Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-05-10
e mother Daniel Come to Judgment.

From his letter to the Republic OF
May I'd, we infer that our old friend,
John L. Thomas, has both feet firmly
located on the pie-counter, and has
concluded that he has found a platform
which entirely suits him. He protests
against any declaration in the platform
to be adopted at Kansas City making a
..belief in the ability or right of the
Government to make one hundred
cents out of fifty cents a test of his
Democracy" We would kindly inform
our respected friend that no such
proposition is thought of by the Dem
ocratic masses of this State. What
they object to is being made to pay q
hundred cents where they contracted
to pay but fifty. Judge Thomas we'll
knows that silver has not depre ciated,
as compared with other commodities.
He fully understands that an ounce of
silver will buy, approximately, as much
corn, wheat, cotton and calico as it did
in 1878. He is equally well aware
that the production of silver in rela-
tion to GOLD has decreased rather than
increased, and that the appreciated
value of gold is due to the doubling of
it's burden when it became the only
money of final payment. and that the
preparation of this enormity added
largely to the liabilities of the man in
debt and reduced the value of his prop
erty by about one-half.
Judge Thomas knew, before he was
cared for by the administration, that
common honesty required the restora-
ton to the people of the silver money
that had been taken from them as by
a thief in the night. But new light
has beamed upon him.
The refusal of the party to authorize
the Secretary of the Treasury to issue
bonds, to borrow money when he may
think proper, the Judge thinks exceeds
the silver lunacy. In fact, he dwells
upon this feature of Democratic policy
and commends the Presidents desire
to coin fifty-five millions of silver dol
lars as a consideration for the power
to issue unlimited bonds. What bust
ness man worthy of the name turns
over to his clerk the power TO run him
into debt Indefinitely, without consult
ing him?
What corporation President has this
power. without action of the board of
directors ? Mr.. Cleveland, we will
inform Judge Thomas, does not mean
to coin a single dollar of silver as
money of final payment. He expects
to continue to treat silver as token
money, just as treasury notes are
token money. 1t useless to attempt to
deceive the people about this matter;
they know the right and will have it.
Judge Thomas predicts that if the
Western Democrats attempt to over
turn the single gold standard there
will not at the coming elections be
left of them ssa breakfast SPELL"
Will he please inform US of the cause
of the recent reverses in the East, so
lately conciliated with the demoneti
cation of silver?
AS friend and well-wisher of Judge
Thomas's the REGISTER regrets that he
was ever called to Washington, whose
atmosphere seems to possess the singu-
lar power of converting, to the eye of the
dweller therein, the zig-zags of East
ern greed into the straight lines of
right and Justice; and blinds him en-
tirely to pledges given when the dome
of the capitol cleaned faint in the dis
lance.