Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-01

| legal standard measures OF the values OF all
property. Both, when thus coined. are inner
| emily and honestly OF the exact value stamped
upon their faces, its legal tender power In al
payments.
er is given congress to regulate or dx the COM
| mercial value Of gold and silver as metals or
gressional authority, or Of either OF them.
shall not be money. sound honest money. and
no power Is granted to congress to demonetize
| 5. The coinage history Of gold and silver from
the first coinage act Of 1872 to the demonetiza-
policy Of the first act mentioned. in Conformity
| to the authority granted to congress by the
constitution, and shows beyond cayil or dis
| coins then established. Of about 10 to I. was
successfully maintained for the entire period
Without friction. financial disaster or loss 70
| the people
| 6. Nor can it be successfully denied that tho
1878 by Mr.. Carlisle as 1.-The most gigantic crime
! Of this or any other age" disturbed and dis
located this ratio by increasing the commercial
value Of gold and lessening the commercial
| value OF silver the very next year after the
passage Of the act; showing that the ratio Of
tinued TO rise year after year, until it has
now reached the point Of 81 to I. This disloca-
in the interest Of the pIutocrats OF Europe and
| America. the creditor classes has lessened the
debs-payng power of OF silver ah money and the
| embarrassment of the debtor class This de-
| probation OF silver money and shrtnkage OF
| commodity values and the appreciation of the
value OF gold is still going on. and if arrest
ed by restoring silver to its constitutional
| right of coinage will finally accomplish the
complete undoing of the masses of our people
and the further ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the favored
| few at the expense of the unprotected many.
| .. Conditions which compel farmer debtor
| to confront such shrinkage of values and such
| corresponding shrinkage of ability to pay must
necessarily make him poorer ,e.i and menace him
produced 1855 600 bushels of wheat in 1872, and
| the product was worth s10,s4 $50, the year be-
| fore silver was demonetized In 1890 we pro
duced 30,113.S21 bushels. which at the prices of
| 1872, would have brought 42460, 4s7, but a
| shrinkage Of values of about AZ per cent. had
| interviewed. and our thirty odd million bushels
| were worth only about s22.50O. Oo0.a loss Of
nearly $50, OOO,0 600 in one state single crop.
8. No convention of the people, large or
| small. democratic, republican populist. in
| any county of any state, asked for the passage
| of the demonstration act of 1873 Nor did the
| com blnat1onS and representatives OF the
| money-gra bbers who demonetized silver in
| 1873 seek ask the advice. concurrence or in
| tervention of foreign nations whatever may
| have been the fact in respect to the interview
| tion of the millonaires in Lombard street, in
| London. Nor would it be wise for the Amer
| lay successful solution of the silver coinage
question by further dallying with the restora-
ton of silver by waiting for the concurrence of
| England or Of the states of the Latin union.
| We are strong enough and old enough and wise
enough to attend to oar own business in our
own way.
9. Some Of the opponents OF free silver COIN
| age. even among our democratic friends, claim
cause IS Of the proposed ratio Of Is to /. Many
| conclusive reasons in our opinion, justify this
ratio. But it may be stated as a remarkable
development Of the contention by the enemies
| of free coinage that while they persistently
oppose the ratio Of IS to they suggest no other
| as better.
| 10. 1t is claimed that if the free coinage OF
silver were adopted its effect would be to drive
gold from TON our os shores: Without admitting
| well be questioned whether the present
a are not more disastrous 81 to the Amer
lean people than the deportation of gold. But
the prophecy that our stock OF gold would be
driven abroad or boarded on the restoration OF
the silver dollar to its constitutional right Of
| coinage is contradieted by the facts and sta
store the oe siIver dollar in ISIS and the record
| shows that during the five years Immediately
succeeding demonstration in 1s7S-that is,
age and the single gold standard was in full
sway-we exported s127. 100000 Of gold more
from rs 1s7s to- 1881 inclusive. we imported about
$780, 900 more gold than we exported.
II. It can be established by official authori-
PRODUCED the enormous sum Of 81 in
gold and that in 1853 we had only 3257. 600 900
left Was It driven out by silver coinage: Ger,
number OF silver dollars coined was compare
| lively very small
maintained we confidently appeal to the finan-
cial history of some Of the great nations Of
Europe. For nearly century France main
silver and gold In 1884 she had 1887 600 900 in
i legal tender silver in circulation. and at the
same time ss4s. 600. 600 in gold. That is, France
had within s75OOO.00} in gold as much as both
| England and Germany combined. both Of the
gGa eoa on Of
| IS. Since 1873, with the exception OF about
eleven months of unlimited silver coinage un-
der the Bland-AlliSon act OF 1878, we have had
| in the United Safes no silver coinage. and the
| single gold standard in undisputed sway dur
ing the whole period Have silver demonetiza-
ton and the gold standard protected US against
| the loss by deportation of our gold: They have
not. On the contrary. gold has been boarded
| and driven abroad. and to such an extent that
| the treasury department recently was forced
| not only to raid the gold reserve, but to issue
bonds to borrow gold from the Rothschilds and
other foreign bankers and in the midst of
financial difficulties without parallel in our
history. Yet the friends OF the gold standare
the loss of our gold il we return to free silver
coinage: as we had 1t for the hrst elghty-one
| It can not be questioned that the democratic
| party of Missouri is in the midst of great pO-
litical events, aad that still greater are i'm
| proaches, and unless existing conditions
change in Missouri the genuine friends Of
| true bimetallism will find themselves d1sor-
ganized and menaced with divisions and de-
feat.
| The democratic friends OF free coinage Of
both gold and silver are in a large majority in
the state, but of what practical avail Is a large
majority without plan OF campaign and liter
| While all this and more is true of the friends
| of free coinage in the democratic party in the
state, the advocates OF the single gold standard
| are marShallng their forces be they few or
many. for the conflict Be 1t, therefore, re-
| solved
l. That the executive committee of this body
| be authorized to constitute literary bureau
to act in cooperation with similar bureau,
| which it is hoped the Democratic State conven-
| ton at Pertle Springs will appoint.
| p That each democratic free-silver editor OF
| the state is earnestly requested to actively CO.
| operate with the executive committee of his
| county in perfecting a thorough organization
| of the democratic voters in such measures as
| are best calculated to secure harmony and
activity in the canvass, and full vote and
| victory at the polls.
| g. That we Will as one man oppose every ef-
| fort, matter from what source inspired. to
| commit the democratic party to the republican
policy of gold monometalliSm, and that we will
| fal.ering courage for the old democratic
doctrine of bimetallism by which we mean
the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and
silver on equal terms and at the old legal ratio
| of Is to L.
| fSisnedl William F. Switzler S. G. Tet.
| wfler. William McNamee, H. ]. Groves 7. B.
| White
| Vuitures and n Dead Tiger.
The vulture is seen at its best when
a dead tiger. brought into camp to be
skinned, is exposed in the open. Over
head is a cloudless sky. and not a bird
to be seen in that great void by the
human eye. The tigers body is thrown
from the pad to the ground. and be-
fore the skin has been removed, there
| above one and ALWAYS nearing the