The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-07-22

Let me say to my misguided silver
friend who snys thIs:-Don't say 1t
ngaIn!-pcople may not know just how
| Ignorant you are Of financial legislation.
| II you do not publish the fact. The bill
that dropped the silver dollar from the
coinage was introduced In the Congress
of the United States on the 25th Of April.
| 1870; WAS under discussion In the house
and senate from thut time until its pas
sage on February II, 1873, a period Of
| three years: was introduced In the
| Forty-ilr2t Congress and reintruduCcd
In the Forty-Sccond Congress. II was
printed thirteen times by different Con-
| crosses. In the house and senate. and
was published and circulated through
| the newspapers. and sent under frank
| OF senators md representatives to near-
| ly every home In the land. 1t was not Il
| partisan measure In any sense. Over
one hundred pages OF the congressional
record are taken up with the publication
| OF the debates. The provision dropping
| the silver dollar was In II from start to
| finish. On an aye and nay vote in the
| senate. Senator Sherman. who you clnIm
was the arch conspIrator and prime
mover In this crime OF 1873, voted
| Stewart, OF Nevada, your big champion
sllvcrlte and mine owner. and who. by
| the way. loans money and rents houses
and always requires IL stipulation that
! his rent and interest. rs well as all as
| s'.SSmcntS on the silver mining stock
| In which he Is interested, shall be pay
| able In gold. voted for It, daughter
and applnusc). There may be people In
this land who did know Of this. l sup
pose those who were ut that time In
mates OF Insane asylums were ignorant
Of the fact. but YOU know they are not
l>cOnsldered real bright q
The free silver advocate insults the
| intelligence of any we'll Informed far
| mcr when he states that the rise or fall
| OF silver bullion has had anything 10 do
with. OF has In any way controlled the
| price Of whcnt He tells you that wheat
has gone down becausl silver has como
down. On March 3, 1893. II sub-cOmmit-
| tee OF the senate committee on finance,
representing both political parties, and
both sides Of the currency question,
made Il report on the course OF prices
| and wages In this country for period
| OF iifty-two years. The report was unnni-
moliaaS to the statement OF fact. Tables
| prepared by Labor Commissioner
Wright, contained In this report. gave
| the average prices OF spring wheat ut
Chicago, ps, we'll rs the average price OF
silver per ounce for the years named,
| tind from this table, that In 1860 wheat
was ninety cents q bushel, and silver
| Hold'ut $l.33A per ounce: that in 1879 sil-
verb nd fallen to 81 % As p,r ounce
while, strange TO say. wheat had IN
| creased In price 90 cents on the bushul
and WIS cling at,sl T..
So on through the whole table II vii,
not lie found TINT the price of silver
had anything to do with the rise or fall
| OF wheat Another instance from tho
same table: In 1855 silver had fallen to
| ~ cents nm ounce. yet wheat sold III"
same year nj 81 &c bnshcl. y man OF
ordinary intellect would naturally come
| to III" conclusion that the law OF sup
ply Of demand had more TO do with the
| price OF wheat than the rise and fall IN
| the price OF silver bullion. Docs II not
occur TO any well regulated mind that
when the prairirs OF the great western
states. the Argentine Republic. and In
dtl. enter. the wheat market the price
| will naturally and Inevitably fall? What
Is true Of wheat Isl also true OF the price
OF nay, OnlS. corn, nnd all othCr farm
| products, The price OF silver does not
affect the price Of farm products any
more than does the price OF coal.
Thu Candidates.
have not fully discussed this ques-
ton az well as many other questions
which nre Involved In the Issue Of THE
campaign. Tim" fnrblds, hut the per-
sOnnllty Of candidates for the high and
| importan, office VI the presidency OF n
great republic like ours Is an important
aud potential consideration that should
| affect MS In caJiIng our votes who Ia
| William Jennings Bryan? have MOTH