Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06
Worthy Of Our "steal."

How Ohio's leading reform paper
views the present crisis:
He who has lost faith in man has
also lost faith In God who made man.
The nation that sows tariff bills
made for monopolists will reap trusts
and hard times.
Laws against trusts will accomplish
nothing as long as the money trust is
perpetuated by other laws.
He who supports gold standard pa
pers is furnishing his country's enc
mics with the sinews of war.
There is never enough money in a
country SO long as men with proper
ty or labor to offer cannot obtain it.
Monopolies are always the product
of legislation. Without legislation
IN their faver, monopolies could not
exist.
Money that is good for the purchase
of goods in this country is always
good in Europe as long as Europe
needs our goods.
No financial system will bring pros
perity which leaves the control of
money in the hands of portion of
the people.
The patriotism that will not enable
a man to leave his party when it is
wrong is not strong enough to be of
any service to the nation.
The nation that will ask permission
of another before enacting finan-
cial system to suit its own people
should carry its flag at half mast.
Money that is good in Europe" is
not such necessity to the average
man as money that will pay his taxes
and buy bread and potatoes.
Many who last fall voted for money
that would be good in Europe
would now be be glad to get hold OF
any kind of money that is good in
America.
To pass tariff bill for the creation
ana protection of monopoly and then
go around bowling about trusts is
like a man sitting on hot stove and
bowling because it hurts.
The man who proposes that our
financial system must be made in &C
cord with the views of the govern
ments of Europe should blush every
time he sees an American flag.
II the reports of the immense gold
discoveries In Alaska should prove to
be- true, we will soon have an edict
from Wall street that the free coin.
age of gold must be stopped.
What would the heroes of the revo.
luton say were they now to see this
country, for whose liberty they
fought, submitting their financial
laws to the approval of British
Queen?
Queer that our iron mills can pro-
duce iron and sell it in England in
competition with English mills, but
can not meet the competition of Hn-
glish mills on our own shores
The position of Greece submitting
her boundary lines to the decision of
the powers is less humiliating than
that Of America submitting her finan.
cial system to the decision of England
and Germany
With a monetary commission in
Europe trying to arrange for more
silver and one to be appointed in t his
country to get rid of what we have,
the present administration is liable
to be badly strained.
Any one who can raise fifty thous
and dollars in cash can start nation.
al bank. This shows that the nationaI
bank law does not provide for no
nopoly, for nearly every man you
meet has fifty thousand or more wad
ded up in his vest pocket.
Will Wells says the thousands who
| voted for Mckinley and prosperity
| now feel like the German who specu-
lated in options. He lost several
hundred dollars, and on being asked
whether he had been a "bull'' or a
"bear" answered: "Neider, | vos a