Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-17
Central IIlmOis-POlitleal and ReIiIg
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selves in the public mind that any al
tempt to warm over the issues of 1SS
will disgust the people. Much is bein,
said about Democrats fighting owe
again the issues set forth in tile las
campaign, but if the question of th
next presidential election recurs upol
reform of the tariff defeat is immineE
for the Democratic party. 1t must TAX
groLnd far in advance of the position
it held last year. Then tine Republican
party said 1--WE in are favor of u tariff
up to Il per cent?" and the Democrat
said 1--WE are in favor of protection too
we are not free traders. Oh no! not by
any means; for we favor a tariff of Al
per cent Or something less instead o
47.10." Democrats can hardly afforC
to give themselves away in that way
any more and the general discussions
of such questions, heard in these parts
indicate that the people see whore the
mistake was made and they are not
likely to make it again.
We have had good many gather.
ings since harvest and quite number
of them were soldiers reunions; or, at
least, that is what they were called
though in reality they were occasions
| for valiant warriors to tell those who
| were worsted in the war how badly we
| whipped them, &c. "Pshaw," said an
| old comrade who Lad served three
years at the front, without even fur
Tough, after hearing one of these
doughty warriors wind up a windy
period II think 1t was time the war
was really over, and that We could talk
of our hopes for the future on such oc-
casions as this, and not be continually
going back to old shames and sores. 1t
has come to that here in this whining
for pensions, and in enlarging upon the
services of men who served a few
months. and many of whom never
smelt powder, that a decent man is
almost ashamed to own that he was
a soldier, even if, like yonr writer, he
served noarly four years. Pensions
and post-offices are not being received
here as fast as the votes went in last
ominous growing. What immaculate
p atrio tism that is that will let the hope
of getting a pension bribe man to
vote with party that promises such
pitiful reward!
On the other hand we see in D mo-
cratic papers excuses made for the form
of slavery that was the cause of the
war. There are men still foolish enough
to speak of it as kind fatherly ,institu-
ton, or even a sort of missionary en-
terprise; but they are silly enough to
show us,when they refer to the ascend
ancy of the negro in politics, that they
are terribly afraid that their own chick.
ems would come home to roost, Then,
presto! they tell US all about the igno.
rance and viciousness of the blacks
which speaks poorly for the education
the slave received under the fatherly
system of south ern slavery. Such men
justify all that is said on the other side;
and northern men are very properly
distrustful of the party with which
they affiliate. Democrats such men
call themselves; they are about the
same stripe of Democrat as those were
who tore out of the Declaration OF In
dependence Thomas Jefferson's CON-
demnation ofchattel slavery as crime.
1t was a crime, damnable crime for
which we as a people have made
fearful exDiation. and whose black
curse still hangs over the south in that
dislike, aud even contempt, for honest
labor still SO prevalent among the
whites there. Better than to excuse
such an outrage on humanity to make
amends for the past by doing every
thing possible to do away with that
broade, deeper, yet more insiduous
form of slavery which we still tolerate
both north and south. There is good
deal of gushing sentiment gotten off in
regard to healing sectional antipathies,
but the best way to "strew roses in the
bloody chasm" is to use little more
practical common sense on both sides.
A nameless puritan in one of our
local papers is very anxious to have his
notions about observance of Sunday
crammed down other peoples threats.
Like all our religious fanatics he re-
peats the pious fib about God setting
this day apart from others, &c. There
is no divine command to observe one
day more than other and the sooner we
fully recognize this fact the sooner we
shall get rid of large class who play
saint OH Sunday and the devil on Mon
day. Actions speak louder than words
and it is degrading faith that allows a
man to wrong his fellow and then
make himself call hunk" with God by
getting down on his knees and num-
bling or mouthing a set of words.
There is something that is religion;
but 1T is something to be lived rather
than to be professed. He serves God
best who serves his fellow man most.n
1t does not make much difference
whether our creed is Allah IL Allah. or
defines the trinity,so we let that COLDER
thread of humanity that has been the
soul of every religion since long before
the sun first shone in the faces of the
statues of Memnon, or tipped the pyra-
mids with gold, run through all our
actions. FARMER.
Murray Ills, Oct. I, 1889.