The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-09-07

tional banks may issue the money and
control thevolume Of II. 1 want you to
ask your Republican friends this ques-
ton, how can you have a National
bank currency. resting on bonds, and
have that currency as a permanent sys-
TEN. unless you have permanent bonds
for the currency to rest upon7 ftwant
you to tell your Republican friends
that until recently oil Republicans
boosted that the Republican party was
retiring the debt, lessenipg the debt.
and yet to-day the Republican party
stands for a financial bill. for a cur
rency system that can only be perma-
nent on the theory that the debt Is to
be perpetual. and want to ask your
Republican friends why they do not
openly advocate a permanent National
debt as a blessing to this country. That
Is what they want, and they are not
willing 10 argue the statement publicly,
and you will read Republican papers IN
vain to ind a defense Of the perpetual
debt and yet you could not have a Ma
tional bank currency. redeemable In
bonds. unless you have permanent
debt to furnish the bonds. tApplause.)
The Trusts. X
The Republican party does not dis
cuss the trust question. When the Re-
publican party brass about existing
conditions, Just remember that the
trust condition is the main condition
that 1t .brass about. tApplause) The
Republican party has been in power for
nearly four years. You have Repub-
iican President; you have a Republican
attorney general; you have;a Republi-
can house. and you have Republican
senate. and yet more trusts have been
organized In the last three and a half
years than were organized in all the
previous history OF the United States.
tAppIause.) II a Republican says that
trust Is good thing. you tell that
Republican that the Republican plat
form denounces the trusts. II Re-
publican says that the trusts are bad
thing. you ask him what his party has
done to destroy the trusts. The trust
question has grown IN Importance
since the last election. and to-day men
realize what the trust question means
who did not realize what 1t meant four
years ago. II you have any doubt
about this you go to some travelling
man, who, in 1856. thought that all we
needed was Republican administra-
ton. and then lost his job because his
house went into trust. and he can tell
you something about the trusts. You
ask the .laboring man who works for a
trust and sees The trust suspend pro-
duction In order to keep prices up, and
throws the burden OF keeping prices
up upon the idle employees, who must
wait until the surplus is worked of.
Charles R. Fltn,. a prominent defender
OF the trusts. made aspeech at Boston
year ago last May. and the papers
said he had an exceedingly sympathetic
audience, composed almost exclusively
OF Boston bankers. He went on to de-
fend the trusts. and one OF the great
advantages that he saw in the trusts
was. that whenever there was a strike
in any one factory the trust could close
down the factory and do the work
somewhere else. or course, you people
here know nothing about such a thing.
but you may some day. "a Voice
Down at Benwood, at the Riverside
we do.'Di Know about It now? Where
ever you find that the trusts have clos
ed down factory because OF differ
ences with employees. or for any other
reason. you might ask the employees,
what they think OF the prosperity arguss
| ment and the full dinner pail doctrine.
Isn't It strange that any man who
works for wages can be so blind as not
to see that when trust controls
great branch Of industry, every man
who works In that line OF. business is at
the mercy OF the man who stands at
the head OF the trust? Isn't 1t strange
that any man who works for wages
does not see that? And yet. when you
| talk TO people about the trusts. the
only answer the Republicans make Is
that there is great prosperity. but It Is
always somewhere else-in some other
county.
Gull Dinner Pail"
You can read the papers and see thst
all the talk that you see In Republican
speeches about the enormous prosperity
OF the country Is not true. II 1t were
true, you would enquire what brought
on the prosperity. Suppose 1t was all
true. and suppose you could trace 1t all
to a Republican administration. There
are questions that are greater than 4
full dinner. pail. and when 4 Republican
tells you that because your dinner pail
is full you ought. TO vote the Republic
can ticket, tell him he is making an
argument that ought to be addressed to
an animal that knows nothing but to
eat, and has no higher ambition. When
a Republican says that the only qucs-
tIon to be considered Is, whether you
have enough to eat, he is dragging the
laboring man down to the level of the
animal. When the hog trough is filled,
the hog Is satisfied; when It is empty he
squcals. That is the Republican iden
OF the laborlng man. believe that is
a Islander upon the working man. be-
l!eve that the laborins man Is inter
ested In sour Ideas of government, and
the laboring man can see far enough
ahead TO realize what mIlItarism would
mean for him,