Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-09
Ye Editor Spanked.

Mr.. Ake-You are aware the writer has
long been a contributor and friend Of the
REGISTER, and has kindly feeling for it:
genial and big-hearted Editor, and knowing
this, you will appreciate the pain it give;
| him to find fault with any of the sentiments
given expression to in its well arranged and
business-like columns; but "let the truth be
spoken if the Heavens should fall" and the
| head and front of your offence in paragraphs
| inserted In your last and many previous
issues shows an amount of ingrdtitude in
you, and is so unworthy of our incompar-
able local, of which we are all proud, that
in this communication we ''hurt only to be
kind" The ingratitude complained Of is
the way you keep nagging in your own
| inimitable way at the management of the
Iron Mountain Railway and the want of at
tention to its interests of our Valley.
| 1t seems superfuous to remind you of the
many benefits the Railway company have
conferred on the Valley, and how amply
they have made returns for the contributions
given them in its construction. To begin
with, look at your own beautiful Station
House, decked in all the prismatic colors of
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arranged waiting rooms, cushioned seats,
upholstered in style where the first lady
of the land might sit without soiing her
latest Worth dress. The high platform, rum
ming the full length of au ordinary train,
from which she may step to or from the
cars without the slightest display of ankle
for the rude to look at. Then the granolithic
walk without any siding or other dangerous
Instructions to cross before reaching the
maple shaded and macadamiZed approach
to the County Seat OF Iron! Your omniscient
eye must also have seen how substantially
the track is fenced so that your little ones, or
dairy pets, may not inadvertently stray on
to the line: and then the pandering to your
poetical taste in giving you free daily
ride to that romantic spot the "1" at the
Knob. Take stroll to Arcadia by the high
way and get gradually enthused as you pass
the Emerson Place, that "thing of beauty"
the Iron Bridge over the Stout, the distant
view of the Turner palatIal residence which
your imagination can fill with "Brave
knights of old and ladies gay" and wind up
in he"dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest"
the ''Valley Home" But what are all these
COH palcu Will
Company's at their favored spot? Did they
not spend $4,000 in acquiring its Hotel,
and have they not religiouslv kept it for the
last three years, unsoiled by the foot of man,
and shown their love for the sweet sonGsters
of the grove in giving them shelter and pro-
lection to rear their young, in order that
the Valley may become famed for its song
sters. Then enter its AlcaZar of a Station
House which De Mier shows with honest
pride to his visitors, and whose attachment
to its ancient weather boarding is so great
that, albeit he is a family man, you ieaye
with the impression that ii is the "child Of
his adoption" 1t is common to twit the
President of the Iron Mountain Railway
Company of being fond of money, and not
ageFse 70 devious ways of getting it, but
this is obviously all wrong. Think of the
hundreds who have petitioneG and prayed
to be allowed to come, rent, buy, lease, or,
in "any way you like" fit this place for
hum an habitation, and the answer has ever
been
"I,et us see how things may go."-
That Ia not quite yes, and not quite no.
So the Chicago and Alton may p+omisa .:all
the trains you want" to the new st. Louis
summer resort of Plasa Bluff, and the Frisco
may follow suit at their resort, no want of
interest on his $4,000, no want of traffic,
though the receipts have fallen off SO per
cent. 90 s,esire for enulating Others, will in
duce him 10 commit toe saprilegge of disturb
ing the birds, simply to Accommodate the
pub ic The writer commends this feast of
crow to your healthy digestion with the
hope that in future you restrict your dis
charge of bile to that sidewalk somewhere
usar the Office, and to the boys shooting the
birds, and leave th.,se larger interests in
which the outside public ale interested 10
those who know the proper season to tedter
stock. MOCKING BIRD.