the editorial of April
80. 1894. On the following day the Chicago
Tribune. on it's editorial page, denounced
the London Financial News article as a
forgery. and the silver leaders as liars.
journalistic depravty has reached its low
est level. Is there any wonder that the
American people have lost all confidence
In the metropolitan press?
But the London Financial News article
of April 30, 1894. was not the only editorial
expression of similar purport that appear
ed in that great English journal Had it
been, 1t would have had little significance.
1t could have been explained away in a
number of ways, more or less effective.
But the editorial in question is but one of
n score of similar, powerful editorials,
warning the English people against per-
hitting the United States 10 return to the
free coinage of silver, on penalty of losing
the English financial and commercial SUI
premacy.
The campaign corruption fund of untold
millions of dollars, raised by the London
gold combine and their American allies is
the British answers to these editorials.
which form part of this article. and
which are now printed for the first time
in the United States. Hundreds of mil
lions Of dollars are at stake. and Mark
Hanna is authorized to spend millions and
millions in order that English bondholders
and gold spectators may prosper, and
American manufactures and workman
suffer.
Before submitting the editorials 1t should
be explained that in 1894 the London FL
nancial News was not committed unreser-
vedly to the gold standard. 1t voiced the
fears of the London bankers and warned
them that the existing English financial
system could not he maintained If the
United States or any other rich produc-
ing nation adopted the free coinage Of
silver
on October 9Th Frederick L. Adams,
press secretary Of the Democratic Nation
al Committee received the following let
ter, fac smile of which appears below: