Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-04-26
A Happy Organization.

| The Republican party is a peculiarly
happy organization. This verdict is not
based upon an abstract theory but has
| its foundation on the well-settled prin-
! ciple that busy minds afford fruitful
| field to cultivate contentment. 1t is
well established fact that constant oc-
| cupation drives off the spirit of restless
| ness, and light labor serves to reinvig-
crate the tired senses. The maxims.
verified as they are by the test of time,
are sufficient to prove the first PROPOSE
ton, if the other conditions can be
established. OF course, literally speak
ing, some difficulty might be met in this
particular. The party collectively can
not be said to have a mind, and in the
light of recent history there is ample
room to question whether the members
of it individually are better provided.
But in order that a measure of amiabil-
ity may be preserved 1t is safe to assume
that they are thus endowed, though the
strength or weakness of the substance
may be properly left to conjecture.
This much being conceded, itrequires
little reasoning to prove that the grand
old party must be as happy as q clam at
high tide. At least its hands and minds
are constantly employed. 1t can, not be
truthfully asserted that the labor is al
ways light, for experience proves that
the task imposed is sometimes much too
burdensome to be borne by, the feeble
structure upon which it falls. But it is
willing service, and that is some
thing. Persistence is another ruling
characteristic that givesa flavor of con-
tentment to the laborers.~ When defeat
is the harvest of the effort, the result is
accepted with undisturbed equapimity
and new start taken in the battle
against adverse circumstances. II VIC
tory spreads her wings over the work in
hand, the harvest of his triumph is ac-
cepted with benignant SATISFACTION. In
eithersevent the fight is pressed forward
sto its consummation. e
During recent years the labor has had
the spice of variety to give zest toE its
prosecution. First and most important
in the catalogue of effort has been q
universal ambition to plumber the peo-
pie. In this there has been developed
a charming unanihiity of spurpose on
the part of the grand old party. Old
schemes have been worked over assidu-
ously, and new plans invented II with
amazing rapidity. Butthese laborssare
onerous and exhausting.w 1t is fortu-
utLe, therefore, TtHdC CflAHgc tOI TASKS
affords diversion, and thattfhere al
ways at hand fertile soil into
which the tired laborer may plunge.
This imitless arena is sthe field
of Z harmony. HarmonMing is ale
ways in order. First in one State
and then in another the efforts of the
party leaders are kconstanty invited.
Periodically the announcement is made
that the work is completed, but this is
simply harmless fiction. Promise of
bargain with sect or Che fragment Of
some broken organization allure them
away for a time, and thesannouncement
that harmony has been accomplished is
a pleasant subterfuge, but The cessation
is only temporary and work is soon re-
sumed. Harmony never comes, how
ever. just now Pennsylvania, New
York and Ohio are all supplying material
for the effort. Three months agolit was
said that the breach in this State had
been healed, but the evidences are that
it is. as wide as before.E Littleg better
success has been metin New York, and
in Ohio the whole thing depends upon
the ability to mortgage the future legisA
lation to the liquor dealers and it is
questionable whether the German vote
win accept the security offered. -Har.
r'isburg (Pa.) Patriot.