Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-10-23


But the cap sheaf was put on when
this statesman said that farmers were
benefited by tariff on eggs, in that
such tax increased the price OF 'hen
feathers Ye Gods, Hen Feathers,
The Hon. Martin II. Williams, who is
hired by Mr.. Byrnes TO stump the district
in his behalf, spoke to a slim audience in the
K. p. hall, Tuesday night. Mr.. Williams is
an out-and-out free-trader. He wants no
tariff reform in his, and does not believe in
just reducing the duties little, or a tariff
for revenue only. He is emphatically in
favor of abolishing them altogether. We
presume that these are also the sentiments
Of his employer, for we cannot for a moment
imagine that Mr.. Byrns would continue to
pay out good money to his hired man for
work that Is unsatisfactory. We have more
confidence in the good sense of the voters of
this district than to think for moment that
they would send man to Congress to rep
resent them Is believers in free trade, and
thus declare to the world that they are con-
tent to have the vast natural resources of
these counties remain unde Seloped.-De
Soto Facts.
Indeed, and with thirty years PRO
tective' tariff your resources are not
developed If protection has any
thing to do with it won't you kindly
tell US, Bro. Facts, how much longer
war taxes will have to be maintained
in order that you may be "developed?"
The ''free trade" scare used to work,
but it's played ont. The people are
''on to it, and know that high tariff
no more stimulates industries gener
ally than do excessive freights in
crease the product and business of
some of the mills down in the pineries.
The efforts of the Fat-Fryers of the
opposition to defeat Mr. Burks are be-
coming freuzied as the ides of Novem-
Der approach, and the following item
from Mondays Republic has direct
bearing upon boobies relation to the
contest. We wish Mcclure joy of his
company:
One of the strongest Endorsements that
Jasper Burks has received in his candidacy
for the State Senate in the Twenty sixth
District i the BLACKBOARD abuse heaped upon
him by that disreputable organ Of corrup-
tionists, the Bonnie Terre Register. This
delectable sheet pitches into Mr.. Burks be-
cause he is a typical mossback," who "per-
sonates the traditional Democratic antagon-
ism to progress' in various ways and espec
tally in Democracy's "persistent and relent
less warfare upon the protective system OF
the country, which i the basis of our indus
trial prosperity" The Registers notion of
''protective system of the country" was
plainly but somew hat stupidity COZ fessed last
summer in its warning to the working peo-
pie of St. Francois County that they would
this fall be given the option of voting the Re
publican ticket or seeking their living by
"tishlng in Big River" 1t wants t. defeat
Burks and rob Vest Of vote because its
masters are cyncally Indifferent to the well
fare of the farmers and other consumers and
solicitous only for their own gains by legal
lied robbery under the Mckinley tariff. Its
opposition to BuTks Is opposition 70 Vest,
and the Democratic voters OF the district
cannot too soon realize the exact animus Of
its war upon the Democratic candidate.
Dr. Ur LIT ~ rf