Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-15
WATER FILTERs-ewlNG BROS.

It's prospects of prosperity in this llfe'
He made his record in the latter mat
ter when he delivered in Chicago
the other night a diatribe against
the free coinage of silver and paen of
praise Of gold. He expressed himself
as Mortified at the thought that any man
could be so villainous as Mr.. Bryan and
stand before the country On free silver
platform. Hare is a specimen of his
logic:
Now. it takes thirty-one ounces of silver
10 be worth an ounce Of GOLD But tney
propose by law TO make sixteen ounces
of silver the value of an ounce OF gold. II
they can do that by law. what Is the use
OF wasting all that silver? II they can ny
law make it Is 10 l. why not put on an
other clause and make II i 10 /! Ana II
they by fiat can add 10 cents worth OF
law to % cents worth of silver and make
dollar. why not make all rat ana use
the silver for forks and spoons?
Colonel Ingersoll's agnosdcism says
the Journal sometimes inspires him
She Journal sometimes inspires him
V say original things. His sud
den advocacy of the gold cure
for all human ills induced him
to utter sentiments quite as false
as his others and by no means so strik-
ing. But the rampant repudiator OF
heaven ought to remember that he
has spoken about free silver before.
The gallant Colonel is trying to trump
his own ace. Has he forgotten, or
does ne simply not know his own
mind? For he bellies his own previous
utterances. Here is an extract from
his lecture on Farming" as pub
lished in pamphlet form by G. S. Bald
win:
For my part. do not ask any interfer-
ence on the part of the government, eX-
cept TO undo the wrong II has done. do
not ask that money be made out of moth
ing. / do not ask for the prosperity born
of paper. But / do ask for the remoneu-
zation of silver. Silver was demonetzed
by fraud. 1t was an imposition upon
every solvent man. a fraud upon every
honest debtor in the United States. II
ASA ssinated labor. 1t was done In the
telSt OF dNdilct ana EIetu, anu Sl1ulu l'c
undOne by honest men. The farmers should
vote for only such men as are able ana
willing TO guard and advance the interests
of labor
VIII the admirable aboliJionist Of
eternal JOY be good enough now TO
tell us what made him climb over the
fence with SO much celebrity and jump
down on the other side 50 hard? We
appeal from Robert gold to Robert sill
yer. There are no museums il this
country for two-headed orators or the
Colonel might command an enormous
salary. Or is it possible that the elO-
quent special pleadar for soup as a sub
stitute for salvation has look upon the
gold when it was yellow in the bank,
and become intoxicated with dreams of
what may be his when Mr.. Hannas
campaign fund is placed where it VIII
do the most good?
It must be confessed that in a man
so old and weighty as Colonel Inger-
soil such spryness is remarkable. Bui
if he really believes his own peculiar
religious doctrines it will be all the
same a hundred years hence. He will
rot be receiving his due reward for tell
ing the truth 70 the farmers and
falsehood TO the Chicagoans. But we
beg that he will collect himself; that
he will get himself together, as it were,
and give mis- fellow-citizans some ac-
coun; of the marvellous intellectual pro-
cess which converted the author Of the
strong. direct and honest words in the
lecture to farmers into the shrieking
visionary of free silver swindles,'
MODS, the dagger, the torch and the
bomb"