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Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-04
The BIaine.McCormic wedding

RIcHFIELD SPRINGS, N. Y, September
3.-Emmons Blaine, Mrs. James O..
Blaine and Miss Harriet Blaine are at
the Spring House. The rest Of the
Blaine family are expected in
few days in anticipation Of Emmons
Blaine's marriage to Miss Mccormick
on the Goth. Great preparation for the
event is in progress.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-04
The ORANGE TRUST.
Chicago Dealers Say IL Will Amount
TO Nothing.

CHICAGO, September 3.-Mr. Frye,
commission merchant, said today :
''This trust on Florida fruit will have no
effect whatever on California goods.
California goods will always take the
lead, but California fruits do not 8me in
the market until after the Florida goods
60 out"
A gentleman in the office of Porter
Bros. & Co. said: 'sIt will amoppt TO
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-04
New Gaugers.

WASHINGTON. September 3.-John D.
McKepxi6 and Peter Ball have been sp-
pointed gaugers in the First California
District.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-04
SOCIETY MEETINGS.

II Meets every Tuesday evening in Odd Eel
lows Hall, $40 Bank building, Downey ave.
East Los Angeles.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-04

A MEXICAN LEGION OF HONOR SAFETY
n Council, No. 664-Meets second and fourth
Thursday evenings Of each month at their Hall
IL " First st., bet. Main and Spring.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-04

ORANGE BRANCH COMMANDERY; NO
" BOG, U. o. G. Meets every Friday even
ing in New Odd Fellows Hall, Hayden block,
East Los Angeles.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-04

n Commandery, No. B, K. t. Holds its
ctated oonclaves in ths asylum in Masonic Hall
sor. OF Spring and First sts, on the third Thurs
day OF each month, at 7:3OPM.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-04

Tos ANGELES LEGION, NO. 8, SELECT
IL Knights, A. o. U. W.-Meets every Monday
evening In Campbells Hall, cor. Downey ave
and Truman st., East Los Angeles.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-02
PiTH AND POINT.


"A work well begun IS half done,
but the other half should not be neg-
lected.
The human mind is gem. but It
is sometimes very much Impaired by q
bad setting. Jewellers Weekly.
Purposes, like eggs. unless they be
Matched into action. will rum into decay.
Smiles.
The best sign that = man believes
any thing is not his repetition OF its
formulas. but his impregnation with its
spirit.
If there were no readers there
would be no writer's. To indulge in
the reading of bad books is to give bad
authors their power for evils. s.
Times.
Love that has nothing but beauty
to keep it in good health is short-lived.
and apt to have ague fits. Erasmus.
Virtue consists in making desire
subordinate of duty, passion to princi-
pie; the pillars of character are mod
GRAFTON, temperance. chastity. sim
plicity, self-control; its method is self
denial.
Many of our opportunities must
be lost to us; it is impossible for us to
be alert enough to profit by them all.
But part of our training is to look for
them. and our success will depend on
the use we make of them.-United
Presbyterian.
1T is doing some service to hui
mainly to amuse innocently; and they
know very little of society who think
we can bear to be always employed
either in duties or meditations with
out any relaxatiou.-Sir p. Sidney.
Good nature disarms enmity, al
lays irritation. stops even the garrulity
of fault-finding. 1t more than half
overcomes envy. A really good-nat-
ured man is the most troublesome
morsel that the malign passions ever
attempted to feed upon. He is the
natural superior of irritable persons.
When we look back upon our
lives, especially if we begin to feel
that they are pr city far spent, how we
amuse ourselves with thoughts of what
we might have made out of them other
than they are. But it is an amuse-
ment that may as well be sparingly in
dulged in. Our better employment is
to make as much as possible of what
is left us.
-Censure is not aroused by the
prudent exertion of ability. To think
highly of ourselves in comparison with
others, to assume by our own au-
thority that precedence which none is
willing to grant, must always be in
vidious and offensive; but to rate our
powers high in proportion to things
and imagine ourselves equal to great
undertakings, while we leave others in
possession of the same abilities, can
not with equal justice provoke CEN
sure.-N. Y. Ledger
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-02
The Great Industrial Battle.

Warner Miller declares that the bat
tie for protectlonism is not yet ended.
Warner Miller IS correct. The strik-
ing cottou-mill operatives of New
England, the dismissed iron-workers
of Reading. the half-starved coal-min-
ers and half-paid foundrymen of Penn
sylvania, the disappointed and dis
gusted wage-workers of all Industries,
in all parts of the country, who have
been told so often By the demagoeues
of protectionism that high tariff means
high wages. are almost unanimously
in accord with the opinion of Warner
Miller. And the agricultors of the
West, who. failing to discover the
promised home markets for their
products, but discovering, in its stead,
that in almost every legislature the
spirit of monopoly is striving to cut
off and restrict access to the markets
of our own country for our own pro-
ducers, are coming to the same opin-
ion. Warner Miller is co-rect.-Chi.
cago Globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-02
POLITICAL CORRUPTION.

The Shameful System of Politics Intro
duced by the Republican Party.
If down-trodden subject of Great
Britain. the son of peerage-ridden
land, the blind worshiper of stars aud
carriers, were to ask a free-born Amer
lean to point out the controlling factor
in our political system; the power that
brought men into prominence and gave
them the chief places of the Govern
ment, how would the free-born Amer
lean answer him?
''YOu have no aristOcracy OF birth, -
the Briton would say, therefore 1t is not
social standing that puts men to the
front in your country. Nor can it be
that your successful public men are Sc
lected from what You call the aristoc-
racy of brains; for. according to the
accounts of your untrammeled press,
many of your legislators and executive
officers are ignorant and incompetent.
They can not be selected for their excep-
tional probity, for this same untram-
meled press imputes to many of them
the most disgraceful sort of corruption,
and they never punish their accusers,
as would private citizens who were
slandered. We understand, of course,
that you have public men who are of
good standing in the community, and
who are both able and honest. But
such men are clearly in a minority
among your office-holders. Now, what
is the power that lifts the others above
the rest of your people. puts them in
place and keeps them there?"
The American, if he had to answer
truly to such an inquiry, would have
no choice but to say:
money. Some of our public men
get their places because they are rich
and can spend money to secure them.
Others are able to induce their party
to spend the money necessary to pro-
cure their election. Still others are
elected because they are the friends,
allies or servants of rich men, whose
interests are affected by legislation,
and who are willing to buy place or
power for those who will be of service
to them Very few indeed are elected
solely for their fitness and without the
use of money or it's equivalent in pat
ronage."
1t would be hard indeed for an
American citizen, with any pride in
his citizenship, to make this confession
to an Englishman; but he would have
to make it, if he meant to tell the
truth. We can understand that. ur-
der such circumstances, our fellow
countryman might be sorely tempted
TO prevaricate, or even to lie outright
But whether he lied or told the truth,
the humiliating facts would remain the
same.
But perhaps the American citizen
who reads this does not believe that
these are the humiliating facts. Per-
haps he thinks these assertions are but
gloomy. cynical. pessimistic generali-
ties If he does, let him think the sit
uation over for himself. We will sup
pose that he is citizen of New York.
Let him consider how the municipal
government of that city is constituted:
how the legislative and executive Off
GERS of the State are chosen, and how
the State itself is represented in the
National Government. The most prom
ineat officials of the city are the mayor
and the board of aldermen. The may
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-02
BOGUS FEDERAL CENSUS.
What the Appointments of Census Director
Porter Really Means

What the Appointment of Census Director
Porter Really Means.
That We are to have bogus Federal
census has been certified in the ap-
pointment by the President of Robert
T. Porter to superintend the sta
tistics of 1890 The figures of 1880
mutely denounce the war tariff. The
remorseless effects of high taxes are
there spread forth for all to see. An
other and still worse showing would
pain the tariff-masters. Accordingly.
the hired man of protection, the del
egate of monopoly, the private sec
rotary OF greed. extortion and quack-
ery-the man who for a decade mas
drawn no dollar that was not part
of the tariff plumber, who has pre-
pared no table of figures that did not
aim to support lie-this person has
been foisted on the census itself The
Herald can not condemn General Har-
rison too harshly for an invasion so
shameless of a domain that has hith-
erto enjoyed the confidence of the peo-
pie. A bogus census of the United
States is shocking in the idea. What
ills. then, may not grow out of the
thing itself?
Robert P. Porter, the recipient of
pay for all his tariff arguments" will
proceed to build an array of figures
which will prove that the farmer sells
in the dearest market and buys in the
cheapest; that wooden mills prosper
under a high tariff ON woods; that
navies grow under high tariff on
shipping; that wages rise under the
effects of i'm migration, and that immi-
grafton declines under the stimulus of
war prices for labor and goods. All
OF the fallacies, overthrow in the
census of 1880, will be carefully rein
stated by the false figures of 1890. The
free trader of 1892, delivering his
speech in joint debate, must appeal for
his facts to the other orators figures
The huge enginery of monopoly and
tariff, capable of purchasing the cleo
ton of a President and Congress
against popular plurality of 100. 900,
has laid sacrilegious hands on the
census. A cheap fellow, without love
of his country, will now proceed to
tabulate for facts the impressions, de-
lusions, snares and base fabrications
of every respectable thief in the Ma
ton. The total will be the official emu
meration OF the people, their estate,
their employment and their increas-
ing prosperity.
Carnegie. Jones and other old-time
patrons of the cheap man may depend
on a compendium which will exhibit G.
dwindling aristocracy, a tremendous
growth of the we'll to-do class, coun-
try without tax, whose levy is a baga-
telle, whose yeomanry and labor are
constantly employed at fabulous hire.
whose men and masters are bound to
each other by the unbroken and I'M
yielding ties of a home market. The
miner will live in palace; the oper-
ator will share the hovel. The mill
worker will go to Europe and do the
smuggling; the mill-owner will reap a
profit of sixty cents a day. with long
intermissions of loss.
All this Internal scoundrelism the
low tariff orator must quote in 1892, if
he shall dare to appeal to the eleventh
census ChicarO Herald
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-02
SWEET PUNISHMENT.
A Scnoolmasterly Experiment That Was
q Decided Failure.

A Scnoolmasterly Experiment. That Was
Decided Failure.
MARY Jane Craycraft," said the
teacher, sharply, 'you will take your
seat over there between Joe Bridge
water and Bob Angel!''
A blush dyed the cheek of the little
girl. She half rose, hesisated, and sat
down again.
'.Do as you are told, Or"
And Mr.. Hoskinson reached up for
the long, tapering Usage orange switch,
| trimmed of its thorns, that rested on
| two nails driven into the wall back of
| his desk.
Mary Jane waited no longer. Mr..
went over and took her seat between
the two boys, who submitted to the
visitation with that patient endurance
that boys will sometimes manifest when
circumstances over which they have no
control place by their side the prettiest
girl in school.
LAS an experiment for this one after
noon I have decided that evory girl
who whispers or violates any of the
rules" announced the teacher, en-
phatically, "shall be punished in pre-
cisely the same way. Naomi Jackson, -
he continued, Il saw you put that
chew of spruce gum in your mouth.
You will take your seat on the boys
side between Ben PARROT and Sol
Leezer."
With an air of the deepest contrition
Naomi complied.
'.Phebe Joanna Clifton" rang out
the sharp voice of Mr.. Hoskinson,
''march over there and sit down be-
tween Hoddy Ingraham and Jay See
ley! You were whispering. Laura
cambridge, saw you taking bite of
apple. You will go and take your
seat between Ed Montgomery and Dave
Erwin. Lutte Demoss and Tom Voc,
make room between you for Hester
Jones. She has upset her ink. Nancy
Bilderback," he vociferated, II have
punished you before for eating in
school. Bring me that doughnut Now
go and sit down between Billy Peters
and Hiram Graffr'
The schoolmaster wiped his fore
head nervously and looked about him
again. The girls were strangely re-
CARELESS of the rules. Discipline must
be maintained.
Clara Hankins," he exclaimed, ..put
that book back on Ellen Simpsons desk
and go and take your seat between
John Neill and Billy Houk. This dis
obedience must be stopped! Fanny
Kershaw, saw you writing q commu-
nication on your slate. Go and take
your seat between Jim Stevenson and
George Ramsey"
Fifteen minutes later Mr.. Hoskinson,
with despairing groan, dismissed
the children for the day. The girls of
his usually quiet school were misbe-
having to a degree he had never before
known in all his experience. and there
was no way to punish them
The boys side of the room was too
full of girls to hold any more. Chicago
Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-02
DRIFT OF OPINION.

The rush of foaters to Okla
homa in big, big blocks must COM
mand the admiration of that est1mable
individual, Colonel w. w. Dudley
Utica On. " Observer.
The office-seekers have forced
Matthew Stanley Quay to hide. In
other words, it is necessary to be
saved from his friends in order to save
his health. Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot
"A neglected politician in Wash
ington says he has secured, without
appointment, the position of survey
or-generaL" He looks over the crowd
every morning. IN. O. Picayune.
Have the wrongs of American
fishermen in Canadian waters, over
which we shed so many tears prior to
the recent election, been righted? Eli!
Mr.. Blaine? Shall our tears be dried?
IN. Y. Herald.
/ First Assistant Postmaster-Gen-
eral Clarkson has purchased span Of
hearse horses to draw his carriage.
AS the head executioner of the Ad-
ministration, funeral trappings are
decidedly appropriate for him.-Chi-
cago News.
General Alger, of Michigan, is
out early with the announcement that
he will be candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for President in 1892.
The General has taken time not by the
forelock, but by the whole scalp
Philadelphia Press (Rep.).
The League Island Navy Yard
appears to have been ''reorganized'
until there is scarcely anybody but a
Republican in it, and the ward bosses
continue to read with complacent
smile Secretary Tracy's recent dec
laration that he is ''unalterably op-
posed to mixing the navy yards up
with politics. -Providence journal.
The operations of the trust af-
feet the price or the supply of sugar in
all parts of the country. The greed
of the organization will not permit
the people to forget that the trust was
formed by an unlawful use of
corporate franchises. that the whole
scheme is illegal and that the COM
bination is enabled to control almost
the entire business In the United
States and to suppress competition in
prices by the high duties on imported
refined sugar.-N. Y. Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-02

or is elected by the vote OF the whole
town, and is. as a rule, reputable
| man. To be elected. however. he must
have the nomination of his party, and,
| to all intents and purposes. he must
pay for that nomination by giving Of
fee to his supporters. About the
board OF aldermen nobody has any de-
| lusions. 1t is mainly composed OF
irresponsible men of no character
many of them liquor-dealers. They
buy their places with money and pat
ronage, and they themselves, for the
| most pa t. may be bought singly like
| cabbages or in punches like radishes.
Passing to the State government, he
will find in the Governor and the Leg
islature State mayor and State
board of aldermen with two houses.
There are plenty of honest men in both
| houses; but there is generally good
working majority of men who have
| bought the ir places to sell themselves,
a nd who, when they are not passing
bills to benefit rich corporations at the
expense of the people, are engaged in
ntroducing bills designed to damage
the same corporations-bills which
| disappear when their promoters are
! bought off.
But there remains the National,
Governm ent. And can the citizen lay
his hand on his heart and say that the
Congressman from his district spent
no money (over and above his legiti-
| mate eXpenses), either out of his own
pocket or out of his party's funds, to
insure his election? If he can, he is
able to do more than the Congressman
can, unless he is very remarkable
| and a very lucky Congressman. But
who is it who sits in judgment on the
| acts of the Congressman. The Presi-
! dent of the United States; the Chief
Magistrate of the Nation. And in 1880
the party that elected the President
| openly boosted that it had bought the
| vote of the State of Indiana with
'soap." In 1888 the same party an
nounced, in advance, that it intended to
buy the vote of the same State with
'fat'' and did it.
These may be broad and sweeping
| assertions; but any one who honestly
seeks to verify them will find them
specific enough-and the verifcation
easy enough. This makes a bad
| showing, not for our system of gov
eminent, but for our system of poll
tics; and it makes a worse showing
| for our people, in that they not only
tolerate these things, but tolerate
their being made matters of common
| report, without feeling the sense of
personal shame and individual re-
sponsibility. II the attention of an
honest citizen is called to the digrace
of our politics. he has but one reply
to make: "Oh, yes, suppose there IS
a good deal of corruption in politics.
But then you can't help it. 1t has
| always been so. And of course the
reports are greatly exaggerated.
And then, we seem to be getting along
pretty well. guess there's no great
harm DONE"
Yet there is great harm done-in
setting up an example that encourages
dishonesty in commercial life and
| lowers the standard of citiz en- ship and
| civic manhood.--Puck.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-02
HOMES OF CASTAWAYS.
thoughts Suggested bv a Recent Dis
coverY at PaImerston Island.

| Thoughts Suggested by a Recent Dis
| coyerY at Palmerston Island.
The recent discovery by a British
| bark that the small Polynesian island
known as Palmerston island is inhab-
tied by men of our race, will revive the
| hopes of those who have long mourned
| for relatives lost on the Pacific. There
is hardly person in California who
can not recall the memory of some one
who went to sea long ago on the widest
of the oceans, and was never heard OF
again. Spiritualists and other impos-
tors have reaped living by deluding
survivors with stories of the happy life
of the supposed corpse on some sunny
isle, where, as the poetess sang, the
skies forever smile and the beaches
forever weep. Now that we are actu-
ally finding crews long since wrecked
on islands far out of the track of pass
ing vessels, it must be expected that
these sanguine hopes will be revived.
Palmerston island is only one exam
pie. 1t was found to be occupied by
an English sailor, who had lived there
for twenty-five years. He had desert
ed from his ship at Tahiti in a small
boat, had picked up a wife on pass
ing island. and had made himself a
home on Palmerston, where he was
lord of all he surveyed. The nearest
land is three hundred miles away; his
subjects number thirty-three. of whom
fifteen are his own children. In two
years it will be century since the
mutineers of the Bounty established
themselves on Pitcairn's island. They
lived there eighteen years before they
were discovered, and even now one
only hears of them at intervals. Three
quarters of century ago three sailors
established themselves on Tristand
Acunha. They got wives from st.
Helena, and led happy lives. seldom
communicating with the rest of the
world.
''In the tropical zone an island
which bears cOcoanuts and plantains,
and on the shores of which fish are to
be found, will sustain human life in
definitely without imports from the
civilized world. But little clothing is
necessary, and food. with but slight
labor, can be made abundant and
varied. What sort of life the inhabit-
ants would lead we can learn from
Robinson Crusoe" and Charles
Reade's Foul Play" To one who is
accustomed to his daily papers and to
the hum and stir of the busy world,
life would be trifie monotonous, but
there are persons in every age for
whom the career of hermit has
charms. 1t is quite possible that many
islands which sea captains class as UNI
inhabited are really the home of casta-
ways, and it might be worth the while
of the schooners which sail out of this
point to Polynesia in quest of copra to
keep lookout as they pass them
San Francisco Call.