Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-02-08
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NUMBER 80,


form pledge by unconditionally repeal
ing the purchasing clause of the Sher
man act had carried out their purpose
to re-establish the single gold standard
| we should hear little more of the shan
and fraud of an international confer
ence. We predicted that the money
sharks and goldbugs would not will
ingly surrender the fruits of the vlcto.
ry they had so recently won. ;.
Our readers now have indisputable
evidence that the Constitution was
right. The country is now told thai
this government does not need the aid
or assistance of Europe in carrying out
its financial plans. Mr.. Gresham, the
Republican secretary of state. has sent
a notification to Brussels announcing
that the present administration will
not ask for the reassembiing of the
international monetary conference ol
1892.
The Washington correspondent OF
the New York Journal Of Commerce,
who has intimate relations with those
in power, says that this notification
.swas intended as definite indication
of the position Of the present admins
tration on the silver question. That
is to say, twas intended as definite
notification to our own people, as we'll
as to the European nations, that the
platform pledge means nothing what
ever, and that this country having been
carried to gold monometallism by
measures that have already alarmed
and irritated the people, will be held
there so long as the present admins
tration is in power.
The Information is explicit and not
to be misunderstood. The single gold
standard has been established in VIOLA
ton of the policy of the people, the
country and the party. and, in spite OF
the wreck and ruin it has caused, it is
to be adhered to because there are vast
profits in it for the money sharks and
money lenders of the east.
But it did not need the notification
sent to foreign powers to convince
thoughtful Democrats that the fnan-
cial policy o: their party had been and
would be repudiated and ignored.
They knew what was coming when the
administration brought all its power
and influence to bear to secure the un-
conditional repeal of the purchasing
clause of the Sherman act. They
knew what to expect when the secre-
tary of the treasury adopted the Re-
publican policy of making silver coin
and silver currency redeemable in
gold. They knew what had happened
when Mr.. Carlisle issued bonds for the
purpose of securing cash to meet the
current obligations of fhe government
"a proceeding in plain violation Of
law, and so declared by the judiciary
committee of the house.
Certainly, the readers of the Consti-
tuition have not been left in doubt as to
the real nature of events and develop
ments that have been taking place
during the past year. Although these
events have been of the most amazing
character, involving the sacrifice of
the dearest interests of the people to
the greed of the moneyed classes of the
east, there has never been an hour
when any intelligent reader OF the
Constitution could have any doubt as to
the real purpose of those who are car
rying out the policy of gold monomet-
allism.
Mr.. Carlisle is issuing bonds because
it is his purpose to carry out the policy
of gold monometallism which has been
by tactics not less dis
graceful and immoral than those that
carried the same policy through in
1873.
There IS one remedy that the present
can apply, and only one, so
far as we can now perceive-repeal the
act by two-thirds major
ity!-Atlaratd Constitution.