The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-26

of tho Wheeling Register 10 got their
certificate for right to speak? i(Ap-
plausc.) When did ! lose my right OF
American citizenship? When entered
the railroad service? And when l feel
ASH do feel that an assault has been
made; upon property rights innd upon
railroad property, that an assault has
been made upon wages and upon rail-
rond wages. why should not We all
Enth4r together TO confer, to talk the
matter over as we do In popular gov.
erhment and determine whether or$not
In this election We can l5rego our
party atilllatlon for the purpose OF pro-
tectlng our wages, our country. our
homes and our ilreSldes?@1 say that TO
the very fact that so much Ia made OF
the position which railroad men lave,
,taken-ihntG 50 much Is made by; the
opposition press OF the fact that you
have had TIE courage TO come out and
wear y yellow badge, that you have
courage TO found sound money clubs,
that you have courage to break away
from The party convictions of n life
time IN aday WHOM your country Is In
danger anu demands Your best service,
the, very fact that the opposition press
makes 80 much of&thnt,4 shows that It
was wise anu proper for YOU TO do
this (Applausc.) 's}
"They know what the railroad men
OF this country are. Tlsy arc 100000
strong, and when Mckinley Ia
elected and business comes back To
us With restored contldcncc,l they will
be a million strong. (Applause.) Tlrsy
are Intelligent. they are faithful, they
are bold. they arc courageous, and he
Ing bold and courageous and lntcllI.
gent, they Know when their wages are
attacked, they know when their COM
pany's Interests are lmperIlled, they
Know when tA2lr country's flag Is
sought TO be taken down and the red
nag OF the commune and the blnsk
ilag of rcpudiall3a TO be substituted for
II. and are willing to forego for once
party nillllation and come to the de-
tense or that flag, the defense OF wife
ana child. the defense OF wages and
homo. | honor them for It. Il say YOU
do wisely and do well and don't let the
people. who are bowling and yelling at
you about being coerced, when YOU
SNOW that your action Is free as air.
don't let them frlghten You. but say 20
them: I'VE know what we arc about"
We don't propose TO have n fIfty-ccnt
dollar to pay one Hundred cents worth
for hundred cents worth of work
and we are prepared to support pa
triot instead OF a Populist. (App!a,,se.)
we are prepared to forego our party
and support the candidate
who VIII sustain the natIonnl honor the
national credit, private integrity, our
wages and our homes. (Applause.)
Civilization Attacked.
"Now, what Is civilized society?Syvhat
is this society in which we live as dis
tinsu!shed from barbarlans and saw
ages? How are we better or than man
was In the primitive days? What has
been done? How long has IL taken TO do
II, to gather together haxavhich we COLL
civilization? Why, the idea of propcr-,
ty. II took thousands OF years to lust
get the idea of property; it took thou
sands OF years 10 teach that notion of
property and the right of property,
Thou shalt not steal" was thundercd
from Sinai and the men have been learn
Ing to keep their hands Off other peo-
Pies property, until now, In civilized
life no one thinks talking the property
OF another, or II he does, the heavy hand
OF the law is upon him and the penlten-
tinry Is his future abode. Property Is
one OF the things Of civilized life. What
else comes along with, civiliza tlon?. The
Idea of contract-of making an agree
ment lido or not to do 4 thing with yj,u,
my agreement to sell, my agreement to
work and The power to enforce that con-
tract. the law that enforces II, the courts
that sit to administer justice, to enforce
this contract to protect this property.
These are all the growth of years It
has taken thousands OF years to just get
up TO the idea of'cuntract and enforcing
a mere bargain, yet property and con-
tract. the sacredncss OF property and
the validity and endorsements OF con-
tracts lies at the bottom of all modern
civilization. The courts that sustain
these contracts and the tribunals which
protect this property are the growth OF
years. We not only must have property
We not only must have strict confidence
exchange and bargain for the sale of SER
vice. OF labor, but in the progress OF
time we must have money. We invent
something that we call money. Civil
lied life has found that there Is a neces-
sity 10 have money; not that you want
money TO eat, money you don't wear,
money you don't house yourself with; 1t
Is not food, nor fuel, nor clothing, but
1t Is found that when men work togeth-
er In civilized life one can do one piece
OF work and make hat. another can do
another piece Of work and make pair of
shoes. and the one that wants the hat
may have made the shoes and they can
swap the hat for the shoes and you have
common barter. But as you pass along
the shoemaker and the hat maker, one
may live at one end of the state and the
other may live at another: hence the ne
ceSsity Of some common medium of eX-
change. we say, some common measure
which each will agree on before hand to
take and buy with. which each will mea-
sure the value of the product which he
produces, which will enable each to swap
the products which he produces. Money
is the product OF civilized life. It start
ed with IN humble beginning. n/the
rude ages OF society cattle were money.
Why, the very phrase that we use to-day
means head. Capital was your herd.
characterization OF the Cow.
"As Mr.. Edward Atkinson says, cow
is the Oldest money. 1t was de-
before the crime OF 10 n good
while. daughter and applausc.)
OF any fellow yelling about
the crime of demonetizins the COW. Gap
plause.) We speak OF n pecuniary OBJ
legation. II was an.obligation to be- dis
by giving Il COW. Men d!scharg-
ed their obligations by the then common
1t was the best they had, rude
and difficult, yet it was something; 1t
was n thing OF value. a COW would give
milk. her body would furnish flesh, her
skin would make shoes. 1t was q thing
OF value. Rude, primitive man had not
learned the art OF fiat. He simply, said:
i think this is\moncy,' and It was mon
cy. He took something that had value.
He took COWS and they became the me-
dium Of exchange. 1t passGd along from