Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-12-12
The Message.

The Presidents Message has at last
been unloaded upon a much enduring
and suffering people. It is now
in the waste basket of Public Docu-
ments, already forgotten, along with.
many an ADLER State paper. 1t was
the most imposing array of words that
plain. honest. straightforward type
we're ever required to put into print.
II was parade of something near
tuenty-three thousand of them. They
marched through the document with
the monetonous tread of the Roman
legions. They came out of as great a
fog as ever beclouded the intellect of
man, and disappeared in the haze of
incertitude and disappointing ambig-
uity. The average man found time
too precious and life too short to read
it. The man paid to wade through its
vast accumulation of polysyllables finds
that every idea in 1t could have been
expressed without using over five
thousand words, all told. 1t notes
that the Argentine Republic, because
we admit her wool free. has reduced
duties upon certain articles we manu-
facture; whether these articles are
trust protected or not. he does not
state. China, japan, Turkey, Ven
sezuela, Hawaii, England. France,
Alaska. and the isles of the sea, are all
noticed; but why. no living man can
tell from perusal of the message.
Ali the information it contains could
have been derived from the public
prints months ago.
He tells congress that had he not
thrown the vaults of the treasury open
to be looted by the Rothschilds,
'Famine, plague,
And old Sammy Craig"
would have happened to US. He tells
it in surprised way, that gold still
continued to flow from the treasury af-
ter the repeated sales of bonds for its
replenishment, and that had he not
given the English Syndicate eight or
ten millions of the peoples money.
the whole country, from Pucky Hud-
die to the Hole in the Sky. would have
been filed with wreck and ruin. Why
or how this would have taken place he
does not undertake to tell. nor do those
associated with him. When he con-
templates the possibility of a return to
Free Coinage his predictions of storm
and stress in financial circles are as
dire and distressful as those of E.
Stone Virgins at the approach OF a
Jovian period.
He says the dollar in the hand of
every man who draws fixed salary
would be ruthlessly scaled down. The
last time the salaries of officials were
scaled up was in 1870. We have new
er heard of their salaries being re-
duced since that time. They have de-
rived all the advantage from an APP
preciating money standard, while the
wage-earner has had his wages re-
duced numerically. What harm
would there be in reducing salaries to
the level they occupied in 1902 No
fair-minded man can say this would
not be just.
70 discussing the financial question,
Mr.. Cleveland, in common with other
advocates OF the single gold standard,
assumes; he never reasons. There
has been no serious attempt to reason
on the part of these men since the dis
astrous meeting between their cham
pion, Roswell G. Horr. and William
Hope Harvey, at Chicago.
Taken as whole, the message was
stale and unproftable-mo SO than
the multitudinous. platitudinous utter
ances of Mr.. Cleveland usually are,
which is saying great deal.