Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-10-08
TRUTH NOT IN THEM.
Metropolitan Papers Pander &c
the Goldbuga
With But Few Exceptions the Big DaElIes
have, Been CHECKED Into Declaring
for Mark Hanna and the
Gold Standard.

National Democratic and Silver Head
quarters, Chicago, Sept 16, 1s96.-For
the first time in the history of the
United States the greedy hand OF the
usurer is at the throat of the press.
With few courageous and honorable
exceptions, the metropolitan papers
have been choked into a declaration for
Mark Hanna and the gold standard,
Their columns are filed with sophistry,
with evasion, and with lies
AT the dictation of the banks which
own mortgages on their plants. and
therefore on their souls, these news
papers have hoisted the American flag
In behalf of monopoly, and beneath its
sacred folds charge the patriotic ma
jority of the American people with re-
pudiation, dishonesty and anarchy.
The truth is not in them. At the
command of the bankocracy they do not
hesitate to stultify their honest dec
taration Of an honorable past. They
suppress all news calculated to enable
the people to render fair decision at
the November election. There are two
sides to the money question, but they
dare not present even their own side
or rather that of their owners and mas
ters-and present it fairly.
Mark Hanna does not own or control
this paper. Wall street controls, with
, few exceptions, the great newspapers
OF New York. Boston, Philadelphia,
Chicago and other centers of population
and wealth, but there is as yet no power
in organized monopoly which can en-
tirely suppress the publication Of truth.
Thanks to the independent and fearless
press of the smaller cities, there are
yet citadels from which shot and she'll
can be poured into the ranks az the
usurers who now aspire to political
supremacy.
1t viii be the province OF this paper
to tell the truth. The truth is good
enough in this campaign. If the Amer
lean people can become acquainted
with the undisputed facts. Wall street
viii not carry a county in the United
States. No statement win be given |
publicity until it has been thoroughly |
and its accuracy estab- |
lished. Nothing win be suppressed. |
Things win be called by their right |
names. If n man steals he is thief. |
If he utters an untruth he is q liar. |
Tf he INDUCES in cant he is hypo- |
.rite.
It is time for plain talking. With an |
ludacity unparalleled clique of gold
lenders is attempting to forever bind |
the hands of the American people. EN-
ooldened by past triumphs, with an
appetite whetted by successive raids
IN the United States treasury, they
nave thrown discretion to the winds
md are fighting in the open.
Hanna, the unspeakable Hanna, has
.ome out from behind the screen and
s commander in chief. He has in
lis possession William McKinley's
lotes for large amount and pro-
'oses to collect them, by grace of the
Toters of the United States. Who is
lelping him? Payne, of Milwaukee,
'ayne, the avowed enemy of labor;
'ayne, the man on whom the outraged
itizens of Milwaukee placed a boy
oft and walked for weeks rather than
ide in his street cars. Who else is on
Ianna's staff? YerIxes and Pullman, of
;hicago; II. c. Frick, of Homestead;
'hurston, of Omaha, the senatorial
ob5yist of the Union Pacific road.
very man who ever plundered labor
T evicted workman is arrayed on the
ide Of Hanna and an English gold
tandard
Can they win? Not If the spirit of
yet dominates the peo-
lie of America.