Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-09-06

understood, and the further fact that the
coming fight was between the Democrats and
Republicans, and advised an alliance to fight
Democracy. Then spoke the willy politician.
What did he care for the laborer as a man? !
1t was his vote for which he yearned and not
his welfare. He arraigned the Democracy
as Stree traders" but did not pause to ey-
plain that the Democracy advocated free salt
that the poor man uses on his table thrice a
day; wished sugar reduced nearly one half
the poor mans necessity; wished the tax
removed from lumber that the laborer might
shelter himself and little ones from the in
clemencies of the season: wished free wool
that the little ones might be clad at less
expense.
MIR. Bridges well knew that free salt, a
household necessity, would strangle the salt
syndicate, creature of Republican pr tec-
ton; that free lumber would blot out he
lumber trusts, the noisome, vampire growth
of the war tariff; that free wool would give
employment to many workn en- and warmth,
comfort and health to the poor of the laud,
and would injure no one; that this country
did not produce third of the wool need
ed to clothe our people, and when it was lax
ed s41 on every 800 worth i. was eAtortion
that free wool would enable our wooden in
dustries to double their home producs, in
crease wages, and, better than this, than
these, than ALL" would give 20 per cent.
cheaper woolens to consumers. In lieu OF
these benefits he could offer only free whisky.
He asserted that this count never pros
pered under a low tariff, and that the panic
of 1857 was the result of lessened tariff.
How pi ofound must he baye considered the
ignorance of bis audience. The school boy
that thumbs the horn books of hisfo ry knows
this to be false. That it was under high
tariff in 1912 that business was congested
that Massachusetts threatened to secede from
the Union; that the panic Of '57 was not
caused by the low tariff, but was the result
of "wild cat" banking. To prove this true:
from 1858 to $3.50, under the same taiif OF
81 this country prospered as she never had
before and never has since. Agriculture,
manufacture and com merce, the pi lars OF
our country, went upward and onward vii Il
a rapidity and yigor that startled the world.
The VIII wings of American vessels crowd
ed every port and carried so per cent. of the
ShipDluS anu uOW uOb OLC FCsSCi W uo
us reverence. Again, if low tariff in 1851
brought disaster, then the deadly war tariff
of 1878, which is the one now in force, caused
Black Friday and the years of business stag
nation and death that followed up to 1879.
The learned orator next informed us that
the high protective tariff protects labor.
This was another Interesting assertion and
led to train of thought. II this S rue.
why is it that after &c years o. high Tariff the
laboeers of this land are organizing to pro-
tect themselves? One would think the la.
borer could quietly fold his hands AID say,
"the tariff projects me-" instead of that
strikes are frequent and laborers are discon-
tented and ask for an increase Of wages.
What say the Republican manufacturers to
these demands? They discharge be strikers
and send TO Europe for Hungarians and Ital-
iaI to do their work. They are free traders
then in labor. All tariff laws, beyond the
protection of wages, are protection to the
Carnegies, who amass their wealth by free
trade cheap labor and lax the lie blood from
| the American workman.
Any system of tariff beyond that necessary
| for running the expenses of disagreement
| is robbery. The tariff should be so i'm
proved as to coyer The difference of labor in
! this and the old world and no mole. Here
| are a few facts for the laboripg men to con-
slider, and we challenge any Republican to
show their falsity:
| Soap is protected $40 in every 500 manu-
featured, and the labor cost of producing II
| is $500. Linseed oil is protected $35 in ev-
| cry 500 manufactured, and the labor cost OF
L 10, tod
500 in every 500 manufactured. and the labor
| cost is $11. Salt is protected S33 in every $1Ci
produced, and the labor cost is $50. Nails
| are protected $33 in every 800 produced, and
| the labor cost SO. Wool is protected I'll in
| every 500 produced, and the labor cost is
sumed, and we do not produce tin plate a:
all. Paper bags are protected $26 every 500
produced, and the labor cost is $lo.
We will not undertake to follow Mr.. Bridges
| farther in his assertions. 1t would be a
| waste of time and energy. After he closed
them, James III. Chase, candidate for State
Register of Lands, arose aud with his seduc-
tive smile, resinous voice and purltanic man.
ner proceeded to pour hot shot into the
Bourbon Democracy of Missouri. He la
mented our immense majority and predicted
| that Missouri would never be better until
| the majority was wiped out and the State
| received its browning glory by the-election
of James III. as State Register. This predic-
| ton, coming as it does from the ''best man
| in the State" for that Office, should be SEEM
| ingly considered. We are afraid that the
people of the State do not realize what a
jewel they will lose if they do not take the
gentleman in. He has been of such mod
est, retiring man that the people do not know
him. They should remember that full
many flower Is boIn to blush unseen and
| waste its sweetness ON the desert air." and
that the name of one flower of that class is
James FL. Chase. "Treat me tenderly, give
me office, or die"
From the Land of Culture.
BosToN, MASS, September %, 1888.