The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-09-22

~ silts--c our years < tnc DcTnOCTullc
pnrty made a vicious and determined
fight against the Mckinley tariff law AZ
& being odious and injurious TO the Inter-
est Of the American people. Tho lead
linz tariff rerormers and their ncwspa-
pers malIclously assalled Republican
manufacturers ns robbers. nlonopullsts
md protected barOns. who unScrupu-
flOusly nlchcd from the worklngmen
their share OF the benefits derived from
protection. The Homestead strike, the
riots arising from Il and the employ
ment OF Pinkerton detectives was ex-
plotted from every Democratic stump In
the country. On the strength OF this
and the concOctcd Misrepresentation let
Moose in lying torrents on the oars or
tho unwury wprklrRmen, Of the blight
Ing effect the Mckinley tariff would
have on nj Industrial md manufacture
ing establishments they swept the coun-
try, and elected their President and n
majority of both houses OF Congress.
This party OF ruin or rule policy having
everything their own way pulled down
the Mckinley barrier OF protection and
passed the Gorman-Wllson bill In It's
stead, reduced tho annual revenues OF
the treasury eighty or ninety million
dollars, tore the great Democracy Into
Shreds, plunged the country into debt
and crippled It's manufactures.
Tho southern Democratic leaders IN
tho last session OF the present congress-
seeing tho expiring emhcrs OF the re-
form marty in the last pitiable gasp OF
agony and destruction. brought down
on its own head by its partisan ana IN
Competent legislation, threw free trade
10 the winds and precipitatcd In It's
- - F.a.. -tN1 tNY,1ItSltpIl RntH "a wi n
& silver and gold al the ratio OF 10 toll
without waiting for the aid or consent
,of my other nation.
From n protecti0nist wage earner'S
\ standpoint free trade wus an aVowea
and stubborn enemy OF the interests
and prosperity OF American working
men. but Its pernicIouS effects were
calm and u"nprctcnt!ous III comparison
to the untold Injury and deStitution
they will have 10 suffer II the ireland
unlimited coinage of silver ut 10 10
will be forced on the country.
The Significance OF this new issue and
its alarming declaration Is that a ilcit-
tiousa value will be given 10 silver by
coming It Into dollars, doubling Its price
and giving an opportunity tOfal Tor
ltcIEn countries OF the world to MAKE" u
dumping place here for their silver bull
lloD.
We are not told how the monetary
rotormers nrc to maintain the double
standard, or keep the price OF Is ounces
.tof silver always equal TO the price of
gon ounce Of gold II is an undentablc
fact that when both coins nrc put In
circulation on an equality to pay pub
lie and private debts at home and
abroad their relative value as bullion
at the minis must he the same as their
relative or market value. There Is no
assurance given by the reform theorists
that this can lie done, but they say II
the people are patient until the Tree
silver enthusiasts are In control OF the
government the relative ralue-ot l6 TO
will become a fixed fact n depend on
the cupply and demand OF free silver
countrics like Mexico and China to Keep
up the parity perpctually. This is not
a sound or practical method to adopt as
a monetary system. for American work
inEmen who are accustomed to getting
one hundred cents In every dollar they
received for tllclr labor. No working
Gman with a spark of Intelligence would
vote for an unsettled standard OF money
MS they have IN free silver countries.
I Mexico Is considered the most progress
:vc of these. but the tiuctuation OF that
country's silver dollar should be q con-
yinclng proof 10 direct our working
men TO vote against free silver.
The first OF January, 1892 the Mexican
silver dollar was worth 70 cents In
American money. The first OF January.
1888. II fell to 81. cents. The first OF
January, 1894. 1t fell TO ~ cents. and
thu. first OF January, 1895, 1t dropped
down to Al cents. making a reduction in
the value OF the free standard silver
dollar in Mexico IS cents in four years.
I'm China the silver tael was worth 81 II
the first ofJanunry 1892. In 1893 it fell
to 81 Of. January. 1884,. II was worth
onlyfS4 cents, and in January, 1895, went
down 10 rs cents, thus In four years
the Chinese free silver dollar. or tael.
II fell 38 cents. and the ~iluctuation OF the
& monetary unit OF all the other free silver
countries fell in proportion.
American w~oritlngmen do not want n
nuctuatinE currency OF this kind. They
do mol want one hundred cents In the
dollar they carr to-day and tomorrow
Ce1 paid on with n so or 30 cent dollar
through a debascd currency. Wage
Carncrs who would be blindly led TO
vo,c for this kind Of money would be
led to butt their Intelligence against
progress and prosperity.
The American people we're led to vote
against their W interests four years
( Now they know II they vote for
free silver they VIII still be butting
against hunger and restitution.
The Democratic free traders rooted
Nm every kind OF rot that would help
make votes for them In 1892. They Will
fled The manufacturers aH protected
bornns without Scruple of conscience or
I, ndcrncss OF heart for their employees.
and like desperate robbers flched from
= them What rights they were entitled
to under high tariff.
Now this same phrty cannot see the
brazcn robbery they are trying hard
10 pcrpctuatc on the very wage workers
they were SO much Interested In their
4 welfare then. The preposterous at
tempt to rob wage workers Of half the
valne Of the money they have in banks
and savings institutions Is unparalleled
ii IN tho history OF n progressive or CIV
iiizod nation, and the motive that actll-
nted this t]reacherois scheme to be sub
mittcd TO the American people II na
SlrnZcn as II will be injurious II carried
ont What will become OF the wage
Eworkors Of America II the froc silver
rrnnn nre put In control OF our govern
mont? They viii be degraded to alb
iccf clavery and placed In IL worse con-
Iltiou h the uncivlliZcd Serfs OF Chi
m 'or Japan, who labor fourteen hours
n dnv for fftecnNor twenty cents.
T:he opportune time Tor workingmcn
n votc for unsonnd aud absurd
lnws has passed by for the last
foir years. They were caught mapping
u;liI their eyes opened four years ago
OF tho free trade folly. md they well
remember the bitter dose they swallow
d II did not rest In n%aiseatlng their
mouths, but reached far down their
siomnchs and forced them to do Il good
dcoj of traInping for employment to
STAMP out the plague th"y brought on
themselves.