Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-21
AMERICA AHEAD.
Our Country Leads ALI Nations in the
Great Work of Financial
Liberation.

Temerity and delay are the enemies
Of all reform. Nations that are entire
ly ruled by the rich men and politicians
cannot be relied upon to lead in the
great work of financial liberation.
Anent this principle the English say:
1.-THE guinea skulks and the penny
fights" France and some other nations
believe in the bimetallic basis for their
financial systems, but it is certain that
France will never take the lead in the
financial war of liberation. In one of
the great international conferences on
the silver question NJ. Say, the French
representative, said: France has
adopted a waiting policy" Temerity
and delay are characteristic of all of
the acts of that nation so far as the
silver question is concerned. The rea-
son is that France is ruled by few
men, the people really coming in for
a very small share of influence with
the rulers. Thus, during the confer
ence of 1878 the position of the gov
eminent was dictated by one or two
men in high power, in spite of the ex
pressed wishes of the great masses of
the people. France will never move
first in the procession. When asked
what she is doing for the restoration
of silver, she simply points to the past
and says: ''See what / have done. For
more than 20 years there was voice
that went forth from the banks of the
Seine crying to the whole world to
bring their gold and silver and France
would exchange them always at the
ratio of fifteen and one-half to one.
For more than 20 years France kept
the ratio of the world steady" But the
past France dares not repeat. So far as
finance is concerned she is now living
on her glorious past. The fingers of the
Rothschilds have deprived her of cour-
age and of action. She is willing to
advance, but dares not lead. Her Ma
poleonic spirit has departed. There the
guinea rules and the penny is in prison.
Only in land where the penny rules
and the guinea obeys is there hope for
the situation. The people are not
afraid, and they can be trusted. They
took up the Cuban problem and did
not hesitate to solve it by the heroic
method. The rich and the politicians.
held back, but the people pushed them
on. Had our government been as far
from the people as that of France we
would not now be waging war in the
interest of humanity. We know how
persistently some of the great lights
predicted that the first victories would
be Spanish, but the people said: eve
will see" Because the people rule in
this nation is why America must and
will be the financial liberator of the
world. We will save many lives by the
war for a free Cuba. BY it we will con-
fer happiness on peoples in the eastern
and the western seas, and the good
fruits of this war will appear through
a hundred generations. But America
will save more lives and confer more
happiness when she leads the battle
line for the financial emancipation of
the world. The fruits of that war will
be to all peoples and to all times.
In three months of war with Spain
this nation has taken a great step for
ward. We are looming up marvelously
to the vision of the foreign diplomats.
The results have sprung from our latent
muscle and mind. The same forces
are present to be developed along the
line of commercial supremacy and Of
financial independence. But the lead
ers in the government will hold back
till they are pushed into action by the
people.