Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-15
As to the Brentwood Coal Mines.

"The laboring man who last fall had such
elaborate ideas of protection and Home
Market now feels that the sarcasm of Fate
j. especially cutting and unkind. IrOntOn
Register.
| So it is, notably in the vicinity of Braid
wood, H., where Hon. VIM. l.. Scott, Of
| Pennsylvania, the Democratic Carnegie,
right bower of Cleveland and $50, 0O0, 900 ter
ror to plutocracy, OWES extensive coal mines,
the employees of which have been fed by the
state for the past two or three months while
striking against the democratic coal baron's
peculiar way of rewarding the laborer. BY
the way, our Carnegie has made acceptable
| terms with his men and they are at work
| ard happy and contented, While the Hon.
Nm. L. Scott proposes to sell his Bradwood
mines to an English syndicate and turn his
miners over to the tender mercies of English
landords.-BOnne Terre Register.
We have never contend q that greed
and tyranny were confined to men,
bers of the Republican party, or that
all men calling themselves Democrats
were free from them. Unfortunately,
undue love of gain and selfish power
the disposition to reap advantage at
the expense Of misery t. cthers-is so
general and powerful that even the
church of Christ. battling against il
for eighteen hundred years. has not
been able to destroy it. Yet the church
is still fighting it. and no sane man
will charge that the church is iusin-
cere or wrong because among it's
members now and then you find a
usurer and oppressor of the poor.
So with Democrats and the tariff.
That there are men belonging to the
party who take advantage of the pres
ent Ubiquitous system of ltgalized rob-
berry of the poor, we do not deny. 1t
is not question of men, but of parties
not of the individual, but of principle.
The Republican party is party of the
Robber Tariff, which is daily taking
from the poor and heaping up the
wealth Of the rich-not, however, pur-
suing its policy with the brutal candcr
and courage of the Lighwayman and
train-robber, but filching from its
victims while claiming in louI- mouth
ed utterance to be their friend and
protector. In the late campaign you
proclaimed it far and wide that upon
tue success Of Protection depended the |
high wages and prosperity of the la
borer. Where are those high wages |
and that prosperity now that you have
boodled victory? You lied to the
workingmen. didn't you? On the con-
tfary, the Democratic party holds that |
the Government has NJ right to levy |
a tariff, except for revenue, and for |
that only; that any law which takes
from one man to enrich another, is |
iniquitous; thsta business or an indus
try which cannot exist and succeed on |
its own bottom, has no right to exist or
succeed at all; in short, that there
should be no law-created classes in
this country-that all men have equal
rights and can honestly demand DO un- |
equal protection in the race for pros |
perity aud riches. The difference Is |
between the parties, as stated above,
and men will ally themselves with |
either as the light comes to them. A |
Democrat here and there may take |
the advantage the tariff gives him, or |
an honest Republican refuse to rob his |
neighbor though aided to it by the law |
this does not change the principles |
which separate the parties.
We have replied to the Registsr as
if his assertion that VIM. l.. Scott
aowps the extensive coal mines" near |
Braid wood, Illinois, were true. But !