Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-12-11
THE APOSTLE OF DOODLE
Harrison's Epistle to Congress
Proves Him to Be Such.
Tarif Robbery. Steamship Subsidies, Rec
Iprocity HumbuS and Federal Com
troll OF Elections Upheld by
the President.
Monopoly Upheld Officially.
IChicago Herald.

lChicago Herald.
All those enlightened Republicans
who have hoped against hope that
way out of the monopoly camp would be
found for their party and that Presi-
dent Harrison might prove to be their
Moses will find no comfort in the EX-
ecutive message. 1t not only indorses
and adheres to McKinleyism, but it
favors steamship subsidies, calls for the
passage of the bayonet election bill, and
even ventures to say of the present COR
rupt and shameless Congress, already
repudiated as other Congress ever
was, that ''its work may be confidently
submitted to the considerate Judgment
of the people" If progressive Renub-
licans can find in such a manifestation
of Bourbonism single ray of comfort
| the Herald wishes them much Joy.
| The message is an intensely partisan
| production, bearing evidence of hasty
| prepare ton and of the use of such ex-
cuses and subterfuges as came first to
hand in a disorderly scramble after
something to say. To all intents and
purposes it is confession that the Nc
Kinley bill is all that the opponents of
that measure have represented ii to be,
for the people are now told that that
infamous law was not expected to prove
beneficial Immediately. They must
wait year or two until the riotous rob-
bers of the trusts fall out over the
spoil, or until the sagacity of men de-
vises new schemes of competition by
which it's outrages may be evaded. In
thus committing his party to the con-
tinued defense of a law designed to op-
press the many and to enrich the few
the President will strengthen himself
with the mill-owning fraternity which
contributes campaign fat and makes
and unmakes Presidential candidates.
TO this extent he is at least honest in
his dishonesty, and his occasional ref
erence to the subject of wages-as
though fallacy so thoroughly ex
ploded as that could be made to do
duty any further-shows that he is as
callous to the scorn of Intelligent men
as he is unmindful of the hardships of
the oppressed
In word, then, the Republican poll
cy, as outlined by the President who
hopes to succeed himself, compre hends
these three points: /. Unlimite,. mon
opoly tariff taxes. 2. Unlimited power
by the Davenports, Quays and Dudleys
over the peoples elections. 3. Unlim-
tied subsidies for steamships. Hope
lessly infatuated as such course must
appear to all who are not under the
spell of monopoly, it should be borne in
mind that Mr.. Harrison lives in an at
mosphere of privilege, injustice, can't
and selfishness. The great leaders of
his party are monopolists or attorneys
of monopolists. Not one among them
stands for any thing else. They fatten
on the people. They have profited so
long by unwise and unjust laws, and
the successful oppression of others has
seemed so respectable to them and to
Others that they naturally exert a pow
erful influence upon a weak and vain
man, who owes to them all that he is
and all that he hopes to be. They have
paid for the Mckinley bill in cash con-
tributions. They will never give it up
until a triumphant Democracy ruth
less1y sweeps away from them the pow
err to corner markets and to choose
Presidents.
Dubious as tho last ditch attitude of
their leaders must appear to honorab
Republicans, Democrats will accept the
situation cheerfully and proceed to ar
range their forces for the final struggle
in 1899. The Mckinley bill will be a
robber bill in that year the same as it
is to-day. Time may obliterate some
of its baldest expressions, but it can not
temper the wrath of the millions whom
it has plundered.