Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-10-07
The GlObe.Democrat.,and Inn
migration.

In C0lS COuneCtiOus1 CauuOt TcIIdlu
from noticing the extraordinary state
ments persistently made by the leading
organ of the Radical party in this city
to the effect that the ascendancy Of the
Democratic party in Missouri had driv-
en- capital and population away from
our borders. The late census shows
how absolutely groundless are all these
statements. Our material wealth has
largely increased and our population
more than half q million. It IL to be
regretted that partisan prejudice and
rage should so blind men ofintellect and
culture as to cause them to wantonly
injure great State with whose inter-
ests their own are identified.
Not many years since Mr.. Schurz de.
nounced Missouri as the 'Robber State,
and the Globe Democrat has persistent
ly magnified the violations of law Incl
dent to every community, and ascribed
them to Democratiafule. Upon either
side of Missouri are Republican States
whose criminal records furnish the Ben
der family in Kansas and Rand in 1lli-
nois, the former yet at large and the lat
ter desperate handed over to justice at
the expense of the life's blood Of Mis-
souri, officer. Yet no Democrat depTe-
Gates the civilization of these great
States because these criminals have ex-
listed upon their soil.
Not long since the Globe Dens0cr,rt
chronicled the marriage in this city Of q
young couple from near Vandalia, ILL.,,
who were brother and sister, and who
when arrested upon..their, return home,
j declared that they did not know they
had done anything wrong or illegaE 1t
Missourians, what howl would have
come from the Radical press as to the
ignorance and depravity of Democratic
Missouri!
It actually seems that the rivers and
mountains and soil and air of Demo-
cratic State are to be lessened in size
and .deteriorated in quality. because
the State does not vote the Radical
ticket.
| Senator onkling, in his recent speech
at New York, ridiculed the great river
i which laves the base of your city, and
charged the Democratic party with the
l useless and extravagant expenditure o1
money for its improvement, but no Rad
i cal paper has uttered a word against
Mr.. Conkling for this attack upon the
/ West.
i Ipnoronce, extravaganza and vice are
1.-THE legitimate results Of Democracy,
4 but Intelligence, Feoonosny and virtue
Ispring spontaneously from Republican
rule! ,r-s-
Let us see.
| On the 1st day Of January, 1873, when
the Democratic party came into power
i'm Miss ouri, the bonded debt of the State
was SIS, ,747 900. On the Sd Of Janu-
ary, 1881, the State debt will be Sl5,-
$50, 900.
In 1865 the rate of taxation for State
revenue was 60 cents on the SlO0; in
1866, so cents, in 1867 and 1868, 10 cents;
from 1869 to 1872, 80 cents.
In 1872 the Democrats reduced it to
As cents and i'm 1875, by constitutional
i enactment, to 40 cents.
On January /, 1873, the public school
fund of the State was $2,51O, 100. AT
this time it is 81, ,0O7 457-an increase of
S339, ,357.'
The permanent fund Of the State Uni
versity was in 1873 S1OS,7 100. 1t Is now
Tn 1873 the bonds of the State were
quoted at 81 cents. Now they are sold
at JOG to 100.
And vet in the interview with Mr..
McCullagh of the Globe Democrat, to
which I have referred, and copied ap-
provingly by that paper, he is reported
to have told Mr.. George Alfred Town
send at Saratoga, in August, 1879, that
the the ..rebels had ruined the State. Mis-
souri is thrown away back in the pro-
press of things, and her case socially
seems almost hopeless in some parts.
St. Louis is almost the whole of the
State: our Missouri population is to a
considerable extent emigrating to Kan
sas. and farther West. In return, we
are getting no immigration that is
worth anything. Violence. lynch-law
and outlawry have blasphemed some
of the finest land in the world. Kan
sas is filling up with a magnificent pop
ulation, and to the hopeful minds of
men is what Missouri ought to be; it Is
the new Missouri"
"Where," asked Mr.. Townsend, "did
thai rascalIy population come from orig
inally, which put Missouri in such dis
tress?"
"They came from Kentucky and
Virginia. Where disorder is so
much ingrained it is very hard to tell
when there will:be enlightenment. 1t
will be many years before Missouri
comes up to the security and character
of Illinois,"
Before it produces a desperate like
Rand, or q brother and sister who
think it right and proper to become
man and wife!
AS Kentuckian descended from
Virginia ancestry, return my thanks
to Mr.. McCullagh for his favorable
opinion. If he will visit the dark and
benighted regions Of Missouri, where
these rascally keutuckians and Vir-
ginians reside, / will guarantee his per-
sonal safety and will show him happy
homes, presided over by intelligent and
virtuous women, protected by Chris
tian husbands and brothers who obey
the law, fear none but God, and vote
the straight Democratic ticket at every
election.
We may not be able to show Mr..
McCullagh the silver plate or diamonds
and velvets of your great city, but we
will show him refinement without pru-
derry and hospitality without ostenta-
ton. And more than all, we will show
him the people who intend by their
free suffrage to maintain the constitu-
ton "a our fathers made il,