Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-11

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What He Is Talking About.
Mr.. Henry Carey Baird, speaking OF
an article in Harper's Weekly, written
BY Mr. Carl Schurz on the subject.
'1Delusions of Bimetallisms,r says Mr..
Schurz is not competent to speak upon
the subject because the article ignores
the relations of man to his fellow man
and the part which money plays for his
necessary association.
Mr.. Schurz says: ''Silver advocates
talk with ten people they happen to
meet, nine of whom agree that silver
and gold, if made 10 circulate together,
increasing the money volume about
double, would be good thing. But
what would they reply" he asks,
whether they think it possible, by
mere legal enactment or by internal
tional agreement, to raise She market
price of silver-which is now 65 cents
an ounce-to $1.29 an ounce, so as to
make silver more acceptable at the
ratio of sixteen to one; or whether they
think that any other ratio can be agreed
upon; and which, if agreed upon, would
bring about a practicable double stand
ard of values; or whether they think
that any of the great commercial ma
tons which are carrying OH their busi-
ness successfully on a gold standard
will be inclined to abandon that stand
ard 30 the end of making so reckless
an experiment? Confronted by such
practical questions" continues Mr.
Schurz, ''the majority nine (above al
luded toy will instantly evaporate."
That is about the height of Mr..
Schurz' argument. And its bare pres
entation proves what Mr.. Baird said,
that Mr.. Schurz is incompetent to talk
upon his subject.
His questions are almost too childish
to answer here, because any man who
says that it is question whether in
ternational agreement would restore
the price of silver to its old par figure
of $1.29, would be laughed at by the
veriest gold monger in Wall or Lombard
streets as being too silly for considers
ton.
Whether commercial nations now on
gold basis are willing to make the
coinage of silver free, merely because
they are now on gold basis, has lit
tie or nothing to do with the question.
Nations are frequently willing to do
many things that are opposed 10 the
business welfare of large part of their
citizens when some other portion can
make plumber thereby.
Like most advocates in behalf Of
usurers, Mr.. Schurz gives large space
to falsities about the prosperity of the
masses to-day compared with 80 or so
years ago. He says: while it is true
that much misery exists, it is not true
that it is at present of exceptional exc
tent, or that CT late years it has been
growing worse"
There were no tramps in this country
30 or so years ago, Mr.. Schurz. Now
they are numbered by the million.
Dun's Revicw--which merely voices
what everybody knows says that at
no period in history has the general
run of prices of principal commodities
been at so low figure as they are to-
day. Which that reporter states is
due to hard times, and the inability of
producers to sell.
In the face of facts of this kind,
which may be numbered by the mill
lion, Mr.. Schurz has the nerve to get
up and say times IRE better than ever,
and that this is due to the gold standard.
But then, all usurers do precisely this
same thing. Unless they deliberately
falsify plain everyday facts, they are
unable to make out any kind of case.
Our gold bug usurer organs are fitted
with it every day.-Philadelphia Item.