The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-07-20
REASONS WHY.

silver restored to Its OLD place IN
our financial system.
Among the many reasons for
the ultimate triumph of bimetal-
lism in the United States we would
mention the followingi
L. Gold and silver have in all
the ages been associated together in
effecting the worlds exchanges.
2. They have never been di-
vorced from each other without
producing disastrous results.
3. Two metals endowed with
money functions furnish more
equable, sound and uniform in
strument of exchange than one
alone.
4. Their use as money on this
continent antedates the existance
of this nation.
5. The founders of this govern
ment, the authors of our written
constitution recognized gold and
silver as the best metals for money.
6. The experience of one hun
dred years has demonstrated the
wisdom and patriotism of the Sc
lection and endowment of gold and
silver as instruments of exchange.
Z. The United States has been
and is the largest producer of the
money metals and requires the
greatest amount of money to per
form the exchanges incident to our
advanced civilization.
s. The rascality measure in
which silver was dropped from coin
age shocks the moral sense of all
honorable men.
8. The rank and file of all po-
litical parties are shaking off party
creeds and prejudices and are de-
termined to redress the wrong by
driving from power the guilty ras-
Gals who stealthily struck down
their favorite instrument of ex-
change for their self-aggrandise-
ment.
10. The Democratic party under
the teachings of Jefferson, Jackson
and Lincoln has taken strong
ground in favor of silver remoneti-
zation.
IL. The Republicans who favor
silver (nnd their name is legion)
are generally men of strong convic-
tions and will not be easily swerv-
ed from what they believe to be
right and just.
II. Believing that there will be
a union of all parties on the single
question, and forgetting or putting
aside all other issues until the Eng
lish system of finance is forever re-
pudiated, we will labor on jealous
ly and confidently that the right
will prevail.-Cincinnati Enquirer
After public opinion was ex-
pressed through the several tax
payers meetings, the County Court
promised retrenchment and reform;
pledged economy and straight
business for the future; and every
body knows that no county needs
all these things more than Mason
county. How do the taxpayers
appreciate the Courts idea of
economy in paying the State GA
zette, simply because its politics
is Republican, $3.50 for publishing
the Financial Statement, when
this work was offered to be done
for s1oo2 Consistency thou art
jewel"
You could not elect a man to
Congress, in this or any other dis
trict in the Union, opposed to the
present war. Hence. whoever is
elected, Democrat or Republican,
the President will be upheld in his
prosecution of the war. And
the appeal of Republican papers to
elect Republicans to Congress who
are in sympathy with the Presi-
dent and the war, falls fiat, as only
the vaporings of demagogues.
There is some talk that the tax
payers will enioin the levy just laid
by the County Court, as excessive
and unnecessary. If officers won't
do right by the people. the courts
will COMPEL them to do SO.
Uncle Sam must have powder to
burn if he can afford to go hunt
ing Canaries with his 13-inch
guns.
The achievements by the army
and navy the past week, have
thrilled our glorious country. and
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