Iron County register., 1897-09-30
COLO oReANs RTREAI
Windy Arguments That Have Bee,
Explsz4ea

| Windy Arguments That Have Been
Exploited.
Nothing is more certain than the fact
that the gold organs are compelled to
| pay a fancy price for evidence of re-
turning prosperity resulting from the
higher price of wheat and the sympa-
| thetic rise of other commodities.
They have been compelled to get rid
OF the remains of several car loads of
| exploded theories and arguments. They
have been driven to applaud what they
have heretofore denounced, ssdepreci-
ated" dollar-'cheap money"-for the
dollar Will not buy nearly so much
wheat as it bought awhile ago, and it
will buy only half as much wool.
In fine, the gold organs have been
compelled to take refuge in the argu-
ments which the free coinage men have
been employing, to-wit: that higher
prices are an evidence of prosperity;
that low prices are an evidence of hard
times; that prosperity to be real, must
begin with the farmers and those who
depend on them; that the prosperity of
the farmers and their dependents can
only come from profitable prices for
their products; and that even when the
dollar cheapeDs or depreciates with re-
spect to only two products of the farm
wheat and wool-the result is bene-
fetal.
The Constitution is very glad to see
the gold organs climb over the fence
and take position with the democrats
on these elemental and basic PROPOSE
tions-not because the admission is of
any real importance, but because it
presents these organs in more ridic-
uious attitude than they have ever oc-
cupied before, impossible as that may
seem.
A few months ago they were showing
that higher prices would be very Sc
we're blow to the workingmen, and to
all who depend on wages. They pre-
sented long columns of windy argu-
ments to prove that the comfort of the
wage-earners depended on low prices;
that the low prices then prevailing were
the natural and inevitable result of the
progress of civilization and enlighten-
ment, and that higher prices were the
result of deprecated" currency, "dis-
honest" dollars.
And yet, the moment that the dollar
depreciates with respect to wheat and
wool, two prime necessities to the work
ing people, the windy arguments of the
gold organs explode like inflated paper
bags in the hands of naughty school
boys-they explode, and that is the end
OF them. Therefore, owing to the de-
probation of the dollar, we have a new
ard n better condition. We are to have
higher prices for food and winter cloth
ing, even if the working people do not
get higher wages.
Thus it falls out that the arguments
of the democrats are proven to be sound,
and the result is applauded by those
who denied absolutely the truth of
them. We have higher prices for some
of the products of the farm, and the re-
suit is distinct note of prosperity. to
which the whole country is promptly
responsive.
But how much better it would be for
the country if the symptoms of better
times now apparent had something
more substantial behind them than de-
pendence on continued failure of the
wheat crops in Europe, India and Ar
gentina. Should those countries be
blessed next year with even average
crops of wheat, the present price of our
wheat cannot of course, be sustained.
But notwithstanding the fact that such
prosperity as we are enjoying is entirely
providential in character, we should
make the most of it and rejoice at it.
While so doing we should strengthen
and fortify ourselves by taking meas
ures to give Permanence to prosperity
by reforming our currency system and
putting it on solid and substantial
basis. a cheaper dollar, the result of
bimetallism, is no less sound or honest
than the cheaper dollar resulting from
short crops in Europe or from tariff
legislation. That is fact which must
be clear to the dullest mind.-Atlanta
Constitution.