Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-08-21
POLITICAL. Truth.
Senator Plumb on Eepuhiicanism Versus
Civil ization.


Civil ization.
| Senator Plumb of Kansas has taken
| hold on the central truth of modern
| political economy. and if he has the
| courage and the intellect to make him.
self it's exponent it will make him
reputation second to that of no states
! man in America annals Instead OF
| pottering with truth and relying on
! shrewd trickery of reasoning, IS Nj.
| Blaine is doing. he has gone straight
| to the roots OF the whole matter. The
man who seizes on vital and funda-
mental truth and procla:ins t pnfllnch-
| ingly becomes great Will rs greatness.
And in ell the range OF = &"rn politics
/ there is no greater truth / al iilat Mr..
! Plumb has stated in stating tuat it Is
the genius of civilization to produce
| plenty and cheaper price, while 1t IS
| the practice of the Plutocrat;c allies of
| the Republican party TO demand laws to
check plenty that high prices may be
maintained.
Every lover of humanity wishes for i
the least suffering and discomfort; the
greatest possible plenty of the neces-
saries and comforts OF life. Those alone
are civilized who desire this, whose
work contributes to its attainment
/ Those who seek to prevent 1t, who for
their own selfish gain perpetrate the
discomforts, miseries and privations of
their fellows. are the worst savages,
/ because they have not the savage eX-
cuse of complete ignorance Of what they
are doing.
The president and directors of every
trust in the country know that when
they strive to prevent plenty and create
scarcity they produce or perpetuate
| dearth. want and suffering, that these
may result in high prices for what they
, have to sell. Some chemist, giving his
life to the service of mankind and ask
ing no money reward, makes great
discovery; some mechanic makes
great improvement in productive ma
chinerv. Chemist and mechanic are
alike liberators van leaders in the
struggle for progress, for freedom of
mind and body; for a higher life than
that of perpetual want through which
men by their deprivations and needs
are tied down to brutality. Then when
such men, through self-denying toll.
have found ways to tighten the labor
and sufTerings of mankind, making pro-
duetion easier, increasing plenty and
lesseninS want. comes the Plutocrat
with his money, and with brains-not
brains enough to see his own best inter
est in the common welfare, but only
with that quality of brains which can
use good for selfish purposes. All these
plenty producing inventions are good in
the highest degree in themselves, but
in his hands they become instruments
for robbing labor of employment while
he is using them not to increase plenty.
but to check it. He takes machine
that can furnish some comfort OF life to
so, zoo, 600 people. He agrees with other
owners OF such machines that the sup
ply shall be limited to production for
only 10, 900. 900. that the deprivation of
the rest may keep up prices. And to
carry out this agreement for artificial
scarcity, he goes to Congress and pro-
cures the passage OF laws under which
those who suffer from the artificial
scarcity produced by him and his asSoci-
ates are prohibited from supplying their
needs from elsewhere.
This is an ordinary business tran
saction.' 1t is done every day. 1t is
the method of Plutocratic business, but
none the less is every man who is the
agent of depriving his fellows of the
greatest possibility of plenty a bar
barian. an obstacle to progress, STUN
bling block in the way of civilization,
an opponent Of Providence, an enemy
OF the human race.
A small class of men, in this country
and in Europe. are struggling to keep
for themselves the great benefits of the
new methods of creating wealth. which
unselfsh students and thinkers have
wrought out during the century. The
work was done for the world; it is the
heritage of the world. that the world
may suffer less privation, and being rid
of that oppression, advance to large in
tellectual and political liberty. Every
invention, every new discovery, gives
an added i'm petus to the forces which
are com bining to crush this Plutocratic
class, and give the world the benefit
of the plenty created by the mastery of
mind over matter. The Plutocracy will
be overthrow. The time will come when
the world will stop trou bling itself with
juggled figures and with percentages;
when it will say: This is right and it
shall be done;' This is wrong and it
shall not be done And that time will |
is not far off. The Plutocrats are show |
ing the hardihood of their blind covet- |
BUSINESS. They are struggling for their |
unearned percentages in front of the |
rolling wheels of the Juggernaut car of
civilization and progress, and if they re-
fuse to see the truth, to hear reason and |
to do justice, they may expect to meet |
the rewards of their injustice.
Senator Plumb has partisan record |
which makes it surprising that he |
should be the one man of all others in |
his party to stand forward to tell the |
whole truth, but as he has done it. all |
who love truth have only thanks and |
praise for him. He has stood forward |
in the leaders place. If he has the |
leaders stuff in him, he will nave not |
only the whole West behind him, but |
with it all those who hate Oppression, |
who love freedom and progress.-St. |,
Louis Republic.