Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-24

as gold, and the parity between both
| maintained. The time will come when
the silver in the treasury will perform
the functions Of money as gold, and the
trouble will be, that there is not too
much of it, but too little"
James G. Blaine said: 1--WE need
both gold and silver, and we can have
| both only by making each the equal of
the other. 1t would not be difficult to
show that, in the nations where both
nave been fully recognized and most
widely diffused, the steadiest and most
/ continuous prosperity have been en-
! joyed-that true form of prosperity
! which reaches all classes, but which
/ begins with the day laborer whose toll
lays the foundation of the whole SUI
perstructure of wealth.
| The exclusively gold nation, like
England, may show the most massive
! fortunes in the ruling classes, but it
SHOWS also the most helpless and hope
! less poverty in the humber walks of
! lie. The gold and silver nation like
/ france can exhibit no such individual
fortunes as abound in gold nation
/ IKE England, but it has a peasantry
! whose silver savings can pay a war in
demnlty that would have beggared the
! gold bankers of London, and to which
the gold peasantry of England could
/ not have contributed a pound sterling
IN gold, or even shilling in silver
| quote from Cameron, Logan, Car
Isle, Palmer. Henry Watterson. Chief
| justice Chase and many others who
! nave expressed their ideas in as strong
! language upon this question.
After the wars of England ended in
1878, they started to return to the gold
/ basis with the enormous Indebtedness
! OF over four billions. and, when thew
reached what they termed a solid basis
In 1886, the property owners had de-
I creased in the ratio of to I. This is
matter Of history as related BY Ali
/ son, and as a result of the same inan-
/ clal policy continued down to the pres
ent time, according to the London
/ Times Almanac" last year. Of the thir-
ty-tWo millions of acres of cultivated
land in England, Wales and Scotland.
overweight million acres were owned
by landlords and occupied by tenants.
and only four million acres were oc-
| cupled by the people owning the same;
II other words. one acre in eight.
! The same ratio was true of the homes
owned by the laboring classes. and those
/ owned by the landlords and occupied bv
! tenants. We, in this country, are rapidly
! approaching the same condition of things
under precisely the same financial policy.
as is proven by the records of every court
| house in the land. We are fast becoming
people of landlords and tenants. the
great masses to be "hewers of wood and
! drawers OF water for the benefit of the
few. which will sooner or later lead to
disastrous results TO our system of govern
ment unless a change takes place in our
financial policy. By class legislation the
wealth of the country is being transferred
into the hands of the few through trusts
and combines Of all kinds, and nothing
| has contributed more to this than the de-
! monetization of silver, thereby increasing
the value Of the purchasing power of the
dollar. and lowering the value of every
| thing else.
In the support of these propositions. I
quote from some of the wise men of the
country again. Daniel Webster said:
| Liberty can not long endure in any coun-
| try where the tendency of legislation is
to concentrate the wealth in the hands OF
the few
Garfield said: whoever controls the
volume of money in any country is abso-
| Lutte master of all industry and COM
merce."
| Abraham Lincoln said: 'I affirm It is
, my conviction that class laws. placing
capital above labor in the structure of
government are more dangerous to the
republic than was chattel slavery in the
pf
labor is prior to and Independent of cap
ital Capital is only the fruit of labor.
and never could have existed if labor had
not first existed. Labor is superior to cap
| ital and deserves much greater consider
atom
Thomas Jefferson said: II am not
among those who fear the people. They
| are not the rich, are our dependence for
continued freedom: and to preserve their
independence, we must not let our rulers
load US with perpetual debts"
Chauncey NJ. Depew said: Fifty men
| in these United States have it in their
power, by reason of the wealth which they
control, 10 come together within twenty
| four hours. and arrive at an understand
ing by which every wheel of commerce
| may be stopped. and every electric kew
struck dumb. These fifty men can par
aiyze the whole country, for they can con-
troll the circulation of the currency and
create panic whenever they will"
History tells us that in the zenith and
greatness of Rome. s. per cent. of her pop-
ulation held titles in lands and cultivated
their own Then her people were
happy and prosperous. hardy and brave.
| her legions were inyincible; then her cur
rency was in volume eighteen hundred
millions. When Rome perished, her lands
and wealth were in the hands OF two
| thousand individuals and By class Iegis.a-
| ton her currency had been contracted to
less than two hundred millions
Neiohur. the German historian. tells US
that the people gave themselves I'D to dis
pair in the fields as beasts OF burden la
beneath their load a1d refuse r.
The disintegration Of \ietz1
complete. all public