Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-02

90 not know what ilese g0lu 2NFOCdteS
may have said in your presence, but
know that some Of them have tried TO
say that the New York fnanciers would
make a great profit out OF free coinage,
but that they don't want 10 allow them-
selves 10 make that profit O2ugh-er)
When they tell ne that the tin9nciers
would profit by free coinage, then, my
friends. | make up my mind that the
time has come when the masses Of the
people could pay back a debt of graft
Jude which they have been longing TO
pay for twenty v ars. These inanc.ers
tell us thai for twenty years they have
been legisla-ing for the good Of the peo-
p,e-even 10 the glect OF them selves.
| do not think that we ought 10
permit them to make this
sacrifice for us. CLaughter)
And when they tell us that the free coin
az of silver will help them, then ! say,
my friends, we have q chance to get
even. because we will give them free
coinage and let tn m enjoy IL 10 tdeir
hearts content tremendous applause
and continued laughJer) Il, as a mat
ter Of fact. they believe that by free
coinage they are going 10 enrich them
selyes. why is it that they call us An
arch.sts because we are going 70 do
something for them. daughter and ap-
plause) The freq coinage Of silver VIII
II the farmer. and until the farmer IS
prosperous there can be no prosperity
in this country. (Gre9t applaUse) You
can imagine that you can crush out
those who are converting the natural
resources of this country into material
wealth. but you are mistaken, my
friends. If you are engaged in manu-
featuring. you cannO, sell the products
Of Your factories unless there are p oDle
in this country who have money TO buy
what YOU have TO sell and the only way
in which the farmer can get money 10
buy what you have to sell is to Z L
money for what they have 10 sell;
(Gre9, applause. and if the farmers are
not able 10 sell their crops for more
than enough to pay thsir interest ard
their taxes, then they have no mop%
TO spend in BUYING the products Of cur
mills and factories. Great apDlause)
No matter what you are producing,
YOU cannot increase your prosD rity
until YOU commence az the bottom and
allow producers o. wealth TO prosper.
If my friends, you are engaged in
producing glass. and the farmers have
to use old hats inst ad OF buying new
window panes. il SIMPLY cuts ell your
customers, and then your operators VIII
suspend operations until consumption
catches up with production Great ap-
plause)
Free coinage is good for the la5orins
man. Why? Because, my friends. the
welfare Of the lab0ring man depends M
on Two things. First, there must be oD-
D0rtuni-y 10 labor before The man be-
Genes at all interested in the purchasing
power of a dollar. If a man cannot find
work in order 20 get the dollar, it does
not matter % him whether a dollar buys
much or liWle. Great applause) SO
long as money is becoming more and
more valuable, there viii be paralysis
Of inlustry-there will be stagnatiCC in
business. The laboring men Of this
country have joined in g petition 10 Con-
gress. asking for thd immediate res;ora-
ton of free coinage at sixteen 10 one.
Ny friends. do not these l3bOriNg men
know what is good for them better than
The fn3nciers know? And yet, in this
campaign. You are constantly told tla-
the f15ncier is, above ell things, inter-
ested IN doing something for the laborins
man. So common is il now for these
iRanciers % worry over the sufferings
OF those who toll. thai whenever one
Of them goes 10 his physician and COM
plains mat he is not able to sleep, the
physician just tells him to stop worry
ing about the wCrkingman, ana then he
can sleep all righJ. (Applause) So
long as the dollar is rising in value, the
man who owns dollars VIII find il more
profitable to hoard his dollars in a vault
than 10 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 prof, out of the people to whom he
sells. not out Of the people from whom
he bOrrows money, and if the people
cannot buy, she business man cannot
sell. and if he cannot sell, the Sheriff
comes and closes his store and sells out
his stock at auction. (Applause.) My
friends. there are some business men
y
cannot increase their prosperity by
maintaining a financial system jhat, in
stead of resting upon sound basis,
simply survives by the consent Of for
eign creditors. There are other busi-
ness men who owe money. and because
they owe money are afraid 10 express
themselves. 7 want 30 say to you that
there is no tyranny that is more CALLING
Than the tyranny of plutOcracy. There
is no tyranny which is SO despOCc as the
tyranny of those fnanciers who attempt
to rob men of their right TO vote and act
because they have signed their name TO
a note. Great applause) know men
VINO have been threatened with bank
ruptcy if they aid not surrender their
convictions 10 this mOneyed aris;CCIacy.
have been touched by the intensity of
The feeling among the people. and well
may feel deeply. my friends, because. if
this mCneyed aris,Ocracy has a right %
dominate elections and control politics.
then free government IS known by the
fathers, will cease 10 exist in the United
States. Great applause.)
Iwant you to remember that this gold
standard, which they are attempting 10
fas,sn upon the people, is never sup
ported in the open by its advocates.
Look at this campaign, There never
was better ilustra ZION Of The secret
methods of the gold standard advo-
Gates than you find in this campaign.
The R publican platform die not de-
clare for d gold standard. I, promised
20 &c, International bmetallism when
ever foreign nations would let us have
il. and hose who wrote that platform