Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-09-24
Tine Onset of the Money Power.
How the trusts, the syndicates and

How the trusts, the syndicates and
the great corporations are pressing the
fight against Bryan With limitless
funds at their command, they stop at
no scheme, however colossal and costly.
In far-off Minnesota they are paying
the big saw-mills to shut down and
tell the idle lumbermen that the threat
of free silver has caused it. 1t is the
same incentive that has induced the
gigantic Pennsylvania and New York
Central Railway corporations to lay OFT
several of their trains and discharge a
number of their employees, whereat
even the gold standard New York
World bursts forth in ridicule of so
false subterfuge. The national banks
are adding their hue and cry to the i'm
perious chorus of the peoples would
be task-masters and are calling in
loans and writing "gO1d' in the face Of
their bonds, whereby they propose to
force the people to vote for gold.
The millionaires who control the
great insurance corporations are ply
ing the holders of their policies with
the alarm-cry sounded upon every
KEY to the effect that 'free silver
would enable the corporations to pay
their insurance obligations in 50-cent
dollar" -forgetful that their very
earnestness convinces the people Of
their falseness, because, if their state
ment was true, the insurance corpo-
rations themselves would be the very
first to champion free silver since 1t
would enormously enrich them by at
once eliminating one-half their obi
cations. The silly business Of bring
ing in Mexican dollars and passing
them out at so cents as an alleged
"obiect-lesson" is another method OF
playing upon the ignorance Of the
voters, who are expected not to know
that the value of the Mexican dollar
has no bearing whatever upon the
question of free coinage by the United
States. Business plants in selected
sections of the country are shutting
down and workmen are being thrown
out of employment because Of the
free silver agitations, all expenses
Except to the unfortunate working
mem paid out of the fund of 500 OOo,-
600 or more contributed by Wall
street to elect Mckinley.
Oh, the corporations are all in line
this time and they are in the saddle,
too. They propose to run this country
and, as Hanna says, if they can't win
one way they will another. "You low
born masses, you miserable toilers, you
common herd fit only to be bought,
and sold and driven,-You would dare
to demand more money, would you,
you would have the insolence to re-
store silver after we had closed the
mints to it-and you came IN your
poverty with supreme audaclty and
talk about your wants and your
rights, to us,-to as, the American
monied aristocracy,-and you have
crowned your efrontery by naming
for President one of your own kind,
one of the common people, Western
Goth who is not even ashamed OF be-
ing poor. You mob You repudia-
tors You Anarchists Well teach
you to defy your masters, and we'll
show YOU in November that money
rules America.
This is not an unfair interpretation
of the insolent mouthings of the arro-
CANT gold press. Is it a time for the
plain people of the land to be divided
among themselves N0woe Watch
man.