The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-26
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Read What Judge Yoder of
Kentons Ohio, Says About
the Condition OF

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campaign last year I travelled from
Main to Illinois, and everywhere I
saw posted on bulletin boards and
windows, in flaming letters, '.Yote
for Mckinley and Prosperity.
ssVote for Mckinley and Higher
wages" 1t is interesting in the
present condition of despair. to.
read the head lines in the Honest
and Sound Money newspapers,
issued on the morning after the
election. Prosperity had arrived
Confidence" was restored, the
jobbers were crowding the public
conveyances with their agents.
who were unable to take all the
orders that small traders wanted to
give, &C., &c. Mckinley was cleo
tedl The honor of the nation was
rescued from the hands of the an
archists. Business was on jump
upwardsi
What have these organs to say
nowP Any excuse for the decep-
ton and humbuggery practiced on
their unsuspecting readers? oh,
yesI Wait until we tax the people
more with robber tariff bill, then
we will all get richl They offer no
hope, only to deceive and mislead
the people a little while longer.
The announcement of 10, 15 to
20 per cent. reduction of wages, in
all parts of the country, and in all
industries, are daily occurrences.
For the first time in the history of
our country the securities of the
savings banks and building and
loan associations have deprecated
to such an extent they became un-
safe as investments. The. same
cause that submerged the power
full nations of Egypt, Persia,
Greece and Rome, and their civil
cations, are manifest in this coun-
try today; the concentration of
wealth into the hands of the few.
The Infinite Creator has given
enough to feed all his children.
A Nations strength is in its homes
of comfort, physical wants and ne
cessities, that the common people
may develop their intellectual
and spiritual natures. necessary to
make them patriotic and good
citizens.
A plutocracy has control of our
medium of exchange, which gives
them the control of our labor and
its product; which controls our
happiness and our civilization.
The farmers and wage earners, our
free men and women, are compelled
to compete and take their chances
with the cheap labor of Asia and
Europe, by destruction of half of
our circulating money. and forcing
the price of all we produce to one
half of what it is worth, and doub-
ling our debts. mortgages and
taxes.
= Since silver was demonetized
the price of wheat, corn and cotton
and farm lands have fallen one
half, money, (gold) which is our
only money of redemption, has en-
HANGED to twice its former value.
Our taxes and fixed charges are
just the same, but it takes twice as
much labor, or product to pay one
dollar in gold as it did when we
had bimetallism.
1 have followed the discussion of
the money question since 1876, and
and am amazed at the narrowness
of its advocates in defending the
gold standard, the Rothschilds, and
the men who have corner on all
the gold outside of government re-
serve, or treasures, a trust that
controls one-half of all the gold in
in the world. This, the. most gil
gantic monopoly in the world, has
its agents in every civilized nation
on the face of the earth. In our
country they have their headquar-
ters in Wall Street. j. Pierpoint
Morgan & Co., August Belmont &
Co., are their Immediate agents,
who have their sub-agents in every
city in the United States. Their
Vanderbilts, Armours, Astors,
Rockafellers, Ickelheimers, Liben-
thals, John g. Carlisles, Cleyelands,
Mark Hannas, ct al.
They dictate our financial policy,
make secret deals with our govern
ment and ship gold to their home
Office in Lombard Street, London,