Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-11-02
JOB w DIRK
INeERsoLL's REAL SENTIMENTS
Unpurchased and UnprejudIced Speeches
in Favor of silver.


in Favor of Silver.
In his famous lecture on Myths and
Miracles delivered in many sections
of the country, Bob Ingerson thus
spoke of the silver question:
There is no man in the United States
with ingenuity enough to account for
the demonetization of silver in 1873!
There is not one. We need altogether
more money than we have.
"We need twice as much money per
capita to do the business of this coun-
try as is needed to do the business of
any other country, and yet there is al
ways somebody that is crazy for fear
there viii be more currency. I want
just all the money we can get that is
good, and silver is good enough for me.
All want of money is to pay my debts.
Yes, sir; and want the law to compel
the other fellows to take what take.
That is good enough for me.
81 believe that every ounce of silver
that is dug under the American flag
should be coined free under the Ameri-
can flag. In my country they are most
ly on the other side. They are with the
get together and say we want gold. 4
man makes a contract to pay certain
moneys in five years. 1 want a law
so that he can pay the money when the
contract comes due with the money
that was money when he made the
contract. do not think the few should
have the right to combine to increase
the value of what people call money
as against the debtor and in favor of
the creditor. I want the free coinage
of all the gold you can dig out Of the
mines and crevices of the rocks, and L
want the free coinage of all the silver
you can win from the mines of Amer
ica."
There is no reason why Col. Inger.
soil should not have spoken his honest
sentiments with regard to silver in his
lectures with as perfect freedom and
sincerity as he declared his views OF
religion. There is no cause to doubt
that he did so. There was not the
slightest inducement to influence him
TO the contrary, and we have the con-
elusive proof of repetitions that he did
speak his honest sentiments then of sill
yer. For, in addition to the foregoing
quotation from his lecture on myths
and Miracles" we have also the follow
ing extract from his lecture on farm
ing, as reproduced from the Illinois
State Register and published in pamph-
let form by G. S. Baldwin, 1s4 Madison
street, Chicago, Page 8:
"For my part do not ask any interfer-
ence on the part OF the government, ex-
cept to undo the wrong It has done. do
not ask that money be made out of moth
ing. / do not ask the prosperity born of
paper, but do ask for the remonetiEa-
tion of silver. Silver was demonetiEed by
fraud. 1t was an imposition upon every
solvent mani q fraud upon every honest
debtor In the United States. It assassin
ated labor. 1t was done In the interest OF
avarice and greed, and should be undono
by honest men. The farmers should vote
only for such men as are able and willing
to guard and advance the Interests OF
labor"
But Ingersoll was neither bought nor
bulldozed into making either of these
declarations. They represent the un-
purchased ana unprejudieed Judgment
of his mind. The campaign speeches
which Ingcrsoll is now making in favor
of the gold standard merely represent
the $4,000 speech which Mark Hanna
pays him.