Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-09-19
Able Goidbug Logic.


The power of the gold trust to con-
troll the daily press o. the country re-
ceived fresh illustration few days
ago in an article that appeared in the
New York World criticlsing Col.
Charles H. Jones of the Post Dispatch.
The World. it is superfiuous to add,
was secured by the gold trust some
years ago, and while it processes It's
friendship for bimetalisrn rs loudly as
ever did prostitute proclaim her virtue
in police court, it is none the less a
gold standard paper. It deludes it.
self, as do most of its kind, with the
idea that the great mass of the voters
of this country are in intelligence
about equal to the hogs that Phil. Ar
mour renders into leaf-lard, hams and
bacon. The whole article abounds
with the exploded sophistries OF the
gold standard people, who keep on re-
peating and re-repeating them under
but the following hunk of wisdom is
something unique in Its kind, and de-
serves (?) careful attention from the
thoughtful. Referring to the remone-
tization of silver at the ratio of l6 TO /
it says:
The policy proposed would not
only dishonor the country; 1t would
invite every nation in the world to
dump its silver upon us and take twice
its value in gold in exchange for it.
In lieu of the bimetallIsm we have or
the larger bimetallism that many hope
for, it would give us the worst concelv-
able metallism-namely, the
monometallism of dishonest dollar"
The country, we knew, was to be
dishonored in some way by the free
coinage of silver, but how it could be
dishonored by permitting ali the ma
lions of the world to dump their silver
upon us and take twice it's value in
gold, is something we fail TO compre-
hend How could the vender be dis
honored by giving the vendee twice as
much as he paid for? We have held
this proposition up by the four corners,
and examined it from every possible
direction and we confess we are unable
to understand how it can be true.
Perhaps the gentleman who, for the
time being, occupies the editorial
chair of the Republic, can enlighten us.
Again, how is it possible for any ma
tiOn to dump its silver upon US and
take twice its value in gold' Suppose
we should open our minis to the free
coinage of silver, and the dollars
coined should be worth only fifty cents?
II such thing could be possible, how
could fifty-cent silver dollar in the
hands of foreigner buy a dollar in
gold, or dollars worth of any com
modify, from an American? If you,
$4,000 in gold, will you please tell US
by what process the Englishman or
other foreigner could force US to re-
ceive his ten thousand silver dollars,
worth only fifty cents apiece, in ex-
change for our ten thousand hundred
cent dollars? To put the most chart
table construction upon the writer Of
the paragraph above quoted, he is an
ass, pure and simple. His PROPOSE
ton is ridiculous. yet it is the same
kind of 1apdOodle that runs through
the '.honest money" literature now
emanating from the Office of Harrison's
ex-Secretary of the Interior, John w.
Noble.
1t is very likely that the gold trust
will be able to pull Col. Jones from
the editorial chair of the Post Dispatch.
These people will spend unlimited mon
ey 10 close the mouth of any organ OF
the people that bids fair to become
dangerous. They shut off the Courier
Journal. the Republic, the Little Rock
Gazette, the Chicago Tribune, and they
may be able to paralyze the Post-Dis-
patch; but they will gain little by this
vast expenditure of money. The peo-
Pile are onto this shuttingotf game,
and, we take it, not even the syndicate
that handles the United States Treas
ury as the shell man manipulates his
ball, has enough "hOnest money" to
buy them.