Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-03-14
From "Earmer.'
Chicago Tribune.

In his article on marriage Mr.. Gala
han never mentions the cause OF un-
happy marriages and of divorces. ex-
cept in the very general sense as being
violations of divine law. In what way
do we violate ethical law so as to bring
so much unhappiness to married life?
A judge of one of our high courts, who
has tried many eases of divorce, says
the whole trouble grows out of the bit
ter trouble to live; and this grows out
of our denying all natural rights to the
means of life and making them pur-
chasable only.
In the RICHTER Mr.. J. E. Sargent
gives us a little eagle soup, and objects
to the Australian system of voting be-
cause it from abroad; just as though
we were such a very superior people
that the rest of the world can teach US
nothing. After we have shown dis
position to use ordinary common sense
in government there will then be no
excuse for such Dogberrys, but as we
have not shown such disposition yet
the less Dragging we do the better. Mr..
Benton's idea would do passably well
for his day when men were compara-
lively free because national opportunl-
ties lay around loose, but in this day,
when men must pay for the opportun-
ity of laboring; when the PennsE
mine owner gets so cents Il ton royalty
for allowing men to dig coal, and the
miner gets only 20 to 22l cents for dig
ging if, and will be denied even that
poor privilege if he does not vote to
suit his lord, Mr.. BIS system is wore
than useless. The Australian system
seems to have been mainly devised by
man, whom Thomas Jefferson visited
and consulted, and whose teaching he
heartily endorsed. Since it was put
into practice in Australia the provision
for returning spoiled ballot before the
voter can get a new one, has been ad-
ded to prevent tthe'"Tasmania dodge"
An improved system of nominating is
also being adopted that sometimes OBJ
viates the necessity of any further cleo
ton. In the Illinois legislature some
OF the Chicago delegates are opposing
it on the ground of its being expensive;
but we must get rid of this bribery at
any cost, and where a moral question
intervenes mercenary considerations
must be silent.
Puck, as quoted in last weeks REG
ISTER, fails to see the lesson ofthe New
York car strike. 1t puts the whole
thing unfairly and bemoans the incon-
venience to a public so inbecile as to
permit the natural resources of labor to
be monopolized and cornered, and then
grumbles at men who strike blindly
and desperately in self defense. Strikes
are bad: they are no remedy for the
wrongs of labor, and in spite of them
the condition of labor grows worse and
worse; yet the condition of laborIng
men to-day is better than it would have
been but for strikes. Puck forgot to
and law-breaking than the car men,
and that the car companies openly
bribed them by subscribing thousands
of dollars to the police pension fund.
But Puck forgets more than that: 1t
forgets to tell us where the great mass
cf laborers eyer ready to take strikers
places comes from, and how in coun-
try whose people prate about being free
such a vast number lack employment.
In these masses of humanity, forced
into idleness and crime. we are breed
ing Huns and Vandals that Macaulav
prophesied would overrun us early in
the twentieth century. If we live to
see the twentieth century under such
conditions as we now tolerate it will be
because opr Nemesis is indulgent.
The Chicago Tariff Reform Conven-
ton seems to have been spoiled by men
who put party above principle. The
ONLY way to reform the protective feat
ures out of the tariff is to reform the
tariff ont of existence.
| notice the death OF one of my old
Belleview neighbors, j. |. Hood. live
close to his Old home in Illinois, where
he was well and favorably known be-
fore he moved to Belleview. L helped
10 lower his wife and one son into their
graves at Caledonia and wish could
have been present to have performed
the last sad but kindly Office for my
old friend and neig Dor, since fate would
not snare him. Sot hey pass: "As swal-
low fiitting through thy hall, 0 King,
such is the life of man." However
our paths may diverge in this life, to
our common mother, earth, we come
at last. Human life may be an eng ma,
but
"John and Peter and Robert and Paul,
God in his wisdom created them all.
FARMER.
Murrayville, ILL.,, Feb. "a, 1889.