Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-16

Mr.. AXE of the Irouton REGISTER and
Mr.. Eliff of the Bonnie Terre Register are
the grammarians among the country editors
of this section of the State. Mr.. AXE, how
ever, seems to he jealous of the fame Mr..
Eff is winning by his brilliant criticisms of
the way the Queens English is handled by
the Merit, another able paper published in
the congressional district just north of US,
and flattens him out by asking him to tell
what is the nominative of the verb twas" in
the following sentence: "Qulte number
of our best farmers was in town this week"
The grammarian at Bonnie Terre fails TO
answer, and of course the one at lronton
who put the question will not forget that
the woods are full of country editors who
are looking to him for light.
Aye, aye, we remember! A few
years since, Mr.. Mcclure, who edits
the Cash Book. hauled the Cape Dem
ocrat man over the Goals, for having
used the came singular verb in sem
tence of similar construction. Mac was
a "grammarian" then, but experience
wiser state. AS for US, we lay no claim
to the proud title with which he hOnors
us. English as she is spoke" is above
the reach ofthe average country editor.
Senator Vest was right when he said
Cleveland's Tariff Reform Message was but
the inauguration of a"war to the death"
upon Protect1on.-IRONTONR REGISTER.
But that is not what Senator Vest said.
He said Cleveland had "inaugurated war
OF determination upon our protected indus
tries" Please stick to the teXt.-BOnne
IerTe Register.
Don't be too fly in putting your own
words and construction into Senator
Vests mouth. The REGISTER, with
out getting the Senator's words. utter
ed their spirit. You garble both the
words and the spirit. What Senator
Vest said in a private letter to a friend
was: "Mr. Cleveland, by his message,
for which 1 honor HIM. has challenged
the protected industries to u war ofex-
termination" To the determination
of what? Either to the great and just
principle for which the President in
his message and the Democratic party
contend, the principle that says the
Federal Government has no right to
extort tribute from the people to en-
rich a favored class of industries, or to
the policy of high protection. The
protected manufactures had been wag-
ing their hushwhacking fight for GEN.
tralizatiou of capital for years, with
only "a weak pulling protest from the
Democratic party and the great mass
of unjustly taxed consumers, until
President Cleveland boldly accepted
the issue and hurled the challenge de-
family into the face of the protected
barous. He was worsted in the first
pass, but neither he nor the principle
of tariff reform were exterminated,
aud the people are becoming aroused
as they never were before at the enor-
nifty of the injustice of a tariff system
that robs the people to foster special
classes and establish domIneering
Plutocracy. President Cleveland rec
ogniZed the fact that it was only a
question of time when the CT pital of
the country, centralized and unduly
protected, would exterminate the in
were aroused to the danger of the situ-
alton; and that is what Senator Vest
ment and his words implied. -Farna-
ington Times.
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