Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-04-23
A QUESTION OF FACT.
Two Gold Standard Papers Have Struck O
the Breakers.

Two Gold Standard Papers Have Struck on
the Breakers.
Our esteemed contemporary, the
Chattanooga Times, is having it again
with the Washington Post. and this
time on a particular phase of the silver
question. says the Memphis CONNER
cial Appeal. The Post is not an advo-
cate but stout opponent of the free
coinage of silver. 1t refuses, how
ever, to swallow all the foolishness
and rot put forward by the blatant
ignoramuses of the gold standard press
and declares that the silver movement
is continually strengthened by the alb
surdities of the gold standard cham
pions. 1t is not to be disputed that
the inherent power of a good cause
NAV be increased by the weakness of
its adversaries, and in this case the
cause of bimctallism certainly owes
:nanv thanks to the reckless ignorance
and arrogant emptiness of its leading
opponents When the average gold
standard orator has acquired the abil-
itv to curl his nose like the tail of a
terrier dog and can call a bimetallist
q populite in jackass tone of voice
he feels that he is fully equipped
for high debate. He is ready then to
scott all the teachings of all the econo-
mists, all the axioms of economic sci
ence and all the facts of history clean
off the face of the earth. This, of
course. gives the advocates of bimetal-
ism great advantage in the discus
sion in addition to the advantage that
belongs to them of right in the just
ness of their cause
The particular matter in dispute be-
tween the Post and the Times con-
cerned the purchase power OF a silver
dollar in Mexico. The writer in the
Post asserted as matter of personal
experience that he could buy as good a
dinner or as good a shirt in the City OF
Mexico with Mexican dollar as he
could in New York or Washington city
with u gold dollar. He knew this
could be done because he had actually
Gone it over and over again. 1t is diff
cult 70 dispute testimony like this un-
less one can impeach the yeracity OF
the witness The Times, however, un-
aertakes to impeach the correctness of
the Posts statements and draws from
the latter the following reply:
.sThe Chattanooga Times is always an
interesting study for the philosophers.
This time it takes it up with loud
ha. ha! the Posts assertion that the
Mexican silver dollar will purchase as
much in Mexico as the gold dollar will
purchase in the United States: And
now comes the Washington Post and
ESSAYS to prove that a silver dollar in
Mexico is worth as much as gold dol
lar liz the United States To test the
value of the Posts information on this
subject. we ask it to print some lately
pu slished Mexican wage scales Will
Il also tell us what the discount for
1old exchange on Mexican dollars is
in abe City of Mexico? II the Post is
right then our country ought to lose
no time to get to the silver basis;
meantime Mexican dollars sell in New
York for 81 cents each
.sobserve, if you please. the Posts
proposition: The Mexican s;lve: dol
lar will purchase as much in Mexico as
the gold dollar will purchase in the
United States The question is one OF
fact. The question is how much mer-
chandise, the necessities OF life, food.
q otting. etc. will the Mexican ai10r