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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-16
NUMBER 20,

1898 two billion bushels, at the same
rate how many billion bushels shall we
have paid by 1913, and how many bill
lion bushels shall we then owe? lion
debt calling for IA million bales of
cotton in 1866. we have already paid
in principal and interest 81 million
bales and still owe in 1898, 81 million
bales, at that rate how many million
bales will we have paid by 1918 and
how many bales shall we then owe?
They used to have sssum" like that
in the old log schoolhouse days: IA
well is 20 feet deep; frog is 10 feet
from the bottom; while he is climbing
up one foot he slides back two feet;
the well?" The answer used to be,
the frog must turn around and jump
the other way; and that answer is
equally applicable to the financial sit
uation here; we must resume bimetal-
lism.
outstanding statements to the
contrary, the evidence is incontrover-
table that the force and effect of the
act of '73 and the fact that it demone-
tized silce7, was not known outside of
the financial ring. That point was not
discussed in congress or before the
people. The man who quotes John
plea in defense would do
well to read Senator Stewards reply
thereto. But how we got into the
hole, whether we walked in with our
eyes open or stumbled into it with our
eyes shut, is not the main question just
now. We are in the hole and getting |
deeper in every day. Scarce money
and low prices are bankrupting the |
farmer. The more he raises, |
the less he gets for it, while thousands |
are starving in the cities, because they |
can get no money to buy his produce,
and no work to earn the money by. |
What we need is more standard money
and higher prices. The first step to-
ward a sound and equitable financial |
system is to put us back where we
were before 1872, and let us coin our
silver freely into standard dollars,
making them full legal tender again
or all debts public and private. Till
hat is done, the farmer will have TO
Keep on, as now, giving the value of a
1ollar and half or two dollars to get
B. 7uckernaan an Ohio Far
71er.
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that the people should understand the
nature of the situation.
On the other hand. If times are to be
as prosperous under the single gold
standard as they were under the partial
restoration of silver-if prosperity 10
to follow repeal-if prices are to go up,
wages be increased, and work found
for the idle labor that has been thrown
out of employment-then the C0nststu-
ton will gladly admit that its argu-
ments were wrong. Its position at var
lance with reason, and that the single
gold standard and a contracted cur
rency are what the people need.-At-
'dntG Constitution.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-16
Our Friends, the Englishmen.

1t is always pleasant to have the un-
prejudiced views Of. foreigners as to
our politics. We can get from aliens
what it is impossible to secure from
any partisan-a sweeping view which
includes things that no partisan on
this side of the water could be expect,
ed to see.
For instance, in the expressions of
the London press on the results of our
recent elections the grave and venera-
ole Times says that the vote In New
York was reputation of Tammany
Hall and Mr.. Hornblower. whom the
President recently appointed as Su-
preme Court Justice. The Times adds
that in the face of such reputation
of Tammany and Hornblower the Pres
ident may conclude to withdraw the
It is hardly necessary
to say that nobody in this country has
heretofore been aware of q Tammany-
coalition but it must be
admitted that the Tammany reputation
for loud and unusual noises and the
blowing of its own particular horn
might justify the Times inference.
More entertaining still is the maize
of the London Chronicle at
tributing the results s.to the failure of
the administration to introduce civil
service reform" As the justly famous
Mr.. Cobb would remark: ..Where are
we at?" What Democrat can grasp
the idea that his party has suffered de-
feat because Mr.. Cleveland has put too
many Republicans out of Office? Is
there one among the millions who vot-
ed for Mr.. Cleveland last year now
capable of understanding that thous-
ands of Democrats have voted the Re-
publican ticket and other thousands
have gone fishing as q protest against
Mr.. Clevcland's g indecent haste in put
ing the Republicans out?
Not one. As we said in the begin
ling. it is only from the English press
We can get wide, sweeping and ur pref
ldiced views of American politics.
st. Louis Republic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-16

What Next?

Ed. Register--
The rank and file of the Democratic
party rejoiced greatly over the victory
they supposed they had won last year.
They believed the beginning of the
end of Plutocratic rule was at hand.
They had been told that the platform
of their party declared for the free
coinage of gold and silver, without
mint charge, and for tariff that should
be framed for the constitutional pur-
pose of raising revenue alone. They
accepted these statements by their
party leaders in good faith. Read in
the light of Democratic history, these
two planks were clear enough. One
meant the coinage of silver into money
of final account; the other meant that
hereafter the tariff should be confined
to the sole business of providing money
to run the government economically
administered. The average Democrat
saw no reason why the Sherman law
should not be replaced by enacting a
better one. He is still unable 10 per-
ceive why a bad law ought not to be
replaced by the enactment of good
one, and for the life of him he cannot
understand why, if the Sherman law
was such a bad thing, the whole of it
c1 ,of lcx, hao, ,ui- o,,t 101,v
Sherman and his Republican contingent
to the contrary Notwithstanding.
The Democratic voter of an idea-and-
a-half capacity sees that he has been
made the victim of g. most cheekful
confidence game. His brain would
have to be as bare of grey matter as
squash of hair if he did not perceive
this. In the simplicity of his heart he
thought he was voting the Democratic
ticket. That is the ticket he tried to
vote, and will keep on trying to vote,
for he knows that there is no salvation
for his country outside of Democratic
principles as laid down by the founders
of the party; but, to his disgust, he
finds that he was mistaken. Instead
of the goods he contracted for, he finds
on his hands lot of stuff bearing
the theNonpartisan-Republican-Mugwump|
brand. Seeing these things, he simply
stops, and, in wide-awake astonish-
ment, asks, what next?
He we'll understands that silver has
been taken from the money metals,
never to be restored again, if the Plu
tocracy can help it. He fears, reason
ably, that the same tactics, so success
full in accomplishing the final demone-
tization of silver, may be as effectively |
used in blocking the wheels of Tariff |
The Democratic party of the
West and South is dazed, but it will (
close it's ranks and stand by its princi-
Piles, and when it does recover itself
the Tory element will be found outside
Of the breastworks. Men may change,
but principles never do. The eternal
years of God belong to truth and right,
whose exponent the Democratic party
must continue to be. H.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-16
What Demonstration Has Cost.

The standard dollar of the United
States was and is 4124 grains of silver
9-1O fine. If anybody controverts that,
let him not beat about the bush, bit
quote the statute. The value of a dollar
was and is the value OF 412a grains of
silver 9-1O fine-what 4124 grains of
silver 90 fine, or 3714 grains of pure
silver will buy in open market. Any
thing that restricts the natural value
of standard money produces an artific-
ial depression in prices, not necessari-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-16
SOCIETIES:

~ IRoNToN LODGE, No. IA, X.
N&Aof p, Ironton, No., meets every I'd
ERa5 md 4th FRIDAY evening of each month
Sa At odd Fellows Hall; CO
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-16
Silver Redeemable in Gold.

! Some Of our Democratic contempo-
raries in the South which are more
familiar with the question of patronage
than with the great financial issue that
has been up for discussion recently,
have been endeavoring to convince
themselves that the repeal of the pur-
chasing clause of the Sherman act
would not demonetize our present stock
of silver coin, so far as it bears any
relation to u money standard. They
have insisted on this and their argu-
ment has been to the effect that the
coined silver will still remain part of
our currency system.
We have dealt with this argument
before, but, as it is still employed as a
shield to ignorance, and as an excuse
for the most serious attack that has
been made on the peoples prosperity
since the demonstration of silver in
1873, it is we'll to pursue it into its
hiding place, so that no one may mis-
understand the matter.
When the repeal bill becomes law
our silver coin will be just as much of
money standard as the greenbacks or
the silver notes. 1t will have precisely
the same functions and no more. It
will be partial legal tender, but it
will not be recognized as the money of
final payment. In other words, our
stock of silver coin will be redeemable
in gold, just as the greenbacks and
silver notes. This is the way parity is
maintained between treasury notes and
gold, and this is the way the parity be-
tween silver and gold is to be main
Lained.
Lest there should be any mistake |
about this in the minds of our readers. |
We take pleasure in quoting from the |
Findaacier, of New York, which may be
described as the trade organ of that
famous financial avenue. The Financ-
;er. writing before repeal had been
accomplished, and strenu-
,usly advocating that measure, says of |
silver that sit is continually fiuctuat-
ng in it's relations to gold. and it must
'emain disturbing element in the
whole currency system of the country,
Until provision is made by law for the
in gold at the treasury of
,very silver dollar presented, and for
luthoritv on the part OF the treasury
o issue bonds as they might be need
ID for such redemption.
The repeal of the purchasing clause
,f the Sherman law, which carries with
t the coinage clause, completely wipes
liver out of our currency as the money
# final payment, which is the chief
unction of money standard.
1t is we'll that these matters should
'e understood as we go along; tits well
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-16

Total. al......... .5,O22, 900, 900"
And what we still owe in 1868
calls for. 1854, 900, 600 bu.
or more than twice as much as. would
have paid the original debt.
Measured in cotton, the entire
debt in 1866 called
for. IA, 1874, 900 bales
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-16

or nearly two and half times as much
cotton as would have paid the whole
debt in 1866.
Now it must be borne in mind that
the chief staples with which we dis
charge our obligations to England are
wheat. cotton and silver. Wheat she
must have to feed her millions of toll
ers; cotton she needs as raw material
for her mills; silver she uses in her
trade with China and the East. 1t is
money in her pockets to get our wheat,
cotton and silver cheap-the cheaper
the better, and as long ago as '62 Brit
ish financiers had found out that the
American people did not know the A B
C's of finance, and for thirty years they
have played us for suckers and dictated
our financial legislation. The figures
given above indicate the result. There
has been money made hand-over-fist,
but it hasn't been the American farmer
Or producer who has made it. That
was sleek financiering to keep US for
thirty years thinking we were getting
out of debt, while all the time we were
getting deeper into debt. The states
men who have worked that job where
financiers and no mistake, and
they have made their pile by the trans
action. A mere, common, everyday
man would have been found
out long before. just work out the
sum while you are figuring, how many
bushels of wheat at sc cents it takes to
pay your taxes. If, on debt calling
'or one billion bushels of wheat in 1866
We have paid in principal and interest
i've billion bushels and still owe in
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-16
All Free.

Those who have used DIR. Kings New
Discovery know its value, and those
who have not, have now the opportun-
ity to try it Free. Call on the adver-
tised Druggist and get trial Bottle,
Free. Send your name and address to
H. E. Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and get
a sample box of DR.. Kings New Life
Pills Free, as well as copy Of Guide
to Health and Household Instructor.
Free. All Of which is guaranteed to do
you good and cost you nothing at P. r.
Crisp's Drug Store.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-16

Old papers for sale at this ONCE
Twenty-Five cents per hundred.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-16
Official Directory.
MEMBER OF .cONGREss.

MEMBER OF CONGRESS:
HoN. Il. W. FYAN, Thirteenth Distric
Marshtieid No.
u. 5. LAND OFFICE j. c.. NELL,
Register; WIN. b. NEWMAN, Receiver
}. FRANK GREEN, Judge Twenty First
-ircuit, De Soto, Mo.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-16

upwards of 40 per cent, so that the
producers of America are obliged to
give about 60 percent. more commodi-
ties than the value of dollar in order
to get a dollar to pay their debts with.
The usual Or average value of a dollar
in wheat in the past has been about a
bushel; in cotton, about 10 pounds;
but because the government of the I'm
tied States. acting in the interest of
our foreign creditors, refuses to coin
dollars, therefore dollars are scarce,
and the farmer must to-day give a
bushel and half of wheat-once and
a half the value of dollar-to get a
dollar; the planter must give about II
pounds of cotton-one and three-quar-
ters times the value of dollar-to get
a dollar. And who is the gamer by
it? Not the farmer or the planter,
surely. They are heavy losers. Here
are some fguers that the farmers of
Ohio can afford to sweat over. We
pay England this year as interest on
her investments in this country $780,
100000. At present prices artiicially
depressed by limiting the coinage of
silver, that calls for 500, 100000 BUSH
els o. wheat. Measured by the value
of dollar, the dollar of the contract,
412I grains of silver 9-1O fine, 3O0,-
100000 of these bushels would have
paid the interests and 100000, 900
bushels would have cancelled $780,
900, 900 of the principal. That inter-
est, at present abnormal prices, calls
for upwards of 5000, 100000 pounds of
cotton. Under normal prices regulat-
ed by the natural volume of standard
money under free coinage, 5000, ,00O,-
600 pounds of that cotton would have
cancelled the interest, and the surplus
1000, 100000 would have liquidated
5000, 900, 900 of the principal. Who is
making the profit? The American
farmer or the British bondholder? Here
are some more instructive figures.
They were given on the floor of the
house of representatives by Hon. VIM.
Baker, who is representing some Kan
sas farmers there. According to the
report of the secretary of the treasury
the national debt in
1000 was. 4Z, 100, ,OUU,OOU
We haye paid on that debt
Principal ST, 1856, 900, 900
Interest. st...............2 1858, 900. .O00I
Premiums ...... $4,000, 900
Total 81 ,252, 100000
We owe yet in 1898. 1927 ,450, 900
Measured in wheat the whole
debt in 1866 called
for 1 ,OO7 ,OO0, 900 bu.
We have paid on it
Principal. ...... Il, 1856, 900, 900 bu.
Interest q, 974 100000
premiums. ......... 6Z,OoO,OOO
Total. ...... 1922, 10000
And what we still owe in 1868
calls for. 2, ,054, 900, 900 bu.
or more than twice as much as, would
have paid the original debt.
Measured in cotton, the entire
debt in 1866 called
for IA, 1S4, 900 bales
We have paid on it
Principal. .......... "a 800, 900 bales &,
Interest .5S, 100000
Premiums. .... 100000
Total "a, 900, ,OOO {"
Amount due in 1898
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-06-20
OUR STATE UNIVERSITY.

Each succeeding year demonstrates
more clearly the excellence Of the
State University as an institution of
learning, says the Reno Gazette.
Every county in the State has young
representatives who are being edu-
Gated and who will go forth in the
world fully equipped to do LIES work
we'll, as bright and shining examples
Of the effect of a University education.
Probably in no other University in
the United States has 30 much been
done in the same length Of time. In
addition to the very able corps Of in
structors in the regular departments,
the general government has placed it
on the list for special military in
struction. or the lieutenants de-
tailed for this work none rank higher
than Lieutenant J. M. Neal, who in
the past three years has won the re-
spect OF not only the students, but
every one in Reno's social swim as
"oll' Ito NOFoiuiuouO CApoliuoh1
Station is also Of great benefit to the
entire State, providing accurate in
struction in the several departments
Of entomology, chemistry and agri-
culture. 1t is to be regretted, how
ever, that in State which must de-
pend largely on it's agriculture pos
sibilities for future prosperity, the
department Of agriculture has been
neglected by the rising generation.
We m ust rely greatly on the cultivH-
ton Of small farms, and every ten,
twenty and forty acres must support
afamily sometime in the near future;
and no better opportunity was ever
afforded young man to learn how to
tickle mother earth anu make her
yield bountiRul supply OF all the
good things than is afforded by the
Experiment Station. We cannot all
be professors in one branch of indus
try. The mistake that many young
men make is wanting TO be lawyers,
doctors, civil engineers or something
else that promises wealth without
manual labor, and the sooner We pay
more attention to the everyday way
Of earning our bread, the better for
the prosperity OF the individual and
the community.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-06-20
New Appointments.

President Cleveland made tho fol-
lowing appointments yesterday;
Collectors Of Internal Revenue: Al
bert W. New, OF Wyoming, for the
District OF Colorado, Chss. NJ. Shan
non, of Arizona, for the district OF
New Mexico.
Postmasters. f 9. Amos Mt Sno-
homish, Wash, James Howell ut Por-
tersville, CAL, j. w. Schwartz at
Granite, Mont.
Indian Agents: John F. 3. Bren-
tano, Of Oregon, at the Crane Rond,
agency, Oregon; w. l.. Powell, of
Washington, at the Neah Bay agency,
Washington; Lewis II. Erwin, Of
Washington, at the Yacima agency,
Washington; w. l.. Hargrove, OF In
diana, Mt the Western Shoshone
agency, in Nevada; Joseph Robinson
OF Missouri, at the Nez Perces agency
in Idaho; J. r. Young, OF kentucky,
at the Pima agency in Arizona.
From the above it will be seen that
Cleveland is pursuing Ills usual tao.
tics in appointing Foreigners" TO Of.
hce in Nevada. Evidently, he does
not believe in "Home Rule"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-06-20
ESTRAY.

Found on the Diamond A Desert,
one brown horse, branded NO, on left
thigh; one red-roan horse, bald face
branded and vented CIV on left thigh
T on shoulder and NO on left thigh.
Owner will please call Mt the Murphy
& Hill ranch, prove ownership, pay
charges and take the animals away.
F. A. CARRILI.o,
North Fork,
/ .6-25.30ds Nevada.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-06-20

When the blood ia loaded with inn
purities, the whole system becomes
disordered. This condition OF things
cannot last long without serious re-.
suits. In such cases, a powerful al.
tentative is needed, such as Ayers
Sarsaparilla. 1t never fails and has
no equal,
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-06-20
Notice.

The Board Of County Commission
ers at their last meeting ordered that
the public be, and they are hereby
notified that all bills for scalps that
may be presented TO the Board from
ard after this date will be- positively
rejected.
=. T.. BILREY,
Elko. March 6, 1893. Clerk
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-06-20

A fine display of silver ware, fancy
dishes, lamps, knives, forks, spoons,
ETC., at the EFT. M. Co.'S. Call and
inspect these goods, which are TIE
finest in their line ever brought {"
Elkos .
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-19
NOVELTIES.

Smoked ivory and silver gilt unite in
salad spoons and forks of great elegance.
Emeralds cabochon and pear shaped
in dead gold form an attractive neck
trinket.
A row of many colored topazes hung
from diamonds is design shown in o
handsome necklace.
Writing pads and portfolios OVERLAND
with perforated silver in Louis XIV de-
signs are sumptuous encouragements to
correspondence.
Asparagus tongs and servers have come
to the fore in numbers. The handles are
much shorter and consequently are much
more serviceab1e.
The chrysoprase appears now in every
sort. Very pretty are the datfodils, wild
roses and pansies of chrysoprase with
gold and jew1ed centers. One seen was
a wild rose with a diamond ia the center
and stone laid ON each leaf,-Jewelers'
Circular.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-19
RAILROAD JOTTlNGS.

The Texas Central is to extend its line
from Waco, Tex, to New Orleans.
A new station is to be built at Middle
town, N. Y, on the Lehigh Valley road.
Elizabeth, n. j., is to have big car
works, with a capacity of eight passen-
ger cars day.
The total amount spent for equipment
on the southwest system of the Pan
handle during 1892 was 81 ,589, 939.49.
Two of the IS leading English railroads
pay dividends amounting to o per cent;
two others pay exactly per cent less,
while three others pay per cent, and one
pays A per cent.
Railway extensions are to be built in
upper and lower Egypt at cost of about
81 $50, 900. The existing line from Cir
geh to Keneh will be extended and mar.
row gauge railway built to Luxor.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-05-19
A Mistake.

The tramp had look of determine
ton on his dirty face as he knocked at
the kitchen door of a comfortable house
on Foundry street.
"Well, what do you wantY queried
the cook snappishly, for she had been
bothered much. Something to eat, |
SUPPOSED"
mo, ma'am," replied the tramp as
honestly as he knew how.
"Oh, you DON'T" she sneered. "Then
you want something TO drink. Tramps
are always ready to drink"
mo, ma'am, don't want anything to
drink"
"Maybe you wantan old pair of pants,
or coat, or pair Of shoes, or hatY'
she suggested sarcastically.
mo, maam, none of those"
She stared at him hard.
"Well, what in the name of goodness
do you wantY' she asked.
II want work." he said simply.
"Wha-whatY' she gasped and fell
into his arms in faint.
Dang it," he exclaimed, dropping her
and starting for the gate, 81 might "a
knowed better than to spring that on
her. Detroit Tribune.