Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-01-22
SCOTT COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
Weather and Wheat-HOgs-S
House Question

Of merely local matters there is llttle
here that wonld be of interest to the
| readers of the REGISTER. We have
| had some very warm and some very
cold weather in the last few weeks
| which has made the best fields of wheat
look badly indeed. Where the crop
was put in late, or the land is poor, ii
is probably killed out. AS the only
room for profit, as our lives are row
ordered, are the misfortunes of others,
our loss will be somebody else's gain.
1t is shocking and humiliating to feel
that the hand of every man is against
his neighbor; but 'business is bus-
ness" you know; and if you want to
become successful and substa ntial
citizen, you must make money; and it
won't do to be squeamish, or let this
fol- de-rol about christianity humanity,
and such sentimental nonsense, inter-
fere with business.
Considerable loss has been OCCASION
ed by hog cholera in the last week or
two. This however, is really bless
ing in disguise; for it will teach our
swne-herders to treat their hogs with
some common sense, and not to feed
an animal, which naturally requires a
greater variety of food than any other
on the farm, wholly on a single diet
corn. Here, too, again, the more of
our hogs sicken and die the higher
price somebody else will get for what
they sell. "It's poor rule that won't
work both ways" After good corn
crops cholera is sure to come; and it is
to be hoped it will keep on coming TN
til thick -skulled farmers learn which
side of their bread is buttered, and be-
come pious, according to Ruskin's def
milton of piety-'kind treatment of live
things, and orderly use of the lifeless."
Times are called dull here and mon
ey is said to be scarce, while it is
drug in the east. I very much doubt
the pretended scarcity of money in the
banks here. During the present year
the charters of a large number of ma
tional banks expire, and it is the
bankers policy to make circulation
short. while pushing the debtors, and
SO raise a hue and cry on the part of
the people for money so as to induce,o or
force Congress into some legislation
that will gives these usury shops a
longer lease of life. money makes
the mare 60"
There seems to be good deal of ap-
prehension on account of the action of
the Socialists in Chicago AMI other
cities who are arming and drilling, and
to use dynamite. That
men should be driven into desperation
and crime, is only the natural AMI in
evi.able result of our methods of busi-
ness; but it is folly to hope to right
such wrongs as we suffer by resorting
to force and violence. We are proba-
bly, coming face to face with the Goths
anC Vandals Macauly prophesied
would threaten or overturn our civiliz-
alton; and unless we use. in public
concerns, more honesty and common
sense than we have done, as yet, his
New Zealander may, indeed, sit on the
ruins of London bridge to wonder what
sort of people we were.
Socialism is spreading; and name
that was, little while ago, considered
a reproach, is being adopted by respect
able people. The paper l am writing
on at this moment lies upon newspa-H
per published in Manchester, England,
which contains speech by the propri-
etor of Oxford Mills, at Manchester,
made to his own employees, at a social
gathering, in which he discusses these
economical questions, and, after COM
batting Thomas Hughes for making