Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-17
SOME QUESTIONS
Which the Wheeling Intelligencer and
Bellaire Independent Are Respectfully
Asked TO Answer

Which the Wheeling InteIligencer and
Bellaire Independent Are Respectfully
Asked TO Answer
The following questions appeared in
the Be.laire Tribune, 10 be answered by
the independent "a gold standard paper,
at The request of one of its subscribers.
That paper has wholly failed TO answer
hem, although sill conducting "a cam
p3.gn o, education.'
We think that these questions should
be answered by this paper, or by the In
jelligencer, or both should quit conduct
ing The campaign of education and
sop pra,ing about the fi2jy-cent dollar.
Here are the questions:
Is it not a fac, that under the existing
financial system nothing bul a gold dol
lar, the most honest dollar" on EARTH,
is The only dollar that will redeem the
greenback, when demanded by the
holder?
After silver is remOnetzed, Chat is, so
i3r as he Ivy is concerned, is placed in
precisely ,le same position that itloccu-
pied before 1879, then would not the
silver dollar redeem the greenback dol
lar?
Alter the remOne iZatiOn of silver, if
the silver dollar redeems the greenback
dollar, (Which nohing but the mos.
honest dollar the world viii do now,
then if the silver dollar is only fifty
cen, dollar, what will The gold dollar be?
Is IL not an axiom in finance, as Wen
as in mathematics, that things ,hat are
equal TO the same thing, are equal 10
each other?
II this is true is it not also true that
if The gold dollar and the silver dollar
will each redeem a greenback dollar, and
each pay a dollar, called FOR in the gov
ernmenl bond, that they, that is, the
silver dollar and the gold dollar, are
equal to each other?
If one of them must be a fifty-cent
dollar, which one will il be? Give an
intelligent reason and show why silver
bullion would have no more value, after
il was remOnetized and made standard
money $50 that It would redeem govern
men- lga,ious), than it has now?
Why is it that the silver dollar, under
the present financial system, IS legal
tender as between individuals but is not
a legal tender as between the govern
ment and the Wall street f1nancier, who
holds the greenback and demands gold
for il?
If he silver dollar is good enough for
a gold standard mill (the Bellaire nail
works., 10 pay its Workmen, and make
them take 1t whether they want TO or
not. why s it not good enough for gold
standard government TO pay the Wall
stree, financier in. and make him take
{, whether ne wants TO or not?
In 1877. when a large number OF the
workingmen were in favor of issuing
more greenbacks. did not the Independ-
e1C and the Intenigencer halloo Rag
Baby az them? Please explain to them
now what secret tahsmanic influence,
what hidden occult power, does this
Rag Baby" possess, that enables II TO
draw he gold out of the treasury at the
demand o. the Wall street fnancier when
the silver dollar will not do il? And yet
The day was once when the silver dollar
would redeem the grePnback. Has this
Rag Baby been hypnotized, meamor-
phCsed. anghcized, or what on earth has
been done to it? Is the high place
that the Rag Baby" occupies and the
low place" that silver occupies, been
caused by the over production of silver
or the under production of paper?
Did not the Independent. and the In
telligercer. shortly after the Chicago
convention compare the silver craze"
10 the "greenback craze" Of 1877? Now
explain how it comes that the craze Of
1877. the C'Rag Baby'O is the only mon
ey key that in the year 1896 unlocks the
gold vau.. in the treasury? Why does
the government pace this premium on
"crszes" and rag babies" after the
"crazes" ana babies" got into the hands
of the banks and fna2c.ers? Is not this
the answer 10 the las, question? That
when the financiers &C. control OF all, or
nearly all the rag babies (346 milliOn)
they knew that the rag baby" was
dead. $50 far as gettias the government
to issue any more Of theml. Did not
the fnanciers then invent the endless