The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-16
JNO. !. INGALLS,.
rIle Treachery OF cod.

speech in 1978in the United States
Senate, depicted it in graphic Ian
guage, as follows Congressional
Record, volume %, page 105D:
"The original American idea was
a single standard of silver. Gold
was an innovation, and, in my
Judgment, a grave mistake. Ii we
are to have monometallic stand
ard, L believe silver to be immeas-
urably preferable to gold, 1t iS
less subject to huctuation; it's pro-
duction is more steady, it's cost
more uniform.
mo enduring fabric of national
prosperity can be builded on gold.
Gold is the money of monarchs;
kings covet it; the exchanges of
nations are affected by it. Its ton
dency is to accumulate in vast
masses in the commercial centers,
and to move from kingdom to king
dom in such volumes as to unset
j tie values and disturb the finances
of the world. 1t is the instrument
of gamblers and spectators, and
and the idol of the miser and the
thief Being the object of SO much
\ alteration, it becomes naughty and
sensitive and shrinks at the APP
proach of danger, and whenever it
is most needed railways disappears.
At the slightest alarm it begins to
look for refuge. 1t flies from the
nation at war to the nation at
peace. War makes it fugitive.
mo people in a great emergen-
CIV ever found faithful ally in
gold. 1t is the most cowardly and
treacherous of all metals. Itmakes
no treaty that it does not break, 1t
has no friends whom it does not
sooner or later betray. Armiesand
navies are not maintained by gold.
In times of panic and calamity,
shipwreck and disaster, it becomes
the chief agent and minister of
ruin. No nation ever fought a
great war by the aid of gold. On
the contrary, in the crisis of great
er peril it become an enemy more
potent than the foe in the field;
but when the battle is won and
peace has been secured gold reap
pears and claims the fruits of
victory.
"In our own civil war it is doubt
full if the gold of New York and
London did not work us creator in
Jury than the powder and lead and
iron of rebels. It was the most in
: vincible enemy of public credit.
Z, Gold paid no soldier or sailor. 1t
refused the national obligation. 1t
was worth most when our fortunes
} were lowest. Every defeat gave it
increased value. 1t was in open
alliance with our enemies the
world over, and all it's energies
were evoked for our destruction.
But, as usual when danger has
been averted and the victory Sc
cured, gold swaggers to the front
and asserts the supremacy. But sill
yer is the money of the people 1t
is the money of wages and retail.
Its tendency is toward diffusion
and dissemination. 1t enters into
the minute concern of traffic and
is exchanged day by day for daily
bread. 1t penetrates the remotest
channels of commerce, and it's
abundance, bulk, and small subdi-
vision prevent it's deportation in
sufficient amount to disturb or un-
settle values. If it retires at the APP
proach of danger or from the pres
ence of an inferior currency, itstill
remains at home to respond to the
| first summons for it's return"
All the Mckinley organs in the
country indorse the Indianapolis
gold ticket. It is the first time
that any body of men calling
themselves Democrats have been
proud of that kind of support; but
since it is all they will get, perhaps
they should be permitted to enjoy
it with out being ridiculed.
When prices are rising, every
body finds employment. When
they are falling everybody is in
danger of losing his employment,
and many do lose all employment
More than one-fourth of those who
live by labor are now out of en-
ployment, with no hope whatever.
A few weeks ago the goldbug or
gans were pledging themselves and
their party to international bime-
|tolIism Today thew are applaud