Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-30
make the Is strong t stronger. 1t wa:

for the majority that, in itself. contains the
force of control. 1t was meant for the feeble
| majority. tCheers) Therefore, whenever
you find party forgetting this great primer
himself up for the pubic and cia.naing thu
public suffrage, who forgets this principle
set your seal of condemnation upon it, OF
@ s0r aG s bound S to h Ss
be bofs tssn A Igs 5sspsss
formed the Republican party. No man re.
speets more tfran the individuals who CON
making every saerice ose ebe pr test oGs,
Eece ssary to do so. AppIause.l They know,
or # they ne y are here they shall, please God,
gradually. insidiously, but practically and
truly, the great powers of the American
government have been taken in hand, have
been controlled, have been exercised for per-
sonal gains, for class gains. for party gain,
and there is the crime of that party before
result of it. The party believed that the
great end of political organization is to
govern the country in the interests of that
please certain men and certain classes, and
actel nos with an eye single to the fact that
they held great trust. to which the hunlbest
opponents has as good right to call on
them for his share of benefits as their
are trustees but they are administering the
trust for the benefit of the trustee and not
for the beneficiaries intended. tCheers.l They
nave taken possession of the fund. and-if
you will pardon.the rather shoppish expires.
sion-for am a member of the bar. and was
2 on kind of lawyer, befese forgot it a .
this trust for their own benefit. regardless of
all terms, and l propose to call them into
compel them to account for their transac-
tons as trustees. Cheers, and a voice: 1--WE
VIII be there " Iauehter and appauseD Let
me iiustrate what mean by this. They could
not have chosen filter representative of the
principle that have referredto than the man
they have chosen to devoted for as president
of the United States tApplause.l He suits
them exactly. daughter and applause.l There
is not in the country a man more adroit,
tered Congress.to the present day, more thor
oughly illustrates the evil doctrine which
/ denounce than does james G. Blaine.
have spoken of the great powers of Gov
ernment Now, be it not forgotten that the
and strong in a Republic as in any other form
OF government As vast as strong, as brave,
as slkilifnlly handie9a any upon whom the
sun shines down, if we want a ndvy-now do
not laugh. beg of you. when / mention the
word navy to an American ear. U4aughter.J
was going to Say-if you will pardon the joe
ularity--if We want a navy we have gott tie
up the coaEsloops-daughte and applause
IL we want navy we must have the power to
raise it and first of all we should have man
fit to administer it and to control it. Is ca p
plausel The powers of war and of peace are
as great and mighty. as fraught with danger,
as traught with honor to Republic as to an
Empire. Tde power of taxation is just as
essential to the Government of the United
States as it can be to the Government of Great
Britain or tn Russia. If need should come for
the safety of our government, the preservation
of our system of States, for the honor and
welfare OF our people, no American will
MAKE ANY OBJECTIONS
to any taxation to any extent that shall be
necessary for that end. These are great pow
ers. There is no more sovereign power THAI
that which commands lire and death, no great
power than that which can summon you or
me if we be within the arms bearing age; the
power to take from us the flower OF our you'll
and send them down to die sror us and for
their countrys laws upon distant battle
field. There can be no weightier power over
mans happiness than that There can be no
more sovereign power than that which calls
upon you at the end of your days work, at
the close of your years labor. to render up
just such portion of the proceeds of your pri-
waite labor as the Government may choose to
demand from you for its own just ends.
are mighty powers In their exercise lies the
question of human happiness or human
misery. They may be exalted to promote
of the people, or they may be used so as to
take from them everything that makes life
should such great and sacred powers be used?
In what spirit shall any man, who asks to be
intrusted. come before those over whom they
are to be exercised? Certainly they are to be
used first III the high spirit of honesty next
of economy, next of justice, which has an
eternal principle that binds men unless they
mean to devote themselves to destruction
(Applauseo Now let US consider these vast
powers. They belong to no man. They be-
ought to be withheld in their benefits from
none. however poor, from no party. however
weak. They are public in their nature; they
are public in their administration; they are
public in their necessity, unless we mean to
pervert them to other than public ends. and
when we do so we have embarked unon
that career of action which has topped
in the dust all the Governments that
time has seen that preceded us. cap.
fy,lo, No a raIn tt,
have been steadily used for private ends
(ApplauseJ They have been used by the cam
didate for the Presidency. by Mr.. Blaine, for
been used by him for party ends He and his
party were at one with them. They could not
have become the law by his act alone, but he
was there.
GIVING EVERY ASSISTANCE
that his ability and ingenuity and persistence
could suggest to the passage of those laws to
which l shall refer. 1 have spoken of the
great power of life and death. of peace and
war Do you remember during the few short
months during which Mr.. Blaine occupied the
position of Secretary of State of the United
tween the Republic of Chill aud the Govern
how TO class the last two in the management
of human government. but there was
war hagrant. 1t was legitimate war. 1t was
a war between two nat ons. with 10th OF
which the Government of the United States
was friendly aud ut peace. The Government
of Peru was overcome in the conflict. 4 Ma
ton one-half her size numerically marched
an army fifteen hundred miles and con uered
her in her own capital, ana took possession
with every appearance of authority. BIZ. at
that time there were certain interested par.
ties who, one way or another, had arranged to
get up a claim against the Government of
Peru for certain guano depositS-certain con-
tracts affecting these vast beds of agrcultur-
al nitrates that are found on the coastIof
South Ameri> a. They really had been the
sole industry and the sole property of that
wretchedly misgoverned people, and from
those beds they obtained the property from
-ttfn oh (ynN M RI lyn0 air
wretched Government in existence.
These deposits of feftlizing matter were of
value and greedy hands were clutching at
them, and claims were gotten up under one
pretext or another to wrest from the ieeD.e
hand OF Peru the property which she con-
trolled J., by law; Chill had been at great ex,
in accordance with the law o. Nations. that
she would exact from Peru the cos OF her
armament AT that time had nothing to
do with it. 1t was not our affair. We were
not asked to step in and arbits ate. Neithc:
the Government of Peru nor Chill had made
any demand upon the Government OF the
United States. But we had Il Secretary of
State ambitious of creating a sensation of
could do something that an apocryphal
plumed knight might be expected to do-tap-
plause and laughter)-especially when the foe
land 80 we. the strong, powerful people of
the United States, were to be represented as
A swAsHBUCKLING BULLY
shaking our fist under the feeble nose of this
poor little South American Republic, and de-
claring-what? That they should not come to
peace. that they should not MAKE terms OF ar
f as to
claims were to be considered i'll the transac-
ton. tApplause.) Was it the right of an
American citizen that was to be fairly secured
ALI the rights that law would give him i'll the
Government where his property happened to
lie? o, no. Landreau either one brother or
the other that bore that name, has never been
shown to have been an American citizen, or
even to have made.a declaration of his inten-