Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-27
WHEAT AND SILVER.

The cable messages continue to con-
firm the reports Of the shortage OF crops
in Europe In some countries the Sltud-
ton is even worse than was predicted.
American wheat and corn are hnding
markets they never before entered.-Intel-
ligencer.
Exactly; that accounts for the rise
in wheat. The drop in silver beyond
the general fall caused by demonetiza-
ton. is due to equally extraordinary
conditions, not the least of which are
the recent gold discoveries and the
work now going on in London among
the big money kings and manipulators
to force down the price of silver for
effect on the Wolcott "bimetallic"
commission which President McKin-
lev sent over to ease the Republican
conscience in general and in particu-
lar TO help along the gold cause by
presenting an alleged object lesson as
to the hopelessness of international
bimetallism.
Why. then, the causes Of the extra
ordinary rise in wheat and the I'M
precedented fall in the price Of silver
being thus explained, does the goldbug
InteIligencer persist in an effort to
make political capital out of these con-
ditions?
Ordinarily the price of silver and the
price of wheat are about the same
ounce for bushel, as they will be when
the remarkable conditions which have
created the wheat boom have passed
and I the sGG99Pp cfBye4 the hfa6 ng@ oYpsGmWesRpss
of England and America has ceased,
as it shortly must Of necessity, for
even the power of the money kings
and manipulators has its limits.
In another column will be found
hiehly important and interesting utter
ance on this subject from public man
of knowledge and long experience for
whom the Intelligencer ought to have
great respect, since he is RepubE-
can in very high standing, narEeiy, the
Hon. William E. Chandler OF New
Hampshire. who $ one % ;hc few Re-
publican leaders o. consequence whom
the gold bugs have not Cap-ured. Mr..
Chandler is at pains to go into detail
TO explain the fall in silver and The
rise in wheat, tl2 )ne being due III
his opinion to progressive demGneti2a-
ton and the other to the causes we
have outlined. We trust our esteemed
contemporary will take time to read
Mr.. Chandler on this point, since he
cannot be called a "Popocrat," or an
anarchist" or a dishonest repudia-
ZIONIST or a "lunatic," or any other
of the pet names which our neighbor,
in lieu of argument, applies to honest
folks who believe in a return TO the
money Of the Constitution. Mr.. Chand-
Ter isn't even a Democrat. 80, if our
neighbor will read Mr.. Chandler it can
hardly escape the honest conclusion
that if silver were restored to its prop
er place as a money metal, wheat would
under present extraordinary condi-
tons be nearer 81 than 81 bushel,
because the people then could afford
to pay for it something like double
what they can pay now under the sin
gle gold standard, which makes money
dear by contraction and all commodi-
ties. including labor, cheap, compels
the farmer TO pay two in his products
for one in money and the laborer TO
work just twice as hard TO earn a dol
lar, and enables the money power to
control pretty much everything from
the market prices to a presidential
election.