Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-09-04
.ee. There are principles which
must nnders and before YOU can

that scarce money means dead money,
and that you can change the purchasing
power Of a dollar whenever you cAange
the number OF dollars.
Now. when the value Of the dollar de-
pends on the number of dollars, ;hen
| the number of dollars becomes an i'm
portant matter. Now, can you raise me
| purchasing poAver of a dollar by leSiS-
| lating some of the dollars out or exist
ence? Let your demand for money IN
crease more rapidly than The supply OF
money and dollars will rise in their pur-
chasing power. Dollars are the crea-
! lures of law. No dollar can get into cir
| culatton except through the channels
| of legislation. Now, my friends, l as
sert that when the government pT0h.D-
! is the making of a dollar by an indiyld-
ual then the government assumes the
Solemn duty Of making enough dollars
! for the people to do business with. ZAP
p,ause) You tell me that the govern
| ment ought 10 keep the individual from
creating dollars fer his own use ana
! then refuse to create the dollars Which
| he needs.
| MY friends. that doctrine has not any
support outside of Wall street. ZAP
/ nlausa) No man dares to defend that
! doctrine before a community like thls
or before any Dromiscuous party, ana
/ yet the very people who invoked the
: law Of 1873 10 strike down Z part OF the
peoples money now deny tae right or
| the people to invoke the law to replenish
/ the currency OF tle nation. CCheeTs.) }
know that whenever we express an
opinion On the money question that we
subject ourselves to tae contempt OF the
New York fnanciers (Cheers) Bu.,
my friends, when | have read tnelr ideas
on the money question ana the ideas or
! every one else on that subject, am con-
strained to Believe that there is only
only one passage of Scripture with wlich
they are familiar and that is that passage
which says that g.e2t many years ago
/ certain wise men came from the East
| Great laughter and applause). They
/ think that they have been coming from
that direction ever since. daughter and
! applause)
We do not like to b. called anarchists,
but l would rather be wl4t our oppo-
nonts call an anarchist than to confess
that 70000000 Of people are not able 10
attend TO Their own business. Some Of
them are now having the Democratic
) party-they say for our cOunrys good.
! (Applauee) We cannot build a wall 10
/ keep anybody from getting out of the
Democratic party because then nobody
outside could &c. in. All we ask is that
| Wh n a man leaves the Democratic
PARTY he shall have a reason that emo-
mates from the head or the heart and
not one tucked away N a pocket book.
/ (Great Applause. We eXPact some men
10 leave the Democratic party. We
could MOI keep them in had be wanted
! to. if we had made th5 platform mean
nothing. (Applause).
| applause.
Ii the Democratic party on tle money
question had been what cur opponents
wanted ii would have been just like ta''
Republican platform because both would
have been frauds (Applauss). If we
had adopted a platform like nc R pub
licqns and nominated candidates VINO
would pledge themselves not to do any
thing without first gong down 10 New
York and asking what ought 10 Ce dons'
what would have been the result? why
rhese magnates would have been able
10 sit back and say they are botn good
men. the country is safe under e.ther'
Great laugh,er)
We could have had that sort Of cam
paisn if we wanted it. But somehow the
majority of the people in that convention
decided they wanted another kind Of cam
paign. and so they made platform that
breathes the spirit of the Declaration oil
INDEPENDENCE Tremendous and long
continued applause0
The very parts of that platform "hich
have been most hurtful TO the men VINO
have used the Democratic party for prl-
vate gain and their country for puphc
plunder are those nearest the hearts oil
the American people.
We are not losing anybody from our
marty except the great big Democrats
naughter). and don't you know when "
,,root big Democrat breaks into the Re
nuhlican party he makes hole so DIX
that q great many little Republicans can
rnn ont. daughter and applauseJ we
cannot have their moral support but we
will get along without their immoral IN
o,,tre also .G.aughterD We won't have
tbeir approvel. but it is an awfully Psn-
nriced approval. any'. W. TO buJ IN th'Se
hard times under a g0ld standard. (ure1I
laughter and applause