Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-01-19
STILL A LIVELY CORPSE.
Bimetallism Keeps ON Resurrectins
Wont Stay Planted When
It's Safely Buried.

with bimetallism when it comes to us
! ing again. How often it has been laid
out in cold death; how often the coffin
lid has been screwed on good and tight;
how often it has been consigned to the
grave by willing hands; how often it
has reappeared suddenly and unexpect-
eddy full of lusty life to the astonished
gaze of its would be murderers 81 scar
their starting eyeballs-all this pass
eth my mathematical powers to tell.
On the 9th of November every gold
bug paper in the land declared that at
last the deed was done, the job COM
pleted, the country saved! We had
heard the last of the silver craze, The
lunatics were knocked out for keeps;
the senate was safe for ten years; the
single gold standard was fastered on
the country forever and day.
That was the fattering JUNCTION which
the propagandists of the English sys-
tenn of finance on this continent laid
to their palpitating hearts.
Gen. Grosvenor, in a burst of conf
dence and with prophetic ken, strok-
ing his venerable beard, his eye IN fine
frenzy rolling, declared that we would
now have whole generation of repub-
lican presidents-presuma from
Ohio.
So with wassail bout and popping of
corks and the uproarious strains of
music, and much enthusiastic if maud
lin oratory, the goldites celebrated the
wake over the corpse of bimeta!lism,
They said to each other gleefully. dia-
bolically, ghoulishly: ITS dead this
time, good and dead, deader'n a smelt,
deader'n a doornail, beaded than-the
deuce! What is that awful noise ?''
And it was to them an awful notes.-the
sound of bimetallism bursting frcm the
tomb, with Hon. William E. Chandler,
of New Hampshire, Puritan Statesman,
republican senator. in the role Of chief
resurrectionist, Maebeth's terror
wasn't a circumstance to theirs.
The unanimity, alacrity and bitter
ness with which they viii damn Chand-
Ter would eclipse the sulphurous glory
of ''our army in Flanders If what
they are saying about Chandler could be
taken down geographically it would
make rare and racy reading, but would
be excluded from the mails uncere mont
ously on account of its profanity and
obscenity. They may 'cuss" ali they
please. but the fact remains that the
New England senator has started
brand new debate on bimetallism
which will be conducted at every fire.
side in the land. Now, if some defeated
democratic or populistic candidate for
congress had written an elaborate in
terview in favor of bimetallism the
goldbug press with one accord would
have denounced it as driveling .diocy
but they can't so fippantly dismiss the
well-considered words of New Hamp-
shire's senior senator. He halls from
the east, the habitat of wise mel. He
is one of the high priests in the tenn
pie of republicanism. That he il mis-
chievous as a monkey may be admit
ted, but that he is smart as a whip is
known of all men; that he is ambitious
as Julius Caesar is suspected by many,
and that he aspires to the presidency is
believed by some. His post election in
teryiew, portion of which / quote be-
low. has set many people hereabout to
using their thinkers as they never used
them before. for Chandler's shrewd-
ness and dexterity at floating with the
tide have become proverbial.
Il am more convinced than ever" he
said, that the gold standard is not to
be fastened upon the world. l aclnowl- |
edge that just now it looks as if the |
recognition of silver was far postponed. |
but this is because we happen to be in |
a position of a creditor nation. We |
have exported 81 ,000, 200, 900 worth of |
produce more than we have imported |
and while we have not received all the |
difference in gold, it has come II us in |
various other forms. and we have felt |
no strain. Suppose, however, that the |
tide had been running the other way, |
and we had been compelled to pay out |
this vast sum. No one would then have |
that the silver question was
dead. No." said the senator emphati- |
cally. sit is not dead, and while the |
fight may last for 25 years, itswiil con-
tinue to be fought. With England face |
TO face with the Indian problem, and |
with her failure to borrow the gold |
with which to supply currency for In
dia, the question is still very much |
alive
You still believe, then, in the posi- |
bility Of international bimetallism ?"
ITO such an extent" replied Mr.. |
Chandler, that if 1 were President Nc |
INinley l would appoint another COM
picking out active and earnest |
men like Charles A. Towne, for in
stance, men who would endeavor to Sc
cure a favorable result, and would no.
lily Great Britain and France of my
action / would not send the commits
sioners abroad at once, but would wait
Tor them to be invited. In my opinion,
Great Britain would soon request their
presence. ard cooperation might also
De expected from France, if that coun-
ny had the lime IN the midst of in
ernaI troubles to consider financial
matters II might be necessary to aban-
lon the present ratio of sixteen to one
nd substitute twenty 10 one, but up
n such compromise 7 believe interna-
iona1 bimetallism could be secured"
But would you go so far IS to advo-
ate the free coinage of silver by the
-nifed States without regard 20 other
nations -
'-If by 1900" said Senator Chandler
nothing had been accomplished N the
Erection of international bimefa llism.
am almost willing now to say that
would advocate independent coinage by
he United States. I wonld not how
yer. be willing to leave the republican
,arty on such an issue. bal / should try
o convince my republican friends that
Ueh course was the proper one to i,
,ursue''