Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-10-11

eve that this nation must nave WuelueI
f5 likes ir or not. whatever financial sys-
-ar foreign creditors insist on our hav-
inc Therefore. I say that when they
90 forth declaring that they want inter
national b.meta,ism. they are mere\
holding that our as mask BEHIND
which they may work TO fasten the gold
standard permanently upon the Amer
| lean people. 49,.
no party in the history Of this nation
has ever declared that the gold s,ap ara
WAS q good thing If yOu say that the
e--e1'Iei National Democrats have ce-
,'7raf That the gold standard is good
hing. I tel YOU that chat is not q ma
a--1l party. because no national party
v.- nominated one ticket for ,he eX-
-r IS purpose Of electilg another ticket.
So national party was ever organized
.- an adjunc, - another party already
+ fn existence. No national party ever
ea-c-ed TO have its birthday and its
death at The same time And, my
friends The best violence that m ig1 +
in saving that the advocates of the god
standard never fought an omen tight is
found ir the fact that the men VINO as
semb,ed az Indianapolis wrote plat
form which was entirely different from
the platform which the minority OF the
Democrats at Chicago tried 10 secure
-ha adoption of in the Chicago conVen-
ticD
A. Chicago the minority wanted IN
-ernational bime,allsm and we're AFRAID
that free coinage would prevent 1t. But
when that minority go, into a conven"
-i0n by itself it was 50 busy that Il Ior-
got an about international Olmetallish'
And then 20 further brand 1t as nothing
but q fraud and a deception, those VINO
aiv0cate that independent D5mocratlc
ticket employ speakers who openly tell
YOU they are going 70 vote fer the ke-
DubIican candidate and advise You TO
do so. These things all prove that our
0901nents are not making a square
omen fight. They say they are advo-
Gates OF honest money; tell You mat
honesty is not a characteristic tlat ap-
pears occasionally and disappears IN a
mans character. a man who is honest
i1 ono thing IS apt TO be hOnest in other
things. But these men who pirate about
honest money are the ones who deal
dishonesty with the American people
They remind me Of Peter Cartwright, l
think i- was. Some one asked his Wnetn-
e~ he was s7Dc-ife1 or nO,. lie sald:
eyes. in spO,s.' These people seen 70 De
homes. In spots. And they want You 70
believe that men who put up one ticket
when they expect 10 vote another; men
who advise YOU 10 vote for a ticket that
they don't expect 10 vote for; men who
talk about sound money without telling
yor what i- is; men who prate about an
homes. dollar and then worship The most
tislon S. dollar In the country to-day
the goi dollar-rhey want YOU to believe
thar they are -he only people who can
DE trusted '- De entirely uDsel6sh and
patriotic in the establishment of a fnan-
C.al policy.
Truth. my friends, does not deal N
rm d.cu0us phrases: truth does not hide
behind words with a double meaning.
and when YOU find men who, instead OF
talking FOR the gold standard, talk about
sound money. yOu find men who think
th8, they can make You think what they
don't think themselves. We are willing
10 meet any oDen enemy; We are willing
J0 present OUr cause and trust 70 the
conscience and the judgment Of the peo-
pie.
Nr. BRYAN in answer 70 a question eX-
D'aHned az some length how silver would
ee- into circulation and how others than
mine owners would benefit by free sl.-
yer coinage. and continued:
NY friends. there are just two great
principles which We apply 10 the Ques-
ton. and they are sufficient to solve II.
Y0u can no, understand a question until
Won grasp the principles which control
it If YOU see a boy throwing stone
into the air. and see the stone falling,
and don't understand the law Of gravi-
to--on YOU may guess all your life as 10
tho reason why that stone comes 70 the
proun3 But when YOU understand the
law of gravitatiOn an things like that are
e-.,l.f7o5 And so with the money
Question You grOpe in the dark for an
lcr uncil YOU find the principles which
u01er'fe the question, and when you un-
ra~s-9nd them. then, my friends. the
whole subject is clear to YOU. And here
is the first principle. That when the
su,o'v of money does not increase as
rerffiv as the demand for money, then
the value of each dollar rises.
MAJ a. q rroDosition that is true. 1t
s- solid rock and upon that proposition
v5u can build a system. we apply the
law of supply and demand 10 money
We saw destroy half the crop ot wheat
am YOU will raise the price OF wheat.
Nc saw the man who has wheat profits
hv -h- rise. and we say that he IS glad
That wheat went up. We apply that
r1v- TO- money. We say. destroy half the
money and the value Of The other hSt
VIII rise. and that the man who owns
.rr money Cn contracts payable IN dol
rs viii profit by the rise. And we
also say that he viii be glad that money
v.1- up. We say that hostile ieSiSla-
Sion has increased the demand for gold
and rsis the purchasing power OF an
ounce o, sold We say that hostile leg
tsa.oo has lessened the demand for
r..rar and lowered the price of silver bul-
Hcr when measured by gold. and we be-
-e1e -la- you can undo by law what
,ol a.d by Jaw; tina, if you drove the
.a..--s apart by legislation, that You can
.Ias them -osether again by friendly
lc- a-iCu
You ask me why we invoke the law
now ask y0u Why did YOU invoke The
Jaw I'D 1873. You say that commerce
was cunipc-ent. Why did not you let
commerce act then? Why did you come
l2 and g5- a law passed IN the night and
I'D ae dark TO do what commerce could
NOT DO?
Open the mints; create a demand for
silver. and that new demand acting
with the demand now existing, will