Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-11-27


ployed at good wages and very light work.
Sixty thousand dollars is fair remuneration
| for my severe mental strain. Twelve hum
dred and one of our popula,ion-pure,n native
Americans-are engaged in business prof
| liable to them, and the other 59,99o,I9O are
| losers Of only one cent each. This business
[ viii continue; and l will further agree not
| to reduce the wages Of my help, TO employ
| only natives, and not to import faborer>
| from Hungary Poland or italy TO compete
| with them. There will be no shut down.,
| no strikes, and in ~ years agree 10 nave
| free library. gymnasium and hospital Tor my
help. | further agree to find politicians " no
| will point TO thi- new industry "a one that
! has grown up entirely under the beneflceni
| workings OF protection. | will refer tn this
industry myself a. depending absolutely up
on the glorious American idea OF protection.
| "ReciprOciiy'' i the wa'chword for 1892.
IT'S simple, ea>iig understood, and appeals
| to the common sense of every one. Tickle
me and will return the compliment.-De
| Soto Facts.
| Indeed! What a wondrous change
has come DER the spirit of your dream!
Prior to November 4th, you pretended
to believe that there was nothing
American, save the glorious Home
Market: to look beyond that was
treason the most odious. Yet we are
glad to greet you as friend to Tariff
Reform. Tariff Reform? Nay, to Free
Trade! for Reciprocity is Free Trade
of the freest kind: offering to receive,
without let or governmental him
drance, the goods and products of
those countries which will put up no
barrier in the way of tariff duties
| against the things of commerce and
trade we desire to sell to them. Under
this policy England will be our earli-
est and best customer. BY reason of
her Free Trade policy, we ship to her
ports hundreds of millions worth of
our products, while to France, Ger
many, and the Spanish American
countries our expectations sink into
insignificance. OF course, if we are to
have Reciprocity, and work under the
rule of "tickle me and I'll tickle you,"
we shall first open our ports to Eng
land, which has, commercially speak
ing, been "tickling" US for years. But
then, Bro. Facts, what becomes of
your favorite war cry of "British
Gold" and "The Golden Club"
Following are the demands of the F.
& l.. T., adopted at Springfield, Mo-,
and any one reading them can readily
understa the cause of the Gland
slide" on the 4th inst. The F. d l..
L. were forced by their own platform
to ally themselves with the Democrat
ic party; they could go nowhere else.
Place that platform beside the Repub
lican declaration of principles as an
nounced at Chicago, and it will be seen
they are antagOnistic at every vital
point-while in all essentials the de- |
mands are such as may be Endorsed |
by any Democratic convention, with |
out violence to the purposes or tradi-
tions of the party. All persons not
allied to money rule and the favored |
legislation it enforces, are bound to, |
sooner or later, attach themselves to
the Democratic party. Therefore, the |
farmers and laborers are with US, and |
will stay with US:
l. That the public lands, the herit-
age of the people, be reserved for act
ual settlers only, not another acre to
railroads or spectators, and that all
lands now held for speculative pur-
poses shall be taxed at their full value.
= That measures be taken to pre-
vent aliens from acquiring title to the
lands in the United States and Terri
tories of America and to force titles
already acquired by aliens to be relin-
quished to the National Government
by purchase and it retain said right of
eminent domain for the use of actual
settlers and citizens of the United
States, and that the law be rigidly
enforced against all railroad corpora
tions which have not complied with
the terms of their contract by which
they have received large grants of
land
8. We demand the speedy payment
of the public bonded debt of the gov
eminent at par. by operating the
minis to their full capacity in coming
silver and gold and the rendering of
the same without discrimination to
the public creditors of the nation ac-
cOrding to contract, thus saving the
on public debt to the indus
trial masses, and that the further is
sue of bonds be prohibited.
4. That we demand the abolition of
national banks, the substitution of
legal tender treasury notes in lieu of
national bank notes, issued in suffici-
ent volume to do the business of the
on cash system, regulating
the amount needed on a per capita
basis, as the business of the country (
and that all money issued
by the government shall be legal
tender in payment of all debts, both !
public and private.
5. That we demand that congress
shall pass such laws as shall effectu-
ally prevent the dealing in futures of
all agricultural and mechanical pro- , ,
observing a stringent sys- ..
tenn of procedure in trials which shall =,
secure prompt convictions, and impOs- :
ing such penalties as shall secure the 9
most perfect compliance with the law.
6. That we demand graduated in i
come tax, as we believe it is the most c
equitable system of taxation, placing I
the burden of government ON those
who can best afford to pay, ms cad of T
laying it on the farmers and mechan- i
les, eXempting millionaires, bond {
holders, and corporations. Il
Z. That we demand the strict en- '
of laws prohibiting the i'm :
portation of foreign labor. under the
system, and that all convicts q