Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-07-11
BATTLE or THE STANDARDS.

BATTLE OF THE STANDARDS.
Free silver Advocates Gaining Ground
ThrouGhout the World.
The monometallistsen deavor to make
it appear that the demand for bimetal.
ism is purely western fad, and that
it has its origin. its encouragement
and its being with the silver miners,
and debtors busily engaged in trying
to defraud their creditors
These statements, however, are con.
stantly receiving rude shocks when
some distinctively eastern man comes
out for bimetallism- Thus the other
day ex-senator Blair pronounced in
favor of the old system, which up to
1878 prevailed the world over except in
Great Britain; and now comes ex-Sec-
rotary Whitney, who has just returned
from Europe, and who declares: The
feeling in favor of bimetallism is much
stronger in England than in this
country. Even conservative states
men are in favor of it. The boards of
trade of the great manufacturing
towns, such as Birmingham and Man
chester, have passed resolutions favor
ing the adoption of q double standard.
All through England influential men
are taking this stand. Manager Lid
dendale. of the Bank of England. is
one of those who believe the question
should speedily be settled at an inter-
national convention"
Mr.. Whitney favors an international
agreement, but the point in the inter
view quoted is tibet the business men
in England are demanding bimetallism.
It is the bankers alone who are de-
handing a continuation of the gold
monometallic policy of the empire.
In Germany the other day bimetal-
lism received a great boom by the reso-
lutions passed by the Prussian con-
gress, which virtually demand that
policy.
making the Roadway they would like
to is shown by comments like this
from the Washington Post:
IF the opponents of the movement
for free coinage of silver at the ratio
of is to 1 would make sure of defeat
ing that proposition, they must show
more skill in argument than many of
them have thus far displayed. The
advocates of free coinage are suffi.
GENTLY numerous, respectable and in.
telligent to command respect. A large
majority of the democrats, large mi.
nority of the republicans, and the
whole of the populists are for free coin
age. This has been proven by many
votes in congress, and is quite as clear
ly demonstrated by events outside of
congress Brainy men in both the old
parties-men as strong as the ablest of
their opponents-are in this silver
movement, are in it to stay till a set
Element is reached, and they are
equipped with arguments that are not
only worthy of respectful considera-
ton, but must have such treatment,
or they will continue to make con-
verts.''
The people everywhere are being
aroused on this great issue. They are
studying the money question as they
never studied it before; and they are
discovering that the monometal1ists
are unable to answer any of the inn.
portant questions the bimetallists put
to them. They do not tell the public
why there should be two kinds of
money-one for a man to use in paying
his debts, and another to be used when
he buys for cash. They do not tell the
voters what their future policy is to be.
They do not tell the wage-earners why
they are richer when their wages are
falling lower and lower, and many
have no wages at all. They admit that
international bimetallism is a good
thing, but they fail to explain why an
international agreement is necessary
to re-establish bimeta1lism, but was
not necessary to abolish it. These are
some of the questions that none of the
pamphlets, books, circulars and other
forms of gold literature attempt to
answer.-Los Angeles Express