Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-09


It was intended that none should have privi
leges denied to others, which simply meant
that none were to have separate privileges
and 1t will be vain to search through any
public paper, in which the welfare of the
whole people. and nothing less than the whole
people, was declared to be the object of the
American Government.
1t is clear to me that if this line of argument
Is to be followed, and issues are to be created
the country, or between different CLASSES and
elnployments of our citizens, that in such q
stsr rg victory must ultimately be declared
one or the other; that there is to be at the
END OF such struggle victor and a van
Spectacle that think justiiable to the idea OF
the American Constitution, and the man who
contemplates it may be justly regarded as the
Zoe to liberty and the American form of Gov.
eminent.
A MASTER OF PRETENsIoN.
Now, Mr.. Blaine in his famous letter has
laid down his pretensions and Mr.. Blaine
you know, Is master of pretenSiou. He has
taken care to claim everything-au the bless.
ings of a free Government, all the ad van
very bounty of the soil, the unlimited terri
tory. the steamboat and railway, the tele.
phone, the very sun that warns. the breeze
that coois. the rains that fructify, and even the
natural increase of population, not to speak
OF the assisted immigration of Iabor-all that
the toll of men and women has produced in
the United States has been seized by this can
didate for public honor and respect, and
held up by him as due to high protective
tariff.
THE UNJUST TARIFF SYSTEM,
On the contrary, make bold in direct on
position to the statements and claims of Mr..
Blaine, to aver, and call the record of history
ated by an unjust system of laying tariff
taxes has produced more local jealousy, more
sectional feeling, more arrangements. be-
cause; that 1T has caused labor to organize
in discomfort for lack of steady employment
with violence and threats of violence. has
strained the rule of law, and promises to bring
p ane military of force as b;s
has embroidered and induced the dem
agogue to appear in our midst. But
as Mr.. Blaine advocates and his
party approves, in respect to the use, of the
taxing power: but for the tone of public
thought and feeling gradually generated by
such mercenary spirit and abuse of a great
public trust. do not believe such a spectacle
could be witnessed in the United States as is
now, that a candidate who has fattened upon
every abuse that our laws contain, and yet
has strangely gone unwhipped of public
Justice should now be running up and down
the land Offering himself as the special friend
of the laboring man, whose scant earnings
have gone largely to swell his vast fortune
and the foe of monopolIes which have only
added to his wealth-in cynical disregard of
oil that right-minded men value and respect:
affecting specially to represent the interests
of labor. and yet seeking to array classes of
society against each other. hoping thereby
out of the general ruin to feed tat his grudges
against decency and good order at the cost of
the public peace and welfare.
1t IS this system of taxation which. while
producing a revenue of more than 500. OOO,-
000 incidentally entails an enhanced cost of
living upon the American laborer and upon
the American consumer to the extent, at
least, of five times that amount. In addition
to this it has gradually sealed up the products
of manufacturers within their home market.
rendering it Impossible for them profitably to
increase their product, or even, as il would
seem, to maintain its present volume, much
less to expand their safes into foreign mar
kat. OH no
home market
THE SOUTHERN QUESTION.
Think for one moment of the class and
character of men who have been authorize ed
to the Southern people. Did they represent
its benignity, its honesty or its Justice? On
Southern States if they measured their Gov
ernment by its agents. would be obliged to
to- tho
wound the feelings of the people, to bring dis
grace upon republican institutions.
After fifteen years of public service as a
memoer of the Senate-the confirming body
of all executive ppOintments-I profess that
have knoI h but ia few cases some rare Sx
Office under the Federal Government in the
Southern States would have possibly been
State. When have protested against this,
the answer is: 'What can wei do! Such men
bad as they are are the best we can get in
the Southern States in the ranks of the Re-
publican party. Look also at the kind of
men with whom political alliances are
promptly made by the Republican party in the
South.
Look at the Cash family in South Carolina
red-handed murderers and desperadoes, the
Southern menNrufiians in broadcothNyet
young Cash died the other day defying the
legal process of the State and its officers with
a United States Deputy Marihaps commission
in his pocket. VII
Look at Chalmers in Mississippi, gazetted
derer of -oiored troops at Fort Pillow. Yet he
is taken to the bosom of the Republican party
and paid fees attorney to prosec ute his
political opponents in the courts of the United
States.
Look at Virginia. o shade of Washington!
there the sacrifice of State honor-the repu-
diation of State obligations, the degradation
of every function of State government, the
ernment, to place a corrupt jobber and ca
joler of negro votes in the Senate of the
patronage of the Government of that Old
Dominion. 1.-The Mother of States and States
men,
POLICY OF INJUSTICE.
Fellow conntrymen, the war for the suprem-
acy of the Union ended in the complete over
throw of its opponents nearly twenty years
ago. Whatever reasons may once have been
thought to exist for such a policy and system
Of antagonistic and distrustful LEGISLATION
against the white people of the Southern
States can now be no longer alleged. When,
as the price of party adhesion. we see Aker-
man and Key in the Cabinet and Longstreet
ana MOSDy III IOrelgn missions, ana ManOne
and Cash and Chalmers all i'll the close en-
brace or the Republican leaders, we may know
that the Republican party does trust the
South when it thus bestows Office and power
upon the least trustworthy.
Therefore, arraign at the bar of an honest
and patriotic public opinion the men and the
party who have devised and continue a poll
CIV of Injustice and alienation toward nearly
one-half the States of this Union. / charge
them here, and in the full view of our couu-
try. with prostituting and perverting the
great public power of Government for low,
narrow and sectional party ends.
The proofs are written on the pages OF his
tory. Our statute books contain them. The
decisions of the supreme Court denying the
The blue book with its lists of Incompetent,
dishonest and corrupt OfficehOlders atteSts
them. The record of the criminal courts at
test them. Everywhere and on every hand is
emblazoned the burning truth that the rage
of party spirit has caused the Republican
party to forget truth, Justice and the Consti-
ton in dealing with the people of the South
ern States since the close of the war.
This alone is an issue sufficient for this cam
thoughtful, moderate and patriotic citizens,
and instruct them that public welfare, the
perpetuatiou of the Union. the promotion of
civic virtue and the punishment of civic vice
Federal Government Let us deal with our
brethren in the southern States in high and
wise spirit Let us evoke all that is highest
and best in their natures. Let us bring to the
front not the miserable mercenaries of their
own society, or the low adventures who car
pet bag in hand, have been prowling for
plumber among them; but let call to the
front the wise. the honored. the able, the con-
scientiOus, God-fearing, man-loving citizens
of eminence: such men as are to-day the re-
private citizens of the North who visit the