Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-04-20

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phalanx tor nee silver. and tholasanos
will step asfdeif It Is not made tho main
issue in 1900. They know wherein
lies their lack Of prosperity. They
know that no real prosperity will bless
our country until the farmer and la
bOrer reaps such rewards. They know
these people cannot have boom that
will be substantial in lettering their
condition until the gold standard
eliminated, and a substitute in its
stead OF the old ratio of coinage, max
ing both gold and silver. is to l, q
legal tender in payment OF all debts,
public and private. The Eelmonts, the
Whitneys, the Hills, the Carlisles, the
Stalnakers. the Whites and the Cald-
wells can again enter the open arms
of the Democratic party, when they
agree to this, along the same road a
Republican or a Prohibitionist must
travel to do so. All that Is necessary
is to acknowledge they were deceived
and led astray on the wrong track, and
desire to espouse those great ideas and
principles laid down in the platform
OF 1896. Belmont is ashamed of what
he did for Mckinley in the last cam
paign. He sees the great wrongs he
helped saddle upon the people OF this
nation and he regrets it. That is the
voice OF a man. Every man who was
a member of that convention who re-
fused to vote for Bryan and support
the platform should be ashamed OF
their action. Every man who voted
for Palmer under the pretense of De-
mocracy, who went sneakingly to the
polls wearing pretended Democratic
cloak and silently voted for McKin-
ley, should be ashamed of himself.
He stood aside the teachings of the
Democratic party for hundred years
to reach out and take by the throat
the party that had huddled to its
bosom his ancestors and made them
rich and prosperous. In the last cleo
ton money and corporate power and
greed was on one side and honest JUS
tice on the other, and no man need
to be deceived. The Palmer party was
an annex to the Republican party. 1t
was organized for the purpose only
or drawing under its cover men from
the old party. They organized to de-
ceive the Democratic party and to de-
feat it. Their principles on the money
AuCollOLl WCIO tAC SdlllC 0O tuot 1eAAo
down by the ST. Louis convention, and
the leaders advised as the best way
to defeat Bryan was to vote for Nc
Kinley-a nice set to now advise the
Democratic party as to their future
course. Nearly all the leading papers
that supported Palmer are to-day in
the Republican party supporting Nc
Kinley and all his methods. The mat
ter stands just in this way to-day:-f
free silver was right in 1896 and a
burning necessity, then it is so to-day,
for the same conditions exist now that
existed then. A boom in stocks does
not better the peoples condition. That
is one rich man stealing off another
Trusts do not better the condition of
the people. They are making money
by absorption, by destroying competi-
ton, so as to control the markets.
This accomplished, we are at their
mercy. Imperialism cannot help the
common people, it is an incubus that is
fostered and groomed to aid the rich
speculator The annexation Of the
Philippine Islands means bounty to
the trusts, whilst the common people
pay the taxes. 1t is foreign to our
principles of government and detri-
mental to the farmer, the laborer and
all who believe in the institutions OF
this country. If Bryan had been elect
ed this state of affairs would not exist
to-day; the single gold standard, the
cause OF all our troubles, would not
exist.
The Palmer crowd are to blame for
all these evils, and yet we are asked
to break bread with them, pat them on
the shoulders and offer compromise.
There can be no compromise. They are
to eat our bread and drink
our broth. but it must be made and
Cished out from the same material
and in the same way it was made and
dished up in the platform of 1896.
Talk about prosperity when the bottom
plank is rotten and ready to drop to
pieces from deceptive fungus growth
that has perforated the whole fabric.
The farmer and laborer form that
they prosperous; is the
farmer prosperous? The producers of
all that is material to our we'll being
must get above board and raise grain,
stock and cotton at profit before we
have prosperity of that character that
will count fer all. Wheat cannot be
raised for 60 cents per bushel, corn for
rs, oats for 20, cotton for 5 and wool
Is to 20 in this country; yet that is
the state of affairs that exists now. Do
you hear of any boom in farm lands?
Why not, if prosperity exists-why is
it no one wants that kind of pros
perity? Before 1878 when we had free
silver, when Democratic principles
reigned, everybody wanted farming
lands? They were constantly on the
boom. A strange spectre has come be-
fore the scene. 1t is the gold stand
Hamilton's old gnost
has arisen, and his ideas adopted, gold
supplants free silver and turns every
thing into the hands of a plutocratic
class, who rule with an iron hand and
control the price of all the products
Of the farm by the boarding Of gold
This is a taste of Hamiltonis idea of
government that Jefferson and RAN
dolph and our fathers ignored. He be-
lieved in the rich man owning every
thing and the laboring man to reach
no higher goal than to be his servant.
The farmer must be prosperous to
make general prosperity. 1t cannot
come and be- permanent until they are
made so. and this cannot be done as
long as the single gold standard exists.
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