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

The issue between the people of
the United States just now is that of
money, and on this Mr.. Mckinley is yet
to be heard clearly and unequivoca1ly.
Nashville American.
Mr.. Bryan has not had to leave
the democracy; the democracy has
thrown itself into his arms That
Mr.. Bryan will be winner is fore
gone conclusion.-N. o. Times-Demo-
crat.
1t is freely admitted that the
campaign funds will be on the side of
the republicans this year. But do the
American people propose to let their
presidential election be decided by slush
funds ?-St. Louis Republic.
w. J. Bryan, the nominee of the
democrats FOR president, possesses all
the qualities that could be desired in a
candidate. He is the strong and youth
full Joshua who will lead the hosts of
democracy out of the barren wastes
created by gold recommendation into
the promised land of prosperity
Chattanooga Times.
The joining of Messrs. Bryan and
SewalI on the same free silver ticket
is a felicitous mating of west ant east,
a happy union of agriculture and COM
merce which will certainly not fail 70
commend itself heartily to the Ameri-
can people. It is strong ticker, and
will. unless all indications fail, march
through popularity to a splendid VIC
tory at the polls in November.-N. o.
Times-Democrat.
William J. Bryan is growing
daily in the estimation of the American
people. He is cool, self-possessed, digni-
fed He delights to go among the peo-
pie. His speeches are terse and clear.
There is nothing solemn OF dull about
him. He loves his home. He is es-
teemed by his fellow citizens at Lincoln.
who have seen him rise, step by step,
in welI-earned distinction. The barriers
are burned away. The spell is broken
that reserved the Office of president for
venerable statesmen of the Buchanan
type. Henceforth the portals Of the
white house win be open 10 Young
American. z. Mercury.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-30
THE TIDE TURNING.

The Agricultural Glasses OF Europe Fav0E~,
Ing BimeeallIsn.
The meeting of the international
husbandry commission in Paris and
the adoption of q resolution in favor
of bimetallism is an impressive re-
minder of the condition of agriculture
all over the world and of the general
desire of agricultural communities for
the establishment of bimetalliC cur.
rency.
At the meeting referred to delegates
were present from France, Germany.
Belgium, Austria, Sweden and Switzer-
land. Thus practically all the nations
of Europe, with the exception of En-
gland, were represented, and England
is to receive an invitation from the
French government to endeavor to
meet the views expressed by the hus.
bandry commissioners.
The fact that the farming classes of
Europe should lead in the effort to re.
store the monetary system which pre-.
vailed prior to the demonstration of
silver as standard money is remarka-
BILE. 1t is an indication of the uniyer.
sally increasing depression in the agri-
cultural industry. It is perhaps nat
hTdA tuob bAk6 CRY tAOI OAD1CbdAAtSlu Ala
this country should be heard with such
distinctness among the agricultural
classes because of the relations of the
silver and agricultural states No such
reason exists so far as Europe is con.
cerned.
Nevertheless, the cry for bimetallism
is raised by the European farmers or
their representatives Mr. Lowther,
who represented a distinctively agri.
cultural constituency in the English
house of commons. was for many years
the only champion of the bimetallio
principle in that body. The Catholic
archbishop of Dublin, speaking for the
farmers of ireland, has given to the
world one of the ablest arguments
ever presented in recent years IN favor
of the restoration of the white metal
Why is it that the agitation in Eu-
rope is confined almost exclusively to
the farming classes? The answer Is
obvious That is the class which is
feeling most the evil effects of curren-
cy contraction. The position of the
farmers of the United States is the pc.
sition of those of England, ireland,
Germany and France.-St Louis BE.
nm bile
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-30
ThE RLEEnlna PRocEsa


Continual Borrowing q Necessity That gap@
the Resources OF the Governments
Continued borrowing under the gold
standard is a necessity, for. at present
low prices. we cannot export suff1-
cient volume of commodities to meet
all our charges, and to pay the balance
in gold means . drain on our resources
that must bring on at once the inevi.
table catastrophe that is impending,
and sooner or later, inevitable, if we
adhere to the gold standard. just SO
long as we adhere to the gold stand
ard we will remain at the mercy of
foreign money-lenders. They are in
position to say to our government ''is-
sue to rs government bonds in pay
ment of accruing interest charges due
to us by your people or we will take
gold" They can refuse to take corporate
bonds in payment of interest due and
demand government bonds secured by
the earnings and property of our whole
people. Government bonds are alone
satisfactory to them, and by draining
orr gold reserve, four times has our
government been forced to issue bonds.
Our only escape from national as.
we'll as universal, corporate and pri-
vate bankruptcy is by prompt return
to bimetallism, thereby raising the
prices of the commodities that go to
pay the debts. When this is done not
only will we be in position to pay in
terest on, as well as to reduce the
principal of our foreign debt, but our
foreign creditors will no longer press
for payment, for when, through a re-
turn of prosperity following higher
nriooS he of 0f1r T1a0T11a and
railroads and other corporations in
debted abroad are increased, their
credit will be restored and foreigners
will no longer have any desire to with
draw their interest when it falls due,
but will be anxious to invest it in
America. Then our people will find
themselves freed from the clutches of
foreign money c1iques, for the borrow
er having the means and desire to an
ticipate payment of principal. and the
money-lender being anxious to invest
in our industries promising large re.
turns, the borrower will no longer
have to seek and beg of the foreign
money lender loan as boon, but the
agents of the money cliques will be
obliged to wait on their old borrow
erS.
The argument of the gold contrac-
tionists that gold monometallism is
necessary to enable them to pile mort
gage upon mortgage and interest
charge upon interest-charge is not
only the argument of the spendthrift,
but it is based on false assumption;
for it is the prosperous man that finds
capitalist ready to loan him money;
not the man striving to borrow
to avert bankruptcy.-Phil
American
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-30
COMPARE THE MEN.
Bryan's Record and AbiiG&~ Overshadov
Hchinlersa

@hcAhnIey'S.
Republican tacticians have not yet
settled upon the line of attack which is
to convince the American people that
Bryan lacks presidential qualifications.
During this period of INDIGESTION they
are letting their voters become very
much confused on one point-Bryan' s
sbilities as a public speaker.
One day recently a republican organ
ayerred in the same article that BRYAN
was utterly unable to make an offhand
speech, and that all his early political
successes were obtained by his gift of
gab.'' In addition to this conflict of as
sertion it publishes in the same issue
three extemporaneous speeches made
by the democratic candidate in Illinois.
Numberless other republican organs
have been see-sawing between the two
alIegations-that he cannot speak ex-
cept by committing every sentence to
memory and he is a mere talking ma
chine without thought or knowledge;
that he cannot prepare speech except
with laborious reference TO books and
that he is a freak of verbosity who has
no capacity or training as a student.
Democrats are willing to end this try
ing republican perpleXity. They will be
generous about it. Republicans may
choose weapons, ground and code for a
contest between the two presidential
candidates.
McKinley's speciality is the tariff. If
he does not know that he does not know
anything. Take him, then, at his best.
Compare any speech he ever made on
the tariff question or any part of it with
any tariff speech Bryan ever made. The
test ought to show which is the closer
and ADLER student of public question,
and Mckinley has all the presumable
advantage.
II that does not suit, bring the two
men face to face before any audience in
any American town, Ohio towns not
barred. Select the particular branch OF
the particular issue and give notice be-
forehand, or spring it as a surprise to
both at the opening of the meeting. Nc
KinIey was in congress when Bryan
was boy. He was presidential can
didate when Bryan, not much past boy
hood, entered congress. For almost as
many years as Bryan has spent on earth
he has been in contact with great speak
ers and great issues. He has lived in a
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-30
m'KINLEYs ATTITUDE.
Mark Hanna's Candidate Ii . DoubtruI
ArficIe-

article.
Mr.. Hanna must now perceive Low
unfortunate and unsuitable is his selec-
ton of William Mckinley as the repub-
hcan candidate for president.
Mckinley was selected because of
HaGna's belief, no doubt an honest one,
that the American people were anxious
to reverse their verdict, twice rem
dered, of emphatic disapproyal of the
Mckinley bill. In a campaign in which
Mckinleyism was to be the paramount
issue no filter choice of leader could
be made than the man who gave his
name to the system. We know that
Mr.. Hanna intended that the tariff
would be the great issue; we recall
how he strove to make the currency
plank non-committal and meaningless,
and how for months before the conven-
ton he padlocked Mr.. Mckiniey's lips
on the great question of the currency.
Hanna's plan was to sidetrack the cur
rency question, upon which he knew
his party to be divided, and give prom
inence to the tariff, upon which he be-
lieved his party to be substantially ii
unit. 1t might or might not have proved
good generalship in the campaign to
follow; at any rate, events have changed
the entire line of battle. Events have
ouSgeneraled Mr.. Hanna, they have sent
to the rear the only question upon
which Mr.. Mckinley stands for any
thing vital and positive, and brought
TO the front an issue upon which Mr..
Mckinley has shuff1ed and lodged and
kept silence, and upon which his
known record must inevitably excite
profound distrust.
Now perceiving this drift of things
and believing his play to be sudden
discovery that he has all along been u
sound-money man, does he finally
speak in no uncertain terms? What
assurance has the country that he
would veto a free coinage rider to e
high tariff bill? The veriest dolt knows
that in no other form will high tar if
bill pass the next congress, and yet Nc
Kinley is silent on that point. He
voted for the Sherman bill, and de-
clared himself in 1890 ''for the double
standard"
Evidently Mckinley will not get the
votes of hundreds and thousands of
sound-money men who might vote for q
republican of clearer record and great
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-30
ENGLISH FARMERS.
The Single Gold Standard Causing Distress
in Britain.

The Single Gold Standard Causing Distress
In Britain.
The English farmers are suffering
from precisely the same cause that is
running the American agriculturists,
countries and those that are employ.
ing q currency of paper that is cheaper
than gold. ALI such countries can IN.
dersell the English and American
farmers. The East Indian is content
with the same amount of silver for his
wheat and cotton as he. received 20
years ago, because in his country silver
money 10 just as good as 1t ever was.
The Argentine Is satisfied with about
the same amount of his paper cur
rency, for while il has depeciated TO 20
cents on the dollar in gold, IL pays
debts and taxes the same as formerl y,
and therefore command of goods and
property has been well sustained.
The American and Englishman can
get the same price In the London mar.
ket that the East Indian, the Argen.
tine or the Russian can, but when the
London gold price is converted into
the moneys of those countries 1t
amounts to as much as it ever did,
and they have sustained no real loss
by the so-called depreciation of their
silver or paper. But the Englishman
and the American, being paid on a
gold base, only get about half as much,
while their taxes, debts, rents on long
leases and all fixed charges remain
the same. Hence the suffering and
universal complaint-Exchange.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-30
Natures Lightning Rods.

There is often great loss of property,
and sometimes of life, in the severe cleo
trical storms that rage at certain times
OF the year in Russia. To protect tia
houses of the peasants, which are fire.
quently struck by lightning. the Rus
sian government has recommended that
the Peasantry be encouraged to plant
white poplar trees around their dwell
iT=Es:-i, to act as lightning rods. The slIg-
ge"tion arose out of some Investigations
concerning the liability to lightning
stroke of certain species of trees MAIDS
by Russian electrician and the gov
eminent forest inspector. They spent
100 days in the great forests near Mos
cow, and of the SGT trees that durina
that time were struck by lightning
they found 302 were white poplar, nefa
withstanding the fact that that apeas@
a comparatively rar~.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-30

err bravery on the money question.
This tariff question must inevitably
drive away the support of democrats
and independents, and what is there
in his currency record to attract them ::
1t may not be too late to consider the
withdrawal of Mckinley and the sub
stitution of Gov. Morton or Senator Al
lison or some other republican properly
representing, as Mckinley does not
and cannot, the antithesis of Mr.. Bry-
ans known and undisguised views Oh
the money question.-Albany Argus.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-30
DECLINE OF INCOMES.
Why Investors Are willing TO Accept
Less Rate of Interest

Why Investors Are willing TO Accept .
Less Rate of Interest.
The Philadelphia Inquirer records
with apparent solicitude the fact that
returns upon safe Shvestments have
fallen and are still continuing to fall
Investments which used to bring from
six to seven per cent interest have
dropped to four per cent. The In
quirer does not take much note of the
fact that investors accept the four per
cent. rather than put their money into
property. It probably realizes that
four per cent. bonds provide the in
vestor with as good living as seven
per cent. bonds on the same amount of
investment did at the time the1seven
per cent bonds were issued The con-
ditions noticed in this country are
world wide. They are especially APP
parent in Great Britain. British con-
soils bearing 2% per cent. interest have
recently sold at ia Still money which
earns only ~ per cent finds no better
safe investment in industrial enter
prises. This is the natural result of
several causes One is the increase in
the labor power effected by ma
chinery, another the demonetiza-
ton of silver. As commodities are
cheapened by these two causes it
would be violation of natural laws il
money were not cheapened also But
money duplicates itself in many ways
which neither labor nor commodities
can initiate The investments upon
which interest is paid represent
amounts perhaps twenty times as great
rs the amount of gold money in the
world. We say gold money for the
reason that gold money is the only
money accepted in payment for these
securities. The national debt of
France u in excess of all the geld
money in the world. Yet the money.
lenders and bondholders Of Eurona
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-30
FOREIGN PanIcs.

Commercial panics are very rare in
France, which has an immense volume
Of money. and very numerous in En-
gland, which does an extraordinary
amount OF credit business with com.
paratively little money. Still the adj
vocates of the gold standard tell us
that we should discard silver and use
credit In its place, allowing the banks
70 furnish the credits And yet nearly
all of the worlds destructive panica
have grown out of the reckless use Of
credit by the banks. which Is extended
or contracted, according to their I'M
terests. The reconciliation of silver
will broaden the base of metallic
money and make the use Of credit
safer. 1t will give prices an upward
tendency, and In consequences, =
sporadic financial disturbance does
come. IL viii be Of short duration ano
the recovery promps. --Bimataiiish
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draw intrest on the S.. SIS. 81, Be0 oe
French bonds. The British debt Of Sd.
255, 500, $50 is but little less than the
worlds stock of money, yet every doll
lar of it pays interest OF course.
when q few hundred millions of these
securities are thrown upon the market
gold Is found to purchase them with.
Still. as matter of fact. the holders
OF national securities counted as ono
body draw interest on more than ten
times the worlds stock of gold money
SAN Francisco Bulletin.
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state of great campaigns. He ought to
play with the young Nebraskan in such
a contest. But he need not carry weight
for age. Any weight, any course, any
conditions are at his option.
If the republicans deem it undignified
to expose their mans reputation in a
joint debate, let each prepare a paper
en- any topic associated with national
government-legislat administrative
or judicial; concerning the past, pres
ent or future. Judge the productions
by the test of composition, or of knowl-
edge of OF imagination or of logic or of
humor or of spirit or of universal phil
osophy-one or all.
Whatever William J. Bryan is or is not
as an orator or man of public affairs,
he is the superior of Mckinley. He has
all of Mckinley's lauded virtues and
more of every quality or acquisition
that makes one man greater than an
other. He knows more of every subject
that interests mankind. He could have
a nervous chill and make n more bril-
liant Grafton or a more profound argu-
ment on McKinley's pet theme than
Mckinley ever did or ever will make.
Unless McKinley's friends will agree
to go before the people on comparison
of some sort they should decently drop
the subject of ability in the arts of ex
preston and present their figurehead
for the trusts as man who thinks so
much that he never learned to tell his
Vthoughts.-St. Louis Republic.
The deficiency began under the
Mckinley law. and under republican adj
ministration of it at that. The deficien-
CIV under the Mckinley law for 1893 was
81, 766, 1894; for 1894 il was S72.:."5, AS
The total deficiency was S73, 092, Az. The
deficiency under the Wilson bill for the
fiscal year 1895 was SAC, 55s, 300. For the
present fiscal year, with one week yet
to run, it will not exceed S25.900,000.
The total is $71 .55S, 900, sum much less
than the total deficiency under Sle Nc
Kinley law. Under the Wilson bill the
deficiency decreases year by year. Tn
der the Mckinley law it increased year
by year. The Mckinley tariff law was
the greatest deficit producer this eoun-
try ever knew.-Utica Observer.
With strong hope for success at
the polls in November and unshaken
belief that the power acquired b. that
success will be used carefully. conserv-
ativeIy. and with conscientious regard
for the rights and welfare of all. the
American unnesitatingly declares its
Ioyal and unqualified support of the
nominees aad platform adopted at Chi
cago.-Nashville American.
The mortgage notes will be much
more plentiful than the musical notes
in McKinley's eampaign.-St. Louis Re
publiC.
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and the sight seemed 10 give him z sud-
den strength, for suddenly he stretched
out his arms. and snatching it from my
hand, he drained it in three gulps-
More, he gasped; ''more!''
But as yet / would give him no more,
though he prayed for it piteousIy, and
when / did allow him TO drink again It
was in sips only. For an hour he
slipped thus, till at length even his
thirst was partially satisfied. and the
shrunken checks began to fill out and
the dull eyes to brighten.
That water has saved my life" he
whispered. Where did 1t come from 90
II will tell you tomorrow" / an
swered. ''Sleep now, if you can"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-30
HEART OF THE WORLD.
BY H. RIDER HAooARp.

scr1nse Story. Taken From a Manuscript Re.
q7eafhed By an Old Nexscra Indian f. III.
Friend and cOmrsde, IN English.
man Named Jones'
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-30
With strong hope for success

The mortgage notes will be much
more plentiful than the musical notes
in McKinley's eampaign.-St. Louis Re
public.
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CHAPTER xm-covrIsUED.

Copyrighted. 1894 by H Rider Haggard
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-07-23
England Must Rule.

LONDON, June ga Cape Town
dispatch to the Times says that in
the House of Assembly Mr.. Spring,
in announcing the budget, said that
the available surplus was f1,250,000;
estimated surplus, net, for the year,
fS22,000.
He also produced statistics show
ing an unprecedented prosperity in
all directions, and expressed the
opinion that the high price OF Cape
stock was partly due to the fact that
the colony was part of the British
Empire, and he added that the
power which commands the sea
must dominate South Africa.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-07-23
Electric Trans.
JOHN HATToN

From statistics issued in Chicago,
it appears that 10 years ago, there
were but four tramway companies
there, capitalized at 11,437, 000dol.,
and working a street mileage of 80
miles. To-day there are 20 distinct
corporations engaged in local trans
portation business, having an aggre-
gate capitalization of 1877, 208,0 0Odol.,
and operating 342 miles of street
mileage. OF the four systems in
existence 10 years ago, three were
worked entirely by horses, the fourth
using both cable and horses. Now
the horse,car has practically dis
appeared from Chicago, the motive
power at present being: Surface
road electric, 255 miles; cable, AZ
miles; horse, Is miles. Elevated
oads-electric, Is miles; steam, IL
miles. In addition to the roads now
completed, construction work is
rapidly progressing upon five sur
face and elevated roads, all to be
worked by electricity, and which
will, when completed, increase the
total city mileage to 400 miles.
London has less than three miles of
acknowledgements tramways is
only 1876 miles, all worked by horse
power.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-07-23
TELEGRAM NO. 2.

"This Government regards with
great regret the delay in the matter
of the inquiry with respect to the
completely and responsibility of the
Chartered Co. in connection with
the raid of DR.. Jameson and his
band within the territory of this
Republic. This Government con-
siders it its right and duty to press
for the speedy holding of the in
quiry, not merely because it is the
injured party, but also because of
its interests and share in the we'll
being of S. Africa. the interests of
which, as repeatedly intimated, are
also dear to Her Britannia Majesty
Government. This Government is
also convinced that it is urgently
necessary that the entire control
and administration, civil as we'll as
military, should be taken out of the
hands of the Chartered Co. and
transferred to the Government of
Her Britannia Majesty, / am in
structed to press this point on be-
half Of the Government, and l have
further the honor to request your
Excellency to cable this despatch to
Her Britannia Majesty's Govern
ment in London.