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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-02
CONDENSED EDITORIALS.

President Harrison is preposter-
Gus failure and John Wanamaker is his
prophet.-N. y. Sun.
-"Taxation without benefit is is rob-
berry. platform. Taxa
ton without benefits is Protection.''-
Chicago Tribune Rep.).
Perhaps the most marked feature
of President Cleveland's speech is the
absence of the calculating politician in
it.-Boston Herald.
Chambers complaint about in
timidation at elections is suggestive of
the VOLTS complaint against the lamb
for rolling the water.-Philadeph
Times.
If the Republican Congress pro-
poses to investigate the representation
of the States in Congress at all, it would
do well to begin by investigating the
fraud and defiance Of the constitution,
by virtue of which Frank Hiscock mis-
represents the State of New York in
the United States Senate.-Albany On.
" Argus.
-George A. Macbeth, an extensive
manufacturer of glass chimneys in Pitts
burgh. says that he has been shipping
that the present tariff costs his firm
$3.50 a week on raw material alone,
and that the tariff on manufactured
goods does not benefit him d PARTICLE
Detroit Free Press.
1t is fact full of good cheer for
working-men in the United States that
wages are advancing in Europe. In this
movement Great Britain takes the lead.
Longer hours of labor and lower pay
prevail in the workshops of Germany
and France, where trade is hindered
and labor burdened by protective tariffs
Record.
David A. Wells puts it neatly in
his brilliant book, Recent Economic
Changes" when he cites 1.-The truth of
the economic maxim that ships are the
children and not the parents of COM
merce." and shows that while it is easy
to buy ships out of money raised by taxa
ton the mere fact of the ownership of
two or three hundred more ships does
no more to increase trade than the pur-
chase and ownership Of two or three
hundred more plows necessarily in
creaseS to a farmer the amount of arabic
land to plows.-BoSton Transcript.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-02
STARTLING CONTRAST.
The Difference Between George Washing
ton and Benny Harrison.

ton and Benny Harrison.
The hundredth anniversary of the in
auguration of the first President of the
| United States finds his place filled by a
descendant of one of the men who worked
with him for independence and freedom.
The spirit which then governed in the
conduct of the affairs of the Executive
Department is indicated in the inaugural
address of the first President.
TO the preceding observations have
one TO add which will be most properly
addressed to the House of Representa-
tives," he said in concluding. when
was first honored with a call into the
service of my country, then on the eve
of an arduous struggle for its liberties.
the light in which | contemplated nv
duty required that | should renounce
every pecuniary compensation. From
this resolution | have in no ms lance de-
parted. and being still under the i'm
pressions which produced it, | must de-
cline as inapplicable to myself any share
in the personal emoluments which NAV
be indispensably included in perma-
nent provision for the Executive De-
partment. and must accordingly pray
that the pecuniary estimates for the
station in which | am placed may, dur
ing my continuance in it, be limited to
such actual expenditures as the public
good may be thought to require"
The spirit of the present Administra-
ton has been not less clearly indica ted
by the action of the President in APP
pointing to the head of his Cabinet
man who, in trading on his trust as
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, wrote: ''Tou urge me to make as
much as | fairly can out OF the arrange
ment into which we have entered. 1t is
natural that / should do my utmost to
that end"
The first President would not even
take money from the Government for
his own work. The present Administra-
ton finds it only natural to do its ut
most to make all it can out of the ar
rangement into which it has entered.
The President, drawing his full salary
of $50 900 year, devotes himself to the
work of earning it with zeal in finding
lucrative places for his horde of impecu
NOUS relatives. They make all they
can out of the arrangement-from the
President and his poor kin: from the
Vice President and his ''buffet' with its
twenty cent WHISKY; from the 1OStnlaS-
ter-General using his Cabinet place to
advertise his bargain counter: from the
Department of State with its puffS for
wine dealers: from the Secretary of Ag
riculture with his advertisements for
yeast powders, issued from the Govern
ment press as official documents, to the
petty bosses of Missouri Congressional
districts, who use their power as depu-
ty presidents to sell fourth-class post
offices at S25-S15 cash and SO on de-
livery.
American history is full of sharp con-
trasts, but there are none sharper than
that brought out by the memorial exer-
cises in the House of Representatives
the other day.-St. Louis Republic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-02
THE VOLUNTEER ORGANISE,

The greet big church wuz crowded fall NV
Droadcloth an Nv silk,
An satlns rich as cream tibet grows on our
OF brindle's milk;
Shined boots, billed shirts. silk dickcvs an.
stove-p pipe hats were there
An doods 18th trouserioons so tight they
couldn't kneel down in prayer.
The elder in his poolpit high, said, as he
slowly riz:
"Our organist is KEEP to hum, laid up 18th
roOmatiZ,
An as hev no substitoot, as brother
Moore amt here
VIII some 'un in the congregation be so
kinds to volunteer"
An then a red nosed drunken tramp. of low
toned, rowdy style,
Give an Introductory hiccup, an then stag
gered up the aisle.
Then thro' tibet holy atmosphere there crcp'
a sense ersin,
An thro' tibet air of sanctity the odor NV OF
gin.
Then Deacon Purington he yelled, his teeth
all sot on edge:
'Ths man purfancs the house er God! Wy
this is sacrleger'
The tramp didn' hear a word he said, but
slouched 18th stumblin' feet,
An sprawled AN staggered up the steps, an
gained the organ seat
He then went pawrin' thro' TIE keys, an soon
there rose strain
Tibet seemed to Jest bulge out the heart, ar.
'lectrify the brain;
An then he slapped down on the thing 18th
hands an head an knees,
He slam dashed his hull body down kerfiop
upon the keys.
The organ roared, the music flood went
sweepin' high an dry.
1tsweIled into the rafters, an bulged out into
the sky.
no pls m 81 N
seemed to reel an sway,
An the elder shouted 'Glory" an yelled
out ''Hooray."
in our ears,
Tibet brought up blessed memories and
drenched 'em down 18th tears;
An we dreamed Nv of-tme kitchens, 18th
Tabby on the mat,
I'm home an luv an baby days, an mother,
an all that!
An then he struck streak NV hope-a song
from souls forgiven
Tibet burst from prison bars NV sin, an
stormed the gates NV Heaven;
The mornn' stars they sung together-no
soul wuZ left alone
We felt the universe wuz safe, an God wuz
on His throne.
An then a wailuv deep despair an darkness
come again.
An long. black Grape hung on the doors Nv
all the homes of men;
No Inv, no light, no JOY, no hope, no songs of
glad delight,
An then-the tramp, he staggered down an
reeied into the night!
But we knew he'd toP his story. tho he
never spoke word,
An it wuz the saddcst story tibet our ears
had ever heard;
He he'd toll his own life history, an no eye
was dry tibet day,
Ven the elder an simply said: "My
brethren, let us pray"
=. W. Foss in Yankee Blade.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-02
THE SHERMAN BILL.
its Only Object Is to Make Text for
BIoody-Shirt Speeches.

its Only Object Is to Make Text for
BIoody-Shirt Speeches.
Senator Sherman has reihtrOduced
his Federal Election bill. in substantial
ly the same form as year ago. Briefly
summarized. it takes the ontrol of the
election of Congressman entirely away
from the people of State, and turns it
over to canvassing and electoral boards
appointed for life by the President. Of
course the Northern States will not
submit to such treatment. Indeed all
that it seems necessary to say about the
scheme was so we'll said year ago by
the Worcester Spy, that we reprint its
comments as covering the whole ground:
Senator Shermans plan would establish d
new and distinct system of registration and
election in every State, entirely independent of
and separate from the State election system;
and this intrusion of an external authority
and substitution of novel and separate cleo
tion machinery for that which is familiar
established by Stale authority. and conducted
by local officers, would be unwelcomed and irri-
tating everywhere. and not least in those
States and communities where elections have
always been conducted with substantial fair
ness. The plan Of giving to members Of can
wasting and electoral boards life tenure will
scarcely commend itself to the general judg
meut. As politicians, having personal or party
ends to serve they might easily be led into
misconduct which would make their continu
ance in Office undesirable. but would not, per
haps, be sufficient to insure their rttoyal by
Impeachment. Altogether Mr.. Sherman has
not, by this bill, enhanced his reputation for
statesmanship.
OF course men like Senator Sherman
and Bill Chandler can not expect the
passage of such schemes as they adyo-
cate, because their own States of Ohio
and New Hampshire would not submit
to such treatment. Why, then. do they
bring them forward? Apparently for no
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-02
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Disease has ravaged some of the
grouse preserves in Scotland to an
alarming extent. On one moor recently
out of 26O birds killed all had to be
buried.
The government monopoly articles
of Honduras are gunpowder, tobacco,
cigars and liquor. 1t retains complete
and absolute control of the liquor
traffic.
Although slavery does not exist,
properly speaking, in China, in the eyes
of the law the large boa ting-population
and actors fill the position of slaves.
There is in Windsor castle gold
punch-b bowl and ladle for which George
". paid 10000 guineas, and the invest
ment is wholly profitless because there
is never a drop of punch brewed in it.
When the construction of railroad
is undertaken in China the natives burn
temple, and then persuade the people
that it is manifestation of the wrath
of the gods against the road.
London lawyers now employ short
hand in their office work. The entries,
drafts, affidavits and the multitude of
other documents they are called upon to
prepare are now taken down in short
hand at their dictation and are copied
from that.
in village in the canton of Lucerne.
Switzerland, there is society of old
maids. 1t numbers eighty, and, queer
enough, it is under the patronage of the
ST. Catherine Matrimonial Agency.
They perform acts of charity, and are
highly esteemed in their neigh borhood.
There are now such large number
of foreign officers studying at Berlin
that the German Government has estab-
lished an international military academy
for their accommodation. There are a
great many Turks and also several Chi
nese officers.
An association in London, called the
Sunday Society, occupies itself with
arranging the opening of private col
lections to the public on the Sabbath
For two Sundays recently the Duke of
Wellington has opened Apsley house to
those who wished to see its treasures.
king Humbert, before leaving Ma
pies, ordered that bronze wreath
should as soon as possible be deposited
on Garibaldi's grave in place of the
mowers ne ndu put tueFe. 11e Sdlu. OuE
country and my house owe so much to
Garibaldi that this island must bear
from myself and my son tribute of
everlasting gratitude"
Belgium is an uncomfortable coun-
try for embezzlers. A cashier employed
by the city of Client, who embezzled
1863, 900 francs of the municipal cash, has
just caught it very hot indeed. He has
been sentenced to forty years imprison
ment and five years police supervision
to follow, has been fined $3.50 francs and
ordered to restore the entire sum he has
embezzled, and will, in addition, lose
all his civil rights.
The power of one of the greatest
political figures of the day, perhaps of
all time, is said to be on the wane. The
Empress Dowager of China has been
shorn of her prestige by the rebelious
independence of the young Emperor.
He refused to see the bride which she
forced upon him, and has been issuing
vigorous DEGREES on his own account.
He has been censuring the old Ministers
right and left, particularly Chang Chi
TuuU
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-02

miles in length, a moderate COM
| putation, this would give an area
of 100, OOO,00 acres; and just one
| human being to about $4,000 acres.
| That there is 100 acres of land capable
of cultivation within this mighty ex-
panse has been remorselessly disproved
for over $50 years by the efforts OF
Jesuits and other missionaries, by those
of ChriStianized Indians and by all
settlers who have been lured upon these
shores to starve and perish 1t is pos
sible that during two, and possibly
three, months of the summer, 10000
| fishermen may be found off Labrador;
| Is, 900 within the Gulf of ST. Lawrence
and 25, 900 along the Atlantic Labrador
shore. They are residents of the United
States, of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and
Prince Edward Islands and Newfound-
land They have no interest here what
ever, save to come and grab and &c.
There are not enough standing trees in
all the Labrador district named, and
that comprises all of the Labrador
proper, available for building timber,
to pay for transporting to any place and
lighting the first fire in single saw
mill. All the frantic efforts of the
Dominion Government to discover
mineral deposits have been unavailing.
What then does Labrador possess?
An unmeasured and measureless reach
of stone and ice, covered here and there
with moss; again occasionally patched
with stunted spruce; oftener for hum
dreds of miles SCARED and blackened by
burned spruce stumps, between which
f1inty rocks project like cruel spears;
with countless impossible rivers blowing
in ungovernable torrents through hid
eous gorgeS; 1000 whites utterly unable
to leave their prisonment or better their
condition, living half of the year like
beasts, and the other half little better;
1000 Indians subsisting on salt fish and
raw, with occasionally a bit of musty
flour or meal; 800 or 400 Esquimaux
dogs; any number of wolves and counts
less seals and fish. Now that is all
there is to Labrador besides a climate
of Greenland, and even the seals and,
fish do not exclusively belong to it,
for they are common product of
the ocean, and as common to
all other northeast shores. Any land so
God -forsaken that the government pos
SeSSing it can not survey it or procure
any form of statistics is a veritable cast
away indeed. 1t is impossible to obtain
statistics of even seals and fish. But
from the known loss in naval and COM
mercial expeditions, and the wreckage
of coasting and fishers vessels along the
coasts, since Labrador was discovered, it,
would be a safe calculation that for
every dollar in value of fish or fur Sc,
cured upon the Labrador coast for the
past four hundred years, an equal or
greater actual loss by somebody has
been sustained. And when the addi-
tional frightful loss of life has been
taken into account, the inexpressible
worthlessness of the entire peninsula
may be to some extent conceived. Cor.
Springfield Republican.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-02

This is the only Government in the
world that imposes duty on raw wool;
and yet it has an immense surplus reve-
nue.. There is no duty on raw cotton.
New cotton manufactures are springing
up all over the country. at least all over
one part of it, and the owners thereof
are making money. Wooden manu-
factories, on the contrary, are not only
diminishing in number, but they are
suspending operations, and their owners
are breaking. Nor do the number of
sheep. nor the profits of sheep raise1s,
increase under the alleged protection
afforded by the tariff. Indeed. so in
furious has the high tariff on wool
proved to both wool growers and wool
manufacturers that large numbers of
both have united in a petition to Con-
gress for the removal of that tariff. 50
that they may at least be put upon an
equal footing with the cotton growers
and cotton manufacturers
tN3l t,3Zattp
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-02
\ Policy of Plumber,

Mr. Harrison's Administration mas so
far exhibited policy of unrestrained
extravaganza, and with the new schemes
that bid fair to pass both houses of Con-
gress, it may he safely stated that the
record for Federal expenditures will be
beaten. In this respect. as we'll as 9TH
ers. the contrast between Republican
rule and the last Democratic admins
tration will be most striking. The pro-
lection promised so glibly TO the people
year ago is already assuming the shape
of squeezing them more numerically
and robbing them for the benefit of
lobbyists in addition to bleeding them
to still further enrich monopolies and
favored manufacturers. Albany N. Y
Argus.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-02
GREARY LABRADOR.
Tt Is Pronounced the Most Worthless Par
of the Whole World.

1t Is 1ronohHttu 'he Most w ortnIess farb
of the Whole World.
The result of the information secured
during our few weeks cruise leads me
to believe that the portion of Labrador
east of a line extending due north from
the mouth of the St. Lawrence river to
Hudson's Bay is the most worthless
part of the whole world Indeed, it is
scarcely worth visiting even as cnrios-
ity in sterilitY and desGlation. In the
1000 miles of coast upon which there is
any pretense of population, the total
number of resident human beings all
told will not exceed 5000 souls. This
number includes all Indians of the Mon
tagnais, Nasquapee and Esquimaux
tribes. Estimating the peninsula as a
aoudrilateral with sides averaging 500
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-02

Jimmy Tuffhorn Ito minister who is
dining with the family)-Didn't you say
in your sermon this morning that there
wasn't any thing in this world perfect.
Minister-Ies, L believe 50. Why do
you ask?
''Oh. I heard ma say before church
that you were perfect bore. Epoch.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-02
A NATIONAL LOSS.

Death of Henry w. Grady. the Grea.
Southern Orator and Editor.
Henry w. Grady, the brilliant young
orator and editor of the Atlanta Con-
stitution. is dead. During his recent
visit to Boston to attend banquet, at
which ex-President Cleveland was a
guest and a speechmaker, he con-
tracted typhoid pneumonia, which de-
veloped Immediately upon his return to
Atlanta, and ended in his demise. Mr.
Grady was the most conspicuous repre-
sentative of the great South. and was
beloved by all the people who claim
that part of the United States as their
hpme. He was only thirty-eight years
of age, yet within the last ten years
had achieved fame as an editor, as an
orator of great eloquence and power
and as broad minded man, who, while
loving the South, yet recognized that
the old war issues were dead, and that
the duty of all Northern and Southern
sons of the blood bathed flag was to
help the body of the people to forget
the animosities and differences of the
past and join hands in working for the
future advancement of the whole
country. ne 1dDOrtu lOT
the best interests of his beloved
South on this line, and the
laying aside of sectionalism which
has begun to take such gratifying form
is due very largely to his logic, his elo-
quence and his earnestness of purpose.
Indeed it was in this cause that he met
his death. He attended the Boston ban
quet as the brilliant representative of
the Southern people. and made one of
his characteristic speeches there, shar-
ing with eXPresident Cleveland the
honors of the occasion. 1t was on this
mission that he was stricken by disease.
In his own words. he fell talking for the
South. even as his father fell fighting
for it. And it is fitting tribute to his
memory that his battle for the land he
loved was one whereof the weapons were
reason, generosity, charity and love as
opposed to the fire and sword of his
fathers strife. 1t was his fortune to
hold a warm place in the hearts of all
Southerners, not because he opposed or
hated the North, but because he sought
to bring the erstwhile antagonistic sec
tons into that union of sentiment as
we'll as of being which marks the typical
republic. 1t may be well said of Henry
W. Grady: ''IIe was the foremost South
ern man of his time. "-Chicago Mail.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-02

One of the results of the French ex-
hiDition has been to make the London
hanson cab very popular in Paris, where
it has heretofore been il. 40 special
favor.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-02

other reason rnan TO make Jnem the
text for bloody-shirt speeches. But this
is as short-sighted from the politicians
point of view as from the Statesman's.
So far as the South is concerned, the
agitation of such propositions insures
its continued solidity for the Democrats,
while, instead of making the North solid
for the Republicans, the readiness of
Republican leaders to support such
schemes renders independent voters
more and more suspicious of the party.
In short, it is clearly losing game all
around.-N. Y. Evening Post
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-27
Rock Island Conductors.

A delegation of sixty conductors, repre-
senting every division of the Rock Island
from Denver to Chicago, are in conference
with the officials of that road in Chicago
with a stack of grievances. Both the con
ductors and officials refuse to reveal the
grievances. A Rock Island conductor
speaking of the matter said:
''Our aim is to secure concessions which
are due US from the Rock Island road, and
to elevate our standing before the company.
The Order of Railway Conductors, as all
are aware, is not striking organization
We have made our wants known in a gen
tlemanly manner, preferring to argue and
discuss our grievances with our employers
rather than resort to revolt or anything
that savors violence. Railroad corpora
tions have taken advantage of our mode of
procedure and have very often turned a
deaf ear to our entreaties. Our aim now is
to take stand that will bring about con-
cessions that we believe the Rock Island
should make to US, but the nature of those
concessions we are not prepared to give
the public, as they concern only the road
and ourselves as conductors, but to us they
are of great Importance"