Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-09-16

I,1ed on the silver question, but we deem
( Il our duty to dispense information in
Tan places where it seems 10 be needed.
To begin win the Register would like
To- give its Fourteenth st. neighbor :
/ lesson in common honesty, although il
, is hard to teach an old dog new tricks.
I Nevertheless. we viii endeavOr to give
/ IL an object lesson in The results Of dis
hon sly in argument, as exhibited in its
own internal McKinley-Aikinson-Hart
organism. Col. Hart, who has been
working the Republican bushes hard
down in the STATE, with his eagle eye
On the U. S. Senatorship, in the event
of Republican success, is back in the
| Fourteenth 81. cockloft at the desk. We
30 no, mean 70 say That this accounts
for the sudden resort TO fraud in cur
Ireighbor's editorial discussions, for We
have TOO high an opinion Of Col. Harris
/ personal character. Il may have been
a cast in his specoacles. A. any rate,
we have 20 charge our reighbor with
grossly miss,atiDg the Registers argu-
nent on the currency question which
the more or less esteemed Intelligencer
pretended TO answer in lis issue of yes
terday. I, may have been, as we have
said, a cast in Editor Harris specs. or
/ the painful Senatorial srabismus which
/ has been troubling his vision for some
time. However. the Intelligencer DELHI
5rately lied abou;-or, 10 use a softer
term. CARIBBEAN article which appear
ed in Mondays Register. 1t did it as
follows:
Any man who advocates the silver cause
viii admit. if he is well Informed. that an
over-isSue OF silver money would depreci-
ate Wheeling Register.
ANY advocate of the silver cause who
admits this admits away his whole case
Mt. Bryan says that the free and I'M
limited coinage Of the silver dollar at a
ratio of is 10 1 would raise the price of
! silver so as to make the silver in a silver
dollar worth q hundred cents, and would
keep it there
Ny. Bryan is wrong and the Register
Is right. but Mr.. Bryan would not thank
the Register Tor its admission if it were
To- come TO his notice
As usual the Fourteenth St. organ
took a sentence out of = column ana
twisted i, to suit It's purpose, which is
an old, dishonest trick that modern
newspapers have abandoned. For illus
raton. read again the Intelligencer's
quotation from the Register which we
reproduce above and then read what the
/ Register actually said en- this point, the
entire meaning of which was distorted
/ by the ring organ, which finds it next to
/ impossible to tell the truth in this cam
Ipaisn. The Register said:
ANY man who advocates the silver cause
. viii admit. If ne is well informed. than an
/ ovcr-issue of silver money would depreCi-
ate il. The equivalent of this was seen in
/ tho case of gold after the discovery Of
that metal i'm California and Australia.
I There was such AN enormous addition to
! the volume of gold that the purchasing
/ power-or i'm other words the Value-of
| silver money would cause IL 10 decline.
/ But admitting for the arguments sake
/ that there could be Such On oNer-lSSue un-
! der existing conditions. II would take a
I long time before that much silver could be
] G,rositel AT the minis. II would have 10
/ Doe the surplus over and above the silver
/ demanded i'm other parts of the world.
So much for the contemplate miscep-
resenta,ion and bold falsehood of our
Hauuaized neighbor. which has not hon
estly quoted and dare not honestly quote
a Democratic argumen, in this. cam
p7ign. This is harsh language to use,
/ we know. but it is none too harsh to suit
.he subject
Every man who knows anything at
Ian about the coinage question knows
that an over-issue of silver money under
free coinage at the present legal ratio
such as the enormous increase in the
production Of gold that caused gold
money to deprecia,e, or, rather. silver
money to appreciate, is a practicable
Iimpossibiity. Where, in The name of
treason. would It. or could it, com from?
! The United States is the greatest silver
producing country in the world to-day,
and the whole output of The mines is
used I'm the arts and sent abroad % sill
YER using countries for coinage. If the
OUTPUT were two or three times what it
lis and if all of it were coined into Amer
lean silver dollars, it would no. be
enough to depreciato the silver dollar
under free coinage at the presen, legal
ratio.
If we once open our minis to free coin
age of gold and silver at the present
coinage ratio Of Is to l. gold would be
/ more likely to be deprecated from over
/ issue than silver. for much more Of it
80 tlis ratio has been mined than there
1 las been Of silver since 1873, when sill
yer was at q premium. All the gold that
/ is now being bearded. to the great dis
/ urbauce Of business. would come our
into circulation and once again take its
( proper place in The channels Of trade,
where it has long been q stranger, for
/ Immediately the minis were opened to
/ free coinage of both silver and gold the
/ incentive TO heard gold would disappear.
II Other words. under free coinage. gold
would a. once become less valuable and
silver more valuable in proportion.