Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-14
TRurn AND us ENEMlEs-
How 9 Good Cause Is Sometimes Preiu
diced by Well Meaning Persons.

tHO n AMI lis ENEMIES
How . Good Cause Is Sometimes Preiu-
diced by Well Meaning Persons.
There are three distinct sorts of men
in this country-those who have the
truth, but who employ every agency at
their command to suppress it; those
who have it not, but who work like
Troians against it; and those who have
it and who force it ON the willing con-
science of the nation.
In the first sort belong the men who
constitute the money power of the coun-
try. They know the truth about the
science of money; they know that the
value of each dollar is governed by the
number of dollars in existence: they
know, therefore, that an increase by
the free coinage of gold and silver will
make their dollars worth less. They
know that as each dollar increases in
value they have an increasing command
of all forms of property and OF labor,
and that the laborer and producer of
wealth on the other hand have con-
stantly lessening command of money.
They know they can with the same num-
Der of dollars buy more and more OF
commodities, or in other words, more OF
the productive energy of the people,
and that the people must give more and
more of their productive energy for
given number of dollars; so that as Nc
kinley once said, ''the dollar becomes
the master and everything else its
servant" or, to state the same thing
more clearly, the owners of the dollars
become the masters and the people be-
come their servants. Therefore, they
suppress these truths and in their stead
they tell the people that the value of
the dollars depend not on the number of
dollars, but on their quality, their
''soundness," and their ability to cir
culate all over the world" They not
only suppress the truth but they cir
culate doctrines that they know to be
false.
In the second sort belong the honest,
thrifty and Woodworking merchant
and manufacturing class, who are gen.
orally embraced in the general term
business men. They are too busy to
read books; they are not students of
political economy; they will honestly
tell you that they never made study
is largely confined to the newspapers
and if they chance to drift away from
their family newspaper it is to find rest
of mind and relief from business cares
in a novel. They strive to make an hon
est living and accumulate competency
if it can be done honestly, but they do
not play the game the so-called "finan-
cial experts" engage in-the cornering
and control of the money which is the
life blood of commerce. They let these
same financial experts think for them
however, and accept their conclusions.
They thus become the bitterest enemies
Of truth and in the honest conviction
that they are on the right, the only hon.
est side, they coeree employees by out
lining what they honestly believe will
be disastrous consequences if one OPP
posed to their view is elected to Office.
They really believe they work boon to
labor and resting on this conviction
are unable to see that they have COM
mitted wrong; they believe the end
justifies the means. Thus the greatest
obstacle in the way of truth is the
champion of error who honestly thinks
he is right. Not being acquainted with
principles one finds it difficult to argue
with him; he deals in concrete PROPOSE
tons and is all but immovable.
In the third class belong the students
OF political economy who know all
that the first class know, but who, in
contradistinction to them strive to sup
press error and spread the truth. These
men are commonly called reformers by
the historian and cranks by their con-
temporaries. The highest aim of this
third sort is the benefit, not of any class
but of humanity; not the benefit of the
men who can take care of themselves,
be the times ever so hard, but that of
the great masses of the common people,
vino are ever the victims of oppression
and wrong. In this class belong the
signers of the declaration of independ-
ence and the patriots of the revolution;
such men as Garrison, Phillips, Doug
lass, Seward and Lincoln; and in the
present campaign such men as Teller,
Towne, Bryan and thousands of others
who will ever be found advocating the
cause of the common people.-Min-