Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-29


he can paste the pertinent remarks OF
the. Globe in his hat. and study them as
he passes it round. Exchange. st
A Providential instrument, Perhaps.
I'VE declare our purpose to take up
the work which fell when Garfield fell"t
says the fourth resolutions of the
platform adopted by the Independents
Of Pennsylvania the other day. =. The
work which felr' on the I'd day of July,
1881, was the mere beginning of large
contract, but we will give the Garfield
Administration credit for having begun
it theoretically. set sya-I f.gs..4 81
There WAS the faint of a previous un-
sayory Administration of which the
Government had to be disinfected; there
were hateful and obnoxious. things
tapping over, as it were, from, three
consecutive Administrations, that it was
important to get rid Of 1t was not, in
fact, until the Inauguration of General
Garfield that the work OF reconstruction
in broad, National sense and in q
plain, commonsense way was really
entered upon, . But this was not all.
The newly elected Administration had,
in its own party. elements of disaffection
and antagonism to confront. which if il
were not possible to reconcile, it was at
least necessary toecfush, and it was
right in the midst of this crushing pro-
cess, after it was found that all attempts
at reconciliation were nothing more than
overtures Of surrender, that President
Garfield fell bv.the shot of Stalwart-
crazed assassin and the end of his ADJ
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do or to undo, was draped in cypress
and monographed in blood. ~ '' '59te
Great as the contract thenIwa which
came to this violent forfeiture, it has
since become far greater and more for
midable. as the independents will find
in their bold and aggressive ambition
to renew and complete it. 1--WE declare
our purpose" they say, '' to take up the
work which fell when Garfield FELL"
where but they should bear in
mind that an Administration with
which they have few sympathies
in common-an Administration which
embodies in its most intense and tena-
cious form the very reverse Of their own
ideas, has since been firmly seated in
power 1t is, not only firmly seated,
but it has succeeded in far more than
multiplying or neutralizing what was
done, or what the friends of Mr.. Gar
field claim to have been done in the in
.terest of a better public service be-
tween the 4th of March and the I'd Of
,Jaly a year ago. 1t has even gone fur
,ther, and to some extent at least has
reinaugurated the methods and policies
of political regime, which, had it not
been for the interposing fraud of 1876,
the country would long since have out
lived and forgotten. ,A27's& @
The Independents, however, seem to
be fully aware of the difficulties and re.
sponsibilities which crowd upon their
new movement. They call for an alb
clifton of the "spoils SYSTEM by ref
ormation Of existing evils-for the rec
ognitionr Of the public service as high
and honorable trust instead of it's prof.
titution to partisan uses-for the free
and conscientious exercise of private
judgment in political affairs, instead of
the insolence, the prescription and the
tyranny OF .'bossisn.'' and; machine
rule is but too true. that the rule
of the 'tboss' and the machine" has
a year start of them, but their deterrni-
nation is none the less pronounced nor
their courage in any wise abashed. &. 1.
1t may be that they are the instru-
ments Of Providence in the salvation of
the country and its restoration to that
wholesome, honest, Democratic rule,
which, lowering so near and yet so far,
seems to require some phenomenally
revolutionary force to effectuate its
eventual triumph.
& In this contest the Democratic party
has no special interest excepting SO far
as it leads in the direction of q gradual
of its own principles and
points beyond the smoke and turmoil
of factious battlefield to the dawn of
better and brighter days for the Repub-
lie Washington Post.
5 "A ten-hour law has Of late beer.
enforced in the mills of Massachusetts,
by State inspectors. One of the ways
in which an evasion of the statute has
usually been attempted was by starting
before the regular hours, and alleging
that it was necessary, in order to get
the machinery in running order at the
time when work was supposed to begin.
Thus as much as two or three hours
was sometimes added per week to the
legal sixty. The inspectors have now
decided to allow only five minutes for
starting up, and to prosecute those mill
owners who are longer about tn r
San. ~ 'e
"A calf fell over a precipice at
Bakers Falls, Washington County, N.
T., recently, and lodged on a shelving
rock inaccessible from below. 1t was
fed by lowering pail until the next
day, when a man descended by rope,
and it was heisted up. - st