The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-04
REVIVAL
OF THE CAVE
OF ADULLAM
The MaIeontents and Disruption.
lists Open Their Grievance
Symposium at Providence.
THECONCENTRATED VIRULENCE
OF Congressman Lentz and his
Fellow Kickers..A Double
Sabbath Dissertation.

first OF the series of meetings arranged
by the New England Bl-Metalllc
League, in the interests OF bi-metal-
iism. was held at Crescent Park this
afternoon. The session was held in a
large open area, the audience occupy
Ing the seats Of the grand stand sur
rounding 1t. All around the platform.
on the outside, were the noisy, money
making attractions OF Crescent Park.
which materially interFered with tho
attention Of the audience to the speak
erg. and with the ability OF the speak
ers to make themselves heard.
The platform was decorated with the
national colors, together with those OF
Great Britain, ireland. France and Gu
ba. Judge Tarvin, Of Kentucky, opened
the meeting.
Congressman John j. Lents, Of Co
lumbus, Ohio, was the next speaker.
His sarcastic references to President
Mckinley, his arraIgnment Of the Phil
ippine war and his eulOgy of AguInal-
do as one Of the greatest men Of the
century were applauded.
He spoke in part as follows:
From Ohio we look to New England
with amazement when we see the cring-
ing seryIIty Of It's masses to that pluto
cratic olIgarchy which is more arbitrary
and more Inconsistent than any mon
archy in Europe.
Virulent DemagoRy.
"You will pardon me for telling you
that the thinking people In the Buck
eye land are more than surprised when
they find that in this old New England
country, which for two centuries arro-
gated to itself the claim OF being the
educational center and the intellectual
hub Of America, there are to-dRy, SO
many blind and serviie followers of an
administration which cannot quote u
single thought, nor a single sentence,
either, from Washington. Jefferson.
jackson or Lincoln. in support of its
policy of imperialism and mIlltarism, In
support Of Its British financial policy
and It's attempted British alliance.
TN Ohio we have never accepted the
doctrine, neither in the church nor In
politics. of total depravity. We still
have faith and hope. We still believe
that truth Is mighty. and will pre-
vail"
I'VE stIll believe that the independent
and courageous manhood of New Eng
land, under such organizations as the
New England BimetallIc League, will
revive and perpetuate the right and
duty to think, as well as the right of
free speech. We hope and believe that
our combined influence with some of
that choice and courageous manhood In
the Republican party Of New England,
in their earnest work against imperial,
ism will ere long bring to public atten-
tlou the fact that the men who are In
favor Of Imperialism and milltarism are
in substance the very same men who
were also identified and in league with
the plutocratIc influences that have
made this republic trlst-ridden re-
public, so weak and prostrate that nell
ther the President of the United States
nor the attorney general OF the United
States, nor the Republican majority Of
the American Congress could dare say
a word at the extra session OF Congress
IN 1897 in favor of the Democratic
amendment to the Dingley bill. to make
null and void the tariff provisions in
behalf of any commodity. the manufac-
ture of which might come under the
control OF trust"
AltgeldS AIIoGution.
There was prolonged cheering when
Ex-Governor John p. Altgeld, of Illinois,
was introduced. Owing to the fact
that his address in New York on Labor
Day Is to be devoted to a detailed dis
eussion of the monetary question, he
simply dealt in generalitIes Mt the meet
ing to-day. He said In substance that
for years the people west OF the Alle-
ghenies have looked with reverence to-
ward New England. The New England
brains. ideas. literature and standards
have shaped the destlniss Of the repub-
lie. It has looked for years as though
their sons were to lower the old New
England standard, and as though they
were going to forget the traditions OF
their fathers, aud bring every"
thing down to low. sordId basis. He
said, however, that he was glad to
learn that this was mistake. and that
a mighty host has arisen which will
keep alive the feeling OF liberty in old
New England.
There was n period In New England
history, he said, when factories were
running day and night, and market
was found for everything nude. Then
the people were all employed at living
wages, and were prosperous, The vol
ume Of money In the world at that time
was twice the amount In existence to-
day, because silver was issued at It's
proper ratio, and had Its proper place in
the monetary plane.
The speaker argued that the rcmon-
otlzation would afford an opportunity
for the wage earners to have more
money to spend and thus open up the
markets at home, which would utilize
70 the fullest extent the products OF the
country. He said that not a single re-
spectacle argument can be found for
a.. ia -t..,n,.1 Thn prcaenf r1One-