Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-12-10
From MurrayvilIe, Ills.

We have had some rains lately and tht
ground is now wet, about eighteen inches
deep. Ponds, however, are not half full
yet, and wells hardly affected at all. 'Fht
roads are eXcerable, and some folks are
crying out about too much rain. We
need ten times as much as we have got
ten.
We have very large majority in favor
of the Australian system of voting, since
1t has had one trial. We had but two
names on the ticket this year, and, at oul
poll, where about three hundred votes
were cast, sixteen had to be thrown out
for irregularity in marking.
Corn has mostly been cribbed and made
a fair crop in most places, though loose
on the cob from drouth. 1t is now 40c
and hogs only 1926: sc that the fewer
hogs farmer has the better. A careful
feeder can make on hogs at one cent on
pork gross, to ten cents on corn, but be-
low that pork will not pay.
The Worlds Fair at Chicago will have
a big junk shop of old curiosities. Why
don't some OF your Iron county folk pick
up that old trip hammer, if still there
that used to lie on the west bank OF Cedar
Creek, at the Shut In, in Belleview, and
send it up? | was told that it was put in
the first iron works west of the Alleghe-
nies,
Your Annapolis correspondent has a
level head. 1t was in noticing the man.
ner in which water powers, mineral and
agricultural lands were cramped by spec
ulators and residents in Iron County,
and reading Paine's Agrarian Justice that
brought this writer to the single tax.
Yes, Murphy the single tax will do it
and it's the only thing thatwill. Here the
land is all fenced in, but the hand OF the
speculator and landlord is heavier than
with you.
a county convention of Democrats In
Colorado resolved that all public revenues
municipal, state and national, ought to be
raised by tax on land values only.
The Liberal party of Scotland have
formally resolved that the lald belongs
to the whole community and the value of
land should be used for public purpose
only.
In New Zealand the land value tax has
already been adopted, bat in combination
with a graduated income tax. No per-
sonalty, nor improvements on land, can
be taxed there.
On the 22d of October, 1sidore Carini,
Prefect of the Vatican Library, placed in
the hands of Leo XIII specially bound
copy of Henry Georges reply to Leo's
encyclical letter on the condition of labor.
The pope directed that an acknowledge
ment be forwarded to MIR. George through
Cardinal Gibbons, and intimated that he
would give an opinion as soon as he had
time to examine Mr.. Georges letter.
Scott Wike, NJ. c., of Pike county, ILL.,,
has returned from England where he has
been to investigate the working of the in
come tax, and he still tavors it and means
to push it in Congress this winter as
however. are no better than before, and
Wike would do better to drop the whole
scheme and take up The single tax against
which not solitary objection can be suc-
urged.
We have had several suicides and mur-
ders in this county lately, and all due to
the bitter struggle to live growing out of
The New York Times says that the on
ly tangible proposition for social reform
made at the late Church Congress in
Washington was the abolition OF land
lordisln as proposed by Henry George.
The eviction of the Carter family, meI-
toned in the REGISTER last week, can be
paralleled here. A good Methodist did
it. Men have been preaching Christian
ty for eighteen hundred years, but it has
been more preached than practiced.
Another landlord came to town, can
neither read nor write. like several others
Of the same ilk already here, but he knows
how to grub for money. Every village
and town in Illinois can count a goodly
number of landlords who live upon the
sweat of their vassals on the farm. Is our
Democracy like our Christianity, a roar
ing farce? FARMER.
December 1st, 1891.