Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-02
Republican Cur1ositles.


Curiosity Shop" was nowhere for cur
iosity in comparison with the modern
republican party. In paper, the
Herald and TrabHNe, published in
Washington Co., Tenn, the old home
of your correspondent. we find few
curiosities, among which are the fol-
lowing. Speaking of their congress
man from the 1st district, this republi-
can expositor says. there is ''no diver
gence between the President and Mr..
Brownlow in any material sense. Mr..
Brownlow is unalterably opposed to
the civil service fraud" Well. if he
and McHanna agree there, then Nc
Hanna violates the St. Louis. platform
on which he was elected, and thus at
last smashes the only remaining plank
not from the first already smashed.
Again, another curiosity. ''Mr.
Brownlow is opposed to the retirement
of the greenbacks." Good; but Nc
Hanna and Lyman J. Gage, the big
bosses of the G. o. p. will break Mr..
Brownlow's back for that. Because
they" the greenbacks), ''are as good
as gold and their retirement would
make money scarce and dear.''!! Mer-
cy on US! Here is a Popocrat in the
person of Mr.. Brownlow, and the Ten
nessee niger voter, who has studied
this financial question to the bottom
rock, and who covered with wisdom a
foot thick, nominated and elected Mr..
McHanna and, incidentally, Mr.. Brown
low also, on gold standard platform,
never knew it! o ye gods! Unmask
this Popocrat with all possible dispatch,
and save the country before it is ever
lastingly too late. Greenbacks as good
as gold! And money, which is not a
creature of law, get cheap or get dear?
Perish the thought! How can that
change In value that possesses an in
trinsic value?
Again. Speaking of the Spanish
war, the II. d T. says: eff we had free
silver our preparations for the war
would have been Indefinitely post
poned." All! is that SO? But if green
back is as good as gold why could not
free silver also be as good as gold?
Surely not on account of its abundance,
for there is undoubtedly more paper to
print greenbacks than silver to coin
dollars. We have had several big wars,
with free silver as money, and never
did have one without it, and it is curl
Gus why we could not have this one
with it.
Skipping over scores of yarns for a
column or two, as numerous as printers
ink can make them, we light upon the
following beautiful curiosity. The
II. d; T. says, in this same issue, May
IS, that Secretary Gage had plenty of
when he entered upon his du
ties as Secretary of the Treasury, to
provide the munitions of war. If that
is true, then it is strangely curious that
this self-same Gage would for his very
first act, bring in bill to bond the
government for the sale of $500, 900, 900
worth of bonds!! Supreme curisity.
Plenty OF money from Cleveland's bond
sales, and still wants more bonds sold, |
and that, too, on top of that divinely in
spired Dingley bill, which. according
to II. d T. is causing money to flow in
to the treasury, like bombast from the
faclle pen of the editor, but which bill,
according to facts, created a bigger
deficit in eight and one-half months
than the despised Wilson bill was able
to do in two whole years! Splendid
There are many curiosities yet, but
one arises in our mind, and we hope
the Gladstonean brain of the able edi-
tor will solve it. 1t is this: How is
the government to strengthen its credit
by running in debt? A man weakens
and lowers and finally ruins his credit
by going into debt. No one likes to
credit man who is forever borrowing. |
Does a different rule apply to nation?
The men and also the governments
that come within the range of our
knowledge, that possess the best credit
are those that do not borrow.
ROSELLE.