Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-27

port OF the committee was received and
| placed on record.
Delegate Boes moved that the secre-
| tary be instructed to communicate with
each local and request it to use strenu-
Gus efforts to have the delegates to at
tend the meetings of the Assembly
| more regularly in the future. After
some discussion among the delegates
the motion was carried unanimously.
A number of bills were read and on
motion were ordered paid.
| Under the head of new business, the
president announced that F. M. Green,
of Cleveland, Ohio, is in the city, solic-
/ iting aid for the Cleveland street car
strikers, having been authorized by the
proper labor organizations in the Ohio
town to do so.
| Just before the meeting was adj
| journed, President A. L. Bauer made
the following remarks in regard to
legislation:
! To the Delegates of the Q. V. L. K
| L. A.
Il believe this is an opportune time to
| call the attention of laboring men to leg
| islation which will affect the masses Of
| people and blight the prosperity we now
enjoy. 1t was not a change in our none
| tary system that brought about the largest
| business boom we ever had, as spoken Of
| to-day. Then why, I ask, will they en-
deavor to shrink the value of exchange
by liquidating the treasury note as intend
| ed by the proper committee of Congress, a
| committee whose acts are held in the
| dark to be sprung upon the public with a
suddenness that mystifies and confuses,
| and when the work is done we bear the
burden perhaps unwillingly or unconscious
ly rather than precipitate ourselves into
| the unknown abyss that surrounds US on
this question?
Few statesmen agree upon how much
money it takes to carry on the business of
i, to-day, all will agree with the treasurer
| of the United States that there is not
! enough money in circulation to avoid a
! stagnation of business which has begun to
be felt in the eastern market the last few
| weeks. and which has been experienced in
the past. Who suffers most by the con-
|
class, those who depend upon their daily
labor's exchange for something TO live?
| The surplus of machinery products have
! been slowly drifting to the wealthy or
| those who control the exchange of value
eat the close of every business day four
| f1fths of all moneys are in the vaults Of
banks by our present banking system, in
! control of class who speculate on the
| exchange ri ic
! like the old fable of the monkey and
cheese; the divider gets the biggest share.
Is there no way, I ask, in the name Of
humanity, that fair means of distribu-
! ton can be brought about whereby those
who toll from day to day and perchance
have laid a crust away for the morrow
would not be made to suffer and help to
| share that horrible phantom which they
| call contraction?
I MY friends, we all have our opinions
upon this question, but let me say, if
! have d. hundred dollars in gold and am
willing to give it for piece Of paper from
the government stamped worth so much
bond or greenback, will give that much
labor for the same interest or no interest.
1t is not the 3 per cent. interest on the
bond that creates its worth.
THE question: may be asked, What
right have we, as wage workers, to demand
a change of conditions? We point to the
answer given the children of the forest,
1.-THE advance of civilization the brother
! hood of man. and those who endeavor
| to stop progress by force will be likened
| to a good Indian before a cigar store. All
are invited to partake Of the good things
of salvation, but must toll to gain