Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-11-14
The Moral Of the Election.

Administration is failure We took
the country in prosperity and have
KEEP. it ever since in panic aud disaster.
The Administration was sh1pwrecked
on the financial question.
The double standard has been in ev-
cry country from the beginning pen
dulum. sometimes swinging in one di-
rection, sometimes the other. It has
been the task of craftsmanship to pre-
serve the equilibrium. The moneyed
men and the moneyed institutions hav-
ing their center in Wall street, have
since we were born, been trying to
raid the Treasury at Washington, force
an issue of bonds and raise the value
OF gold dollar. This was natural
and to be expected. Within my recol-
lection they tried it upon Charlie Fos-
ter and he checkmated them. They
tried it upon Daniel Manning, himself
an old banker and wise in the ways of
Wall street, and he eheckmated them.
When Cleveland erected cabinet with
out a fnancier and put a Kentucky
lawyer in the Treasury. they raided it
again and finding it undefended. took
possession and carried the pendulum
away with them.
If the moneyed interests ofthe coun-
try had been less recklessly selfish the
present disparity between gold and sill
yer would not exist. If the adminis-
tration had been competent their greed
would have returned as it had returned
many times before. empty handed.
The trouble was that no one Loyalty de-
Tended bimetallism as they have sue
cessfully done elsewhere, or il the in
The present situation on the money
question is Fictitious. It is the result
of manipulation. The men composing
the syndicate that kept gold in the
country could send it abroad. and did
send it abroad, and kept sending it
abroad until the people in Washington
crawled to their feet and paid them
$8, 900. 200 to keep it here for three
months, and thereupon the syndicate
kept it here. That $8, 900, 90 is tax
the people paid for the incompetency
of the Cleveland Cabinet. It ..struck
in the craw" of the common voter and
he shifted his ballot.
And there is another thing. ! am
not an anti-corporation man. / have
too much sense to be one. The coun-
try could not do without corporations,
nor the men who run them; but their
powers are as tremendous for evil as
they are for good. There are wise,
just and moderate laws on the statute
book to regulate their evil tendencies,
and they have not been enforced.
Hence you have plutocrats and anar-
chists, and strikes aided by force and
cowed only by the Federal army. The
people have not liked to see the |
TRUSTS flourish in the path of the
Attorney General and clog the feet of
Cleveland in his daily walk. The
courts have never refused, when ap-
pealed to, to dissolve them, and they
would have faded like frost-work on
the pane before the breath of the At
torney General. He has been silent
and his Master has been silent.
In the case of another man the peo-l
pie would have said that he was either
or corrupt and that would be
4 just sentence to pass upon Cleveland. |
But. while he permitted corporations |
TO violate the laws, he has given them
he United States Army as constabu-
ary to shoot, wound aud kill the la
boring man when he also violates the
aw. Those who detested the crime
md disorder at Chicago cannot over
ook either the lawless example on the
,ther side. In other words, he has
made the congressional antitrust law
! freed, shaken by the wind" at one
md. and at the other q two-edged
word. clothed with lightnings and
'acked by the Federal army.
No wonder the voice of Chauncey
)epew has been ringing through the
ountry for the last sixty days aligning
IL the corporation forces of the coun-
~ to Cleveland's support. With
cleveland as the Democratic nominee
nd the Irregular label corporation and
rust" article on the other side, it
1ould be Heads win, tails you losen /
,r Depew. and the crowd of thrifty
who are engaged in squat ],
ng on the earth and farming It out in
nall lots at rack rents to the real own- 9
rs thereof. Any butcher could have
INT the troops to Chicago. a states {
ian would have so ordered that there lu
ould have been no need to send them D
here. 4
The way to abolish strikes fn this 1
,untry aud put the Anarchist 70 sar- 9
g wood for Irving is 70 enforce AL I
it's laws against rich and poor. citf- &
ms and corporations. With an equal 9