The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-09-12

peace upon this great question and all
that sort OF argument - e. ~
Respects Paid to Schurz.
Mr.. Can schurz. whose value has
been SO estimated this year as to tind1t
impossible for him to be retained in the
Republican service against Bryrn as
he was four years ago, has now adjust
ed the consideration in such a way that
he says 1t Is an easy mntter. II
Bryan Is elected. all we haze to do Is
for the expiring Congress, tie present
! Congress, TO pass laws which VIII pre-
went Mr.. Bryan from doing any dam
jege." This Is the illustrious logic ofEan
| illustrlous man, who has been illus
trlous In so many different shapes that
the Kaleidoscope Is put to blush when
Ever his name Ia mentioned. and FUR
Their than that these mugwump papers
are claiming that there can be no
| harm In elccting Bryan as you have
put It out Of his power to do any dam
age. Let him be President. He is all
wrong in politics. Every position he has
taken Is wrong. but do not deprive him
of the office because q patriotic Repub-
lican Congress and the magnificent adj
ministration Of William Mckinley have
taken the teeth out OF the viper, have
drawn his fangs and there Is no poison
there now. He Is incapable of project
Ing poison Into the body polite. Let
him have the presidency MS a play
thing and hedge him in and protect the
government against the hopeless pol
icips that he has announced" OF all
the silly logic ever heard this Is the
s,lliest. ,.i
Now let us see about these prophetic
declarations. In 1886 both parties rec
ogaized that the country was In a de-
pIorable condition. am not going into
dstails about this, because It would
weary your patience and It Is Of SO late
occurrence that you will remember 1t. Z
Millions Were Idle.
Two million men were idle in the
United States. It is said. and they were
Idle because there was nothing to do.
They were not 4 striking for higher
wages. We do not have strikes in
Democratic times. When the Democrat
ic party is in power the laborlng man
strikes for the first job he can get and
nayer inquiries about wages, II per-
chance the salary Will feed his wife and
his children and himself. A strike
Games when there is n margin for the
laborirg man to demand higher wnges.
The foreiSn trade OF the country was
Frustrated. enterprise was deud :hor-
ror and hunger stalked in the lard: de-
SPAR and restitution and desperation
r2igned. marching columns of hungry
men waved the banner. of disorder and
violence and nobody blamed them.
Their condition had<becn brought upon
them by the bad legislation of the
Democratic party and everybody knew
II! then and everybody knows It. now,
and the man who to-day Will stand be-
fore an intelligent audience md say
that the hard times OF 1896 were
brought about by some agency or agen-
Giles unaffected by the present In power
OF the Democratic marty. makes a mis-
take II fa hopes to have his statement
behaved. Prices had fallen. Some
newspaper the other day challenged
the statement OF someone. do not re-
member who It was. who said that the
depreciation in prices In 1886 from the
incoming Of the Democratic adminis-
tratlon had aggregated q greater sum
OF money than the cost Of the Rebell-
lon. The paper said II could not be
proved and Of course 1t cannot be Prov
ed ard demonstrated. but let me refer
to n few figures. lie: US take the pres
ent prices as the true basis and then
take the crisis OF 1886 and let us see.
Property Increased in Value.
The total valuation of property In the
United States is something enormous
and there was not dollars worth of
that property, there Is not-a dollars
worth OF Il day that Is not worth at
least twenty-lve-per cent more in the
market than It was In 1896. Go right
into an analysis. Take all the farm
products of the country and they
amount to sum that Is stupendous.
Take the cattle. the horses, the sheep.
the hogs, take the farm produce
throughout and the millions upon mill
ions and the hundreds OF millions Of
mere milk, eggs. butter, cheese and
poultry OF the country and you may,
with absolute safety, add to 1t % per
cent as the difference between the
prices In 1896 and the prices to-day.
Add % pcr cent TO the cash value of
the farms OF the country and of every
foot5of real estate outside of. the cities
and larger per cent within many Of
the cities and the difference between
the value of property In 1896 and the
value of property In 1890 Is astonish
Ing. That depreciation all occurred
between 1892 and 1896. We had very
good times In 1892 when the country fell
into the hands of the Democratic party.
Let me put this my way and let us sec
II Mr.. Bryan shall. be permitted to
sneer at our claim Of prosperity. Let
me put 1t my way. Did we not have
good times In 1892? Did we not have
1.-The exact legislative conditions In 1899
that We had in 1896. with the exception
of one or two unim3drtant matters OF
legislation and excepting the detrmen-
tai Legislation of the Democratic party.
Start this way The conditions of 1882
were favorable more so than they had
ever been before In the history of the
United States. Start there as the basis
OF your calculations.
Destroyed Protection to Labor.
The Democratic party struck at and
destroyed the great principle OF pro-
lection to- American labor and Ameri-
can industry and to American capital
! In the passage OF the Wilson bill. The
passage OF that bill destroyed the con-
lldcnce OF the people OF the country
and destroyed the main market of the
country, opened the. doors. Of our ports
| 10 the products OF the cheap labor OF
| foreign countries and almost Instantly
upon the advent of the Cleveland ad-
ministration prices began to tumble.
| Why spend time over II. Everybody
knows II. Everybody understands It..
| Nobody can contradict It. What did It :?
| YOU my Democratic friend was in con-