Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-10-12

the party, we Ouiy fuSlSI Gniib IHe plat
form shall not be read out of the party
by those who differ from it.
WHEN we first glanced at the editor
ial page of Wednesdays Republic, we
felt sure that our esteemed metropoli-
tan contemporary was at last about to
define its position on the coinage ques-
tion-about to take ground. But we
were doomed to a disappointment sim
liar to that experienced in listening to
one of the immortal J. N. Frees
speeches in which he promised to ''as-
sumo the pressure and lift the veil"
The pressure was never assumed and
the Oil never lifted; neither did the
Republic take ground upon the coinage
issue. It says, .sthe Republic is for BIZ
metallic coinage and the political course
that will bring that object to success"
Will our great city contemporary, out
of the plenitlde of it's wisdom, tell us
what that political course" is 20 be?
We respectfully call the attention of
the Republic to the fact that Senator
Sherman, Senator German, Mr.. Whit
ney, Mr.. Reed and President Cleveland,
are in favor of the same political
course; but there is a disagreement
about its direction. Mr.. Cleveland and
the agents of the Rothschilds want a
system of silver coinage based upon an
international agreement, which the lat
ter know, if Mr.. Cleveland does not,
will never be had as long as the laws
of European countries are made by a
favored class. This is not the system
of Free Silver Coinage demanded by
the people, for the reason that it will
never coin single silver dollar. The
REGISTER is for the coinage of all the
silver brought to our minis at a ratio
of 16 to 1. Will the Republic inform a
patient and long-suffering people what
system it favors? Let it make its ale
cations more definite and certain. We
agree with it that the Sherman law Is
a cowardly makeshift, in that it en-
ables professedly Democratic admin
istration to go to the gold basis, in
spite of the vehement protests of the
people; but if its provisions for coming
silver dollars were faithfully carried
out, several millions of dollars would
be added yearly to our money of final
account. This the Republic will not
deny directly, whatever it may do by
VIII the Republic give
any reason why the repeal of bad
law should not be coupled with the en-
of good one? Mr.. Cleveland
asserts that he is not in favor of Free
that is what his letter to
Governor Northern amounts to. The.
Repubhc knows that the repeal of the
Sherman act, without any accompany |
ing legislation, strikes silver from our
list of money metals for years to come. |
Who, we ask, AYERS ..that the Sherman |
act should not be repealed without a
that means the same |
thing? Certainly no advocate of free
coinage, that we know of. No ONE
not even the gold-bug-wants more
money ISSUED. The REGISTER
does not like the Sherman law, be-
cause it is in favor of Free Coinage,
but it prefers that law to a worse
one that places us on the gold basis,
pure and simple. The position of the
Republic is peculiar, and its enuncia-
lions on the question remind us of the
oracular Bunsby in his happiest mood.
It's country contemporaries may be
both '.impudent and pitifully igno-
rant" but they are not so easily made
The victims of false pretenses as the
Republic lmagines. The utterances of
,he leading Democratic organ. of all
others. ought to be straightforward and
certain. Such an organ is necessary
20 the party, and such a one the rank
md file demand and will have.
Mr.. Cleveland may be ..honest" and
sturdy" and all that, but those attri-
,utes will not excuse his abandonment
If the Democratic platform, unless, in
Iced. like Mr.. Raynor, we conclude
hat that document is but mass of
.glittering catchwords'' intended to en-
rap the unsophisticated voter. To us
t seems that intelligent people must
iiscredit either Mr.. Cleveland or the
PLATFORM. Which?