The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-16

hro 100 EJuinly Seeon tho Jaws and
Hide Of the Wolf Through tho Fle,ey.
5CoverinG-one orths Most Brilliant AR
faiGnments OF The Party Of Unrest ana
DIscontent Ever Madeline Financial
Question Plainly Pnt, and the Attempt
10: Array Section against Section Re-
sented In Eloquent Periods.
CHICAGO. Oct. 15.--Thcodore Roose-
welt, Of New York. spoke at the Coll
scum tonight, on the issues of the CAM
paign. He had an immense audience
and was enthusiastically received. His
words concerning Governor Altgeld
brought forth cheers from his Republl-
can hearers. The eddress which was
quite long. covered all the vital issues
of the campaign and the speaker minced
no words in making his points plain to
his audience.
AT the conclusion OF his address, Mr..
Roosevelt was given repeated cheers.
He, spoke In part as follows:
1t Is not merely school girls that have
Mysteries; very vicious mob leaders have
them Mt times, and so do well meaning
demagogues when their heads are turn
ed by the applause OF men OF little In
telligence and their minds Inflated With
the possibility OF acquiring solid leader
ship in the country. The dominant note
In Mr.. Bryans utterances and In the
campaign waged In his behalf Is the
NJ re i,1-pk a,.u II,
feel the contemptuouS pity always felt
for the small man unexpectedly thrust
Into a big place. He does not look well
In a lions skin, but that IS chiefly the
fault OF those who put the skin on him.
But in Altgeld's 8 case we see all too clear
ly the 5awsnnd hide Of the wolf through
the tieecy covering. &EFti S,7
Z MIR. ALTGELD IS A5MUCHe MORE;
DANGEROUS MAN THAN MIR. BRY-
AN. HE Is MUCH SILVER, MUCH
MORE S1NTELLIGENT,M LESS
SILLY. MUCH MORE FREE FROM
ALL THE RESTRAINTS OF SOME
PUBLIC MORALITY. The one Is un-
scrupulous from vanity, the other from
calculation. The one plans wholesale
repudlation with o light heart, and bub-
bling eloquence, because he lacks In
telligence and Is intoxicated by hope and
power; the other would connlve 4 at
wholesale murder and would Justify 1t
by elaborate and cunning sophistry for
reasons known only to his own torturous
soul. For America to put men like this
in control OF her destinies would be such
a. dishonor as 1t is scarcely bearahle to
think of. y 8 h tg.
Our foes are waginS q i. campaign
which Is at the bottom waged primarily
against morality: and ability.
With the majority OF the men who
want cheap money the silver dollar IL
desired, not because of any abstruse
theories about the benefits OF bimetal-
Ism, but because 1t is the first step to-
ward flat money. These men cham
plon a silver dollar because 1t is cheaper
than the gold dollar, just Us they would
champion n copper dollar rather than
one OF silver, II copper could be made an
Issue at the moment. But the Bryarltes
do not depend or cannot depend on the
currency for cheap money Dishonest
| finance IS only ono Of their rallyinS
cries: they wish also debased judiciary
and an executive pledged not to inter-
fere with violent rnobs. What they
appeal to Is the spirit OF social unrest,
the spirit OF discomfort.
Social Disorder aud National Destruction
They. seem to rally TO their banner all
the forces that make for social disorder
and national destruction. They bid for
the support of the knaves who see their
profit in soclal convuls!on, hoping 10
find 1t, II they be Judges, In the shape of
high Office, or IL they are more vulgar
wrong-doers In the opportunities Offer
cd by a general relaxation or the laws.
1t Is both amusing and melancholy TO
see the straits to which the apostles OF
this doctrine nre reduced the minute
they, In any degree, endenvor tosput 1t
into practice. The present movement
was started largely IN agricultural COM
munitics, and in order to appeal To those
among tho farmers who were 'discon-
tented. ii was proposed to allow them to
pay all their debts in money worth half
whatit Is ut present. The largest credi-
tor class in the United States Is the class
of wage earncrs, and now the Populist
and Popocrnt leaders find themselves
awkwardly placed when they cndeavor
to explain to the workingman Just how
ne is going TO be benefited by having
his wages cut down one half. y.
There are many OF us who can swim
In troubled waters; but, the poor and
the most helpless, the men who now find
1t the most difficult to live. are the very
reople3who would 20 down soones. In
the storm. i i .}f
Mr.. Bryan IS fond Of dcnounclng not
only. those who lend TO private indi-
yiduals what these private individuals
urgently need, but also those in the
time OF the nations need who loaned the
nation Itself the money with which TO
carry on the national business. 1t IL
truc that we had to pay altogether too
high n rate of Interest for some OF the
bonds which have been recently Issued,
but this was due more than any other
cause to the fact that Mr.. Bryan anu
his precious associates OF the rcpudin-
tion stamp by their antics made the
loan dangerous. With a proper tariff
and d proper financial system, we would
not havotto borrow ut nll.
d Mr. Bryan is very npt to lrail at the
creditor class. He forEets that the larg-
est class Of creditors In this country. is
The class OF wage carncrs. Under free
silver these wages would be worth half
what they are now. II there was n
great inilntlonsS Of tho currency, the
prices would go up rapidly; wages
might nftcrin while go UP n:li,tle, but
they would 20 up very slowly and never.
as high rs prices. MR. BRYAN SAYS
I2TfTAT THE GOLD DOLLAR HAS
GROWN TOO EAT; LEr.II RE-
MEMBER THAT 1T THE WORNING-
MAN CAN ONLY EARN "a LEAN
DOLLAR. HE CAN ONLY BUY a
LEAN LOAF. Many OF the arguments
of our foes nre difficult to meet, simply
becnuBc they nrc 80 absurd that 1t is
hard to speak patiently about them,
One OF these liz tho talk about Wllnt$ the
IElunn.ic portion orE our opponents are
| fond oc calling "thc crime OF 1879"
whcn. na they say, sllveriwa ''lemon-i
etlzodh by stealth. Az n matter OF tfaot,t
the bill switch 4tcmonctlscds silver WA
before tho two houses or Congress for
over two fycars:s II was printed thiridnr,,