Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-02-02
IRONTON. MO. THU 2. FEBRUARY 2.

nooeg. and authorizes The banks Il
issue circulating notes Without limit
] Ii further provides that all silFer dol
lars shall be redeenable n gold Sii
yer certificates viii De permitted Il
continue in circulation fer q lime. u
be redeemed in silver dollars This j.
a uere blind, as the bill itself reduce.
SILVER TO token money On level with
paper.
| The hrss section of the bill provides
as follows
That The standard unit Of value shall
as now be the dollar, and consist Of
25.s grsios Of gold. nine-tenths 6ne,
or .. p grains Of pure gold. being the
one-tenth part Of the eagle
Section provides-
That all obligations of the United
States for the payment of money now
! existing or hereafter 10 be entered in
10 shall. unless otherwise expressly
stipulated, be deemed and held 10 be
payable in gold coin of the United
States. as defined in The standard
aforesaid
The fourth section provides for the
redemption of silver dollars in gole.
thus completing the destruction OF sil-
yer Is g money metal The bill goes
further and authorizes the creation OF
division Of the Treasury Department
10 be known as The division of Issue
and redemption and so arraoges mat
tiers that the burden Of maintaiuing q
gold reserve for the redemption of
bank no1es shall be throEn upon the
United States Treasury. 1t further
provides for the continuous sale of
bonds by the government 10 procure
gold to carry out the provisions of the
bill
Jesse James and his band of nnr-
derers and train robbers never believed
that the people liked TO be murdered
or robbed; therefore they adopted
means to compel their victims 10 de-
liver up their money They also
realize tha4 there Eas some danger con-
nected with their enterprise. that of
holding up people and compelling
them 10 disgorge- But the piraiieal
band that Is demanding the passage of
this bill not only propose 10 plumber
and drive more people 10 death through
starvation and suicide each year than
all the train robbers of the world could
DO in q century, but they expect that
the people who are TO be plundered
and murdered will dignity The work
and give the criminals immunity in ad-
vance by legalizing their operations
through 8 federal staiote-
To this class. OF when Secretary
Gage Is the type, representative in the
administration aud spokesman before
this committee, there Is 10 such thing
as presnming too much upon the ig-i
norance Of the people aud their sla-
vishness 10 party The proposed
measure could not have received twen-
ty votes in ihe cdh hEeniion that nom
mated President Mckinley II during
the campaign he had made known To-
the American people thai he would ap-
point Secretary OF the Treasury whoI
would favor such q measure. when the
votes we're counted be would hardly
be able 10 discover that he was 3 can
6idate before the people
Every vote that can be counted upon.
in either branch of Congress. for this
infamous measure can be counted upon
to vote fer the creation of a large
standing army. The men who want
laws enacted to enable them to rob
and plumber The people. naturally want
soldiers to protect them in possession
Of their plunder- Those who favor
laws 10 reduce the masses of our peo-
pie to starvation in order that they
may increase their own gain, realize
the necessity for soldiers 10 maintain
the peace and compel the starving
populaee to respect the rights of prop
erty.
None OF the other nations that have
closed their migts to silver has gone
so far as Is proposed in this bill
Should this measure become Law and
other nations follow in its wake, The
fall in prices that must ensae during
the next twenty years viii be far great
er than any fall that has heretofore
taken place. and the concentration Of
The wealth Of the world into the hands
Of the few will go on al an accelerated
pace until there remain only two
classes, 8 small class inordinary rich, !