Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-21
OF THE GOLD STANDARD

OF THE GOLD STANDARD
and declare our confidence in the wis
dom OF the legislation of the Fifty
sixth Congress by which the parity of
all our money and the stability of our
currency upon a gold basis has been
secured. We recognize that interest
rates are a potent factor in production
and business activity and for the pur-
pose of further equalizing and of fur
Their lowering the rates of interest, we
favor such monetary legislation as will
enable the varying needs Of the season
and of all sections to be promptly met
in order that trade may be evenly sus-
tanned, labor steadily employed and
commerce enlarged. The volume of
money in circulation was never So
great per capita as it is to-day. We
declare u steadfast opposition to the
Free and Unlimited Coinage of silver
No measure to that end could be con-
sldered which was without the support
of the leading commercial countries Of
tine world. However firmly Republican
legislation may seem to have secured
the country against the peril OF base
and discredited currency, the election
Of a Democratic President could not
fail to impair the country's credit and
to bring once more into question the
intention of the American people TO
maintain upon the gold standard the
parity OF their money circulation. The
Democratic party must be convinced
that the American people will never
tolerate the Chicago platform.
We recognize the necessity and pro-
priety OF the honest cooperation of
capital to meet new business condi-
tions and especially to extend rap
idly increasing foreign trade, but we
CONDEMN ALL CONSPIRACIES
and combinations intended to restrict
business, to create monopolies, to limit
production, or to control prices, and
favor such legislation as will effective
ly restrain and prevent all such abuses,
protect and promote competition ana
secure the rights of producers, laborers
and all who are engaged in industry
and commerce.
We renew our faith in the policy OF
protection to American labor. In that
policy our industries have been estab-
lished, diversified and maintained. BY
protecting the home market competi-
ton has been stimulated and produc-
tion cheapened. Opportunity to the
inventive genius of our people has been
secured and wages in
Every Department of Labor
maintained at high rates, higher now
than ever before, and always distin-
gushing our working people in their
better conditions of life from those OF
any competing country. Enjoying the
blessings of the American common
school, secure in the right of self-gov-
eminent and protected in the occupan-
cy of their own markets, their con
stantly increasing knowledge and skill
have enabled them finally to enter the
markets of the world. We favor the
associated policy of reciprocity so di-
rected as to open u markets on IA
vorable terms for what we do not our
selves produce in return for free for
eign markets.
In the further interest of American
workmen we favor more effective re-
striction of the migration of cheap
labor from foreign lands, the extension
of opportunities of education for work
ing children, the raising of the age
limit for child labor, the protection o.
free labor as against contract conviei
labor and an effective system of labor
| insurance.
Our present dependence upon foreign
shipping for nine-tenths of our for.
| eign carrying is a great loss to indus.
| try of this country. 1t is also a serious
| danger to our trade for its sudden
withdrawal in the
EVEN OF EUROPEAN WAR