Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-12

From the Enquirer.
Columbus, Ohio, October 9.-A Silver
Republican of this city, having read an
article from the pen of Judge William
Lawrence, of Bellefontaine, unmasking
the brutal conspiracy of the gold mono
metallists, published in the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette two years ago,
wrote to the Judge for copy of it, and
promptly received it in return, with a
letter, in which, while Judge Lawrence
reaffirms his original declarations in
their entirety, he mournfully admits
that the gold power now has the Re-
publican President, Congress and lead
ers by the throat, thus rendering the
party incapable of affording the Ameri-
can people any sort of relief, and adj
vises them to submit to the frightful
despotism imposed by the Wall street
and British financiers, since the leaders
of the Republican party, led and con-
trolled by Marcus Alonzo Hanna, have
bartered away their rights and blocked
the road to redress. The article in
question and Judge lLawrence's latest
letter are a striking contribution to the
political literature of the day.
In his published letter of February
26, 1895, Judge Lawrence said:
THE ROBBERY.
t'The absolute decentralization Of sill
yer by England and some other ma
lions, including our own, has depreciat-
ed the commercial value of silver bull
lion, so that the silver in a coined dol
lar is only of the gold value of SO cents.
or little less. The result Of this has
been to appreciate the commercial value
of gold, increase its purchasing power
all of 40 per cent and just to the same
extent deprecate the selling or CONNER
cial value of lands, farm products, etc.
Then the untold hundreds of millions
of dollars of Indebtedness incurred ten
years ago-for that matter, five years
has been nearly doubled in value to the
creditors, and the burden of the debtors
has been increased in like proportion.
This process had a dishonest purpose
It is dishonest in it's effect 1t is just
as dishonest as it would be to increase
the yardsticlz to four feet in length,
AMI require a party who agreed to de-
liver 1000 yards of cloth Of three feet
each to deliver 1000 yards of four feet
each.
i am infavor of preserving national
faith. I am in favor of payIn atl III
rtb1ednesss, national. State. county,
city. village and individual, in the best
money. The gold dollar now is dis
honest money-it is a hundred-and-
forty-cent dollar.
THE CONSPIRACY.
''The silver dollar, commercially con-
sidered, and as money Of ultimate re-
compton, has been so dishonored by
the gold conspiracy that it has ceased
to occupy its normal position. 1t is
not money at all; nothing is money that
has to be redeemed in gold. The hon
est coin money consists of both gold
and silver on fair ratio. Gold needs
depreciating and silver needs apprecia--
ing; they should meet upon a level
and part on the square, they can be
made to do this. Let the President o.
Congress call an international confer
ence of the bimetallic nations-leave
England and the other monog gold ma
lions out-agree upon an honest ratio
between gold and silver, and then let
the unlimited coinage of both metals
come, at least to the extent of all pro-
duced by our own miners. Then the
demand thus made for silver will appre-
Ciate it's value and the increased money
supply will secure for gold its honest
parity with silver, or rather there will
come an honest parity between the two
metals for use in all the nations which
agree in international conference.
GAS to those mono-gold nations
iErTSy4 "a There are bandits