Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-24
SENATOR CHANDLER.
Declares for Free Coinage at the Ratio
of Is Ia to 4.

Declares for Free Coinage ut the Ratio
of rs 1-2 to 4.
Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire,
mas bearded the lion in his den. He
has written an article for an English
magazine in which he clearly lays down
the proposition that the proper ratio
between silver and gold, as money
metals, is not the Commercial" ratio
of 30 to 1, as the oddities of Wall street
and their echoes throughout the coun-
try declare. but 1919 to 1! He "out-
Herods Herod' in his demand for
5O-cent dollar-he would scale off one
half per cent. of the present size of the
American dollar. Senator Chandler in
his article says:
THAT the United States is opposed to
the single gold standard, and is in favor
of retracing in due course and with care
full regard to the national honor the steps
taken in the demonstration of silver, until
both gold and silver shall be admitted to
free coinage at the ratio of 1512 to l, and
made the standard money of the world,
s.ad the measure of the values of the
worlds a proposition which would re-
ceive the suffrage of four-hfths of our
voters, If this proposition alone could
be fairly presented to them, even without
further debate"
The distinguished New Hampshire
republican agrees with Bryan that the
gold standard is a bad thing. He re-
pudiates the goldite theory of So
cent dollar. He denies that the recent
election was a declaration of the peo-
pie in favor of the single gold stand
ard. In a word Senator Chandler mott
fies England that the goldites of this
country who declared during the cam
paign that the gold standard is all
right, do not represent the American
people at all. But Senator Chandler
not only denies the justice and honesty
of the single gold standard, he also
asserts that the bimetallic basis must
surely come. Hear him in the same
article:
"The question is not one of four years,
nor yet of a decade. 1t may take as long
to remonetize silver as it has taken : 70
realize the paralyZing influence of de-
monetiZation."
The question is not settled, as the
goldites insist. The contest is but just
begun. But it must be settled and set
tied right if it takes as long as it has
for the country to realize the paralyz-
ing influence of silver demonetization!
So says Senator Chandler. So say we
all. Senator Chandler does not agree
with those republicans and their
Cleveland allies who insisted last sum-
mer and fall that the gold standard
marked an era of uneXampled pros
perity for the people, and that the fear
of the adoption of bimetallism was
what paralyzed business. This good
republican senator from near the pre-
cincts of Boston, who represents hal
lowed New England ground, has dis
covered that the honest dollar is a
thief and paralyZer, and not the 80
cent dollar and he throws the fact
into the very face of the British lion.
What will our good religious leaders
on this size of the Atlantic say to
that? They have held up their hands
in holy horror at the dishonesty of
those who advocated the remonetiza-
ton of silver at the ratio of 16 to ],
and hurled anathemas at them from
the text: Thou shalt not steal!" But
here is a man who goes the An
archist Bryan and his anarchist asso-
ciates "one-half'' better, and would
cheat the creditors, not only of the
United States, but of the world, out of
a fraction more than the "Mexicaniza-
timists" and "repudiationists" who
supported Bryan in the last campaign
proposed to do the creditors of the
United States alone. 1t is evident that
Senator Chandler is an anarchist" of
the anarchists" He needs watching.
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