Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-15
The Terrible Tariff and the Heather.

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| The Terrible Tariff and the Heather.
1t may not be matter of much i'm.
portance, but want to ask you, Mr.
Editor, if your typo did not get toe
many "m's" in "Emmetic's" feather
name. According to him you have
only to say, "Mr. Watt, Waiter, Wat.
terson" and up goes the terrible tariff
The profundity of such conjuring made
my head swim and gave me such a
feeling of squeamishness that thought
he had intended to sign himself En-
etic." It reminds one of the old-fash-
ioned way of raising the devil by re-
peating the Lords prayer backward;
and it will, no doubt, be quite as pow
erful an argument in behalf of protec-
tlcn as that backhanded orison was
effective in summonipg his satanic
majesty.
There is one weak point in it, how
ever; while just saying "Mr. Watt,
Waiter, Watterson" knocks free trade
higher than Gilderoy flew his kite, you
have only to say, "Mr. EN-, Emmet,
Emmetic," or rather "Mr. E, Emet,
Emetic," and up goes protection among
the nebul@. Until ridicule will pass
current for argument, Mr.. Em, Emmet,
Emmetic must deal in something more
substantial if he wants to convince us
of the>Wstice of taxing eighteen men
under tie mere pretense of raising the
wages of ope of the eighteen.
Now, Mr.>REGIsTER, I want to ask
your st. Louis correspondent, who is
deyoting so much attention to convert
ing the heather in foreign lands, to
give more attention to evangelizing the
heather In Illinois and Missouri. The
papers report that after the elements
had torn Mt. Vernon to pieces, human
hyenas robbed the dead and dying. If
the heathen would look at our bad
qualities as we look at theirs they
would be justified in hanging every
missionary we send to them. Take
the columns of our daily and weekly
papers and you could not match our
records of depravity in the darkest
corner of heathendom. All over our
country we not only tolerate, but legal
lze and uphold one of the blacklist and
most damnable forms of human slavery
and injustice, yet not single so-caIled
Christian sect or church is arrayed
against it; but, on the contrary, they,
as rule. favor and uphold it and fidi-
cule as socialists, communists and an
archists those who believe in practical
application of the fatherhood of God
and the brotherhood of man. There is
news abroad, too. that this correspond
ent does not hear or does not tell. For
example: there are six hundred papers
published in India, but all but about
thirty of them are bitterly opposed to
the Christianity we are trying to teach
them. In almost every Christian coun-
try, especially England and the United
States, II intelligence may weigh
against mum bers, the teachings of the
"Wise One" Budha. are making more
proselytes than the teachings of those
who would have US believe that though
God made men the devil will eventu-
ally out-wit Him and get the majority
of them. Even Talmage replies to the
question, (which is the way to happi-
ness?" by saying, ITO make others
happy" Iii this Talmage is heathen,
for he thereby acknowledges the title
Christ to come from christina, the
Rrahminical attribute of self-denial
and self-sacrifice, the very idea typified
in our cross. To the enquiry, "Should
the attainment of happiness be our
aim?n he replies, "No; but rather use-
fulness, though he who is useful to
Others must be happy himself" The
heathen charge Christians, as the Pope
did, with thirsting for gold, and st.
Louis last letter badly betrays us in
this. Christian liberality is demon
strated because Sunday schools yield
more money than churches used to; o
church in st. Louis lately gave $4,000
in one day, and pastor. In Utah cries
GLORY to God!' because he squeezed
So head out of the kids in his Sunday
schoOl. If this writer will notice what
"Gath" says about this Sunday giving
in the Cincinnati Enquirer, be may
conclude, if he has any real knowledge
of the world he Is living in, that the
amount as money given In does not
| ma asure the religion of the giver. We
want practice of moral preoeRts, not
the preaching of theories and theolo-
gies. FAEMEE.