Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-01-29
PERSEvERING FAT-FRYERS.
The Systematic Robbery by the Monop-
oIistic Force and Fraud Party.


The High Tariff Association of pro-
tected monopolists held one of its peri
odicai love-feasts in an Eastern city the
other day. and resolved to push the
| crusade to make monopoly tariff taxes
perpetual in this country. Conspicuous
among the brethren was Hon. Robert
| Protection Porter, who has devoted all
the resources of misspent life and of a
perverted arithmetic to the task OF
| proving that a people can remain great.
rich and prosperous only by submitting
cheerfully to systematic and gigantic
robbery.
In view of the stunning blow which
| the producers, toilers and taxpayers of
| the United States dealt this High Tariff
Association of highly protected monop-
| ollsts in November last, it would be in
| structiye to have an exact diagram of
| the protectionists plan of campaign
| from now until the Presidential election
! in 1892. Their notions of what they
want We're fully set forth in the Nc
| kinney tariff law. which. after being
| thoroughly discussed all summer and
| most OF the autumn, was rejected by
| the voters with a vehemence and en-
| phaSlS that leaves no doubt of their pur-
| pose not to submit voluntarily to such
| cOnSclenceleSS robbery. Do the tariff
| barons expect to convince these millions
| OF voters in the short space of less than
| twenty-five months that they made
arrant fools of themselves on the 18th
of November?
Popular enthusiasm is tickle. but the
will of tSe American people is not so
lightly formed nor so lightly set aside.
There is not precedent in the whole
of American history to encourage the
monopoly-protection propagandists in
the hope that this American people,
when it assemblies at the polls in
1892 will reverse the decision
it rendered at the polls in 1890.
The almost unbrolen precedent is that
the principles and the policies which
carry, by decisive sweep. in the mid
term Congressional elections prevail
also in the Presidential elections two
years later. Nobody knows this better
than the wealthy and successful manu-
facturers who have. resolved to put
forth their best efforts for the per-
petuity of the Mckinley ideas of taxa
ton.
As there is no hope of obtaining a re-
versal of the popular verdict by the or
binary engines of political discussion.
their principal trust must be III the
favorite Republican arguments of
bribery. force and fraud. They will
submit to Iat-frying as cheerfully in
1892 as they did in 1883. If the condi-
tons seem at all favorable to success
they will ladIe out their dollars to cor
rupt the election of 1892 even more
literally than they did to elect Harri-
son in 1855. All the power that the
control of the purse-string' gives them
over their employees and others with
whom they have business dealings will
be eXerted to the fullest.
But all this viii not suffice. and the
factory lords are not depending on it.
y part of their work has been done to
their hand by Hon. Robert Protection
Porter. whom they thrust into control
of the eleventh census for the purpose
of rObbing of representation constitu-
encies who object to being plundered
for the enrichment of a favored class
in a favored section. \ good many
electoral votes and good many
congressman opposed to mOnopo-
ly protection have thus been gotten
rid of. Still. with the growing political
revolution in the West. the protection
lists are far from seeing their way clear
The force bill is therefore pressed with
all the money and all the power of
the High-Taritf League. The hostile
votes that Porter has spared, and that
can not be bought or bulldOzed in the
usual way, are to be suppressed in 1892
by this revolutionary device which a
conspicuous organ of the prOtectionistS
has declared has dozen tariff bills in
it. If the West objects to paying trib-
ute to New England the West must be
muzZled in Congress by negro and scala
wag Representatives elected in the South
by Benjamin Harrison and force bill
returning boards. In order to appease
the hunger of some few hundreds of
understanding monOpOlists the aim is
to revOlutionize the whole fab brio of
free representative government in
America.
The census. which the constitution
makes the basis of our representative sys-
tenn. has already been de bauched through
the ready cOnnivance OF an alien mer-
cenary who has earned his living ever
since he came to this country by MAX
ing figures lie for the Republican party.
HOar. EdmundS, Frye and the rest of
the New England deSperadOes are now
striking at the root of free elections. 1t
is the Greediest and most disgraceful
conspiracy that ever came to the sur
lace in Washington.
The conspiratOrs may be sure of one
thing. This is big country and it is
very strong. The American people are
= hari-headpd lot: they can take care
Of themselves and they viii do it. When
they are thoroughly tired of this fool
ishness they will stop it, and they are
very weary already.-St. Louis Repub- !
lie.