The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-02

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and hire the cheap man and co~uld,there-
lore indersell me. There ia no room for
eharity IN business md thanE God
me human family don't needit. tPro.
lonscd iapplhnse0
only way you can increase wages
~ 70 Increase the efficiency OF your la.
produccd wealth In the history OF iha
world. Does anybody pretend thni INV
President could create a thing 81 vnlhe
by the mere legislative power? DO Won
suppose that any Congress could pass
any law that would make that table
TWO tables? Mr.. Bryan nor no other
nun can by passing an act OF Congress
produce the stone from the bowels Of
tho earth finished and ready for build.
'lnB purposes. no more than he cnn cru.
ate a value for silver, a1
There Is only one occasion In history
when anything was produced without
labor. and that was when the loayes
and fishes were fed 10 tho multitude.
! don't believe the speaker Tonight
VIII attempt to show you how q Com
gress could pass a7la& that would In
GREASE the number OF oil wells.
No Congress or legislative body can
py an act i%ncrease or diminish the'yalue
OF, anything. They might change the
price, but they cannot change the value.
II IN the state OF West Virginia to-
morrow b legislature would say that
hereafter the yard stick would only be
hurt much. The people would bly The
same amount OF cloth, even he it was
known as more yards. The same would
exist II the legislature would Increase
the yard stick to double the bpresent
size. That would not mako YOU buy
loss cloth, or more cloth. The mer-
chant would double his price per yard.
~ you would buy Just half the humber
OF yards you do now. tApplause.)
Higher Prices.
Don't 1t stand ~to;reason. myifrIends.
that IL the government cuts down the
dollar and makes 1t worth Just one
half what It Is now,that the store,keep-
er VIII Increase his price on his goods
Just double? Isn't u common sense 20
Know they would? Watch these words
Used by the Populistic orators.
They tell You the reconciliation OF
silver Is all they ask. II that were true
would not be, addressing you on this
platform to-day. They want to change
the standard they want to make debts
contracted with the promise to pay in
honest dollars, payable In debasel cur
rency. The result would be the credl
tor would get but, half the amount
loaned and would be cheated. We pro-
test against such terms as those ex-
pressed In the Popullstic platform, be-
cause we are Americans, because we
believe In honor. (Cheers and APP
plause.)
The avowed purpose OF the platform
adopted at Chicago Is to raise the price
OF commodities.
While wages remain at their present
rate l hope there Will be n further and
continuous decrease In the cost OF liv-
Ing. (Applause,) There is no way in
which 1 can be admitted to a share OF
Gods bounty except. through n fall in
the prices. Of the necessarles OF life.
While We preserve In existence that
system of mutual cooperation which
Is but another name for civilized So
ciety, all men must share in all the
favors which Providence showers upon
the earth. The dweller in the tene-
mcnt house, STOPPING over the bench
at which he tolls through all the hours
OF the day, who never sees a field OF
waving corn, who never inhalesi the
breezes that sweep over meadows la
den with the perfume OF grasses and
flowers, Is yet made a participator In
the benefits which flow from the grow
ing fertility OF the soil, the purifying
influence of the atmosphere, the ripen-
Ing rays OF the sun, when the neces-
saries OK life are cheapened to. him by
an abundant harvest. (Applause.)
II the price OF commodities Increase
80 per cent, and wages 10 per cent, It
amounts TO the same thing as a cut In
wages doesn't lt2 II Is a scheme to
advance the interests OF the farmer at
the expense OF the laborlng man. The
idea expressed by them is to SOW in
silver and reap in gold" That Is they
desire to raise their crops and pay on
their hands in a defaced silver coin
and sell It to Liverpool for gold.
such a proposition Is extremely dis
honest, and the American farmer will
not consent 10 be n party in such a
dishonest scheme. He will not offer to
the man who works beside him In the
field n dishonest dollar. The founda-
ton OF business is common honesty.
1hcHvar ON Creditors.
Well, but the Popullst tells US, and
Mr.. Bryan leads the van in saying,
that the creditor is a public enemy who
should be deprived OF the rights which
he now enjoys under the laws OF this
country. Mr.. Bryan says there will be
" kind Of metallic money In exist
cnce when his system OF coinage shall
have been established. and II there be
a difference of value between them
he argues that the debtor should have
an option. as to the metal In which he
would pay an act OF dishonesty. In
order tina You should understand lust
how a change In the standard OF value
would enable men to cheat a other
you must consider. the function which
money plays In measuring debts. II I
had paid ten dollars for ten wards of
cloth, TO be delivered to me next week,
and In the interim the government
should pass a law declaring that here
after the yard measure should consist
OF eighteen. Inches and that ali EXIST
Ing contracts should be settled by the
new standard of measure, | would be
cheated out Of half OF the cloth for
which l had paid, (Applause.o II. ON
the other hand, lowed a cloth mrr.
chant ten dollars for ten Yards of
cloth which he had delivered totme.
and before the date at which nv deht
became payable tie government sh5lild
change the standard of value and emf
down the unit OF coinage one-half, then
| would settle that debt with the
equivalent OF FIVE dollars as they now
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