Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-01-11

xold. what Deception. The silver doll
lar under The oct Of 1873 mas minted
with gold is 10 / and paid, down to
1873, February ~, the same debts q
gold doller would pay, and all silver Of
fered at any of our mints had to be re-
cetred and coined without cost, same
as gold, and silver was not exchange
able for gold. This feature of ex-
changeability is left there so an end
less chain can be made when necessary
to draw the gold from the treasury
and thus compel the issue OF bonds to
replenish the gold. This bill permits
the government to pay me or you in
silver dollars to the full amount any
debt 1t may owe US, but its full legal
to the payment of bonds or
They are created by the government
and are only payable when presented
to the treasury of the United States.
Ii you maintain silver dollar as good
as a gold dollar, why is it you dis
criminate in favor of foreign bond
holder and say you must have gold,
our best money. Silver has deprecia-
ted in value. so our silver dollar is
only worth so cents. Why Is this so?
Then this same man says, Well, l
want the value of my gold in silver
dollars with which to buy wheat You
reply that is fixed, you shall have the
value of your gold. Our commodities
are valued on a silver basis in the
hands of the producer. A silver dol
lar with them is the same as gold
dollar. 1t buys as much and pays the
same amount of debt, but when for
eign buyer offers to buy goods for
foreign market, the product he buys
is based upon the commercial value OF
the silver dollar, valued at 80 cents.
and the product is paid for in gold
dollars at double the value of the sill
yer dollar, and in this way he gets
the wheat he purchases at half price
and the poor farmer is duped and
swinded out of half the price or the
wheat, for when he receives the gold
dollar it is worth to him just the
same as a silver dollar. Have you
explained these matters to your con-
stituency, Mr.. Dovener? These are
broad, open facts you can't and dare
not attempt to controyert. When you
explain, tell the farmer and laborer
how much they have lost by this cry
of a flfty-cent dollar in sale OF his
products since October IA, 1891, when
this whoop first began. Mr.. DoVener,
have you foisted on the people a nice
mess of potage? You have befouled
the temple of justice of this nation.
You have scorned and set aside the
interests of the common people and
turned everything over to the money
changers. They have charge OF all the
business. They were driven out OF the
temple by our Savior because they
robbed and cheated the common peo-
pie, but you and your cohorts stand by
them, grant every power they ask, DOW
to their every WISH extol and honor
them and call them lord and master.
Remember one thing, the history OF
the world teaches that you can go just
so far in these matters. The people
will discover the deception you nave
perpetrated, and when that time comes
the Indignation will know no bounds;
they will throw down the burthen you
have nut upon their shoulders and you
and those plutocratic imbeciles you
now lick the hand of will be stung
with the wrath OF the populace and
made to bite the dust in the same way
the starving poor OF France IN 1883
turned the tide of Bacchanalian revei-
nv theft and greed that had DESTROYED
their manhood, stoned their families,
and made them slaves to feed, main
tain and keep in opulence few rich
men. VIM. M. hiASOAAD
Cameron, w. Va, January y, l9O0.