Iron County register., 1889-12-05
FIGHTING FOR PRINCIPLE.
The Part the West Will Take in tn
Struggle Against High Taxes.

Struggle Against High Taxes.
1t is said that Frank Hatton, once
Postmaster-General,a and now the editor
Of the Administration organ in Wash
tngton, was so affected by the returns of
the election in his native State of Iowa
that he bandaged his head with a wet
towel and sat by a pail of ice-water all
night. To a friend who called during
the evening to condole with him Mr..
Hatton said: ''This is terrible. Two
more years of Harrison and even Penn
sylvania will not be safe"
The sketch of Mr.. Hatton's Frustrated
condition is possibly overdrawn, and it
is equally probable that Mr.. Hatton
himself had worse case of the dumps
than he would now be willing to admit
when he despaired of holding Pennsyl-
vania in the protection column.
Pennsylvania is there to stay. A State
that can submit to being bossed by Don
Cameron and Matt Quay will not be
nauseated by dose of Harrison. Penn
sylvania's protection stomach is not of
the squeamish order, to be made sick by
the little emetics that are worrying the
Western end of the Republican party.
Even if the protection diet lay hard
on the Pennsylvania stomach there is
no hope of Pennsylvania going Demo-
cratic as long as the Pennsylvania Democ-
racy continues to be dominated by
Randall and Wallace. They are sworn
enemies and fight each other with in
tense bitterness as long as there is no
prospect of Democratic success in the
State, but whenever the leaven of
or;f clr> ~ p;
the Pennsylvania lump Mr. Randall
and Mr.. Wallace forget their old-time
antagonisms and Immediately join
hands in their endeavor to swing the
State back to the Republicans. No, in
deed, Mr.. Hatton need not worry about
Pennsylvania going Democratic as long
as Randall and Wallace are on deck to
help the Administration along.
But the very things that are making
Pennsylvania the Gibraltar of protection
are the very things that are solidifying
the Western States in support of tariff
reform. The things that suit the coal
barons, the oil kings, the iron monarchs
and the railroad magnates of Pennsyl-
vania are not the things that suit the
sunburnt, horny-handed grangers of
the West.
Our Western farmers are willing to
render unto the Pennsylvania Caesars
the things that>a theirs. but they are
equally determined to retain for them
selves the things that belong to them
selves.
A Western farmer performs more hon
est work in one day than Pennsylvania
coal baron Or iron king performs in a
lifetime. And yet the Government
taxes the Western farmers labor to
support the Pennsylvania coal baron
and iron king in their luxury.
This is the kind of tribute that the
Western farmers are tired of paying.
Human nature is human nature the
world over. AS long as our tariff laws
enable the Pennsylvania coal and iron
masters to live in baronial splendor
they are not going to renounce their
allegiance to the party which provides
these luxurious conditions, even though
the Harrison Administration is making
a mess of the party machine.
The same human nature that is Oper-
ating in Pennsylvania is also manifest
ing itself here in the West, but in a
different direction. The Western farm
ers are tired of their condition
of serfdom, imposed by the tariff laws.
1t isn't in human nature that they
should like it; and being human beings
they are organizing to regain their
freedom. The first blows of the great
revolution were struck in Ohio and
Iowa, and they will be followed up until
the shackles of this tariff slavery are
rent from the limbs of the producing
classes.
Let Pennsylvania be joined to its
high-tariff idol.
The farmers of the West are welded
to the Goddess of Liberty, and under her
banner they have arrayed themselves
no more tribute to monopoly" is their
war-cry. In hoe signo vinces.-St. Paul
Globe.