Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-10-22
sILuER uuERaNc;Fs.
TzuthfuI Sayings OF Patriots, Statesmen.
Turneoats and Others.

Thomas Jefferson, 1901 concur
with you (HamiltonD that the unit must
stand upon both metals.
Gen. L. ). Grant, 1s73-With free and
unlimited coinage OF gold and silver, we
will clear away our public debt before
the close of the century.
Daniel Webster, 1S5o-Liberty cannot
long endure in any country where the
tendency of legislation is to concen-
trate the wealth in the hands of the few.
John Sherman, 1S67-A contraction of
the volume of money would cause fall
of prices, lassitude of trade, and ma
tional bankruptcy and disaster. 1t
would be an act of folly, without par
allel for evil in modern times.
Alexander Hamilton. 1791-To annul
the use of either of the metals as money
is to abridge the quantity of circulate
| ing medium. and is liable to all the OBJ
! jections which arise from a comparison
of the benefits of full, with the evils
| of a scanty circulation.
Abraham Lincoln. 1S64-If the gov
ernment contracts a debt with a cer-
tain amount of money in circulation,
and then contracts the money value, be-
/ fore the debt is paid, it is the most
| heinous crime that government could
commit against the people.
Daniel Webster, 1861 am clearly of
| the opinion that gold and silver at the
ratio fixed by congress constitute the
| legal standard of value in this country,
and that neither congress nor any state
! has any authority to establish any
other standard, or to displace this
| standard.
Charles \. Dana, New York Sun, 1855
| Gold has risen, so that the proper way
| of expressing the truth is, to say, that
| the gold dollar is worth III cents, while
| the silver dollar remains at par. The
| prompt adoption of silver as a standard,
instead of gold, would therefore arrest
the decline in prices to a great extent,
and palliate, if it did not cure, the eTi!
of dull trade.
| James \. Garfield, 1SS1-Whoever
controls the volume of money in any
| country, is absolute master of all in
| dustry and commerce. = y Il Everyone
who is opposed to the use of silver coin
as part of the legal currency of the coun-
| try, 1 disagree with. Every man who is
| opposed to the actual legal use of both
metals. I disagree with. I would en-
y 3
make the coinage free.
William Pope ST. John NJ. A, 1892,
| President Mercantile bank, New York
| There can be no return to a fairly per-
manent prosperity, either for the banks
or anybody else, without the restora-
| ton of silver, because we need grow
| ing volume of money along with the
| growing volume of everything else.
| Prosperity must begin at its foundation
| head. in order to be continuous, namely,
with our producers, primarily with the
/ tillers of the sell.
| a. j. Balfour, London, 1896, leader
| house of commons, England-Of ali
conceivable systems of currency, that
| system is assdredly the worst which
gives you standard, steadily, continu-
ously, and indefinitely appreCiating;
| and which by that very fact throws a
burden upon every man who desires to
promote the agricultural and industrial
welfare of his country; and benefits no
human being whatever, except the own
ers of fixed debts in gold.
James G. Blaine, 1851 believe gold
and silver coin to be the money of the
constitution, indeed the money of the
American people anterior to the con-
stitution, which the great organic law
recognized as quite independent of it's
own existence. No power was con-
ferred on congress to declare either
metal should not be money. Congress
therefore, in my judgment, has no
power to demonetize either. If, there
fore, silver has been demonetized, / am
in favor of remonetizing it. If its coin
age has been prohibited, l am in favor
of ordering it to be resumed. l am in
favor of having it enlarged.
Gen. John \. Logan, 1861, for one,
can see benefit only to the money holder
and those who receive interest and have
fixed incomes. / can see as result of
this legislation (the withdrawal of the
treasury notes), our business operations
crippled, and wages for labor reduced to
a mere pittance. 1 can sec the hopes of
the Industrious farmers blasted as they
burn corn for fuel, because its price will
not pay the cost of transportation, and
dividends on millions of dollars of ficti-
tious stocks and bonds. l can see the
people of our western states who arc
producers, reduced to the condition OF
serfs, to pay interest on public and
private debts to the money sharks OF
Wall street, New York, and of Thread
needle street, in London, England.
John NJ. Thurston, 1893-No matter
what other governments do this coun-
try ought not to eliminate silver from
us as a coin metal. Any legislation
in that direction will be looked upon by
the common people as in the interest of
the money power, for the express pur-
pose of increasing the purchasing pow
er of money, and decreasing the selling
price of everything produced by human
toll. 1t is Il fact, which SHOULD not be
overlooked by statesmen, that the price
of American silver, and the price of
American wheat, reached low water
mark on the same day. am profound
believer in the use of both gold and sill
yer as money. l advocate the restora-
ton of free coinage before any of those,
who are now the self-elected champions
of silver had ever opened their lips on
the subject.
Labor Crucified.
If the single gold standard can be