Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-04-09
: GOLD pEMoNETlzERs.

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GOLD DEMCNETlZERS.
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Senator Ca fiery. of I.ouisiana. is one
# those cold standard persons that
nave q profound contempt for the ig-
norance of the free silver lunaticsA So
confident is Cafferv that the cause of
b;metallism Is foolishnesr that he has
never Thought It worth while to exam-
inc into the merits of the question. It
must have been very humiliatinp to
him. therefore. when in attempting to
snliphten the Ignorance of certain be-
niohted senator's ha had his own irno-
-.nce a~rosa1 wh;la C.Ha-v yas
awa.I;nr rnoY tb. d;v;n. ,,nont. b;l;tv
If cold senator naniel asLad him a
question concerning the movement for
the demonstration of gold in Europe
after the California oold discoveries
and its actual ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS sone
countries Cafferv rarl;.d IN snb-
stance that Daniel d;dn,t Lnow what
he Was TALKING abont. that . fellow nv
the name of Chevalier had tried 70 tall
mn movement Of that lind b,t that
no Enro,eap country had avo- a.r,ora.
tied GOLD Several sanatnrs were
nromntlv on their feet to toll 70 ffe-v
that i was the senator from T.on;s;ana
that didn't know What he was talL;ng
about. that germany and Holland had
both demonetized rold at that time.
Cafferv looked helnlesslv abont the
chamber. hopinr that somebody would
come to his relief But no helm came
and Gallery said: ST stand corrected ,,
If Mr.. Cafferv,s knowledge of the snb-
iect he was discpssino had not been Of
the shallowest hind be would not b.va
needed to he corrected
San.+o- C.ffe-r sho,,,a Lo -,
that tbs verv neonle vho TO- veass
have been .neerino at silver and land
inc gold have already begun to take
fr;oht at the hiohlv.co,ored renort. Of
az ,,.os,.o+;,a o,,+,,,t "a a. .,,a
mines and To snooest the n.cass;t,, -
closinp the minis To the free co;naoe
of cold We Quoted some time since
from LEADING financial iournel IN
En,l.,d wh;oh .,r-o...d ~. =. .,x,.-
b.rs;o,, Frat ,ha inora..a "a tha ao1a
s,,n,,l1 ,vo,,ld sa-;o,,s1r nnsstt,a ,oi,,as
th.t ;s +o s,v cbacL Tho f.I1 ~ ,,r;,,..
GA th.t tha a .nd,nn,.,t - 4he -.,1J
.t.nd.-5 r,,oht haco-oa necsss.rv W.
never hear from these sonrces anv note
of d;ssat;sfaction 81 lono as ssva1nes
AZ. un.ettl.dr hv fall;nr n-;oes Thar
- 800 .h.t :. r.o,,;,,o &c..
- - =. 80 - Tt.;a :.
s.N:,':',s :'Io.s 80,
.-,;o1as th.+ ,eoan+1, :r,e.,es =, tha
;. No ;ss,., "a H.r,ar,s Wall l..d.
inc renresentative of cold standard
IDEAS One of these articles deals
with the "risino tide Of GOLD.
It declares that if estimates now
made are realized. bv the year 1900
the world will have trebled its gold
production within the present decade.
and that there will be such a monetary
imitation as the widest populistic
dreamer never dared to entertain. In
view of this awful state of affairs Har-
per's Weekly propounds this momen-
tons question: ..If the output of gold
reaches $500. 600 600 bv 1900 will it he
possible for the nations to keep their
mints open to the free coinage of
rold?" We can answer that if the
bondholders and those who enioy fixed
incomes find that the gold standard
means rising instead of falling prices,
thew will not hesitate if they have the
power to demonetize both gold as we'll
as silver. This possible fall in the
va1,a of oold and r;sa in tho ,,r;cas ~