Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-30

With q nation equal IN wealth and power -
one-fourth OF the world. it is cowardly TO say
that We mnst ask the permission Of Great
Britain TO establish and maintain financial
policy OF our own. Believing as we do, that a
return to the monetary system especially REQ
ognized II the constitution and completely
provided for by law from 1872 till 1873 affords
the only ground nope for the betterment OF
the distressed condition OF all the classes ex-
cept those who live by the increment that
money loaned gives TO those VINO loan it, we
appeal to all classes to rally 70 the support OF
the only candidates whose success indicates
any hope OF relief.
Let the merchant and business man whose
dwindling and lessenea profits have. despite
his care and economy, brought him face TO
face with prospective bankruptcy and ruin,
the professional man whose best efforts
scarcely afford him compensation for his labor
alone, the farmer, the continually falling
prices Of whose products have left him no re-
turns for capital invested and work Per"
formed, and last, but not least let the
grand army Of laborIGg men so-caued,
the artisan, the mechanic, and the miner, and
every one who depends upon his daily labor
for his daily bread look about him and observe
the great number of those who vainly seek fos
chance to work-upon the great army OF en-
forced idlerS, and one and all resolve TO Try
not an experiment (for bimetaIliSm is not an
experiment., but rather 4 return to q policy
that throughout the viciSsitudes Of our nation 3
infancy, through the internecine strug-
gle of its manhood kept great,
free and prosperous nation, in which the labor
was not only respected and employed. but was
so compensated that want and distress such as
now weigh upon US was unknown. Let the
lesson OF history, too recent and too plain to
be gainSaid or denied, be needed, and let there
be no fear that q system that wonderfully
protected labor, developed business enterprise
and secured to the nation contented and
prosperous people in the past will do aughs but
bring to US return of like prosperity, the
| predictions Of disaster of our opponent TO the
contrary Notwithstanding.
In Mr.. Bryan the Chicago convention placed
| at the head of its ticket a gentleman of ex-
| ceptional ability and OF high character. No
man Of his age was better known throughout
| the United States than he. \ member OF con-
| gress for four years, he commanded the admit
ration and respect Of all his associates in that
| body a scholarly statesman and profound
| thinker. No man had ever assailed his char
| acter or in any way questioned his integrity
| or moral worth. His character is fit example
| Tor the young men Of this country. He has
shown II all his public dtterances that he
loves his Country and his countrymen
and that he sympathizes with them
in their distress. He had also shown
that he believed the financial system which
makes gold the standard OF value was in a
great degree the cause OF the depression and
financial distress prevalent throughout the
land; that the condition now existing will con-
tinue while the present monetary system lasts,
and that he would fain return to the use Of
both gold and silver as they were used prior to
1873, and he has proposed such change of the
financial system by the usual constitutional
methods.
Such was the character. and such the po-
litical opinions of the candidate known to his
countyrmen, who by their representatives in
convention selected from every EtGsS e tho
Union put him in nomination for the highest
office within the gift Of the American people.
This Is u critical period in our national his
tory. Our industrial and financial independ-
ence OF other nations and people is involved in
this campaign, and we firmly believe that there
will be no return of prosperity until we shall
have changed our financial system SO as TO re-
store the bimetallic system established by the
fathers of the republic; and 50 believing, We
urge all friends of gold and silver as standard
money and the opponents OF a single gold
standard to give Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Sewall
their hearty support. In advising this course.
we do not consider it necessary that they shall
abandon or surrender their political views on
other questions.
Profoundly impressed with the Importance
of the issues OF this campaign, for ourselves
and our associates, we respectfully submit tina
foregoing to the candid consideration Of the
American people
LSignedl H. n. TELLER,
FRED DUBOIS,
LEE MANTLE,
CHARLES s. HARTMAN,
EDGAR WILSON,
JOHN F. SEAFRoTH,
A. NJ. STEVENSON,
Committee