The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-08-04
THOSE WHO SUFFER MOST
From Free Coinage arc the wagc-eam-
ors- Deadly Parallel or English Ills

tory,
TO tho Editor OF tho ln,elllgcnccr.
sllt:-l think II would be a good Idea
to rcpubllsh the article taken from Mac
otl0y'a History OF England, as printed
In your Issue OF July 10. | always show
1t th free silver men. They cannot an
swer II. Yours Respectfully.
HONEST MONEY.
Wheeling, August ).
Following Is tho extract from Macnu-
lays History OF England, referred to In
the above suggestion:
Tho tDjEgDycTDmcDt o. Charles and
James, gross as It had been. had not
prevented 10 the common business OF life
from going steadily and prOsperOusly
on. While the honor and Independence
OF the state were sold to u foreign pow
or. while chartered rights wcreinvadcd,
while fundamental laws were violated,
hundreds Of thousands Of quiet, honest.
II Industrious families lnborrd ans
traded, ate their meals and lay down n
rest In comfort and security. Whether
wings or Tories, Professionals or Jcsuitg,
were uppermost, the grazler drove his
beasts to market: the grocer weighed
out hts currants: the draper measured
out his bruadCloth; the hum of buyers
and sellers was rs loud aJ ever in the
towns; the harveat-homr was celebrated
rs joyOusly as ever In the hamlets; the
c overlooked the pals OF Chcs-
shire: the apple juice loamcd IN the
presses Of Hcrcfordghlr-; the piles OF
crockery glowcd In the furnaces OF
Thent; and the barrows Of cnal rolled
fast along the timber railways OF the
Tyne.
p,,t u.b,Y ~ r,,o. tn,,,...
change became thoroughly drrangcd, all
trade. all Industry. were smltten aS with
n pllSy. The evil was felt daily and
hourly In almost every place. and by
almost every class, In the dairy and on
the thrrshlnE-ilOnr by the anvil and by
the loom, IN the pillows Of the ocean
and In the depths OF the mine. Nothing
could be purchased without q dispute.
over every counter there was n wranE-
linz from morning to night. The work.
man and his employer had n quarrel as
regularly as Saturday night came
around. On Il fair-d0y or 4 markct-lly
the clamorJ, the r~cproaches, the taunta.
the curses, Were lnCcSsent; and II was
well II no booth was overturned and no
head broken. No merchant could con-
tract to deliver goods without making
some stipulation about the quality Of
the coin to he paid. Even men NJ husi-
ness were often b]ewildsred by the confus-
ion Into which all pecuuiary transac-
ions were thrown. The simple and care
less were p!llaGcd without mercy by cX-
%tnrtlOnCrs. whose denards grew even
more rapidly than the money shrank.
The price Gf the ncceSsaricg OF life. OF
shoes. Of ale, Of oat-meal. rose fas:. The
lahorcr found that the bit Of metal.
which. when he had received It. was
called n shilling, would hardly buy n pot
OF beer. or q loaf OF rye bread. or 80 aS
far az u s~iX-pencc. Where artisans of
more than usual experience were collect
ed in great numbers. ~ IN the dock
yards ut Chatham. they We're able to
maxi their complaints, hearl. and to OBJ
tain some rcdrevs. But the ignorant
and helpless peasant was cruelty ground
between one class which would give
money only by tale. and another which
would take II only by weight.