Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12
MORE REORGANIZATION.
Perhaps That Is h This Country
iced to Start Up Its Idle
Industries.

In these gold standard times ka che
United States when under the benign
reign of Hanna and Mckinley the
trusts have full swing and are shut
| ting up industries all over the land
and throwing workingmen and en-
ployes of all kinds out of employment,
it is extremely a~ggravating to find
such dispatches as the following from
the City of Mexico:
statistics showing great gains in
Mexico trade and e have been
published. In Is years the gold value
of imports has risen from s23, 250. GOO
annually to $51 600 900. The exports,
which are reckoned on a silver basis,
have risen from $40, 725, 900 to $14S.-
000, 0G0. The stamp increased
from $4,774,OO0 to 1928, ESQ, 900. The to-
tai federal revenue has risen from
S37. 621.0 Geo to $60.275,O 900. The number
of pieces of postal matter has in
creased from 100000 to 111,452.0G0.
The federal telegraph lines Is years
ago were %. 693 kilometers in extent,
| and now number 70,103 kilometers.
The railway lines have increased
from a total extent of SOS kilometers
! to 1851, and the construction of new
lines is actively progressing. The num-
Der of ships and steamers entering
federal ports has increased from 1889
to $500. The number of railroad pas
! sengers annually ira sported has risen
from .075,0 COO to 3,GCo, Coo. The treasury
department now meets every bill as
soon as due and the revenues are
steadily increasing.
"Boston parties are looking over the
field for the introduction of hoe man
ufacturing on the American plan and
establishing tanneries.'
Mexico. as a nation, is abhorred by
ali goldites for its free silver insan-
ity'' and wici,edness. 1t is. therefore,
as we have said. aggravating to find
that the people there are nc going to
the "demnition bow-wows'' by the
most rapid route. According to all the
rules of goldite philosophy the bust
ness of Mexico ought TO be in a most
deplorab1e condition. But instead of
hat we find that even Boston goldite
capitalists are looking with longing
eyes at the free silver prosperity that
prevails across the Rio Grande. and
are preparing to establish business
enterprises there! Is net this a con-
fession of absolute idiocy on their
part, with d vengeance? Are they
going to throw their wealth into the
free silver vortex and rave it "MeXi-
canized,' when the gold standard has
just been firmly fixed in the saddle
here? Why not locate their shoe fac
tories and tanneries in gold standard
Illinois? Here in Springfield, under
the showers of blessings of that
standard. we have the rolling mill, the
furniture factory and other plants
suitable for tanneries and shoe fac
tories, that are closed up. and that
can be bought for a song. There is Ia
Dor galore lying around loose that
would like to have steady employment
ct low wages. Why do MOI these Bos-
ton moneyed men look favorably at
the Illinois field? But, as they don't,
why o "Mexicanize' Illinois a lit
Gle? Perhaps "Mexicanization" is
what we need here to start up our
idle industries and attract capital.
Prosperity under free silver seems to
be Astounding. Give us some Of that
Discrimination. We need it badly
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