The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-04-01
HoatIln l,AeIslntion.

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by those who were it's direct bene-
ficiaries. The office-holding class
es in all the countries that have de
monetized silver, were able to
double the value of their incomes
by enhancing the value of the
money in which they were paid.
1t is national disgrace and
humiliation to undertake to mould
our laws to the financial system of
Great Britain. Is it not humilia-
ting to know that countries like
Mexico and Japan are making
greater strides in national prosper
ity than the United States? They
are silver using countries; no gold
circulated in either, yet their agri-
cultural classes are thriving, and
their general condition is improv-
ing, while the reverse is the case
here.
A traveller from the United
States to Mexico has his money
changed at the border into Mexi-
can currency and receives almost
two dollars for one. Now a few
years since the Mexican dollar was
at a par. with the dollar of the
United States, and to the thought
less it seems that the Mexican dol
lar has deprecated, but such is
not the case. The Mexican dollar
will buy, in it's own country, as
much as ever. The farmer there
sells his wheat at one dollar per
bushel and his cotton at thirteen
cents per pound, while the farmer
in the United States gets fifty
cents for wheat and seven cents
for cotton. The Mexican farmer
receives almost double the price
our farmers do, and does not
trouble himself about what Great
Britain or any other country will
do in regard to silver. For with
his cheap dollars he pays his rail
road fares, his taxes, his hotel
bills, at the same old rates two to
three cents per mile on the rail
roads and other things in proper
ton.
In Mexico it requires the same
amount of farm produce to pro
cure dollar as it did twenty years
ago. In the United States it now
requires double the-amount of pro-
duce and double the number of
hours of labor to purchase dollar
as formerly; and this is caused by
the enhanced value of our dollar.
The holders of national. state,
municipal and private indebted
ness have had their holdings prac-
tically doubled in value, and at the
expense of the farmers and other
producers.
Taxes have been doubled be-
cause it requires double the
mountef>produce, and ultimately,
therefore, double the amount of
labor to secure the money to pay
for them. The same may be said OF
salaries that are paid by the public
RAILROAD fares, hotel bills and
profits innumerable.
Tt seems incredible that the peo-
pie of the United States should
submit to legislation which re-
quires them to pay not only their
private debts, but the enormous
public debts III two-hundred-cent
dollars for that is what a dollar
means to-day whatever it meant
when the debt was contracted,
That there are now two hundred
cents in every dollar, any poor
farmer struggling to pay little
debt to save his home, can tell.
1t is within the knowledge OF
most of our readers that the farm
ers of our county are not possessed
of one-half of their former wealth.
In rare cases will farm sell for its
assessed value. The demonitiza-
ton of silver resulting in a virtual
contraction of our currency, has
worked more and greater havoc
with our farmers than would a
great war; and if the farmers
blindly follow the policy marked
out by the capitalists of the East,
their total ruin can be plainly fore
seen.
The Republican bosses, who are
all gold bugs, are becoming great
ly alarmed because so many Re
publicans in different parts of the
county, are procloiming themselves
free silver men. The tide is on
and they can't stop it.