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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-21
POLITICAL OPINION.

President Harrison's farmers
wagon scheme does not seem to be en-
Enthusiastically taken up by the alli-
ances-Louisville Courier-J ournal.
The administration is vigorously
scraping up the half-dollars, quarters
and dimes and spending them. They
are all that is left in the treasury, and
when they are exhausted Mr.. Foster
will inform Mr.. Harrison that the
pinch has come.-St. Louis Republic.
Republican organs are quarrel
ing over the question whether Blaine
or Harrison should be given the doubt
full honor of originating the limited
reciprocity scheme. AS a matter of
fact neither of them should have it. II
it goes to whom belongs it will be
given to the necessity of the high
taxers.-Chicago Times.
The democrats went out of power
in 1886 leaving in the treasury one
hundred million dollars surplus of the
peoples money. At the end of two
years of republican misrule the adj
ministration organs are only able to
say that "Uncle Sam will worry
through" by raking together his small
change and securing an extension of
maturing obligations. Times.
While republican congress has
been piling up the burdens of the ma
ton to an extent unprecedented in his
tory, squandering a surplus OF nearly
two hundred million dollars, accumu-
lated un der President Cleveland, and
rendering suspension of the process
of paying off the national debt indis-
pensable in order to save the treasury
from deficit, the democratic party In
trusted with the government OF the
empire state has practically extin-
guished the debt of the state, dimin-
ished the general expenditure, trans
ferred the cost of government from the
back of labor tc the shoulders of
wealth and accomplished reduction OF
the tax rate to the lowest point reached
since the year 1855. brooklyn Citizen.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-21
"CozY" Murphy, the landlord.

There lived in Dublin, some years
ago, gentleman named Murphy
"Cozy" Murphy, they called him, for
Portable sort of Murphy. Cozy Muir
ply owned land in Tipperary; but as
he had an agent in Tipperary to collect
his rents and evict his tenants when
they did not pay, he himself lived in
Dublin, as being the more comfortable
place. And he concluded, at length,
that the most com Portable place in Dub
lin, in fact the rnos. comfortable place
in the whole world, was-in bed. So
he went to bed and stayed there for
nearly eight years; not because he was
at all i'll, but because he liked it. He
ate his dinners. and drank his wine,
and smoked his cigars, and read, and
played cards, and received visitors, and
verified his agents accounts, and drew
checks-all in bed. After eight years
lying in bed, he grew tired of it, got up,
dressed himself, and for some years
we..t around like other people, and then
died But his family were just as well
off as though he had never gone to bed
in fact, they were better off; for
while his income was not whit dilnin-
ished by his going to bed, his expenses
were.
This was typical landowner - a
landowner pure and simple. Now let
the working farmer consider what
would become of himself and family if
he and his boys were to go to bed and
stay there, and he will realize how
much his interests as a laboTer exceed
his interests as landowner.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-21
English Land Tax.

Commenting on the debate on land
taxation in the house of commons,
Michael Davitts paper the Labor
World. after showing how the landlord
parliament of England had reduced the
land tax which formerly constituted the
bulk of revenues Of the English govern
ment, to merely nominal proportion
of the total amount raised hy taxation,
says:
The total rent-revenue derived by
landlordism from the land each year,
including ground rents and royalties,
is difficult if not impossible, to ascer-
tain accurately. But il is generally
computed at land, $500, 300 900 TO t:35o.-
co., 900. This vast sum is not the result
of from lord energy, intelligence, or
outlay 1t is the earning, the creation
OF the industrial community. If every
landlord in Great Britain emigrated to
the antipodes and remained there for
ever, the economic value of the land
would go on producing the wealth
which the landed aristocracy is now APP
propriating as its property. The inf1u-
ence which they, as a class, exercise
upon the production of this wealth is
about equal to that which they exer-
else upon the growth of the bodies of
the human units of our population.
The labor of the masses, the social
necessities of the community, the daily
wants of the people and the general
progress of the arts and sciences as ap-
piled to the organism of society, are
alone responsible for the wealth which,
in the name of rent, small and a use
less class are taking year by year from
the nation.
Instead of five millions, the entire
taxation, local and general, should be
levied upon land values. These are the
products of the combined energies of
the whole population. They are, there
fore, the one legitimate subject for ma
tional revenue. They grow from the
inalienable patrimony of the state.
Every citizen contributes 20 their de-
velopment. No mans house, or food,
or clothing, or earnings would suffer
from the appropriation OF land values
for fiscal purposes On the contrary,
every tan now levied upon the necas-
saries of life could be abolished if the
land of the country was again made the
source from whence the state should
derive tho means with which to carry
on the duties of government. 1t would
be an act of restitution, and not of revo-
luton. The people would be only TAX
inc that which they and they alone,
create, and the nation would only be
enjoying again the right OF which it
was deprived by a privileged class IN
making the economic earning of the
soil defray the cost of administering
the affairs of the eommonweal. To the
,ry of ..coniscation," which this de-
nand would call forth from landlords,
the people can answer restoration y
The ..confiscation" has been the work
If the landlords To levy taxes for the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-21
BALLAD OF AN OLD PINE

on ior the old days, when along
My ooughs lively color sped
"hiie spring-time birds returned with sonp-
Blue birds and red
Slgnt are the blossom tinted hills
IN violet and cerulean lights:
Into the vale a luster spills
From fervent heights.
Hlarvels OF crystal from the sky
daVe splashed on greening fields and broke
40 oalsles, and from out them fly
fairy folk
Paie butterflies OF gold that seem
Al revei on the lifting wing
10 music fancled in the dream
or waking spring
do. stripping, tasseled out in green
And bending in your gallant pride
10 pudding beauties all in sheen
On yonder side,
You yet shall stand gray and alone.
flushed all your rapturous ve-nal lays
y nature, nature, heart of stone,
Give back my days
Give back my glory and life's charms;
Give back the majesty of form;
Give back the strength of lusty arms
To play with storm.
Vain, vain my cry. Then be it so.
lyfeld-(but oh, the sweet springs breath
Come quickIy-strize and lay me low,
Triumphant Death.
John II. Boner. in Century.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-21
nnb,;can narry viii stand fair investl-

publican party viii stand fair investi-
cation.
And if the people would appreciate
the regeneration of an average re-
publican financier let them turn to the
outgivings of the present secretary
of the treasury, who is extolled as a
statesman because he has the happy
faculty of money-getting through the
sale of cottons. Mr.. Foster Endorses
the statement of subofficial regard
ing the condition of the national
finances He agrees there need be no
difficulty in carrying on the operations
of the government because of the ex-
penditures of the billion-dollar con-
gress 1t is only necessary to note one
of the means to be adopted by this sa-
gacious financier to understand how
fully he meets the requirements of re-
publican policy. He says:
AS to the 500, 600 900 of gold reserve. it is
held against the s350,0Oo,0O0 greenbacks. But
these notes outstanding are legal tender, and
the government can and would use this gold re-
serve if it needed to on pinch. 1t should,
therefore, appear in the debt statement as
available cash
No fiatist need ask better indorse-
ment of his absurd claims than is pre-
SeuGeu mere ny Tic TcpuoilCsfh SSSiSea
ry of the treasury. In this declaration
from the head of the treasury depart
ment is found full warrant for the as
sertion by the fiatists that the so-called
reserve would never be of value to the
holders of the greenbaclSs should occa-
sion require its use by the government.
These extremists will find in the posi-
ton of Mr.. Foster Indictment to fur
Their attempts to unsettle the financial
| condition of the country by demanding
the withdrawal of the gold reserve for
the payment of the interest-bearing
Sc curities of the government If they
| succeed in placing power in the hands
of ignorant demagogues by this exhi-
| bition of financial policy, then will the
republicans controlling affairs under
this administration find it difficult to
satisfy the people that they have erred
through mere ignorance. There is
blum der that trenches closely on crime.
If it We're needless to maintain the
coin reserve, then have the people been
taxed unnecessarily for the last twenty
years. If it were necessary, then must
the sum be held sacred for the uses of
the people when wanted.-Chicago
| Times
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-21
AN EXPENSIVE LUXURY.
Pronsgate Practices of a spendthrift Ad

Profligate Practices OF q Spendthrift Ad-
ministration.
1t is very difficult for the consumers of
the United States to appreciate the ex-
tent of the burden imposed upon them
by the billion-dollar congress.
1t was supposed by the fathers of the
republic, and the belief was current
until very recently, that the mainte-
nance of the federal government would
cost comparatively little; that the prin-
cipal taxes would be levied for state
and local purposes. Times have
changed, however, and taxes have
changed with them. The expenditures
authorizedi by the Fifty-first congress
will amount to about $40 for each in
dividual in the country. This is the
per capita tax for two years, so that
really the average individuals annual
contribution to the expenditures of the
federal government is about So. This
is very large tax. 1t is tax of about
$40 on the head of each family.
1t is also, according to the census of
1880, much larger tax than was then
paid by the average citizen OF the
United States for state and local pur-
poses. The average per capita tax
levied in the country in 1880 for state,
county, town and city purposes was
S. 3d. In New England it was S1O.47;
in the middle states, $S63; in the
southern states, So. 46; in the western
states, S6.97; in the territories, 1896.
The federal government is collecting
this tax for pensioners, a large part of
whom are not worthy old soldiers; for
the protection of manufacturers who
buy republican seats in congress and
the presidency; for river and harbor
improvements, many of which do not
benefit commerce.; for public buildings
that are not needed; for subsidies to
swell the profits of few ship owners,
and for increased salaries to great
swarm of tax eaters. These favorites
of the party are costing the taxpayers
more than their local governments,
county governments and state govern
ments added together. The largesse
a nd bounties given away by the repub-
lican congress cost the country more
than it is paying for it's state admins
ira tions, for its town and village Off
GERS, for its city governments, for its
police, its health boards, it's docks, it's
canals and all the elements of home adj
ministration.
If to the tax actually and directly
collected we add the bounties to the
tariff protected manufacturers and the
sugar growers we will realize that the
federal government under republican
rule is our most expensive luxury, but
just how expensive no one can tell.
And every dollar of it must come from
the earnings of the people.-N. Y.
World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-21
A POLICY OF GREED.
Financial Blunders of Republican Surplus
Spenders.

Spenders.
To the mind of the average repub-
lican editor there is nothing quite SO
perfect as the financial policy of his
party. 1t is to this the orator turns
when needing a rounded period to ex-
cite applause that shall afford him rest
for his next fight 1t is to this the
great editor looks when he would en-
tirely demolish his democratic contem-
porary. But the time has come to
check these voluble ranters. They
have as little knowledge of financial
questions as the woodchuck of Arabic.
They have seen their party straddle
every financial debate and cheered al
ways for the wise craftsmanship of
their partisans. If it were asked that
the crowd should shout over the plat
form of 1868 then did the welkin ring
in behalf of policy that was disowned
before it had been telegraphed across
the country. Was there rejoicing be-
cause of the issuance of the trade dol
lar? 1t was equaled when the party
had succeeded in foisting over thirty
million dollars on the small dealers
and plain people of the country for the
direct benefit of a patriotic firm of tea
exporters in New York, and then re-
juced their value while in the hands of
the poorer classes. Let these shouters
be told that no financial act Of the re-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-21
How to Tax Mines.

The Detroit Tribune had, in recent
issue, a remark to the effect that 1.-THE
democratic scheme to tax the northern
Michigan mines out of existence won't
win Commenting on this the Detroit
News says:
The democratic nor any other party
could tax the northern Michigan mines
out of existence" if it had the most in
tense desire to do so. The mines were
in northern Michigan before there were
any democrats, and they will be there
when all the democrats are dead and
forgotten.
But while the democrats could, by
bad legislation, shut up our mines, they
could also, by good legislation, compel
giving labor employment, reducing the
price of the raw material, through in
creased production, and enabling every
manufacturing concern using iron and
copper to increase the sales. The dem
ocrats could do all this by changing our
present tax law from specific tax on
the product of the mine to a direct tax
on the value of the mine, independent
of all improvements. Our present tax
law dealing with mining property
makes it advantageous to work as few
mines as possible. Consequently there
are many thousands of acres of mining
lands in Michigan, containing millions
of dollars worth of ore, paying prac
tically no tax at all.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-21

They say it costs seventeen dollars
and fifty cents week to feed an ele
plant, Mrs. Irons" said the boarder at
the foot of the table, reaching for an
other biscuit. How would you like
to board one at regular rates?"
''An elephant, Nh McGinnis," replied
the landlady, coldly, wouldn't be
throwing out hints all the time he was
getting tired of prunes." - Chicago
Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-21

The Dear Thing May Be Cheap
First Collector-"I see among the pic
lures marked for sale in this cata-
logue. "A Widow, price $4,000 Isn't
that rather high?" Second Collector
Not if she's rich widow. "-Brooklyn
EaglG
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-21

needs OF che state Is legal ana constltu-
tional. Land reformers, who demand
the land for the people. seek only u ecu
st1tutional reform by legal means
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-21
Why the Farmer Should Favor the
Single Tax.

So far from the effect of placing all
taxes upon the value Of land being to
the advantage of the towns at the ex-
pense of the agricultural districts, the
very reverse of this is obviously true.
The great increase of land values is in
the cities, and with the present tenden-
cies of growth this must continue to be
the case. Toplace all taxes on the value
of land would be to reduce the taxation
of agricultural districts relatively to
the taxation of towns and cities.
And this would be only just; for it is
not alone the presence of their own
populations which gives value to the,
lands of towns and cities, but the pres.
ence of the more scattered agricultural
population, for whom they constitute
industrial, commercial and financial
pantprS
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-21

IF some men nave not enough TO i've
decently, do not others have far more,
than they really need? If there is nos
wealth sufficient to go around, giving
every one abundance, is it because we
have reached the limit of the produc-
ton OF wealth? Is our land all in use?
is our labor all employed? is our capital
all utilized? On the contrary, in what.
ever direction we look we see the moss
stupendous waste of productive forces
of productive forces so potent that were
they permitted to freely play the pro-
ductiOn of wealth would be SO enormous
that there would be more than a suffi-
cheney for all. What branch of produc-
ton is there in which the limit of pro-
duction has been reached? What single
article of wealth is there of which we
might not produce enormously more?
THE land holders of Detroit are burst
ing with indignation. The city assesS-
ors have been assessing the land of that
city at higher rate than ever before,
and have thus added several millions
to the taxable values. The Detroit
Journal thinks that the ideas of Henry
George have not been without in fuence
on the assessors, for there has been
more systematic effort to get at land
values than ever before" The assess
ors have struck their heaviest blow at
acreage property" and the holders Of
this property-''the men," says the
Journal, 'who are holding for an in
crease of land value''-wi1 be pinched
terribly, many of them to the point at
which they will be forced to sell to those
who will improve, or else improve
themselves" Good
BUT land is not thing of human pro-
duction, and taxes upon rent can not
check supply. Therefore, though a tax
on rent compels the land owners to pay
more, it gives them no power to obtain
more for the use of their land, as it in
no way tends to reduce the supply of
land. On the contrary, by compelling
those who hold land on speculation to
sell or let for what they can get, a tax
on land values tends to increase the COM
petition between owners, and thus to
reduce the price of land.-Progress and
Poverty.
TRACING out the cause of unequal dis
tribution of wealth which appears in
all civilized countries, with constant
tendency to greater and greater in
equality as material progress goes on,
we have found it in the fact that, as
civilization advances, the ownership of
land, now in private hands, gives a
greater and greater power of appro-
priating the wealth produced by labor
and capital. and Poverty.
| If have worked harder and built
| myself a good house while you have
| peen content to live in howell, the tax
gatherer now comes annually to make
me pay penalty for my energ- and in
dustry. by taxing me more than vou.--
| Progress and Poverty.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-21

If have worked harder and built
myself good house while you have
peen content to live in howell, the tax
gatherer now comes annually to make
me pay penalty for my energ- and in
dustry. by taxing me more than vou.--
Progress and Poverty.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-04-04

Mr.. Ovordrawn (re&ding shopping
lisO .-"Bonnet, shoes, shoe-buttons,
gloves, silk for dross. trimmings, car
riago hat, etc. Don t you think you
can cut ita little, my dearP" Mrs
Overdrawn-''Certainiy, love; know
how hard it is for you to get money
now. ! can get along without tho
shoe-buttons just as we'll as not"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-04-04

Leaves Ello every morning at 7:30
o'clock.
Arrives from TusrarorB every even
ink in time to connect with Express
trains going both Faust and West.
DHfce next door to- the INUErEHD-
I'm 0iics.
&. r. HOI LAND, Agent
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-04-04
THE WEEKLY INDEPENDENT.

p riIllshe ed every Sunday, and sent to any ad-
''ss tpostage paid), 1T The following rates,
ysble in~4dvanc5:
e months. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 2 So
FOR any period under six months, Fifty
,ats per month.
sntered Ht the EIko, Nevada, Postoffice for
through the mails as second
sss mail matter.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-04-04
ADVERTISING RATES.

SNf be made AZ low "a te consistent with
bupd business principles. Apply at the Of
for terms.:'
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-04-04
DAILY INDEPENDENT.
AN EVENING PAPER,
.UED EVERY DAY, SUNDAYS EX.
eepted.
C. w. GROVER,
Editor and Proprietor
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

h!copS. one year. IS 8 90
t:eopy. six months. ..:+................. oU
Ior any period under six months. one dollar
d uonth. Payable in advance.
riTeIed by carrier In Elko at IS cents . week.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-14

A. b. G. Remedies are better Endorsed
than any on tho market. They merit
your at.,ntivn.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-14
SALT ON THE STREETS.
Indiscriminatcly Scattered About It Ts Apt
to Produce Disease.

1ndiscrinainately Scattered About It 10 ApA
to Produce Disease.
Sew people understand what u dam
gerous agent salt is when scattered;
about the Streets" said q prominent
physician TO Philadelphia Inquirer re.
porter in discussing the wholesale NAM
ner in which the pavements and high
ways have been sailed during the past
two days in efforts to get rid Of the
snow. ST indulge In no sensational
prophecy" he continued, "when as
sert that much suffering, and doubtless
cases of death, will ensue in this city In
consequence OF this pcrnicious practice
the last few days. Salt is so innocent o
thing by itself that people fail to un-
derstand what havoc It can play with
those inclined to contract colds when it
is mixed with snow or ice, and If the
danger was more generally known far
less salt would be used. AS it is now
tons OF 1t have been sprinlsled about the
city since yesterday morning. How
does 1t affect health? Why, when 1t
comes In contact with frozen substances
ut produces chemical change the effect
OF which Is to create an artificial tenn
peratures reducing the temperature Of
the Blush OF thawing snow TO q point
equivalent to several degrees below
zero. So instead of walking through
slush OF temperature around freezing
POINT, our feet are subjected to the in
fuenee Of zero atmosphere heavily
charged with penetrating and chilling
moisture. Once tho salt Is plaoed on
the streets II Is quickly carried by the
5eet Of pedestrians and the movements
OF cars and other vehicles until II is so
widely scattered that almost the entire
surface has this artificial temperature
Then the warmer atmosphere coming
in contact with the chill below, conden-
sation takes pasca, making damp,
raw, unhealthy air, exposing people to
the dangers Of dfphtheria, pneumonia
and other kindred atfe ctions- You see
now how 1t can affect the air in the
streets Of city"