Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-07-25
Another Daniel.

ter the hustle und hurry of the week
is ended, we never forget the Journal.
Its editor is good fellow, and its am
pie pages indicate that he is held in
esteem by the Collector, the Sheriff,
the Circuit Clerk. and other county
officials that the editor of a country
paper is always proud to know and be
we'll and favorably known by. IL
fact. there were so many signs Of OPP
uleuce and prosperity about the col
umns of its last weeks issue that, had
we::been younger and prone to the van
tiles of this world, they would have
made US green with envy But the
most fetching thing about the paper
was the article of NJ. NJ. Sheets, a
heretofore favorite son of Wayne, but
now, if we are not misinformed, tenn
porariiy upon the retired list. He is
after the truth upon the coinage ques-
ton in the most energetic fashion. He
has chartered a broncho, and with
lasso swinging about his head, il we
are permitted figure of speech, is
now securing the fertile valleys and
wooded heights of Old Wayne, determ-
ined to have wisdom by the hunck, by
the cord, by the cubic yard; to get so
much of it and of such purity that the
ell L.
We admire his enthusiasm. His en-
ergy is refreshing. but we fear that in
the outset, he has been unable to dis
tinguish the counterfeit of falsehood
from the coinage of truth.
We are glad to learn that he sis still
a Democrat" We feared, until we
reached that part of his article where
he affirmed his undying devotion to
the principles of Democracy, that he,
like SO many others in this day of
change and readjustment, had come to
consider Democracy as s'one of the old
ruts of the dead past" and that its ad-
vocacy would be equivalent to "telling
the farmers they ought to pillow with a
crooked stick because they did so in
the days of Moses
He wants to know lin what way the
free coinage of silver would benefit the
common people or any other class OF
our citizens except the silver kings.
The answer is so plain that we are sur
prised at a man of the intelligence oil
Mr.. Sheets asking the question. If a
law was passed making particular
kind of wheat the only material that
could be used for breadstuff, and that
| particular species of wheat should be
them power to cheaper or enhance the
price of one of the necessaries of life,
Mr.. Sheets, being Democrat, and moi
an owner of the favored wheat, would
no doubt cry out against this as class
| legislation; as fostering monopoly.
and as brutality robbing the common
people.
From the beginning of time the
markers of trade-money-hav been
manufactured from gold and silver
Until the last quarter of a century the,
have gone hand in hand from oul
mines through our minis to supply the
demand of the people for money. 0
course, there is money to the None.
Baron in being able to corner the mon
ey market, just as there is money t.
the grain speculator in being able tc
corner the grain market. This eacf
can do if the supply is limited. mucl
easier than if it is ample. 1.-THE Mon
ey Baron can corner the money mark
ct, he can put the price Of any and al
commodities up or down at his pleas
ure, as price is dependent upon tn
money supply quite as much as upol
the supply and demand of the article
measured by it; for money represent
all commodities.
> Mr.. Sheets will see. If he will rel
in his broncho and reflect for a me
ment, that it is not to the advantag
of the producing classes to have tn
, prices of that which they produce reg
ulated by artificial means wholly i
the hands of a non-producing class
This class will not be in favor of hig
prices to the producer, unless some
thing is to be gained thereby, and
will be found that their source of gal
arises from depressing the prices c
, commodities in order that one dOlla
/ may do the work ordinarily done b
two in the channels of commerce, ratf
er than to have two dollars do tn
, work of one. Hence it is as much t
! the interest OF the people to destro
the Money Trust as it is to destroy tn
} Oil Trust, or Sugar Trust, or any 9th
t err monopoly. We would inform Nj
|, Sheets that the only people We kno'
who sincerely favor fiat money are tn
single standard gold men; in fact, MI
, Carlisle outlined plan of fat none
!, which he was to fire off at the Men
| phis Sound Money Convention, BIT
i, changed it for a revised edition of on