Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-09-07
The Gold Business.


Irefr.i Democrat
Reader tics. are not the times when
parry ties should bind YOU against your
oEl weiar. You may have been a
b publican or you may have been a
n.mocil- and yet have always had to
labor f'r your living. The question
noF .s who. policy would be better for
y-ur oEn Interests? If YOU do not take
care 90 yourself nobody els. is going to
take care OF YOU.
T1e Democratic party to-day stands
upon lu American platform. The men
WAC believe that we should bow down
10 England have left IL We believe that
gold and silver should be the money of |
,le people. We repudiate the doctrine
tina, gold alCn5 should be til money. ii
gold alone IS to De money. then depend
upon il you will never get 1t, for the
gold c. the world has been cOrnered. |
The only chance there is under heaven
Cor breaking that corner is to make sill
yer Tree. Whenever a silver dollar is
made as it can be made. as good as a
gold dollar for the payment Of all debts,
iaen ia gold conspiracy VII be broken.
The man who makes two good blades OF
grass grow where only one grew before
is public benefaO,Or The party
which puts Two good dollars INFO circu
,aIon where only one circulated before
IS che party for the labOring man.
Seventy millions Of Americans can make
tne.r own money or else Americans can
not rule America. And they need not
ask permission Of the British or any
o-her foreign power. NO.ice one thing,
cleveland and his friends are right in
vita Mckinley and mis- friends. and all
are enemies of the silver dollar. The
Republican party to-day is as false 10
i,s former teachings as are the gold bug
Democrats TO the former teachings Of
the Democratic panty
Look a. the country!
Railroads are going into the hands of
receivers employees are being discharg-
ed, mills ar shutting down. new. enter
pr.seS are being abandoned, and busi-
ness failures are so common that they
occasion no surprise. The prices of
farm products do not bring enough 10
pay axes on the lands.
We have the gold standard to-day.
Tha-e are men going about the country
VITA yellow hats on Their heads, look
ing like the Old cOpper-heads of war
times. and favOring a gold standard
when they haven't had a piece Of gold
money . u their pockets for ten years.
and viii not have FOR tn years more If
Mckinley is elected.
We have this glorious gold standard
with us Why does 1t not save us and
make times better, if it is such a good
thing? Why does 1t not bring pros
PeriJy and prevent this free silver calan-
.tv the nlsyIClevelaudiIes are talk
ing about?
The truth is, there is not gold enough
in ,le world TO do the business OF the
world. and least Of all America.
Now we hear of the flow Of gold from
Europe. and then the flow Of gold from
America Cleveland will get ready 10
se- some more bonds and blame 1t on
-1a Republicans. and Stephen b. Eikins
sai that Mckinley. f elected, would
have 20 sell more bonds and blame it on
the Democrats, and so it goes on from
year TO year. shuttlecOck and battle
i-re All The While this gold they are
gambling with in the name of the pso-
pie is of no more use TO the tOiling mil
Ions Of this country than SO much mud.
When is isn't making a trip on the
transatlantic steamer it is lying in the
van, S of the money changers OF New
York and London.
Where VII this all end?
Ttis pretended gold standard is a
continued menace and a continual curse
10 American prosperity. We must have
restored 10 US the bimetall!c gold and
silver standard contemplated by Ind
American Constitution. This union
cannot exist two-thirds slave in thd
West and South. and One-third free in
the North and East, and that is just
where the god standard puts us Let
us end 20 by electing the men who will
O.. least make an effort to ges I'd of the
incubus, and not wal, for a bloody rev0-
luton.