The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-02

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The Money Qu,stlon simple.
II say. my friends, that this money
question Is so simple that it mas be
understood b, all OF you. You can
make money either dear or cheap by
law. You can make money dear by
making money scarce: you can make
money to- cheap by making money too
plentiful. A d6llrr is n question of
law. and II you haze NOR dollars than
are necessary TO keep pace with the
demand for money. then the dollars
win fall In purchasing power. You can
make dollars rise In value II you Will
enact legislation which Will make doll
lars too scarce. There are some peo-
Pile who profit byga rising dollar. There
are sone people who grow rich as the
dollar grows In purchasing power; and
" Those people control Legislation. they
VIII so control that legislation1a a 10.
raise the value OF the money which
they own. itGrcat a~pplause.) There
are those who make q profit by the
NEGOTIATION OF bonds, and those Who
profit by bond sales are anxious that
the government shall maintain q policy
that makes frequent issues OF bonds
necessary. Therefore, my friends, 1t
becomes a matter OF serious conse-
quenee who shall make the law, who
shall determine the quantity OF money
that shall circulate Among the people.
"My friends, 1 do noe know what
these gold standard advocates might
have said In your presence, but / know
that some OF them have tried to say
that the New York flnanclers would
make a great profit out OF free colin
age. but that they don't want to allow
themselves to make that profit.
Laughter.) When they tell me that
the financicrs would profit by free,
coinage. then, my friends, I make up
my mind that the time has come when
the MASSES OF the people could pay
back debt OF gratitude. which they
have been longing to pay for twenty,
years. These flnanclcrs tell US that
for twenty years they have been leg
;islatinS for the good OF the people,
even to the neglect OF themselves. I
do not think that we ought TO permit
them To make this sacrifice for US al
ways, &tLaugher.)
Free coinage IL good for the labor
Ing a Why? Because, my friends,
the welfare of the laboring man de-
ponds upon two things. First. there
must be the opportunity TO labor be-
fore the man becomes at all Interested
In the purchasing power Of a dollar. II
a man cannot find work In order to get
the dollar, Ii does not matter to- him
whether a dollar buys much or little.
lGreat a~pplause.)
Money and Industry.
$50, long as money Is becoming more
and more valuable there will be paraly,
sis OF indus.ry-there will be stagnation
in business. The laburlns men Of this
country have Joined in a petition't to Con-
gresss, asking for the immediate ~restora-
Etion OF free coinage at sixteen tofone.
My friends, do not these laboriEg men
know what is good for them bette than
the iinanciers know? And yet, In this
campaign. you are constantly told that
the financier Is, above all things, inter-
ested in doing something for the labor
Ing man. So common Is 1t nor' for thes,
flnanciers to worry over the sufferinss
of those who toll, that whenever of
them goes to his physician and COM
plains that he Is not able to sleep. the
physician just tells him to stop worry
Ing about the workingman, and then he
can sleep all right. (Applause.l So
long as the dollar Is rising in valve the
man who owns dollars will find Il more
profitable TO hoard his dollars in a vault
than TO invest them in the employment
OF labor. and the development OF the re-
sources of this country (Applause.)
Free coinage Is good for the business
man. because the business man makes
his profit u OF the people to whom he
sells, not out OF the people from whom
he borrows money; and II the people
cannot buy. the business man cannot
sell, and II he cannot sell, the sheriff
zones and closes his store and sells his
stock out at auction. (Applause.) My
friends, there are some business men so
short-sighted that they think that they
cannot increase their prosperity by
maintaining a financial system that in
stead OF resting upon p sound money
basis simply survives by the consent OF
foreign creditors. There are other bus
mess men who owe money, and because
they " money are afraid to express
themselves, Iswant to say to you that
there Is no tyranny that Is more gallinS
than the tyranny of plutocracy. There
Is no tyranny which Is so despotic as the
tyranny OF those f~inanciers who attempt
to rob men of their right to vote and act
because they have signed their name to
q note. (Grcat a%pplause.) Isknow men
who have been threatened with bank
ruptcy IL they did not surrender their
convictions to this moneyed aristocracy.
1 have been touched by the Intensity OF
the feeling among the people, and well
may they feel deeply, my friends, be-
cause II this moneyed aristocracy has a
right TO dominate elections and control
policies, then free government. as known
by the fathers, will cease to exist in the
United States. Great applause.)
L want you to remember that this
gold standard, which they are attcmpt-
Ing to fasten upon the people, Is never
supported In the open by Its advocates.
Look at this campaign. There never
was a better Illustration OF the secret
methods OF the gold standard advocates
than you find In this campaign. The
Republican platform did not declare for
a gold standard. 1t promised to get In.
ternational bi-metalllsm whenever for
eign nations would let us have It, and
those who wrote that platform did not
dare to advocate the gold standard. and
yet they knew that that platform meant
that we would have, a gold standard per-
manently. Great applausc) Not sat-
isfed with that, not satisfied with hold
ing out thu pretense OF Internationally
metalllsm, with which they attempted
to fasten the shncKles OF a gold standard
still more securely upon the people, they
have called to their assistance a So
called branch OF the Democratic party.
Goes After Cochran.
II want to call your attention, my
friends. to this unique situation. You
had speak In your midst to-day q man
who says that he is going to vote for
the Republican ticket-hecause Mr..
Cochran, who spoke. here to-day. has
openly and boldly declared his intention
OF voting the Republican ticket-and yet
n nan who openly says TINT he Is going
to vote the Republican ticket Is sent