Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-09
FROM SCOTT COUNTY ILL.
Tariff and TaXatiOn-LOcala and
Political Prospects.

| 1aflH ana TaXatlOn-IIOCal and
Political Prospects.
Ed. Register.-Asm my last did not see
day light again, or went into the waste
basket, have held off till time and
the spirit moved mes
| Here everything continues very
quiet in political way, so much SO as
to be a constant subject of remark and
| wonderment. 1t would seem that
ideas, like epidenics, depend upon the
atmosphere.
Some of the papers, lawyers, and To-
cal candidates have good deal to say,
and though listened to with attention,
the crowds are small, while the speak
ers get off some things that would have
counted queer in by-gone days. For
example, Billy Brown. leading law
light here, while speaking before the
Democratic Club of Jacksonville last
week, said that he hoped to see the
tariff put on such ground that it would
be ultimately extinguished altogether.
| A1AAeAuSo VI ooA cav 3 VIC
Hon. VIM. Brown. o man of letters and
of law. publicly hoping for the total
destruction of the cornerstone of our
General System, and expressing that
hope before Democratic Club which
stamps, claps, aud yells! its approval
of the sentiment! Shades of Tom JEFF
ferson, "Ginral" Jackson, and all the
other lights and shade Of Democracy,
what are we coming to? Truth, indeed,
is stranger than fiction! Your Edge
Hill correspondent makes good point
when he asserts that All ddu0LOren
tariff only is constitutional. Had the
makers Of that constitution had the ex-
perience, and light, upon the subject
that their children have had, they
would not have allowed even an nd-
Valorem tariff to be levied: for the
theory ofour government-"The great
est good to the greatest tnumber"-can-
not be carried into practice SO long as
we tax any product of human labor in
any way. I'll agree, If you will give
me room according to my strength, to
wallop your Edge Hill correspondent
if he dares to ''trid on the tail o. moi
coat" OH this question. That is, I'll
spill considerable ink if he disputes, in
lampblack and molasses, the ground I
have long taken in the REGISTER.
The most interesting question on ta-
pis in this county is the courthouse
question. Population has decreased
and the price of property in the county
seat has greatly declined in the last
few years and some of the knowing
ores are trying to get the people to
boost them little by building brand
they will be disappointed, for the price
of farm crops is SO low that farmers,
especially renters. are in no humor to
vote for extras Or idulgences of any
kind.
Corn is a very good crop and is rip
ening splenflidly; but wheat was not
only poor crop but very poor price,
and many are not going to SOW this
fall, or only what will make bread and
seed for another year. Good wheat,
delivered, IS worth from 65 to roe,
though last week some of the regular
buyers drew off the market altogether.
Last weeks Prd,rie Farmer has an
interesting article from an English
newspaper, that shows
provision of all kinds to be cheaper
this year than it has been during the
century, and likely to remain so. This
may be very solacing to those ia cities
who have their bread and meat to buy,
but to the agricuituralist who has in
terest and rent on his land to pay, it
gives gloomy prospect.
The Prairie Farmer also gave us q
quotation last week from the Markj
Lane Express, another English sheet,
in which the editor advises, "his Amer
lean COUSINS to "Avoid the landlord
and tenant sy stem as you would poison.
Make occupancy more and more in
from ownership. The man
who brings his thousands to your
country to spend in buying land seems
a benefactor to-day, but wait a year
and you will see that he is a vampire,
sucking the blood out of the industries
of your country" That advice is so
good that only fools will refuse it. For
my part, however, If any blood has to
be sucked, I'm not very nice whether
the vampire is foreign or domestic.
What strenuously object to is this
whole eblood-sucking, vampire business;
aud as long as / have pen, a hand
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