Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-21

set aside at the convenience or within
of the Executive. or the obstructionist
in Congress-they would not greatly
care whether Thomas B. Reed or Hor-
ace Boise occupied the White House,
or whether David Rowland Francis or
George Graham Vest represented them
in the Senate. They see that the earth
yields as bountifully to the efforts of
the industrious as it ever did. There
is no lack of corn, wheat, wool and
cotton, but hand of iron has been
placed upon commerce, and the pro-
Queer finds himself unable to freely
exchange his surplus for what he needs
from the channels of trade. The Fac
tory Lord and the Mining Baron limit
him to the market they furnish by
protective tariff which permits them to
control the supply o; things he must
have in order to live, and the Money
King seeks to control the supply of the
money by which he obtains these nee
essaries from the only market he is
permitted to enter. He believes it to
be just as reprehensible to permit the
money supply to be placed in the
hands Of half dozen men, to be ex-
banded or contracted as the needs of
speculation suggest, as it is to permit
a few men to control the supply and
Fl the price of the clothes he wears.
Consequently, he is in favor of a tariff
to be levied for purposes of revenue
only, and for the free coinage of silver
that money perfectly stable in char
acter may come to the people from our
mines through our minis that cannot
be entirely cornered by the money
sharks.
If it is wrong to enable the manufac-
turer of shoes to prey upon the people
by giving him control of the shoe mar
ket, it is wrong to permit the banker
to prey upon the people by placing
him in control of the money market,
where he can put prices up or down
by expanding or contracting the vol
ume of the currency when it suits him
to DO so.-
The people understand that the pan
ic of '93 was artifcially created by par
ties who control our money for the
purpose of defeating tariff legislation,
and to place us entirely upon the gold
basis. They know that this panic can
be duplicated by the same parties next
week or next year. They know, too,
that to shake these men off and free
the country from their cOrrupting in
fuence may prove a costly business.
for their power to Cypress is great;
but they are determined to break the
shackles that bind them, at any cost.
To do this they want a mouthpiece-
such as you once furnished them-and
sooner or later will have it. If in as
Stunning the management of the Post
Dispatch you take up the work you
laid down when you left the Republic,
this want will be supplied.
The people want the Democratic
party in this State placed in the hands
of its friends. They do not want a
Goldbug Central Committee placed in
charge of a Free Silver Campaign
again.
The opportunity of the century is
before you.
Make the Post-Dispatch a morning
paper-a morning paper advocating
the doctrines of jefferson and Jackson.
Stand by the people in their battle for
commercial freedom, and your paper
will receive a support that will be I'M
in the annals of journal
ism.
Whether you make it morning pa
per or not, you will find it profitable
to follow the course originally mapped
out by you.
Should its policy be Tory, the people
will turn from it in sorrow, and seek
another organ in some other quarter.