Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-08-14
and South Carolina and West Virgin
ia in October. But they have all fall
en- into the November line.

Laboring men of Bonnie Terre, before
enlisting under the free-trade banner in
Senator Vests 'war of determination upon
our protected industries" should decide
which will pay them best-working for the
st. Joe Lead Company or fishing in Big
River.-Bonne Terre Register, dug. It'll.
We reprint the above editorial
from the subsidized organ of the ST
Joe Lead Company, and in fairness
now endeavor to construe il.
1t is either-1st, a threat to dis
charge those employees who vote their
convictions, being Democratic; or I'd
that if the tariff ON lead is reduced the
Company will be compelled to shut
down its works.
\ s to the latter, it is hardly proba-
BILE that concern that builds sixty
mile railroad, besides paying 33 per
cent. dividend on it's watered stock
out of one years profits, would shut
down for lack of profits even if lead
were on the free list. They made the
same threat if Cleveland was elected
in 1884, still they ran. AS to the first
proposition; that is simply in keeping
with the policy adopted by that cor.
poration along with some others to
control the political action of its en-
ployes and make of them slaves.
That it will not succeed at Bonnie
Terre this year may be judged from
the fact that the same threat was made
in the last campaign by the same
Company, and over the name of its
president; still Bonnie Terre went
Democratic almost two to one.
"Lay on McDuff, and damned be
he, who first cries, hold, enough
Mr.. Blaine's reciprocity idea has
proved to be q bomb-shell in the Re-
publican ranks. 1t is an abandon
ment of the idea of protection and the
idea of the sufficiency of the home
market. Reed and Mckinley stand
squarely on the Chicago platform.
They would have wall built about
the United States SO high and strong
that nothing made by US can come
over or through it. R1aine's idea is
departure from the high protective
and the party of which heis
an acknowledged leader bids fair to
pull apart at this point. To the dis
spectator of this family
fight, the question presents itself: Ii
it is q good thing to break down the
barriers as to one nation, and permit
our citizens to buy from it by special
treaty, why should not similar treat
les be entered into with every other
nation? "I'll trade with you if you'll
trade with me-" is the language of
reciprocity. The ultra protectionists
regard reciprocity as the thin end OF
the Free Trade wedge, and they are
right. The fact is that Mr.. Blaine
sees that the eyes of the people are
opened to the enormity of the protect
i've steal. 1t has made nation OF
and paupers; the great
(the pauperized) have caught
on to the shell game. Mr.. Blaine sees
that the jig is up, and proposes to
back down gracefully while there Is
time. The consequent rage of the
Reed Mckinley crowd is something
funny to look at All good Democrats
and to be Democrat is to be good
are getting ready to enjoy the circus,
and will eheerfully participate in the
obsequies, if there is to be funeral,
of either faction. If preferred, they
will considerably bury both this fall.