Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-09-08

and the currency Of the country will be
contracted 5000, ,000 and it will take
fifteen years TO replace it with silver,
with the present capacity of our minis.
What will be the result of that? A
panic! Why, the panic Of 1857 will be
10 il as zephyr IS to a cyclone.
There is no more danger of the election
of William j. Bryan upon the platform
upon which he stands than there is OF
some Of the men who are bowling over
the country, clamOring for free silver,
entering the streets of the New Jerusa-
Ian, and some of those men
are so prejudiced that l expect they will
refuse to talk en- the golden streets If
they do get there.
Now, as TO the claim that we need
more silver money. There are to-day
in the vaults of the treasury at Wash
ingtOn S36,O00,000 in silver unrepre-
scented by silver certificates and not in
circulation in any manner. II is lying
there rusting, and it won't circulate.
Why? Because the people don't want
silver except for subsidiary purposes.
And yet the cry Give us more silverr
The Democrats say silver is
the money Of the Constitution. Well,
no one says il ISM The Re-
publican party is the friend of silver,
and in 1873 Il made it a legal tender and
upon an equality with gold, dnd Il has
kept it on parity with gold ever since.
The silver now lying iGlc
in the vaults of the treasury--an1 I
have been at some trouble to make a cal
culation-would load a wagon train one
hundred and seventy miles long, allow
ing 1.CG0 pounds TO each wagon. II
they want more silver let them go down
tcl Washington and haul that out. The
Secretary of the Treasury Will pay all
The charges. Ny free silver friends,
you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.
SO you see that proposition has gone to
the four winds, Ike the others"
Taking UD another phase Of the ques-
ton, he said:
But the silver men say that II free
silver can be had the price will go up
tie more silver the higher the price.
Well, The silver men said the Sherman
law would put up the price. That law
provided for the coinage of 1880 coo
ounces OF silver a month, of about $52,-
100000 a year. Well, il put up the price
a little at frst-about Ice per ounce
for say the first sixty days, and then It
went down, down, down. and the more
silver that was purchased and coined.
tn cheaper Il got. and the law had TO be
repealed 10y Congress called together
by President Cleveland Now. we have
no way Of properly judging the future
except by the past. and by that rulS-
and you must apply that rule-ycu can
see wha, the result viii be-"
A little further on:
"But they gay it will he'D labor
The silver fellows will get all there
is'in it. If tlsre is anything in IL, but
don't think there is much. II
the workingmen wants 10 split their sal
arly squarely in the middle, just rush off
and vote for Bryan. Four
years ago the Democratic cry was that
everything wGs TOO high and that prices
must be pulled down. Now they have
turned q complete gommersault and
their cry to-day Is hat everything Is TOO
low. and tha, prices must be raised"
This is about the way Mr.. Atkinson
ran on. He refuted Democratic argu-
mgnt every few minutes ell during the
evening. and between times perDa rated
a few jokes al The expense Of the Reg
.s.er. which appears 70 lie his f2yon,e
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