Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-06-11
Light tor the Cosmos"

The Cosmos is weekly newspaper
published at Bloomfield, Mo-, by
Frank H. Adams. 1t is new enter
prise. We infer that the type is new,
and that it has fairly good printer at
the helm. In No. II of Vol. I, we
find the following extract:
The free silver fallacy, of the folly
of trying to establish the standard
value of money by legislation. was
tersely refuted in one of Pelatiah Web
ster's pamphlets during the Revolution,
which has recently been sent out as a
sound money document. ITO call
anything a pound of shilling which
really is not So" he wrote, land made
it legal standard. is an error of the
same nature as diminishing the stand
ard bushels, yard. gallon, etc.. or
making law that foot shall be the
legal yard, an ounce the legal pound,
a peck the legal bushel, or quart the
legal gallon, and compelling every
body to receive all goods due to them
by such deficient measures"
From the above it would seem that
Mr.. Adams has been so occupied in
getting his paper afioat and in attend
ing to the mechanical department OF
his Office that he has not had time to
give his editorial page proper atten.
ton, and has resorted to the expedi-
ent of using anything that might come
to hand to fill up, without giving it
very close scrutiny. He will find this
method rather hazardous if he intends
to use the literature of the Sound
Money Club. provided he cares for the
reputation of his paper for reliability.
If the money that organization advo-
Gates is no sounder than its arguments,
basketball OF it would not buy a cir
Gus ticket.
Will the editor of the Cosmos kindly
inform US how a standard of value oil
money could be established, except by
legislation? Will he mercifully en-.
tighten US as to what country ever es.
tablished standard of value of money,
except by law? We are suffering to
know how a standard of value of money
could be established without legisla
ton. Any information in this particu
lar will be thankfully received.
Who was this Pelatiah Webster thai
wrote pamphlets while the revolution
was going on? Was he an adherent o.
George Washington, or of George the
Third? At ali events, he has faller
into Tory company since his death; for
if the Sound Money Club had existed
| during the revolution, it would have
denounced the folly of founding a gov
eminent upon the consent of the gov
ernsd, quite as fiuently as it now doe.
the 'sidiocy" of bimetallism.
Who wants ''to call anything pound
of shilling which really is not so ani
made it a legal Standard" Certainly
no advocate of Free Coinage. If the
above quotation from Pelatiah is &C
curate, he must have been rather con
fused at his grammar.
Silver men do not want to make .
law that "a foot shall be the lega
yard, an ounce the legal pound, a peel
the legal bushel, quart the legal gal
lon. or half dollar the legal dollar.
Neither do they intend to permit an!
law to stand that makes two pound
the legal pound, two feet the lega
foot, six feet the legal yard, eigh
pecks the legal bushel, eight quart
the legal gallon, or two hundred cent
the legal dollar, thus compelling al
debtors to pay in a double measure
1t will take more corn, wheat and cot
ton to pay the one billion of the ma
tional debt to-day than it did the three
billions of it at the close of the war.
Does the Cosmos think this is right?
| 1t would perhaps be useless waste o
energy to explain to the Cosmos that sill
yer has not deprecated to any consider
able extent-that the silver in the silver
dollar will buy to-day. approximately
as much of all articles not trust pro
tected as it would have done in 1873
that not one dollar of the national deb
has been paid. owing to the apprecia
| ton of gold: vet such is the fact. Tht
Sound Money Club will put out any
thing that they think will fool thu
people, from a green goods circular tt
a bogus New Testament. Their tao
tics are as old as the Tory party, ant
that party is as old as the earth.
Old People.