Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-05
Public Opinion on Iowa Subjects as
Reflected IL tho Iowa News.
papera
The News Of Iowa From Hundred
OF Different Towns and Com.
munities.


munities.
y DUBUQUE THE SECOND CITY.
dubuque Timesl
The official announcement from
Washington that Sioux City,s popula-
ton is .33,11l and Davenport's 35254
gives Dubuque grip on second place
among the. cities of Iowa. The official
returnsswill show the population OF this
city to be Sc, 1884.
The population OF these cities in 1890.
according to the federal census, was as
follows:
Sioux City ). 80. 8. !. !. ). 81 ,sO6
DUBUQUE ..ss.. ..I..... 30 .3l1
80. ..26Si2s
Their population according to the
state census OF 1896 was as follows:
DUBUQUE $1,000. $50. .40,574
"a ven ....So.VlU
sioux Cit ~. 49,. ....2I,3ll
For the reason that the Sioux City
census was stuffed in 1890 and the Du-
buque census in 1896. the proper COM
parison in the case OF Sioux City should
be With the state census OF 1895 and in
the case OF Dubuque with the federal
census OF 1890.
BY these comparisons we find that
4 Dubuque has gained about 5000. or
about 90 per cent, in ten years. Daven-
port 1882. or about 81 per cent, during
the same period, and Sioux City $40, or
over q per cent in five years.
There is glory enough for all Of US
In these figures. While Sioux City and
the progress they have made, Dubuque
not only remains the second city OF the
state but shows a substantial growth
in the past decade without having in
the meantime acquired any important
new industries. The circumstances In
dictate the city's commercial strength
This has enabled 1T to increasegits trade
In the face OF Chicago competition, the
Invasion of Dubuque territory by new
railroad tines and the building up of
jobbing towns in the interior. A new
railroad connecting Dubuque with Chi
icago g. Northwestern's system In Iowa
is the thing now required to insure an
increased ratio Of growth in the next
decade.
GOLD "A DEPRECIATING STAND
ARD.
[Des Moines Leader.l
There is no sign Of ebb in the golden
flood pouring from the Cripple Greek
mines For the eight months ending
September 4 the output was more than
81 5 ,000, 900: for the corresponding months
OF last year the output Was $10,000,O00.
"a similar Increase in production iss re-
ported from. ther gold fields. The prod
suct for 1900 IL to exceed that of 1893, de-
spite the Boer war. Soon the Transvaa1
mines are to be reopened. and will add
their $10O.c00.000 per year to the supply.
1t will not be surprising soon to hear
that gold is an unsound money basis
because depreciating in value. There is
little reason to doubt that gold Will de-
Ipreciate. altho probaly not to any great
Fly injurious extent,&nor faster than the
industry can accommodate itself to the
change
In 1896 Mr. Bryan, in his speech at
Newton. said:
IF We have the gold standard. prices
are as certain to fall as the stone which
10 thrown into the air.
In one OF his speeches at Minneapolis
Mr.. Bryan said:
The gold standard means dearer
money: dearer money means cheaper
property; cheaper property means hard
ertimes: harder times means more peo-
pie out of work: more people out OF
work means more people destitute:
more people destitute means more peo-
pie desperate. and more people desper-
ate means more crime.
The gradual steps by which Mr.. Bry-
an led his hearers to the conclusion that
the gold standard was the parent, as
well as the offspring ofscrime was much
admired at the time and declared to be
"a cliEching argument" Such stuff
fooled many people then and when Mr..
Bryan this year, on other matters, In
jduiges in the same crescendo sort OF
prophecy doubtless there will be hun
9dreds OF supplemented persons who
will declare again that Mr.. Bryanis un-
ansySera bic.
4 But Mr.. Bryan himself no longer de-
MEG that things have turned out oth-l
erwise than he predicted. The law that
he laid down has not worked as inva-
riably az the Newtonian one that the
stone thrown into the air falls to the
earth. Mr.. Bryan has bundle of ex-
scusas which he sometimes opens, but
they are not satisfactory. That he him
self appreciates their inadequateness Is
shown by his manifest indIsposition to
discuss his 1896 utterances He plainly
wants people to forget.
The truth is. and this was apparent
In 1896, there is more danger OF the gold
standard becoming an unsound stan-.
dard by depreciation than by appreci-55
alton. The gold product OF the world
alone is now so per cent more than was
the combined gold and silver product
twenty years ago Gold Is responsive
to the law Of supply and demanl like
every other commodity, and with 30
large an Increase in the supply, 1t is not
unnatural to expect, thru the operation
OF The quantitative law of money, that
we are entering on a period of advanc-3
ing prices. There is much evidence in
support Of this view The dollar, in
purchasing power, and that IL the prin-8
cipal thing connected with the dollar.
is likely to become cheaper. Unless
wages shalt increase CORRESPONDENCE
every one working for stipend will be
injured. 1t liz perfectly plain now, IL
the world had not thrown silver over.
board. and thur lightened the cargo. by
this time the wage working masses the
world over would be going thru the.
ferrihle exneriencaa which sank Elirnnns