Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-23

the silver in the world coined or avail.
able for coinage, would only make 8
cubic block sixty-six feet each way A
jackass would be Socrates compared
with any European who would bring
his silver money over here for coinage
under the circumstances the Herdld
indicates. Perhaps these people ex.
pect an inundation of silver from some
other planet. This should not dis.
turb them. for silver men only propose
to coin the product of this earth.
The Herald man disposes of the in.
ternational monetary idea when he ad-
mits that all of our coins are received
abroad by weight. Coinage is a mat
ter that concerns ourselves alone. Will
some one kindly explain why the cred
itor living in a foreign country could
not be made to take the same kind oil
money the creditor in this country is
compelled to take? Since the usual
allusion has been made to Mexico, we
would like to know which is the better
off: the laborIng man of Gold Standard
Italy, where starving mothers feed
their starving babes grass, or Silver
Standard Mexico. from whose borders
hunger has been driven?
We call attention to the fact that
the New York Sun and the New York
Herald do not work together harmoni-
ously in golden harness. The Herald
says: s.If it should be seen that the
American people were going to adopt
free coinage, the six hundred millions
of gold in the country would at once
be boarded or exported, and this enor-
nous contraction would precipitate a
panic" The Sun says, in regard to
this proposition:
There are newspapers here in this
city making in behalf of it (the gold
standard), the most absurd and easily
refuted arguments, and thus weaken
ing the cause they profess to defend.
One such argument is, that the free
coinage of silver, by driving out gold,
would cause contraction Of the cur
reGcy. No considerable amount of
gold is used as currency on this side
of the Rocky Mountains. What there
is here is stored away in bank vaults,
in the United Treasury. or in stockings
and money chests. What there is in
the Pacific States is only few millions
in amount, and would remain in circu-
lation there just as it did years ago
when the rest of the country used only
greenbacks. Under the reign of silver
the gold now stored away would re-
main where it is. and it would only
grad ually be exchanged for silver.
Will some one tells us how the send
ing abroad or boarding of the six hun
dred millions of gold that has already
been sent abroad or boarded could pro-
duce panic? The metropolitan press
is not sincere in its opposition to free
coinage. Its whole aim is to confuse.
It's editors advance arguments at which
they chuckle and wonder if there are
fools in the world that attach any i'm
rortance to them. The remarks of a
editor of great daily at a
banquet of newspaper men in New
City some years ago illustrate how
honest these people are. He said;
There is no such thing in America
as an independent press, unless it is in
the country towns. You are all slaves.
You know it, and l know it. There
is not one of you who dare express an
honest opinion. If you express it,
you know beforehand that it would
never appear in print. lam paid $3.50
per week for keeping honest opinions
out of the paper am connected with.
Others of you are paid similar salaries
for doing similar things. If l should
allow honest opinions to be printed in
one issue of my paper, like Othello,
before twenty-four hours my occupa-
tion would be gone. The man who
would be so foolish as to write his
honest opinion would be out on the
streets hunting another job. The
business of the New York journalist is
to distort the truth, to lie outright, to
pervert, 10 villify. to fawn at the feet
of mammon and to sell his country and
his race for his daily bread, or for
what is about the same thing, his sal
ary. You know this and | know it.
and what 9oolery to be toasting an in
dependent press. We are the tools
an0 vassals of rich men behind the
scenes. We are jumping jacks. Our
time, our talent, our lives, our possi-
bilities. are all the property of other
men. We are intellectual prostitutes. "
The fact is, the banking and fund
holding classes secured legislation in
1873 By which the value of their Pc
culiar property was Indefinitely en-
hauced at the expense of the holder of
every other kind of property. They
mean TO keep what they have, regard
less of any consideration of right or
wrong. If reasonable compact with
u foreign nation il necessary TO that
end. it will he entered into without
compunction. If Justification and mis-
are found necessary,
they will not hesitate to falsify and
II bribery will accom-
plish anything, the money viii be at