Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-31
Free Silver and Congress.

Bully for ..Murphyr' He's deao
right; that's pat. If silver is worth les
than dollar in ingots, teaspoons, OF
other iimcracks, I'd be a fool, bedad
to keep it in that shape when l coult
get it cut out and squeezed into disc
with grimped edges, and a spread
eagle on one side, a pretty woman OF
the other, and an interesting legend, ol
a motto or two, thrown in, all for moth
ing, and it would then be worth-ye
be a dollar. But the spalpeen doesn'
catch on to gossoon's racket. Wha
| the gentleman from st. Louis wants II
say is that the Bland bill is all righ
except that part which puts the cost O
coinage upon the government instead
of making the man who gets the dol
lars pay it. I'm with the st. Loui;
man there. If want my silver in the
shape of goblets, or teapots, I'd have
to put it into such shapes myself, OF
pay somebody else to do it for me. Sc
| if count it in the shape of dollars, il
is only right that should pay the cost
of coinage.
Emerson, Walker, and Murphy, all
agree that the government should fur
nish money enough for the people to
do business with. Then E. says the
government is the people. Correct.
Now then put the proposition in a
more understandable shape. The peo-
pie should furnish the people with
money enough for the people to do
business with. Don't get the idea of
government divorced from that of peo-
pie, and so lodge discretion with
few to act in matter that will best be
regulated by the uninterrupted inter-
play of the interests of the many. We
don't want any Bland bills Or any other
bills in this matter: we want a consti-
tutional provision fixing weight and
1neness of coin, securing unlimited
coinage, and requiring the referendum
or popular approval or veto, in all law
appertaining to finance. The financial
history of this country, from the soon
tinental damns'' down, is enough TO
make a wooden Indian blush. The
money power has been fruitful source
of intrigue, and corruption, in our ma
tional legislature; and il should be
taken out of it, if for no other reason
than to get it out of the reach of the
lobby. We delegate too much; our
is too Republican, repre-
sentative, and too little Democratic.
No legislature can be competent to ex-
ercise the discretion we have given to
Congress, and the executive even were
all lobby influences left out of the prob
lem. We can better secure our rights
by freedom, in this matter than by leg
Al restriction, or abitrary regulation.
Mr.. murphy expects too much of
Congress. He must remember that its
members are between the '.devil and the |
1eep sea-" They must keep the good
will of the men who make senators, |
and buy legislatures, and at the same |
lime please the voting cattle, who want |
done, but have not the |
to say, specifically. just what
hat something is. There is. too, some |
political economy on the part of some |
If our great statesmen who compose
Congress.
To-day a revolution is making won |
lerful progress, revolution greater |
han the world has ever seen before: |
ret only a few months ago, a newly |
elected Z. S, Senator, whose name is |
o the fore as presidential candidate, !
ldmitted frankly, to your writer, that |
lie did not understand the question at |
ssue. In the desk where am writing
ire letters in which a Congressman,
whose name is familiar all over the
Union, in connection with the question
Il taxation; yet he too. candidly. ad
nits that he is quite as ignorant, and
annot discuss the difference between
axing the values of land and taxing
he values of labor products.
Sometimes s.there are none so blind
S those who can see but do not want
o see.'
No, Murphy it does not matter
much what Congress, this Congress,
Ioes; it's past praying for: but it mat
ers a good deal what you and do.
We want to have it distinctly under
TODD that we will support, neither by
-oice, pen, nor vote, any man who I
oes not distinctly and unequivocally
ledge himself to do just what We Or
er him to do. When we have Con-
ress so instructed it viii .'get move