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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-07
a woRklNeMAN's OPINION.
sixteen Men to One Job Under the Cola
Standard.

Sixteen Men to One Job Under the Cola
Standard.
What do the silver men want anyhow9
We are having an unlimited sixteen TO
one now; that is, sixteen men to oncA
job, and an unlimited scramble to get
that job, and this is under gold stand
ard. The gold advocates point back to
the good times we had before, under.
gold standard. 1t is like this; A ma
chine, even if it is bad make, will run
for some time; so with the money under
a gold standard. It ran until it ran so
tight that it would run no more. The
gold advocates tell us worlxingmen that
under free silver we will have to pay
double for everything we buy, bat our
wages win stay the same. 1t is not so.
Ifprices rise, wages will also rise. Moth
ing can rise in price unless there is
demand for it. There can't be de-
mand for anything when we have no
money to pay for it. If we, the city
workingmen, believe what the gold men
tell us, and do thereafter, we will be
fighting the farmer, which we certainly
ought not to do. Under free silver a
farmer will get more for his products;
in turn he will pay more for what he
buys; not only that, but he viii buy
more-for instance, new building on
his farm, new machinery, etc. So it
can readily be seen that it is to the bene-
fit of the many, and not the few.--C. A.
Juhl, in Chicago Record.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Mr.. Hanna is still hot after the
''right sort" of senator's Atlanta
Constitution.
1t is so easy for party to forget
its platform that we are afraid the re-
publicans will disremember that they
made a few pledges to the people,
Atlanta Constitution.
When a republican grows noisy
in his talk about trusts, he can be
Guieted by the suggestion that all ar
ticIes manufactured by trusts be put
on the free list.-Louisville Post.
The ways and means committee
will devote only two weeks to hearing
the claims of the protected interests.
That is not a very long time, but it is
two weeks longer than the time allowed
TO consumers.-Rocheste Herald.
The report that Hanna has given
orders for the adoption of certain meas
ures by congress and has fixed the date
of the extra session indicates that Ham
ma is laboring under the impression
that his syndicate bought the United
States-St. Louis Republic.
Senator Thurston, of Nebraska,
has had such a career as railroad lob
bvist that no one could have been much
surprised when he recently suggested
the abandonment by his party of all
pretense of currency reform IN order to
win silver votes for protection.-BuffaIo
Courier.
Those gentlemen who used to FIJI
the air with discordant bowls about the
Wilson tariff bill will note that under
its operations for the present fiscal year
our imports were not only decreased.
which is one good thing. but our ex-
ports will show an increase of approx
mately $50, 0o0, 600, which is another
Wheeling Register.
If the radical republican newspa-
pers of the country have their own way
the wishes of the extreme Mckinley re
pub1icans will be respected by the en-
actment of new high protective tariff
law. But already there are indications
that the gentlemen at Washington who
are to frame the next tariff bill are
going to have much opposition from
those whose business is already suf9i-
GENTLY protected and who do not want
to see il disturbed any more, even for an
increased protection.-Syracuse Coa-
Eier.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-07
TIE COURSE OF BUSINESS.

| A Gold Standard Crop In Chicago-Condf-i
tion Il GessanR Worse.
| Under this and similar headings tho
gold standard press from time to time
state what they judge is the condition
OF business affairs. especially since the
election. 1t need not be stated that
it consists chiefly in magnifying the
signs of improvement and in concealing
the multiplying, eliminating disasters
| which daily cover the country. Take
the business condition of Chicago an
an instance. What gold paper has in
dicated more than through its dis
patches, in which some glimpses OF
the truth could scarcely be concealed.
the widespread business ruin which
has fallen within the last six weeks
The most marked failure which Chicago
has recorded was that of the National
( Bank of Illinois, which has been ono
of the financial landmarks of Chicago
and the west. Besides this great con-
Germ, and two other banks on one day.
! there has been tremendous gold stand
ard harvest. Many firms have either
failed direct or taken that other course
known as ''going out of business"
They are all large concerns, says the
Minneapolis Penny Press, and ara
all located in the heart of the business
center of Chicago, and with the closing
of their doors there win be an army Of
employees turned out. The owners can
live ON their accumulated profits or
past prosperity but the employee who
has been living from hand to mouth
must suffer. These concerns will sim
ply dispose of their stock, discharge
their help and lock their doors.
Hard times, lack of money and gem
eral bushes stagnation" are the reasons
given for this action by the proprie-
tors of the retiring concerns. But these
are the logical fruits of the gold stand
ard. They have sown the wind of con-
tempt for the interests of the wealth.
producing masses, and they are now be-
ginning to reap the whirlwind of BUSH
ness disaster.
The condition is getting worse from
day to day. Rradstreet's and Dun's re-
views acknowledge that the business
situation is much worse than il was this
time last year. The railroads report
continual decrease in the volume OF
business, and one after another is cut
ting down it's force and curtailing eX-
penses. The number of failures is
greater by Is per cent. than in the cor
responding weeks of last year. The
American Manufacturer, Pittsburgh,
after detailed review of the discourage
ing outlook in the iron and steel in
dustry, says: 1.-THE main trouble in the
market is that expected business does
not come and new enterprises are still
being deferred"
1t is in the face Of this impending de-
struction of all business, the goldites
and the national banks are proposing
to further contract the volume of money
by retiring the greenbacks and loading
an additional burden of bonded debt
upon the people, for bonds must be is
sued 10 pay for the greenbacks. The in
exorable law of supply and demand will
further increase the value of money if
the quantity is thus decreased and
money win be correspondingly harder
to get and debts harder to pay.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-07

In his report to congress Secretary
Carlisle points out that high protective
duties are not great revenue producers
"a fact of Importance at this time,
when government expenditures are so
heavy, and on the increase. He says:
$50 long as the income of the government
from customs and internal taxes exceed
ed its expenditures, the fact that protec-
tive duties were destructive of revenue,
although clearly apparent to all who OBJ
served the practical operation of the sys-
tenn, did not attract the attention of the
public generally, but the situation has been
materially changed since 1892, and here
after it will not be possible to sacrifice rev.
enue to protection without seriously en-
barrassing the fiscal affairs OF the govern
ment, by depriving 1t of an income SUI
flcient to defray its necessary expendi-
lures
The Mckinley law did not remain in
operation long enough to produce its
logical consequences in that direction,
but nevertheless it was apparent from
the working of the law that it would
cease eventually to produce sufficient
revenue. The rates of duty were so
high as to restrict importation, and
thus limit the revenue from that source.
In order to benefit the treasury duties
must not be so high as the radical pro-
tectionists wish. for in that event there
are few imports on which to collect
Record (Ind.).
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-07
.supposIng.r

Suppose all the farmers of the United
States should somehow combine and en-
ter into an agreement to sell no wheat
for less than % cents, corn As cents,
oats Al cents, wool 30 cents for the
best grades, less the cost OF getting the
produce to Chicago market, these being
the prices in our market quotations of
January 8, 1891? What would be the
consequences? Or to completely re-
store what has been lost to agriculture
by the gold standard lunacy, suppose
the demand should be for wheat $3.50.
corn so cents, oats 81 cents. wool so
cents, mess pork % cents? These are
the figures quoted in a Chicago agricul-
tura1 paper for the third week in De-
cember, 1870. These are greenback
prices, it is true, but greenbacl<s paid
debts and taxes-Western Rural.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-07
REDEMPTION OF A PLEDGE.
How Republican Campaign Promises Ar


How Republican Campaign Promises Are
FUldned.
The most comfortable theory we have
yet seen advanced is that which has its
origin with the Carnegie Steel conn
pany. That company has issued a notice
to the effect that it viii continue TO
pay the same scale of wages during 1897
that it has paid during 1896.
The comfortable theory that goes
along with this notice is the announce
ment that the refusal of the company
to raise wages is, in itself, virtual in
crease of the wages of 1000 men on ac-
count of the reduction in the price of
products. This reminds US of the ag-
ricultural genius who tied green spec
tacles on his mule and in that way in
duced him to eat shayings. The idea
was original and unconventional, and
we have heard nothing to equal it I'M
til the publication of the Carnegie an
nouncement that refusal to increase
wages is, in factwhen regarded rightly.
virtual increase.
It is to be hoped that the men will
take the theory as kindly as the spec
tacled mule is said to have done, for it
would be sad indeed if there should be
any doubt or dubiousness in regard to
the theory which the Carnegie COM
pany presented to it's workmen as q
Christmas gift. Discomfort at this time
would be a poor return to make for the
great victory that has been won for
sound money" and projections poor
return for the great wave of prosperity
that is said to be preparing to flood the
country, having already begun its work,
if the New York newspapers are to be
believed, the day after Mr.. McKinley's
election.
Consequently, we would advise the
Carnegie men not to examine too closely
the theory that has been thrust upon
their attention, but to take it serious
ly, and go about their business feeling
that they are richer and better off than
they were before they discovered that
a decision not to reduce wages is, in
effect, an increase.
1t may now be claimed, and with ex-
cellent reason, that a reduction of
wages is no reduction at all, but mere
ly a substantial evidence that although
reduction has been made, the wages
remain precisely the same. We trust
it will be long before this logical de-
duction from the Carnegie theory is
put into actual observation-disclosures Con-
stitution.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-07
CHAPTER II.


One afternoon in early summer, three
years later, John stood at the window
of his trim, professional-looking house,
and looked out on the green garden
of the square in which the trees nodded
and rustled in the breeze and remind
ed him of Elsa.
As he stood there, moodily reviewing
the past, he saw Mrs. Ponder labor
slowly up the street, her dotted veil
pushed up on her forehead, her face
red and shiny with eXertion or excite
ment. Being admitted, she entered his
room and sat down without ceremony.
Il know l look a guy, but couldn't
wait minute" she painted. Il had to
come to tell you. O.! dear, the diamond
has been found. Poor Elsa-poor, poor,
dear, innocent lamb!"
John turned pale and grasped the
back of his chair. go on" he said,
hoarsely.'
I'm so bewildered, I don't know
where to begin. \ friend of mine came
to see me about the little upholstress
l had recommended to her. She said
she had missed things and traced them
to the woman's lodgings, and then the
place was searched, and among other
stolen things a diamond was found.
She broke down and confessed that she
had taken it, but was too frightened to
offer it for sale, and was waiting for
her husbands well-known thief-to
come out of prison and get rid of il for
her. 1t appears that when she came to
measure for the chintz-coyers for EIsa's
bedroom (dear, dear, how the poor girl
went on about them!) she saw the ring
on the dressiRg-table, and, turning it
about while was out of the room for
a minute, the diamond fell out on the
floor. She had just time to drop the set
ting into half-opened drawer when l
came in, but having, as she said, no OPP
portunity to replace the diamond, she
was tempted to keep it,"
what about the false diamond?"
asked John.
''Ah! 1 have only just discovered
that" said Mrs. Ponder, opening the
shabby bag in which she carried her
purse and handkerchief The
wretched 1hiet swore she knew nothing
about it, and that is quite likely, since
l have found this in the same drawer
where Elsa found the ring. left her
things just as they were when she went
away, thinking she might come hack
some day" She held up the brooch she
had given Elsa for birthday present
one of the bogus stones was missing.
at was tangled in an old veil-rm sure
/ don't know why Elsa wouldn't wear
it-no wonder she thought the stone
she picked up was the diamond, they're
Just as good as real" added Mrs. Pom
der, eying the brooch with admiration.
"a mere coincidencel What fools we
have beenl" said John, sayagely strid-
ing up and down in his agitation. 81
wish to heaven you had cot told me
about her father that dayl"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-07
RuNCo PROSPERITY.
A Gold Standard Organ Admits the Fall
ure Of Their ProphecY.


ure OF Their Prophecy.
The Railway Age, which took an
active part in the late election as sup
porter of Mark Hanna, and pictured
with great brilliancy of coloring the
prosperity that only awaited the re-
turns proclaiming McKinley's victory,
now publishes a summary of reports
from 200 railroad companies regarding
the effect of the election upon business.
The reports are not encouraging. To
the question: Has the railway business
picked up at all? the composite an
swer is: 1--WE are compelled to answer
no; in parts of the west and southwest it
has even been distinctly worse since
election than it was before. There has
not even been an increase in the little
local passenger travel. Here and there
are isolated cases of increased activi-
ty; but looking at the country as
whole, there has been no improvement
yet, either in travel or traffic"
After that confession, the Cleveland
Recorder declares, it is not reassuring
to be told by these railroads that there
have been many increases of shop
forces, and that plans were made for a
reduction of force in case of Bryan's
election. Those little election lodges,
arbitrarily worked for effect, are no
longer interesting. Neither is there any
cause for enthusiasm in the prophecy
universally made by the companies. of
revival in the near future which will
be permanent. The prophetic instinct
of railroad managers as to business re-
vivaIs has not proved strong enough
In the past few months to warrant con-
fidence in it for the future.-Illinois
State Register.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-07

The folly of the endless chain" Is q
theme with the Times-Herald. It de-
clares that the whole mischief comes
from the law which compels the secre-
tary of the treasury to reissue the notes
as fast as redeemed. The whole mis-
chief comes from the damnable per-
version and violation of the law. The law
makes the notes redeemable in "coin."
Pay them in gold or silver. which is
"coin," and the whole question would
be solved. Did anybody ever hear of
trouble about the greenbaclxs until Fos-
ter, in the interest of the gold sharks,
interpreted ''coin" to mean gold?-
Minneapolis Penny Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-07
A FALSE ALARM.
The Republican Blur at an international

The Republican Blur at an International
Monetary Conference.
Pursuant to their recent campaign Of
buncombe, hypocrisy and false pre-
tense, the republicans are getting ready
to give their international monetary
agreement bluff a send-of at an early
day. Plunger Wolcott, who represents
the state of Colorado in the United
States senate, has been chosen as master
OF ceremonies. He has his set of reso-
buttons oiled and creased and will pre-
sent them to the senate as soon as the
holiday recess Is over.
1t is said the resolutions represent
the hard work of a committee of five
senator's friendly to silver, but not
boilers, who were appointed some time
ago for this special purpose by the re-
publican senatorial caucus. While VOL
colt has his international agreement
resolutions on the silver question ready,
as he says, he is not prepared to go into
particulars or to outline how it is pro-
posed to bring it about. All that the
senator in charge of this international
agreement humbuggery is willing to
divulge is that the president of the
gress to invite certain European
powers TO call conference to see if
they cannot arrive at some plan by
which silver can be minted and circu-
lated by the principal commercial ma
tions as freely and unrestrictedly as
gold is, and fixing the ratio between the
two metals.
The senator from Colorado knows,
as do all his colleagues in both houses
OF congress, that this international
agreement talk is the same old bum
combe with which the republican lead
ers and their employing trusts and cor
porations have been beguiling the
voters for the past 20 years. It is nearly
that long ago since the first of these in
ternational monetary conferences was
held. Four others have been held since,
and we are further away from res
toration of silver to it's old-time stabili-
ty and equality as money as we were
then.
If monetary conference is called by
President Mckinley there is no reason
able hope that it will effect any more
substantial benefit for bimetaliism than
its predecessors did. All such a meeting
can do that may prove beneficial to the
country will be the additional proof it
will give the American people that the
democratic party was right when it
made its magnificent fight for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at the
prevailing ratio, independent of the ac-
ton of any other nation. This bene-
fetal effect will be still further expand
ed when hundreds of thousands of re-
publicans in the middle western and
western states who were cajoled into
staying with their party last fall with
the old siren song of an international
monetary agreement will have their
eyes opened by the failure by Senator
Wolcott's international conference to
achieve the emancipation of silver, and
will as consequence vote with the dem
ocrats in favor of bimetallism at the
next election.-Kansas City Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-07
Place Products on the Free List.

Hurtful monopoly is usually gained
in one of two ways: Either by govern
ment favor in the form of legislative adj
vantages, or by railroad discrimination
in the form of special rates or rebates.
Usually both advantages are enjoyed.
If the states visited severe penalties
upon railroads guilty Of discrimina-
tons and upon corporations and indi-
viduals entering into combinations to
regulate production or prices, the trusts
and monopolies would be badly Grip
pied. The monopoly combinations
could be almost weeded out of the
states by the enforcement of the prin-
cipIes of common law. Let congress,
in addition to making laws to prevent
the operation of trusts within the
scope of federal authority, adopt the
rule that every article handled by
trust or combination shall be placed on
the free list and the corner stone OF
monopoly will be knocked out. II the
republicans are sincere in their pro-
fession of desire to smash the trusts,
here is an opening.-St. Louis Re
public.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-07
Retiring the Csreenbacka.

IF we had free coinage there would be
aone of this stumbling about in the
dark, about retiring the greenbaclxs.
The latter could go, and in their place
come big, round silver dollars. And
why not now? Coin what silver we have.
and get more. But If there was any GER
tainty of this being you would hear
these calls for retirement of greenbacks
hushed into an instant stiffness. It
would be the same IL the government
would simply execute the law and pay
'-coin" (gold and silver) for them
Minneapolis Penny Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-07
Faahlon Note,

A fashion paper says that 'in New
York the men are wearing overcoata
much longer than usual this year."
In Chicago we are wearing all cloth
ing much longer than usual.-C Chicago
Dispatch.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-07

No banks appeared to have feiled
Christmas. but the fact that they were
closed may have something to do with
this result.-Philadelphia Item.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-07
r. M. .sysprates,.,,

1t approaches two months since pros
perity was to burst on us all. How do
You like the burst? - Minneapolis
Pc..y Prese.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-07
Rather Loud the Report, Too.

The daily report-another bank gone
for the gold standard. - Minneapolis
Penny Press.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-02-13
VESUVlUS ARRIVES
But Fails 10 Attempt a Run of the Block
ade--Sea Very Rough
Others Expected.

Charleston, s. c., Feb. 12.-The battle
vius arrived off Charleston bar~last night.
Contrary to all expectations, the cruiser
made no effort at all to come in the har-
Dor or run the blockade. She came to
anchor near the other ships of the squad
ron, and is still lying there. The Indiana
had an uneventful trip down the coast.
The Newark and Massachusetts are
hourly expected to join the fleet. 1t Is
now believed that the actual attempt to
run the blockade will be postponed until
all of the fleet are here, though no official
information whatever on this subject is
obtainable. 1t was so rough and foggy
outside last night that little work could
be done by the ships, and SO strong sea
is running off the bar that gun practice
of the fleet is being materially interfered
with.
This afternoon the cruiser Marble
head came up to the city and anchored
off the battery. She has received orders
to proceed to Jacksonville Monday, and
it is understood that she will go from
there to Mobile soon. Little or nothing
was done by the warships today. The
Vesuyius was anchored near the rest or
the vessels and gave no intimation OF an
attempt to run the blockade. The dyna-
mite cruiser, in fact. was apparently hay-
ing an uncomfortable time in the heavy
sea that was running. She was rolling
and plunging about in manner that
rendered footing on her deck insecure to
landsmen. The Amphitrite was coaled
during the day, but she will not reJoln
the fleet until tomorrow.