The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-08-13
POLITICAL POINTS.

Fusion which fuses votes only ana
gives all the offices to the Democrats Is
no longer popular with the Popullsts'
What has free trade done for the far
mers OF England? Wiped them out.
The free trade policy In America would
have the same tendency.
In order to keep up the price OF wheat
the farmers OF the northwest should
take the tip of extending the area of
barley and going into beet culture.
Silver has reached the lowest point in
Its entire history But Director Pres
ton OF the United States mint, says that
1t Is to 80 still lower. This fall, he says,
is simply the lack Of demand by tho
world for silver as money metal.
May we ask the Democrats OF Ohio
what has become OF the tln-plate liars?
II there is any doubt about the answer,
we state in brief that the celebrated
liars have been found out by the people
as truth-teTters, The fiars were the 9TH
er fellows.
The recent fall in the price OF silver
has preepitated alarming business
troubles In Mexico. Exchange has gone
skyward. business Is at a standstlll,
manufactures have suspended, and
there Is talk of going to the gold stand
ard as business necessity.
The Harrison administration, under
the Mckinley tariff and Sherman re-
sumption, was in full career of pros.
perity when there was "a change"
wanted. and after the Democratic cleo.
ton In 1892 that came fast enough, and
stuck to the people like burr.
Thousands Of Democrats who support
ed the Chicago platform and candidates
last year, are refusing to do so in this
campaign. The fall In silver and the
advance In firm products are convlnc-
ing them of the fallacy OF the principles
which they unwillingly supported In
1886.
Neither the actual miners OF silver
nor the people generally would find
themselves endowed with free silver
dollars II we were tHmhied upon a sill
yer basis. Those only who could profit
by the change are stockholders of the
silver corporations, and they are very
largely Europeans.
The Republicans have no policy that
contemplates the contraction of the
currency. They never did demonetize
silver and never mean to do So The
silver that we have-we mean the mo-
ney-we shall keep and make useful. 1t
is not scarce, and 1t Will wear out slow
ly.
No silver statesman has eyer been
able to tell the plain people who asked
where and how they were to come In to
gather the crop of free silver when 1t
was ripe. As to the process of picking
up the free dollars, the true and only
answer Is, the people at large do not
come in at all, They are outsiders
The increase In the supply of gold
through the recent developments In
new mines and new processes Is not a
mere matter OF chance. II Is the legitl-
mate response OF the miners and mo-
ney producers OF the world to the de-
mand for a convenient metallic medium
of exchange which does not iluctuate In
value.
The treasury figures show that there
has been an increase OF nearly SO per
capita In the money In circulation In the
United States during the past year, and
the farmers and worklngmcn's pocket
books show even n greater degree or
prosperity And vet we were told a
year ago that nothing but the free coin
age of silver could accomplish this.