Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-10-06
VERY MUCH ALIVE.



repeated cry of the magpies and chat
terboxes of the goldbug party, says
E. e. Ewing, in the Silver Knight
Waterman. Wait and see. The silver
men are intelligent thinkers. They
have read and studied the silver ques-
ton and understand the magnitude
and influence the free coinage of silver
would have for the good of the busi-
ness of the country. They are not
standing around in groups talking,
neither are the gold or the tariff adyo-
Gates found in that position. The
money question is to be more the issue
in the future than ever in the past. In
fact, there is no other prominent ques-
ton before the American people to-
day on which party lines are so clearly
drawn, and silver mus ccupy thefore
front of the question in opposition to
the gold craze. The gold craze is as
much of craze to-day as the worship
of Baal had become among the Jews
when Elijah Knocked the idols priests,
telling them to call louder, that maybe
he was asleep or on journey. But
their frantic screams and rending of
garments did not bring rain or fire
down from Heaven to kindle wood un-
der the burnt offering; and neither
do the promises of prosperity by the
priest of mammon, Sound money" and
gold standard bring prosperity. Their
gold idol like Baal must be asleep or
on a journey and hears not, however
much the worshipers of the calf rend
their garments and cry "we are on the
edge of prosperity. The greatest
boom is about to start ever known;
silver is deadi"
The new relations which the war
with Spain has created in the east and
the extension of our power and gov
eminent over the most important
islands of the West Indies call for
more money, and they call loudly for
more silver money than for any other
kind. As our territory and business
expands our money must be increased
to supply that business with the
sinews of trade, and silver of all other
moneys is the money of the Asiatic
people. With the silver which our
mines produce coined into American
money we can control almost the en-
tire trade of the east in a short time
and force the whole Of Europe to adopt
our money policy in self-preservation
of their foreign trade
Cuba and Puerto Rico will have to
be supplied with American money. As
for Cuba becoming an independent ma
ton with an army and navy to support
is the veriest moonshine. The island
will be filled with American capital
and dominated by American enter
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ton of strong nation that will as
sumo the expense of national govern
ment, and guarantee domestic tran
quillity, free and stable government
and defense against imposition by
strong nations of Europe. It is pos
sible that Cuba may monkey awhile
at independent government, but it is
hardly probable.
With Manila and the island on which it
Is located, and the principal city, island
and seaport of the Ladrone group in
our possession the whole of these
islands is bound to be dominated by
American influence, and American
money to control the trade will be as
necessary as the American navy and
garrisons to protect the inhabitants,
American institutions. And for the
fulfillment of these beneficient objects
American silver dollars are fully as nee
essary as the protecting angels of
American law and the United States
navy.
American silver is destined to be-
come the greatest power in the old
east that has ever been exercised in
the west. twill work fructifying and
rejuyenating influence greater than
British cannon and western trade has
ever exerted. Even the star of en-
pire is fighting against the gold stand
ard. No nation of people are bene-
flied by it except the Jew bankers of
Great Britain and their relatives who
manage the gold banks in the capitals
of this continent. The rank and file of
the people of every nation and cline
under the sun are afflicted by the gold
standard, and only the few who own
bonds and debts have an interest in
keeping up the gold standard, and
they because that monetary policy
makes all property, labor and men
cheap and money dear.
American influence, American silver
and American institutions must go
hand in hand into the old east to call
the dust covered dead from the tomb
into which gold and tyranny laid them
thousands of years ago, and join bone
20 bone, as it were, breathe life into
the dead, and change the groans of
despair into a hymn of hope and re-
ioicing.
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