The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-09-29

Has Fsexr words TO Say. He
Talks to the Big Silver Meet
fnE Abol1r the Matter OF

In speech at the silver camp.
meeting, at Springfield. Ohio. Sat
urciay, Ex- Gov. John F. st. John
Of Kansas. among other things
saids
Zone great stumbling block IN
the way OF human progress to-day
is the ignorance and prejudice Of
the people. This is the result Of
partisan slavery What the world
needs to-day is more voters who dc
their own thinking, and fewer
voters who let their party think for
them. We need more patriotism
and less partisan bitterness.
Let us understand at the out
start that gold, silver and paper
are not money They are simply
the commodities upon which the
money Of the government is stamp-
ed. This so gold piece is full
legal tender for all debts, public
and private. Now hammer the
stamp off If, and what have we
left2 Simply a piece of bullion.
You could not, under the law, COM
pei a citizen to receive ton of it
for q IO-cent debt. It is no moro
a legal tender than horses, cattle.
beef and pork. There is no In
trinsic value in money Itismere-
II a creature of law and its value
therefore is legal, and not intrin-
sic. We hear great many say
that they want money that viii
stand the test of the melting pot.
The truth is that our Government
never issued any such money.
Put $50 gold piece In the melt
ing pot and bring it to a sufficient
" high degree of heat, and the
metal melts and the money is gone.
Has it stood the test of the melt
ing pot2
'.Whenever the devil wants to
mislead or deceive the people he
cunjures up some catch word or
sentence. One of these which is
frequently used is fiat money.
The truth is, all money is fiat.
The word fat simply means law.
Therefore fiat money means law
full money. Surely there is noth-
ing very frightful about lawful
money
We hear great deal of talk
now about 43 cent dollars, but the
fact is we never had any such dol
lars. But if the contention of our
friends that we have a 49,
cent dollar is correct, then there
must be Ascent government back
of the dollar. For, remember that
the dollar is just as good as the
makes it. If we have
a 43-cent dollar, then we have a 4S-
cent government, and the govern
ment is in the hands of Accent
political party. I find on one side
of this silver dollar the head of the
goddess of liberty. Isit possible
that the goddess of liberty has be-
come SO deteriorated and debauch-
ed under our present financial sys-
tenn as to be worth but 43 cents on
the dollar? On the other side of
this dollar I find the inscription,
In God We Trust. I ask you,
good people, have we at last SO de-
generated as to reduce the value OF
our trust in God to 43 cents on the
donarP What the people demand,
and intend to have not later than
in 1900, is full, unlimited legal
tender, silver dollar, worth loo
cents, in the payment of debts,
with 100-cent government back
of it, and that government in the
hands of IO0-cent political party
"Our gold-standard friends have
opened their campaign. Their frs
gun was fired near Hazleton, Pa. 6
few days ago.
The river has apparently gotten
tired of all this talk about il and L
beginning to dry up itself to see i
the example Will do any good.
The annual Convention of thu
Ohio River Improvement Associa
ton, viii be held at Evansville
October II, 1897 Our town should
select its delegates to this conyen
ton at once.
The Marmet Smith Co, of Ray
mond City, are building new tow
boat that will have the machinery
of the Ben Wood. The Mohle'
Lumber Co, Is building anew tow
boat that VIII have the machinerI
of fhe r. r Kendall.