Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-09-03
"Crux" Wants the Diamond Standard.
ANNAPOLIS, Aug. gath. 1896.


ANNAPOLIS, Aug. oath. 1896.
Ed. Reglster-.Crux" is completely
bumfusticated whatever that means)i
All his old-fashioned notions about the
eternal fitness of things have been up
set and he is completely at sea. He
used to think that when Thos. Jeffer-
SON said all men are created equal he
knew whereof he spoke. But few
days ago a correspondent in the st.
Louis Post Dispatch said that labor
ing man, with his sun-browned skin
and sole-leather hands, has no more
business in polite society than bull
has in a China shop; that the clod-
hopper's place is between the plow-
handles. Then l thought of what Sol
omon said about the wisdom of the
poor man that by his wisdom saved a
city. But la! old Solomon amt in it
these days. Why, there is more wis
dom to the square foot now than there
lived. Every goldbug Democrat (and
there are at least 80 in the State of
Missouri) could give old Sol. cards and
spades and beat him out of his socks.
We used to think that the Silverites
were an honest lot of chaps. We were
willing to admit that there was pos
sibility of their being mistaken, but
never would have thought them dis
honest if we hadn't read in the papers
that they are anarchists, reputation
lists, and the Lord only knows what!
Why, sir, all the honest men in the
country are going out of business if
this ever-to-be-deplored silver craze
can't be cured. Why, sir, nobody
wants silver but the farmers, laborers,
mechanics and a few business men
that haven't an honest bone in them,
and the silver mine owners. OIL
course they will make a speck, or they
would not have a lot of speakers going
over the country preaching Free Silver.
We don't know exactly how they are
going to do it if the silver dollar will
then only be worth so cents, but it
must be so, because Senator Thurston
of Nebraska said so, aud what the
Senator don't know about finance and
draw-poker has never appeared in
print.
Senator Sherman says that that
crime that John e. Carlisle raved so
about in 1878 was no CRIME at all; and,
more than that, the little incident that
all the bankers, financiers and honest
men in the world are using their COM
bined power to continue, happened in
1853, 20 years before it was found out.
Now, Mr.. Editor, if there is any one
man that knows all about this ques-
tion, that man is Senator Sherman of
Ohio. The reason why l say so is,
because | have every reason to be-
lieve that the Senator was on the in
side.
The reason why we know the gold
bugs are honest is because they say so,
and they ought to know. If the Unit
ed States should pass a free coinage
law that would be equal to repudiat-
ing one-half OF her debts, but if all the
countries of the would do the same
thing at the same time, that would
make it all right and lawful. To IL
lustrate: il should shoot man that
would be murder; but if took SO more
up and shot him full of holes, that
would be all right and lawful, That
is. lynch lawfuD.
But coming down to the new style of
honesty, I reckon Grover Cleveland
has larger wad of it than any other
man in America, unless, perhaps, it he
John Shermn. Grover is the only real
honest, Sound Money Democrat in the
country; others may be honest, but
Grover is honesty. He's the greatest
financier of them all. Whether he got
it hanging men in Buffalo, or practic-
ing law in New York City, we are un-
able to say. But the fact that he has
it can't sorter be disputed and make it
look like any thing.
Now, Mr.. Editor, I've got an idea
- (the reason put that dash there
is because it's the first one I've had
since 1 became an Honest Money DEM
ocrat.) / don't know il that is COM
mon to all Honest Money men or not;
but, however, here's the idea: suppose
you give up your free silver heresy,
lunaey, or whatever is the proper
name, and go in with me and advocate
the diamond standard. Why. sir, fu-
ture generations of fnanciers would
rise ND and call us blessed. And the
laboring people. when they come to
realize the vast amount of labor that
had been lifted of their shoulders,
would weep for joy Tor something TO
eatl, and we would be the Honest and
Sounaest Money Democrats the world