Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-11-22
A Gold Standard Democrat. -

Ed. Register-Oid Missouri will b.
more doubtful State in the near fu
ture. We are whipped, are badl.
whipped. and believe the party did
deserve it to appreciate the truth o
the lesson, ..in unity is strength" 1
the Republicans did not receive thu
whipping, as they did four years ago
they would have no cause to jubilet
NV over their victory. We have re-
ceived another lesson. think {
change has taken or will take place il
regard TO the money or silver question
Bland is defeated. The expression
..silver is demonetized, is in my view
not exactly correct, as the minted sill
yer is not yet deprecated, and is taker
by every one in change at its face
value. Silver as metal is of course
reduced in value since mother earth
has thrown out such large quantities.
We have no China walls round our
borders; we must sell our surplus OF
produce or manufactured articles to
the rest of the world; we must buy OF
other nations such necessaries as we
do not raise or manufacture, and the
difference between buying and selling
must be settled with the, by all civil
lied nations, established and acknowl-
edged standard value, and that is gold,
or its full equivalent in other metal.
Uncle Sam has the power to take a
piece of silver or of any metal he may
desire to use, stamp the value on it.
and it will be taken for this face value
everywhere. as long as the world
knows that Uncle Sam is able and will
ing to redeem it on demand for the
same value in gold; the willingness is
und Quilted, but the ableness may, I'M
der circumstances. be questioned;
thence the confidence is gone, and
what will be the consequences then?
Our current money would only be
taken for the market value of the met
al it contains; that is, the dollar of our
daddies would only be received for
from SO to 60 cents at present value.
and the further consequences of this
everybody can imagine.
We have plenty of minted silver,
more than the population of this con-
tinent likes to handle. The business
man, who does his money transactions
through the banks, carries only silver
enough to pay car-fare and cocktails;
the common saving man. who takes
his stocking as his bank, looks out
for every chance to exchange one
gold eagle for ten Of silver dollars, and
even those who not handle money ev-
cry day prefer five paper dollars be-
fore five dollars of our daddies, and if
ever movement is made to bring the
silver in circulation. very, very quick
it goes back to the safer vaults of IN
clio Sam for storage and does not re-
main in the vest-pockets of the lucky
owners very long.
The question to be considered is
now. is it wise to advocate at the ex-
pense Of the Government, or the tax
payers in general, the freaminting of
silver for the benefit only of few
lucky owners of silver bonanza mines,
who will make every effort exchange
their nice new silver dollars for old
yellow eagles, and if the gold is ex-
hausted-and this would exhaust in
less than no time-to laugh about the
rest of mankind who can buy for the
white dollar only half as much as the
silver princes buy for their exchanged
yellow dollar. Plain truths consider
ed by A DEMOCRAT.