Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-30

II,
latGan not continue. Com
~ lie alone; commerce is ex-
|<sto5 erce is Intercourse; commerce
ing Rne man raises in exchange for
1t aaSs19r man raises and the beuefi ence
| OF commerce consists IN the fact that ex-
| change of the superfuities is a blessing to the
! PARTY that conducts it. No man can grow
| rich on what ruins his customers Appiause.)
No man can maintain trade who does not do
I something in the Christian rule OF 80 live and
| let live" Who wants to sell to beggar?
| Who wants to pauperize his customers? None
but narro row mi, tool; tApplausel And
! be to God, without some reference to that
rule of Christian charity that teaches US
UNTO Is. whether wilingy o or " not. It must
| be done, or the trade will cease, and the profit
will cease with it. Therefore, L say to you
that we have dealt SO with our best customers,
| the best customers for our wheat for all our
| exports, In refusing to permit them to deal
with us on such terms that they could supply
| to us some things that they couli make
| cheaper and better than ourselves, and there
| by enable them to pay to the American pee
| pie better prices tor what they took from us
We have So conducted ourselves that they
have been looking around for other sources
of supply than those which the American
| States afforded them. Necessity is the mother
! of invention. She not only IS the mother of
invention. but she is the mother of countless
inventions. Needs must, and they have found
other sources of supply. and theYare develop
ing ether sources of supply. and he is
who win stand before the American farmer
and not tell him that his European
markets are threatened to-day. by
| ent system of taritf laws. with a further and
consequent reduction in the price of his
gram. India contains 200.O00.OOO British In
dams to day, living under the rule of less than
forty thousand Englislrmen. They have a
country linitess in extent, capable of gram
Observation-Disclosures cultivation and means of
transportation to the markets of the world
pillow can remedy that. The reaper, the bind
er, the mower that traverSes our vast prairies
and, like things instinct with intelligence
things can be used in India as well as here.
And when the money proposed by the British
Government shall be expended in the con-
struction OF railways throughout that vast
region, what Will there be then to prevent the
Indian farmer. who to-day gets but little
from laying that wheat u Liverpool for less
than fifty cents per bushel. When that comes
is that prospect to which ,t the american AI an
complacency or satisfaction? Must not the
effect be naturally to dishearteD him and
drive him to closer economy, and drive labor
out of agricultural pursuits? And then, when
the laborer is driven out of agricultural pur-
SUITS where must he go for Occupation. and
thus Overcrowd the markets for labor In other
pursuits? What is the condition to-day in
this country of other than agricultural pur-
to-day to a mass of favored men. 1 do not
believe there is a man within the sound of my
voice that has over felt or ever expects to
feel the pangs of hunger severely; but 1 do
know that, in this land even in this fine,
strong city of yours-l appeal to the charita-
BILE whose ears hears me to say whether there
is not found a use for every dollar and every
penny that can b, spared from superilulty to
relieve the wretchedness of mankind? What is
the news from the Hooking Valley and from
every mining district? Take the newspaper re-
ports from every State. especially from the
history of strikes. IociS-outs. of reduction of
wages until they are reduced SO low that in
despair the iaborer
THROWS DOWN HIS TOOLS
d {says he can not longer comply. I cite
ese things not with the poor object to raise
sconteDt not thrown upon any individual
Pbut wish to lay them before your consciences
and minds as faclS which we ought Noble
fore Heaven we dare not-shut our eyes to,
because they are symptoms OF ill-health in
the body polite. (Appause) We must look
for cure. Ut must be Il rational cure. that
will bear sunlight. that will bear intelligent
examinations; moral cure. permanent
cure, cure based upon principle which, the
further it is produced, the more strongly will
Class saIferfas here pe'es There IS an in
dIssolubIe connection between the in
ts of all shao il is h hs San
mind poor indeed is his power of pene-
traton, If he does not perceive that in a COM
munity like ours, under popular Govern
ment, with the great lever of universal suf-
trage controlling our Governments, there can
not be safety for the capitalist in his chamber,
for the Iaboring man il his place OF labor,
for the agriculturst in his feld-there can
not be safety where the interests of one class
tCheers.) j am not hearto talk of class legis-
lation. I am here to protest against it.
that shall lift the burden from this man and
place it upon his neighbor. am not here
to propose anything that viii allow any Am
erican man to make any money out OF the
/ Government except that which he earns by
his honest labor. Cheers)
parting o Of the waVes Now have come to
the road where you stand and stand, and
where the Republican party points one s. way
lCheers.l There may be something said be-
fore close in respect of sEk tt q
THE PERSONAL AGENCY
by which We must carry on these general
governmental powers, and of the necessity of
requiring from those we trust personal char
them to perform. (Cheers.} For the present
let me say something that is far deeper than
eminent that shall control men, that shall not
be subject to their whims, their caprices, their
passions or their powers. 1t is whether or no
purpose than the protection equal
" of all Do you think it
and and deliberate men who weighed every
syllable and watched every word wrote down
inthe Constitution that there should be no
title of nobility grained. by the Government
OF the United States. and then. further that
no State should grant title of nobility? Do
you thinlfthat it hal nothing deeper and no
name of a mann Do you think it meant any
thing whether the Innocent and absurd titles
given to the thoughtful men who were TO con-
|frol the destinies of this country? We laugh
to scorn the titles of Europe. We smile at the
vanity thM creates them and the price that Is
paid for them. We think. in the words of the
old Irish nae 'ody, if,Elelody it be:
The king may make a titled earl,
= - Or a duke, or many fooi. sirs
- But for althis power and all his gold,
- He can never make an o Tooie, sir.
iap ghter.) b.
These 4 therefore. would have beer, a
mere OscdfnX Bot. fellow-countrymen, the
meaningf lay deeper than that They ap-
pendeu those prostitutions of title to scheme
of governfnen Mt and arrangement of its powers
that were Intended to create equality before
the law fer The humblest and the poorest
amonx nj lEheerSl 1t was not meant to