Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-07-24
Who Wants a Foreign War J


Circulars are being distributed in
BROOKLYN and New York TO the effect
that certain citizens should syote for
Blaine because as soon as he is elected
he will declare war against England.
The papers run by OfDonovan Rosa
and Patrick Ford are also reported to
be urging men to vote for Blaine, be-
cause he is favorable to the users of
dynamite in England, and evil have a
law passed putting u tax on every En-
glishman who lands in this country, so
high that no Englishman will dare to
come to America.
We are aware that this policy of cam
paigning trenches on subjects which po-
litical newspapers, as rule, prefer to
let alone; but the Blaine men having
opened up the matter, no reason exists
why it should be giagerly treated. Mr..
Blaine's friends declare that he is run
ming for President with the purpose of
involving the United States in a war
with England. The declaration is
either true or false. If it is true, then
the men whose prosperity depends on
peace have no use for Mr. Blaine, for
they have no use for foreign war. If
it is untrue, then Mr.. Blaine's friends
are using base appeals for class voters.
with the purpose of cheating the ones to
whom the appeal is made. The intro
duction of such policy of campaigning
didacy of no other man than Mr.. Blaine
would occasion such a policy.
1t should be said very plainly that no
Irish-Americans have any sympathy
I'll. Al
them to be murderers and towards, who
hanged, if their villainy kills anyone
else. The carrying of Baine's canvass
into the dynamite camp proves the des-
the infamous character of it. There is
a feeling against the dynamite poltroons
and miscreants, which is as deep as the
purpose of the American people to put
down mobs and murderers, and, by de-
flying that feeling, the Blaine men are
sowing SO plainly to the wind as to in
sure their reaping the whirlwind.
Moreover, the American people do
not want any foreign war. The late
civil war was war enough for them, for
long time. They want peace. thrift
and quiet. They do not believe that
the election of Mr.. Blaine is so neces-
sary that foreign war would be a
cheap price to pay for it. They do not
believe that foreign war is SO neces-
sary, that Mr.. Blaine should be elected
expressly to stir one up. So intense is
their aversion to a foreign war that
they believe those who would egg on
violent classes with the hope of getting
one up, are demagogues and scoun-
drels.
The United States have had two wars
with Great Britain. The aggressions of
the latter country caused these two
wars. The first secured us independ-
ence. The second secured us exemp-
ton from British meddling. We had
the just and successful side in both in
stances. On another occasion, war
was nearly threatened between the
countries, but it was averted by the
treaty which settled the Oregon bound
airy. The high joint Commission
and the Geneva arbitration averted
another war. That left no ques-
tons to which diplomacy is not
easily equal. Now, the new cry for
foreign war is not based on any
grievances suffered or dangers appre-
hended. It is raised to make votes for
a political speculator who wants to be
President. 1t ought to lose him votes.
Men who own anything OR who are
earning anything are profoundly inter-
ested in averting any foreign war. Such
a war would suit those who have moth
Jag to lose-and no one else
The introduction of a foreign war as
a question into the peaceful politics of s.
people presumed to be free, is mon
strous. 1t ought to cost cts introducers
dearly. Its introducers are the Blaine
'campaiguers. The business men of the
United States have hard enough time
now, without any war beng brought
on them. The investments in which the
capital of the rich and the savings of the
poor are placed, are low and shaky
enough now. without having million
million a year. more added to the al
ready onerous taxes. The ground is
Unlocked with graves enough now,
without opening it again for more
slain. The laboreN and business
men are hard pressed enough now
to win bread, without the intro
duction of the greatest of human caaam-
tiles to the lot of Ske country. The
tide of crime, violence and communism,
of contempt for autherity and law, is
high enough now with out blowingsSway
the securities of order with gunpowder.
No foreign government is seeking a
quarrel with us. We have no standing
quarrel with any of them. Our Nation
is slowly emerging frem the troubles of
a great civil strife
That the Blaine canvass, to escape at
tacks on the character of the candidate
and to cover the want. of any real rea-
son why Blaine shouIE be elected. has
raised this cry for a foreign war, is a
prsof of quackery ana deviltry beyond
precedent. 1t ought no range agninst
Blaine the votes of all the respectable
and reasonable men in this land. If,
in the future, cause should arise requir-
ing Americans to deferd their liberties,
this people will prove las brave in vvar
as they have proved themselves to be
before. But they are rot going to aect
Blaine. to enable him to reopen t5he
tlood.gates of war, neither are they GO
ing to reopen those gates, to elect
Blaine. So surely as dwelling and lnrid
appeals are made by the Blaine man
ayers Do the crack-brained, rowdy aald
lawless elements of the country tibet
surely will the stable. loyal, industrious
and tlKifty combine against him, and
his defeat will be more overwhelming
than that of any other maR ever befone
was.-Ai5any ArgtAs-
Cenmendable Consistency.
Mr.. Joseph w. Harper. one of the
nropr;etorS of fhe io,,PnsE of (which