Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-29
OUR CANDIDATE IN 1900
Missionary Work.

The committee on sound currency
Of the New York Reform club pro-
poses to continue the goldite propa-
ganda without abatement. Under
date of De cember is it has issued a
circular from which the following is
an extract:
This committee expects to take
up at once the work left off Just
before election. 1t will endeavor
not only to decrease the number
of free coinage advocates, but to
increase the number of those who
favor better banking and curren-
cy laws. During this winter and
spring we shall probably issue
page of sound currency plates
every three weeks through the
American Press Association and
the A. N. Kellogg /, Newspaper
company; probably also through
one or two of the other plate as
sociations which have been sup
plying our plates. Should we do
30 we will offer plate to you free
of cost if you will agree to pay
transportation charges and either
te put us on your exchange list or
send us copies of your paper con-
tanning such matter as you may
print.
The club also offers to furnish
special plates containing speeches,
cartoons and other matters all free of
cost, thus enabling country papers to
make up pages of matter without
any expense.
1t is by no means certain that this
action will not be for the benefit of
free coinage. There is nothing in
any of these plates that cannot be
readily answered by well posted
silver man. They will stimulate dis
cussion and inspire bimetailists to
prepare themselves for it. Where
ever the silver question has been the
most thoroughly discussed the major
ity for free coinage is the largest.
But it is desirable that no effort shall
be spared to circulate bime tallic
truth in order that in dis tricts where
there are few free coinage men, the
falsehoods of the goldites shall not
be allowed to lead voters astray.
Educational work should be prose-
cuted as vigorously as possible at all
times and wherever there is need of
it.
The New York club evidently
thinks that silver needs looking after
and before two years have passed it
will be more strongly of that opin-
ion.-Rocky Mountain News.
The best campaign of education
that the sound currency committee
can give the country is the promised
prosperity, which was to follow the
election of Mckinley. All that
the country asks is that the producers
of wealth shall share and enjoy the
prosperity that the products create
and which are now appropriated and
enjoyed by those who are non pro
ducers- simply spectators. Employ
ment must be given to the vast army
of idle and hungry men, with suffi-
Gent comp ensation thereafter to en-
able them to support their families
in comfort. Seventy thousand il
Chicago, nearly six times the num-
Der of people in this county, are sup
ported upon charity. Given employ.
Iment they would become profitable
consumers and users of the fabrics
and products of the factories anC
farms of the country. If the pro
gram of the sound currency men fol
the next four years is carried out, the
way that prosperity will be DOOMED
by confidence" may learn the PEG
pie as much as this committe will b,
able through promises which are un
fulfilled.
This record of business failures
since the sound currency committed
substituted confidence for cash ma,
be appalling but it is a better educa
tor than its sound money plates.
Failures for the week ending
Nov. 2, Observation-Disclosures. ............... 22
IA, 1900. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 25
28,........... -. Observation-Disclosures. 90
December OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. .35
10 ............,...."......,..... 90
l9.......................... 80
26-more than any weel
since confidence was rcstored-amonf