Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-10-28
YE EDITORS FARE WELL.

Many Proofs of Loyalty to His Towns.
men and Reminders of Many Boom,
That Were Hollow Mockeries.
In the last issue of the Buffalo Wal,
low World, we find the following:
"With this number the time seems tc
have fully arrived at which to cease the
publication of this paper. Many of ou1
subscribers will not even get this issue.
To be brief about it, we were not permit.
ted to remove our print paper from the
Adams Express office this week, although
we have never, in these columns, said
aught against Mr.. Adams or his justly
celebrated express. We have paid many
a dollar into the c. o. d. department. OF
this mans express company. Before
we came West, our physician told us we
could not live without cod liver oil, and
indeed, he was right, for have we not
been a G. 0. d. liver oil the time since
we started this paper?
The last remark is offered as gratu-
itous insult to every unpaid subscriber.
Pa:d-up subscribers may omit it. Or
we will go to them personally and apol-
ogize.
but let us seriously review the past
two years history of the World What
have we not done to aid and encourage
our infant industries and advance the
tagging commerce of Buffalo Wallow?
Let our files show whether we have
done what we say or not. Let reluctant
capital paw over our pages, covering
the past, and answer if what we now
state be not accurate.
Have we not, at the instigation of
leading citizens here, doomed the con-
dition of trade, when traffic was dead,
and currency nothing but hollow
memory?
Have we not, through the columns
of the World, asked that bank be at
once established here, when, as mat
ter of fact, for year the post-offiee here
has had to sell stamps and take the paw
out of the store?
Have we not been gay and frolic-
some in these columns that the world
at large might not tumble to the woe
within us? Have we not joked and
punned and frolicked in print, when the
shrill north wind was whispering abroad
with his icy breath, he hath no under
clothing whatever?
1--WE have even been loyal to the
town in which we lived, and this last
act in our career shows how loyal the
town has been to us. Other newspaper
men, with fewer brains and in better
towns, have grown affiuent. Low
browed journalists elsewhere, in towns
that are populated by human being,
have done well, while we with a
iatigued and vapid constituency, have
thrown away our two best years and
now go forth only with what is exempt
from seizure and sale.
1--WE kept quiet when the convention
made its nomination for member of As.
sembly last year and assisted in his cleo.
ton because he was Buffalo Wallow
tizen, well knowing even then that he
would be the first man to put himsel
| on the five cent counter. We knew thai
he would take any thing from pass te
| an unguarded watermelon. But every
| body said we should stand by the nomi
| nations, especially so long as the nomi
nee was man who lived here. So HI
went to the Legislature, worked for the
better protection of muskrats ant
| downed his neighbors on every corner
| His pay was $3.50 for the session, ont O
which he succeeded in paying $500 boare
and 5000 whisky bills, after which hi
found by system of rigid economy. hi
had still enough left to purchase two
moment horse and evade the gran.
| jury.
| ..More than all that, we have sat III
nights to edit and correct and re