The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-02
i2u Gold Cents Per Ounce silver.

Brooklyn Union: Evidently tho pass
| ngCg In the Madison Square Garden
speech OF William j. Bryan that were
thought by him to be OF the greatest
Importance were those relating to tho
uSc OF silver under free coinage law, lie
plvots on that point In all his speeches.
lie said. ut Madison Square: I'VE cun-
tend that free and unlimited coinage
by the United States alone will raise the
bullion value Of silver to It's coinage
value, aud thus mako silver bullion
worth 81 % per ounce in gold through
out the world. " MIR. Bryan proceeded
10 say that this proposition was Ia nc
cordnnCC with natural laws, and further
along he added that he asked and ex-
poctcd the cooperation OF the state OF
| New York.
Sometimes Mr.. Bryan does not seem To
know what he IL saying. but his Ian
GunGc on the subject OF the rise In silver
liz Intelligent and p~reCisc-thAt II we
ulOne had free silver that would raise
silver bullion worth 81 20 per ounce In
gold throughout the world" This IN Il
proposition OF tremendous proportions.
In comparison with 1t all else that he
has said Is insignificant. II he Is mis-
taken in this momcntuus matter II IL an
| error that swallows up all the little
things In which he may be accidentally
accurate.
The production OF silver from the
United States mines since 1879. CONNER
cial value. has been S9i3, 0S3, 900. The
product OF silver mines in the world
since the discovery OF America has been
SO, 357, Sl4,l00. The stock OF silver In the
principalcountries OF the world amounts
10 5000, 500, 900. The silver coming value
81 tk. rnIRng . NJ flIn gIlpnr In tln Initial
States since lS7S-that IN the face OF the
silver coinagc-is $5+t,l42,i7I. That Is
the way we have been dcmoucti2Ing sill
Yer since the crime OF 1878" The silver
coinage since 1873 has beer In the world.
g. 56, 42j, 0l5. 20 that we have coined
onc-ilfth OF the worlds silver coinage
since the crime"
During the six months ending June 20.
this year, there has been coined OF sill
yer dollars. 81, 300 I2, and. besides over n
million half dollars and nearly three
millions Of quarter dollars. That Is. In
One-half ycar-thiS very year-we have
coined within half n million OF rs many
silver dollars MS were minted In eighty
ono years OF free coinage, This Is the
way we ar" contracting the silver cur
rency. Since 1855 the product OF the
United States silver mines Vastly
years LOT Ten Ntluc,
as follows:
1886. $50. 100000: 1857. $4O.+l0. 900; lSSS,
$4,000, 900; 1889. SIC. 80. 900; 1890. $780,
900: 1891, S57. $50. 600: 1882. $50 1853. 900:
1893. SAG. 500. 600; 1894. 81, 422.OO 1895.
S3G. AS. coo.
1t will be noticed that during the
Sherman act years the product was
nearly sixty millions annually
Think OF 1t. that Mr.. Bryan proposes
to double. within one per cent. the mar
ket prize" OF all the silver In the world,
II "" will elect him President. He does
not hesitate TO say hal he would call
an extra session of Congress to do this.
and that silver miners are justly cnti-
tied to the incidental benefit. The sill
yer miners are II hundred corpora
tiOns. At the rate OF increase of pro-
duction expected, these corporations are
offered about q million each annually.
II they will elect the missionary OF scdi-
ton, Bryan, President. Indeed. this
monomanincal nonomctallist proposes
to hribe the whole world. and he has
| never tried 10 show the w~OrkinGmen
where their end OF the revolution was To-
Gated.