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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-31
VOTE SUPPRESSION.
A Republican Minority Gets More Seats
Than a DEMOCRATIC Majority.

A Republican Minority Gets More Seats
Than a Democratic Majority.
The suppression Of party votes in
Congressional elections is an interest
ing subject at present, and reliable
analysis has been made of the vote for
the Fiftieth Congress, showing the ex-
tent of the suppression. 1t is thus sum-
married.:
Average vote to each Republican Con
greSSman.. dS,Soo
Average vote to each Democratic Con-
gresham. Observation-Disclosures. 81, 40
Whole country 49, 49,. 100. 80. - 1864
Democratic majority on the COMPRESSION
al vote. oS,olo
This means that with a majority of
49, 900 on the vote for congressman, the
Democrats are still in minority in the
House, through the operations of the
dis strict system, under which the ar
rangements of the districts counts for
more than the party vote at large.
Under this system the Democratic
party was suppressed as far as Congress
is concerned inColorado, Kansas, Maine,
Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada,
Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont
and Observation-Disclosures States. The
Republican party underwent similar
suppression in Alabama, Arkansas,
Delaware, Florida. Georgia, Mississippi,
South Carolina, Texas and West Vir-
ginia-nine States. In none of these
States, Republican or Democratic, did
the minority party elect single Con-
gresham. The minority vote thus sup.
pressed is as follows:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-31


apart for that purpose, a Republican
Congress hopes to make both ends meet
this year, and possibly have little to
spare.
But in the meantime what is to be-
come of the Mckinley bill. that bill to
reduce the rerenue? That bill we we're
tod would reduce the revenue by S71,-
900. 900, and what is to become of the
Lodge force bill which will add SIS, 900, :
0o0 more to the expenses of govern
ment? These two will make differ
ence of $50, 600. 900 more.
The Treasury authorities will have
to do some vigorous counting and GER
LITIGATION" of their own to make all the
resources of the Treasury, current rev.
enue and the accumulations of years
equal the rapacious demands of Re-
publican Congress. Albany IN. W
Argus
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-31
AMATEUR PHoToeRApHy-

Iell In love with Phyllis Brown:
she was the incest girl in town
her father had bank account
vi a superfiuous amount;
Ana so the more 1 thought of il
Inc clearer seemed the benefit
mat such union would confer
Al least on me-perhaps on her,
FOR she was pretty. Such nose!
Such grace of curves. Such tint of rose,
Such sylph-like elegance OF pose,
oucn sunny eyes of heavenly blue
win httIe cheruos peeping through
such golden bangs oh, every suct
was the superlative OF much,
And educated? She could speak
Italian. Spanish, Volapuk,
French, Russian, Swedish, Danish, Dutch.
ana every language born of Babel
To read and speak them she was able
80 learned pretty-rich besides;
Yes, she would be the gem of brides.
ana L, though poor, had every taste,
me wealth of Kroisos would have graced;
Sol resolved to risk my fate
In winning such an equal mate.
Al hrst my chances promised fair;
She met me halfway everywhere:
Accepted my civilities:
And sometimes made me ill at ease
When On parting hsld her hand
And felt that mute You understand
Expressed by just the faintest squeeze.
q can not think she was a firt,
And yet she did it to my hurt y
One day crossed the Rubicon:
knew her father would have gone;
rang her door-ben inly bent
On knowing if she would consent
She sent me down a little note.
The coolest that she ever wrote:
Excuse me. please, from seeing you,
I've something else that must do;
I'll see you later if we live
asked the footman If he knew
Why such an answer she should give:
The servant shTewdly shook his head;
she's busy, SIR" he gravely said,
"DeUeloptng a negdtiUe,"
Nathan Haskell Dole in Century
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-31

Even on this statement the Press
points out that expenses will exceed re-
ceipts by over $4,000, 900. But this Is
not all. The Press adds that at least
S25, ZOO, 600 more must be included for
the dependent pension bill, sum con-
siderably less than the friends of the
bill stated it would cali for when passed,
that miscellaneous appropriations will
add about $4,000, 900 more and the sub
sidy bills $4,000 more, and Senate
increases to the bills tabulated above
will add two or three millions more.
The expenditures for the year will
thus be about $50, 900, 900 more than the
receipts. How are these facts to be con-
cealed from the people? For years
there has been in the Treasury a sum
set apart for the redemption OF National
bank notes. 1t varies in amount, but
was stated by Mr.. Conger in his speech
defending the silver bill to be $40, O0O,-
900. The silver bill proposes to unlock
this sum and make it available to cover
up the expenditures of the present Con-
gress. 1t will about suffice for that
purpose, but after it has been once
spent, the Republican party will not
know where to turn another year to dis
guise it's extravaganza.
Bv using up the accumulated surplus
of S55, 900, 600 in the Treasury, by spend
ing this National bank note redemption
fund of over $50, OO0, 900 and possibly
$50, 900, 600, by repeating the sinking
fund act, stopping the purchase of
bonds and scattering the S49, 900, 600 set
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-31
ABSOLUTELY IN ACCORD.
Tho Knights of Labor and tho Singh
Tax.

| 1n0 hHASutb Oh lA8DOT anu inc 6lnRlO
| Tax.
| The Journal of the knights Of Labor
in denying an unauthorized statement
| that that order was committed to the
single tax by the latest amendment of
its constitution, says there is no ground
| for such an assumption because the
| declaration of the order in favor Of
| 1d6ying graduated income tax is not in
| accord with the single tax idea, which
excludes all other tases than that on
| the value of land The Journal is en-
tirely right in this disclaimer, and we
doubt If any thoughtful single tax man
has ever declared otherwise. What the
single tax men do claim Is that the or
| dor of knights of Labor has put itself,
more plainly than ever before, in accord
with the purpose that animates the sin.
gle tax proposal. It will not serve any
good purpose to dispute whether the
last amendment to the constitution of
the order was step in advance or mere
ly made a clearer explanation of doc
trines already accepted. 1t is fact be-
yond dispute by any person who can
read that, on the question of taxing land
to its full rental value, the single takers
and the Knights of Labor are absolutely
in accord.
On the question of an income tax,
graduated or otherwise. they unques.
tionably differ. Incomes honestly
earned, under proper conditions are nee.
essarily the results of human labor, and
therefore should not be taxed. We
think the Knights of Labor will event
ually agree to this, and that their pres.
emit attitude is due to the fact that the
incomes which they seek to tax are
largely the result of monopoly. The
single takers believe that after the an.
plication of these principles shall have
deprived men of all inducements to
monopolize any land that they can mol
use, and natural opportunities shall
thus be thrown open to labor, there will
be no such incomes as those that the
knights now desire to cut down by taxa.
ton. When this shall be brought about
it is entirely possible that the knights
and single takers will be in accord or
the question of taxing incomes.
That the differences between the sin.
gle tax men and the Knights Of Labor
do not arise out Of the land question, is
shown by the fact that any party adopt
ing the platform propose I'd by Mr.. Pow
derby in tho current Issue Of the knights
of Labor journal would be sure to re-
ceive the enthusiastic support OF the
single tax men in any State campaigns
where such y party had any reasonable
chance OF success.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-31
Excess of suppressed Democrats


Any one who chooses to do so may
verify these figures from the official re-
turns. They are plain enough to need
little reinforcement. They explain
just what the Republicans mean when
they talk about the Suppressed" vote
in the South. They show that the sup
pressed vote in Republican States of
the Northeast and Northwest is largely
in excess of the suppressed vote in Dem
ocratic States of the South; and they
demonstrate that until the district sys.
tenn is abandoned for something better,
and human nature so changed that
those who have the power to rule will
not exercise it, there will necessarily
be suppressed vote IN every election.
The gerrymander is not necessity,
however, and these figures demonstrate
that the Republican strongholds are
worse gerrymandered than the Demo.
cratic.-Indianapolis Sentinel.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-31
A DEFICIT AHEAD.
One of the Results Incident to Rapaciou.
Republican Rule.

One Of the Results Incident to Kapacfous
Republican Rule.
The expenditures of government for
the current fiscal year will exceed the
revenues for the first time in many
years. Congress, in other words, has
spent more money than the people will
pay into the Treasury.
The revenues for the current fiscal
year have been estimated by the Treas
ury Department at 1886, 900, 900, and the
postal receipts will amount to sos, $780,
900, making in all $3.50, 500. 900. That is
the estimate of our income for the year.
What are our expenses to be? The Phil
adelphia Press, in warning the Repub-
lican party of the danger of deficit,
gives the following total of appropria-
tionS as they actually stand at present:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-31
SUPPRESSED DEMOCRATIC VOTE.


1t must be held in mind that in these
States under the district system the
minority has no representation in Con-
gress whatever. Now compare the
tables:
Number of suppressed Democratic
voters in Republican States.......- -. 1887
in Democratic States 1877, o5a
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-31

w. L. Crosman, of Boston, contributes
an article to the labor symposium de-
partment of the current numbe of the
Typographical Journal (organ of the
printers international union He de-
clares that in the single tax lies the
true solution to the labor problem. All
the articles that have appeared in the
journal since the symposium was recon-
manded by the international convention
have advocated the same thing.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-27
HELPTHE coLoRED BROTHER

Those who have given the subject
proper study are agreed that the educa-
ton of the negro is the real solution of
the race problem. 1t is furthermore
agreed that the schools designed for
negro education should Incorporate a
system of industrial training. This is
all the more important because Of the
absolute fact, which cannot be changed
by partisan legislation, that for years,
and for great many years at that. the
negro cannot rise above the plane of:
workingman. For several generations
at least, the negroes, as class. must be
laberers, the tiilers of the soil. the
workmen in the shops, and wage earn
ers in whatever department they may
be employed. Hence the necessity for
coupling industrial training with any
system of education that may be en-
pleyed for their betterment. 1t is in
view of this fact the GLOBE gives in
dorsement to the mission of Prof. MAD
DoX, who is in eur midst asking for help
toestablist the normal and industrial in
stltute fer eolered people at Gainesville,
Fla, on a more solid basis. Mr.. MAD
DoX's reputation as an educator among
the people of his own race has preceded
him, and he needs no introduction to
the people of the Northwest. He is the
principal of the Gainesville school. and
by well-dlrected energy and Intelligent
forethought has succeeded in bringing
it up to high stage of usefulness. He
81
people of the South, and merits all the
encouragement he can receive. The
race problem is not local question. as
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-27
ODD ITEMS.

/ If razor is in fairly good condition
and not in need of the oilstone, it may
soon be whetted to a fine edge on the
palm of the hand or the inner side of
the forearm. The latter is best if it is
free from hair.
They have aseurioas custom at the
burial of unmarried women in Brazil.
The coffin, hearse and the livery of the
sNtriyer must be bright scarlet, the four
white horses drawing the hearse must
be covered with scarlet nets, and scar
let plumes must deck the horses heads.
The superintendent of public instrpc-
ton of New York state has announced
the vote for the state flower as follows:
GeldeDred, 81 ,30e; rose, 1866; daisy,
33,6O3; violet, 81 .176: panSy, 81, 202; lily.
ing arb1Itus, 7.sS8; buttercup, 6,12S;
scattering, 29,045; total, 3l8.079. The
scattering : votes were distributed
through III different yarieties.-New
York Tribune.
a woman buried at New Madrid, Mo-,
a few days ago weighed 750 pounds.
There were sixteen active pallbearers.
AT Norristown. Md. ". b. Logan, a
horseshoer, made nine miniature horse
shoes from a silver 1O-cent piece. Each
shoe has the number of holes usually
drilled in horseShoeS of the ordinary
size, but, strange to say, the smallest
needle is too large to be used as nails
for these little wonders. Logan has
made affidavit that each and every one
of the miniature shoes were made with
the same hammer and punch used in
making the largest sized real horse
shoes.
A matchmaker in Newcastle, Eng
land, recently completed set of three
gold shirt studs. in one of which is a
watch that keeps excellent time, the
dial being only three-sixteenths of an
inch in diameter. The three studs are
connected by a strip of silver inside the
shirt bosom, and the watch contained
in the middle one is wound up by turn
ing the stud above. The hands are set
by turning the one below.
A remarkable invention has been
made in Austria, whereby the serious
effects of railway collisions are pre-
vented. Glass tubes project from the
train, and if they are broken by an OBJ
stacle an electric movement is applied
to the brakes, bringing the train i'm
mediately to standStiH.
Judge J. Gadsden King, of Atlanta.
Ca, is said to own a pipe that belonged
to Prince Bismarck away back in 1866.
His brother and Bismarck attended col
lege together at Frankfort-on-the-Ma
and on parting exchanged pipes. King
brought thesone he received home and
gave it to the judge.
In Brittany a curious matrimonial
custom prevails. On certain fete days
the young ladies appear in red petit
coats. with white or yellow borders
around them. The number of borders
denotes the portion the father is willing
to give his daughter. Each white band,
representing silver, denotes 100 francs
per annum, and each yellow band de
gIfotes gold, and betokens LOCO francs
year. Thus young man who sees a
face that pleases him has only to glance
at the trimmings of the petticoats to
y4earn what amount accompanies the
-yyparor
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-27
MEN WHO HAVE SUCCEEDED.

Up to the second quarter of the year
1887 the San Francisco Examiner was
as nearly dead newspaper as it could
be and yet not absolutely default in its
daily appearance. At the present time
the Examiner is at worst the second
daily newspaper in circulation and in
fuence upon the Pacific coast, and it
has good ground to claim the first posi-
ton in both respects. This change has
been wrought since the paper became
the property of William R. Hearst,
March 4, 1887. At that time Mr..
Hearst was fresh from college, and the
other papers of San Francisco were ac-
customed to make facetious illusions to
the youth of the new proprietor of the
Examiner. All that has changed. A
liberal and judicious expenditure of
money for news and the employment OF
the best editors and reporters whose
services were to be had have borne their
legitimate fruit. The entire plant of
the Examiner was renewed upon an ell
larged scale six months ago. in response
to the pressure of increased circulation,
and now the Examiner compares favor
ably in typographical appearance with
any of the Eastern papers.
AS to personality. Mr.. Hearst is tall,
athletic young man. He has Travelled
all over the world and has studied the
inner workings of all the great news
papers on earth. Whenever he has
found a feature that would improve his
paper he has at once adopted it.
Recently Mr.. Hearst purchased the lot
at the corner of Third and Market
streets i'll San Francisco, and he pro-
poses to erect upon it twelve-stOry
building that will be the model news
paper building in the United States.
Mr.. Hearst was born in San Francisco
in 1919
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-27
RECIPROCITY.

The logic of reciprocl ty is free trade
Mo amount of Sophistry will gloss over
this fact. Mr.. BLAINE still hugs the
delusion that his reciprocity ideas are
consistent with his former stand in de-
tense of the protection theory; and yet
down in the depths of an honest heart
he is forced to admit that his convlc-
tons have undergone radical change.
lie. sees, now with broader vision than
ever before. His position at the head
of the state department has enabled him
to look over and beyond the wall which
the protectioniSts have built around this
country, and in other lands he sees the
advantages offered to American trade if
we would only permit ourselves to reap
the benefits that lie in sight. He is now
more of statesman and less Of parti-
san than ever before, yet he realizes the
difficulties in the way of getting other
leaders of his own party up to the same
high point of observation from which he
views the landscape.
So far, MIR. BLAINE's view has been
confined to the Latin states to the south
of us. He has seen enough there to arrest
his attention and confne his observa-
tionS to that point. He sees all the ma
tions of the earth except our own en-
gagged in traffic with the South and
Central American states. The flags of
all countries are in their ports except
the stars and stripes. Bowed down
with humiliation at the sight, he turns
and beseecheS congress to do someuhin G
TO elevate the national honor and dig
nifty abroad, and to impress the coun-
tries to the south of us with the great
ness of our productive power. What
Shall we do? asks congress. Try reeip-
rocity, replies Mr.. BLAINE. And yet
he makes this wise suggestion without
thought that it involves complete re-
Versal of the policy which he has spent
lifetime in establishing. and of which
lie has always been the ableSt and most
earnest advocate. When reminded of
this fact by Senator FRYE. he makes
the most laundering attempt of his life
to maintain his consistency. 1t can't
be done, for free trade Is the only log
ical outcome of Mr.. BLAINE's reeiproc-
ity ideas.
Any arrangement by which American
products are to be bartered Oh equal
terms for foreign products breaks down
the partition wall which the protection
lists have erected. If free trade with
the Latin states is a good thing, then
why would not free trade with. all the
world be still better? This is ques-
tion that Mr.. BLAINE is bound to con-
slider i'll the negotiation of an arrange
ment by which we are to have an I'M
restricted market in the South and
Central American states. Ii he makes
break III the protection wall anywhere
tie whole structure will soon tumble to
pieces. This fact is apparent to the
men of the MCKINLEY school, and they
will fight the reciprocity idea TO the
death.
Still, MI. BLAINE has performed an
Important service to the country by
springing this issue on congress. He
has revealed the selfshness of the pro-
lection scheme in clearer light than
it has heretofore shone, so that those
whorun may read the unpatriotic pur-
poses of the high tariff advocates.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-27
THE lanai SYSTEM.

In Hungary the system called zonal
has been adopted Oh railroads to some
extent, and seems to be regarded as a
great Improvement, reducing railroad
tariffs SO as to add to the bulk Of travel,
and benefit the roads as we'll as the
public. 1t has also been adopted at
Vienna for the region of which it is the
center, and operates so we'll that it is
likely to be the prevalent method of
the European cities. So far as it is uu-
derstood, it is pretty much on the same
principle as the old way of sending let
tiers, SO much for a distance of 500 miles
or less, and another figure for the next
800 or 1000 miles. 1t does not probably
apply to all the railroads in the .coun-
try, although as they are under. govern
ment CONTROL, there would be no diff
Guilty in making the system general. It's
operation in the suburban districts of
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-27
SHOULD HE MARRY ?

A young man who recently graduated
in the theological department of an in
stitution little further east has been
spending some time in the Twin Cities
for sanitary and spiritual reasons, be-
fore departing on his life work as a
missionary to one of the Oriental lands.
His mind is greatly disturbed over the
problem of matrimony as a personal ad
venture. His sympathies and emotional
nature prompt him to attach to himself
a congenial female spirit, and hand in
hand go to the other side of the world
to let their mutual light shine in
heather darkness. But he has read
Count ToLsToI and thought of PAUL,
and he is in doubt whether he should
rise above all the dispositions that lead
to matrimony and go out unhampered.
His doubts have at times so far lifted
from his mind as to atlow an
occasional proposal to fair ones in
the Twin Cities, with results that
recalled and deepened his mental dis
quietude. He has look upward for solu-
ton of the conundrum, but no response
has been audible. 1t is the duty of the
average man who wants to live happily
to marry. No controversy should be
tolerated on this point, but there are
doubts in the case of those who go to
Christianize and set fashions for the
morally benghted. The case of the
New Zealand women affords a sad OBJ
jeet lesson on the subject. The mis-
sionaries met much success in capturing
the docile and inquiring Maori people.
The religious theories were encOurag
ingly imbibed, and the methods of civ
ilization initiated. The women followed
the fashions of the missionaries ladies.
They adopted the corsets, with all
their exaggeration and trimmings.
The lace has been made to do its
most vitality COMPRISING work. With
out the discipline and long practice of
the missionaries their systems have
been unable to endure the unwonted
strain, and their physical powers have
collapsed to a deplorable extent, the
women breaking down, and in cases
losing their lives. Still. the civilized
infatuation goes ON, and threatens, from
the variations. to render their last es-
tate worse than the first. Perhaps it
will be insisted that this is somewhat
exceptional, and that dress reform is
coming into the regimen of the devoted
ladies. If men are trained for mission
aries, it may seem reasonable that their
wives should have course of prepare
ton. Still, the young man whois to
give his life to the foreign missionary
work may we'll hesitate to follow his
connubial inclinations. SAINT PAUL
would SO counsel.