Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-09-12

/ were also comm Srclat ana HnancIdi
| possibilities connected with it that
gave the whole enterprise very pros
porous look If. without difficulty or
| expense. a lew vessels OF water at 4
wedding feast could be transformed in
to excellent wine. what vast possibiii-
ties might there not be in the wine
trade if properly handled? The sup
| ply Of wine might be increased wher
ever a cistern or running brook could
be found, until sherry, hook. port and
Mumm's Extra Dry should be as COM
mon as red lemonade at the wind-up of
a country picnic. Then, when every
| vineyard had been dug up and every
vintuer had shut up shop. the output
might be limited. the price raised to
| figure that would be comforting, aud
every one corrected with the deal
made to feel very cheerful In the
light of the miraculous feed of loaves
and fishes tie provision trade present
!
with judicious management the whole
business of Catering to the stomachs OF
the public could be transferred to the
syndicate of twelve of which he was d
member. and thereby vast number Of
shekels be made to flow into its Golfers
golfers TO which he held the key
! The healing art had also its possibili-
! ties. WORT. considering from q finan-
oiai pciut Of view.
At the outset he felt as confident and
| entL lsiaetic about the future of the
new movement as did Henry Waiter
son when he undertook his crusade
against the Money Devil. or Secretary
| Carlisle when he started to undo the
another. he heard it intimated that
| the proposed Kingdom was not to be
Of this world, but he considered these
utterances to be purely diplomatic
made for the sole purpose Of allaying
suspicion 90 the part OF the authori-
ties. He had also heard considerable
about having everything in common
under the Eew order, and about broth
erly love These statements he re-
garded a. mere glittering generalities
| to catch votes-as bait for the greedy
and incautious sucker; but to have no
more force or effect after the New
Kingdom was on its feet than a Wall
Street platform after an election.
| As the days went by it gradually be
gan to dawn upon him that the vine
! and provision trade were to be con-
Quoted holly in the interests of the
consumer, leaving no margin for the
middle man or other honest trades
men; that the proposition to have ev
| erything in common was being serious
| Is considered. and the healing art was
| to be so conducted a. to drive d large
aud respectable body of professional
men out of business. Ii matters were
| to continue thus confidence would be
| impaired. values disturbed, and the
| business revival then setting ia would
! be arrested. The scheme to have all
| things in common would amount to the
rankest imitation; for. if that system
| prevailed. money as standard of val
ue or medium of exchange would
| 20 / vr0F he he
had been able to pinch in as treasurer
! of the embryonic kingdom would be
worthless. He felt that he could no
longer be identified with a policy that
would disorganize finance and violate
contracts
There vas no one among his imme-
date associates with whom he could
advise. Peter was a hasty man and
John an enthusiast. There was no
likelihood OF his ever being the tinau-
cial minister of a government strong
enough to float any considerable
amount Of bonds, If he remained with
the crowd of infiationists and lunatics
he was then among. There was but
one thing left for him TO do. He ap-
pealed to the Benedicts and Rockefel-
lers of his day. The result is a matter
of history.
After the denouement he began to
realiz that be had sacrificed himself
for an unsympathetic public He
should have provided for his relatives
before mpleteing the deal. Instead
Of demanding thirty pieces of silver,
he should have insisted upon at least
a hundred pieces of gold, ten of which
he could have placed In the hands of
the disciples, which would have allay-
ed irritation. and still have been ninety
pieces of gold to the good, While he
had turned his Master over to the au-
thorities with deiicacY almost
equal to that with which Simon Boli-
yer Buckner sought to turn the Demo-
cratic party of Kentucky over to the