Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-01-11
HON. WIN. M. KINCAID
Discusses Live Topics - Monetary
Matters and the Doings of Gold
bugs Entertainingly and Instruct
lively COnsidered

DAscusses Live Topics - Monetary
Matters and the Doings of Gold
bugs Entertafningly and Instruct
lively Considered.
To the Editor of the Register.
Step by step and little by little we
are laying aside our republican form
or government and its grand old prin-
clples enumerated in the Declaration
OF independence and National Consti-
tuition, and by national law and edict
we are substituting the socialistic
principles that always precede the
overthrow OF a republic, and that plant
the germs that produce an empire in
It's place. There is but little doubt
but the Fifty-sixth Congress will pass
legislation that will conform to these
IDEAS. The leaders of the Republican
party, since the war of 1861 closed,
nave directed its course to the consum-
nation of such system. One that
VIII eliminate those grand and noble
IDEAS OF freedom and religious liberty
that our fathers wrenched from the
crowned heads of England and sealed
with their best blood in a war that
lasted for eight years and in their
stead substituted that form of gov
eminent Alexander Hamilton wanted.
A government of the few over the
many. strong and imperial. An en-
pre-. Our fathers kicked this idea out
OF the convention that framed our
Constitution and embodied therein
the principles they fought to establish
and finally compelled King George III.
and his advocates to grant mo dis
tinction between man and man"
equal rights and privileges to ALL
"a government of the people, for the
people, by the people" every man to
be a sovereign within himself" The
people venerated and held these doc
trines sacred because they embodied
the life of the nation, because they en-
anated from our fathers and were en-
dorsed by Washington, Jefferson, Pat
rick Henry, jackson, Clay, Galatine,
Pierce, Lincoln and Grant and every
statesman down to the Sherman act of
February 18th, 1873, that demonetized
silver. This act was the beginning of
system of legislation that has little
by little engrafted by law and edict a
principle into our form of government,
that subverts changes and ignores the
precepts of our Declaration of indie
pendence and Institutes therefor that
form of socialism that declares this
country cannot exist as a free and in
dependent nation, governed by the
people as in days gone by, but must
change that form to that of a strong
government in the interest of the rich.
Society under the bans of plutocracy
must govern. The dollar must rule
the man. The passage of the currency
bill by the national legislature, under
the whip and spur of Reed rules, a
few days since, is evidence of the work
this Congress will attempt. In the
battle for President in 1896 the great
underlying principles of this measure
were ignored by the people. The peo-
pie have never endorsed a single
measure set out in the bill Ninety
nine per cent of the votes cast in 1896
were for bimetallism and against the
single gold standard. Everybody ex-
cept few bankers and a lot of slick
money brokers favored the retaining
of the greenback as it came to us after
the war of 1861. Everybody except
our plutocratic nobility wanted silver
and gold as money alike in payment
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down to the edict of Calico" Foster.
October 18th, 1891, Mckinley was fore
most in denouncing the demonetiza-
tion of silver. and voted November
9Th, 1877, for the Bland bill to restore
it where it stood prior to the act of
1873. He voted for the Stanley Mat
thews resolution in 1873, which declar-
ed all our debts. public and private,
were payable in silver dollars made
under the act of 1897 He voted for
the Bland-Allison bill that restored
the coinage act of 1897 so far as mint
ing the dollar was concerned, and gave
to it's former legal tender qualities
Although his life, down to the st.
Louis convention. he was an advo-
cate of free silver, opposed the gold
standard, favored the greenbacks and
opposed more power to national banks
opposed them issuing money, and he
stood for the Constitution and the Dec
laration of Independence down to that
time, when he was hypnotized by Mark
Hanna, and every view he ever enter
tanned on all these matters was wiped
out, and he faced about and became
the tool of the money cliques of the
nation. The national banks are the
bulwark of this late measure. and
they will be the beneficiaries under
the act. Their power was manifest in
1876 and 1877 and this act largely in
creases it. It was during the panic
that then existed that the American
Bank Association showed their hand
in the manipulation of the affairs OF
these banks to absorb the earnings OF
the people. They almost poverized
the country. The banks drew in their
loans and placed the money in their
vaults; also they horded Aevery green
back they could reach. Money at once
became scarce and the banks refused
to loan dollar except to a favored
few; that few were their hired SER
wants, and the object with them was
spoil, at any cost, for their employers
Railroads, factories, business men OF
all kinds, farmers and laborers were
caught in the avalanche and were
robbed of their last dollar, turned from
home and fed at soup houses by char
ity Distress stared every man in the
fact who was outside the ring. The
national banks fattened on their mis-
cry and cried with anger because the
greenback stood by the people and
saved them from utter restitution
The Bland-Allison bill, passed in 1878
came to the aid of the greenback and
helped it out in its mission of mercy
The national banks and brokers OF
New York and Boston cursed
and swore over the passage of this
bill and said they were ruined, thai
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