Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-08-21
Echoes From Illinois.

EenToostS WNeu the GuiCOr IOunu lie
publican contributing to the columns
of the Enterprise from Belleview.
strongly suspected then that the edito
who got off that joke had been n Re
publican in politics and knew how i
was himself Not often / get time tt
write, not often itrains either, but I'n
writing and it's raining now. a steady
old-fashioned rain that comes slowly
and generally lasts long time Yes
it's raining with corn in the milk, clear
Of weeds, aud the price bobhiDg about
in the forties. Don't vince, you poor
devils who have milk and mush to
buy! Remember that high prices make
| flush times, and when the farmer gets
fat every body else can feel saucy.
Wheat was poor and most Of 1t went
into the stack to stay till the puts and
/ shorts find the price getting up to the
$ mark, or over it. Droguht threaten
ed the corn crop SO seriously the feeders
began to get shaky and drove of hogs
passed my house about midnight grunt'
| ing for Chicago at S3.65. Cattle are
languidly lowing at $3.50 to 81 for big
fat ones, and we get 1925 for local
| butcher stock. But the Big -Four
haven't got pointer on the weather
| office, nor the cash, nor cuteness, to
| make mortgages serve as manure for
western lands. If the American eagle
| would only yank the landlords into
kingdom come and fix it SO that land
workers only could get land, what a
glorious time We could have. But our
wonderful statesmen are still palaver-
ing and maundering for tariff for
revenue, and they think we are just as
big fools as they are themselves. Most
of them are LAWYERS and can't be ex-
pected to move very fast, for lawyers
walk backward, and what hasn't been
done can't be done with them. / wish
they were as I am. Pm Republican,
Democrat, free trader, and most
uncompromising protectionist. o Lord!
what a mugwump, ell? Nary time,
ELL Pm Republican because / be-
lieve in ii Republican form of govern
ment. I'm Democrat because / be-
lieve the people ought rule in repub-
lie, and you can bet your bottom dol
lar I'm going to have my say, l don't
care what's trumps - Blaine. Reed,
Cleveland or the deacon. Pm free
trader because | don't believe that gov
ernment has any right to levy a tax
that interferes with buying and selling
between which, What and whom; and
Pm protectionist, ranting radical
protectionist, and favor the American
system of protection while | hate the
British system as an unrighteous and
ungodly thing. 1t was that system
that forced my father to expatrIate
himself and his children and fly from
his native land, where every valley
was crowd ed and every hill top crown
ed with historic memories, to land
where the speculator had just been
turned loose, and where men were
Knocked by declaration that human
rights were the endowment of one all
wise and almighty Creator, bat where
after all they must buy the right to
breathe unless they went to poor
house or a soldiers home. Don't con-
slider me as swearing, for Pm q relig-
ious young man oc fifty-three, but
want to say ''damn such system!"
Giant Labor never needed protection
from pigmy pauper, especially where
there's a big herring pond between
them. Yet labor does need protection d;
protection from the evils and influences
that have pau perized labor in the Old
World. That's just where ] am pro-
tectionist, an American protectionist. |
[ would take all the taxes Oft domestic |
labor. instead of putting taxes on the
products of foreign labor that we
want in exchange for the products
of our own. That's the kind of pro- |
tectionist ] am. There's no mugwump |
a bout me, Mister AXE, and don't you
forget ii,
Now, Eli, there's been a fellow tell
ing me something about the human |
race. A queer sort of a race it's been |
10 both senses of the word. He says
that when the three soDs of the cap
tain of the Great Eastern Ark started
out to grow up with the country,
Japhet went into northern India and
we, Us & CO., belong to the Japbetic
stock. Wave after wave ofpeopies left
the slopes of the Hindoo Koosh, going
further and further west. 1t was they
who gave to Egypt a grandeur whose
ruins awe US to-day; then Cadmus
coastlng along the AEGEAN sea founded
the city of Ion. Then couple of hunt
ers and trappers started city called
Rome. and after this human tide had
broken on the western shores of Europe
Tor centuries, crank called Columbus
dared to pass the Pillars of Hercules
and discovered land beyond the sea.
Without scrupIe these sons of Japhet
seized the New World, and bearing the
cross of the Prince of Peace they gior-
led in war, numbering and MASKING
their vay over the humanity they
found in their path, improving their
already superior arms till the rifle does
is work as smokelessly and silently as
The arrow once did, and against which
no armor is proof at distances which