Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-02
Anti.BOurbOnIsnl.

There is to be some OratOry for the
3" A ati-BOurbOn" cause at tn e Lucas
Market this evening. "Anti-Bourbon"
is the designation which the fusionists
have applied to their movement in
this State. 1t is also the designation
under which the Prohibitionists cap
tured the Republican organization in
Kansas and in Iowa.
AS the Anti-BOurbOn nominee for
Governor of Missouri, Mr.. Ford will
undertake to show that her great want
is an Ant-Bourbon local government,
such as blesses those two States. With
a cunningly chosen and deceptive ar
ray of census figures he will undertake
to show that Missouri languishes and
her people suffer terribly for the want
of that Anti-Bourbon craftsmanship
which, according to his figures, has
made Iowans SO much happier. more
prosperous i'm business, more liberal,
more moral, and more blessed with all
the fruits of superior qualifications for
local selt-government than Missouri
ans are.
In demonstrating to his own salts
faction that, solely on account of the
difference in local government, Iowa
is u better State for the immigrant and
investor than Missouri is, Mr.. Ford
will doubtless be able to show that our
Bourbon rulers have been guilty of Sc
riOus sins, both of omission and COM
mission; that they have done things
which they ought not to have done,
and left nndone things which they
ought to have done. The Post Dis
patch will cheerfully indOrse this last
proposition.
But, even in his political arraign-
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Ford should do the Sta te the justice to
admit that she has not permitted them
to assail and prosecute immigrants, as
Immigrants have been assaiied and
prosecuted with statutes by the "Anti-
Bourbon" lawmakers of Iowa and
Kansas. The immigrants who were
encouraged to invest their money and
the labor of their lives i'm planting
vineyards and building and operating
breweries and distilleries in Iowa and
Kansas, have afterwards found their
business destroyed and their property,
improved by the labor of lifetime,
rendered valueless i'm their hands by
statutes which deny their right to any
compensation for their losses. "Bour-
bon" rule has never been guilty of
anything like this in Missouri, and
Mr.. Ford should cheerfully concede
the fact and call attention to it.
If the Anti-Bourbonism which Mr..
Ford represents and would place in
power i'm Missouri is not the Iowa sort,
he ought to point out the difference by
repudiating, condemning and denounc-
ing the Iowa sort. He cannot do this
better than by reading and endorsing
a recent address issued by the Ger
mans of Iowa, in which they accuse
the Authorizations in Iowa of .tle-
stroying by one stroke of the legisla-
tive pen property amounting to mill
lions of dollars and property, too,
which has been accumulated not only
under the express sanction of the law
but capital which has been invited to
locate in this State, and promised not
simply protection, but encourage
ment." Mr.. Ford's contrasts between
the two States, always SO favorable to
Iowa and SO disparaging to Missouri,
as a home for the immigrant, leave the
impression that he is an endorser of
this Iowa method of treating imm-
grants, and, if this impression does
him injustice, we do net see why he
connot afford to correct it.
Finally, ii Mr.. Ford and his organs
are not making war on the State, rath-
er than on party, they could well af-
ford to drop those false stories about
the alleged maitreatment of Union
men in Missouri, and admit that her
loyal Germans and other Union men
have no such cause of complaint as we
hear from Iowa and Kansas, w here
their business. their property, and
their personal liberties are persistentIy
assailed by "Anti-Bourbonn leglsla-
n.-Post-Disf,dtch.