Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-07-23
The OHIO lOkei.

Now that the yokel from the wilds
of Ohio has so far forgotten his posi-
ton as to force his unseemly presence
into the society of his superiors, and,
regardless of the proprieties, to cap
ture the Democratic convention of that
state and compel it to adopt his bed
lamite theories Of finance so far as sill
yer is concerned ,lugubrious bowls may
be expected to be heard from the New
York San and other papers of that ilk e.,
who have been reared in the belief
that the whole financial system of this
country must of necessity revolve
around Wall Street. and that any
change will bring "Chaos and Old
Night
This intrusion of the yokel into a
field that has hitherto been thought
to be secure from his ravages, is in
deed lamentable. Latterly something
has got wrong, not only with the yok-
ell of Kansas and Ohio, but with that
class all over the country. He is not
so docile as he used to be. During
the intervals when he takes his rest
he has turned attention to the condi-
ton of his class-a very bad sign-and
has made some effort to reason about
it-a thing that he is clearly una BILE to
do. for he has had no scholastic train
ing and knows nothing about logic.
The result might have been forseen: in
Ohio, he has succeeded in forcing one
of his bedlamite theories of finance in
to the Democratic platform of that
State. In the convention, be was
earnestly plead with, perhaps prayed
with, by those who by right of birth,
position and wealth, were entitled to
direct the councils of the party, not to
interfere with the rights, interests,
and privileges of the money monarchs
of this country; but no-with wooden
head and heart of flint he plunged
into the convention and by sheer force
of brutal numbers smashed, so far as
the Democratic party is concerned,
one of the most beautiful systems ever
originated by the brain of man for the
easy acquiring of other peoples money
without giving an equivalent there
for. With boorish callousness to all
sense of shame, he brought his silver
plank down upon the class legislation
that has fostered our American nobil
ity with a smack that resounded
throughout the length and breadth of
our land, and even went so far, in his
incendiary tendencies, as to suggest
the propriety of a graded tax on in
comes, and that had to go into the
platform at his dictation. Not that
we care so much for the income tax
idea in itself: but it's leanings are in
the wrong direction. Why, if this
thing keeps a-going, the time will
come when the poorer class will no
er burden OF taxation, and to contrib
ute to the relief of the philanthropic
manufacturers, whose businesses have
been built up and their fortunes made
under the present system of raising
revenue. The rich, all will agree, we
| should ever have with us.
Now the dearest rights and privil-
iges of the moneyed classes will have
to be discussed upon the stump, before
audiences of unlettered clowns, who,
ten to one, will get wrong ideas, and,
in the end vote to discontinue them.
All respect for his superiors seems to
be dying out among his class. He alb
solutely refuses to take instruction
from them. He proposes to think for
himself-a thing, which, as has al
ready been shown, he cannot do prop
erly. He wants to know how it comes
that men who create no wealth have
so much wealth has so little of it?
and when counseled to economy and
self denial for the good of his eternal
interests, rebelliously insists on get
ting enough for his labor to educate
his children, put carpets on his floors,
and even give his daughter an organ
or piano, in imitation of his betters.
The yokel, in his laundering and
wrong headed manner has precipitat-
ed fight in Ohio of National conse-
quence. He he has placed the silver
question in the front rank of the is
sues for 1872, and no matter whether
the Democratic party is defeated in
Ohio, this year or not, it is placed
in a position on this question from
which retreat would be fatal. People
who are in debt are determined to get
rid of the robber tariff, and the rob-
Der gold standard, and those people
in the Democratic party, who have
been so persistently fighting both the
tariff and silver issues, should be
compelled to do so in the ranks of the
Republican party, if they can not put
up with plain, homely, Democratic
doctrine.
The Democratic party has always
been troubled with an amy of mer-
cenaries from the Wall Street brig
ade, who have had to be bought otfat
the expense of principle too often.
From this on, let there be no turning
back. We are either right or wrong