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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-04-09

If the next Congress appropriates as
much as the last one did it will have to
lay some new taxes. According 10 our
Republican contemporaries, therefore,
the incoming Democratic Congress will
have to cripple the public service or also
provide new sources of revenue: why
then should it not restore he sugar tax?
After the public has learned from the
sugar lesson that the tariff is tax paid
Dy the consumer, it may occu to it that
it will adjust that tax so as to make it as
llght as possible. Almost the entire
sugar tax Went to the Government; i.
was tax FIR pnblic uses. That is why
Mr.. Mckinley. legislating against the
puollc and in favor of private interests
threw it overheard. On the same princi-
pie he changed the tin plate tax SO that
instead OF yielding the government
o., Wo 900 and private parties nothing it
shouid yield the Government nothin o. and
private parties $40. 900 900 or SIS, ,00O. 900,
30 with the taxes on glass. and clothing.
and hundred other things. which are
divided between the Government and
american manufacturers, the latter get
'lhg tie larger part, Mr.. Mckinley ar
ranged the matter so that the Govern
mont should get less and the rr;vate
pTues get more. After the people have
found out by the help of the Boston
journal that the tariff is fax they will
insist on being taxed only for the benefit
OF the government National Democrat.
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FARMERS ALLIANCE MEETINGS.

Annapolis Alliance, No. I54, meets Satur-
day, April 2Sth, 1883. and, after that, every
second Saturday, 1T 1:3u p. NJ
j. NJ. BROWNE, Sec'y, Annapolis, Mo.
Arcadia Valley Alliance. No. I0i, meets on
Saturday evenings before the lst and Sd Sun
days of every month, at I:3O p. NJ.
JOHN LORI, Sec'y. Ironton, Mo.
EAGLE ALLIANCE. No. I52, meets on the
Ist and Sd Saturdays of each month. All
neighbors are invited.
FRANCES ALLIANCE meets at Hogan on
the I'd and 4th Tuesday of each month ut 5
O'Clock p. NJ. Is. ;. GREGORY, Sec'y.
MARBLE CREEK ALLIANCE. No. f02, meets
every months on Saturday evenings before
the second SUNDAY ut Logtown, and SatIr-
dav evening before the fourth Sunday at the
Red Schoolhouse on Marble Greek.
w. T. SUTTON, Scc'y, Ironton, Mo.
ELM GROVE ALLIANCE, No. 119, meets
every other Saturday evening, at the Elm
Grove schoolhouse. Belleview. ut O'Clock P.
M. j. w. LAsHLEY, President.
w. j. RUSSELL, Secretary.
CEDAR GROVE ALLIANCE, No. 120, meets
the second and fourth Saturday at l O'Clock
p. M. M. kUDDoCk, Iresluehl.
J. G.. HARTMAN, Secretary.
GARNTTEvILIE ALLIANCE, No. 595, meets
at workmen's Hall, Graniteville, on the 2d
and 4th Saturdays of each month at 1:30 p,
NJ CHAS.sORRICK. Sec'y.
Carver Alliance, No. sol, meets on the ID
and 4th Saturdays in each month at : O'Clock
P NJ at the Bollinger Schoolhouse.
j. &. HUFF, Sec'y.
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A Thousand Millions.

The expenditures of the last Congress
aggregate over one thousand millions of
dollars. Not only has the Urea sury sur
plus been scattered. but with increased
taxes on most OF the necessaries of busi-
ness and of life, aud with forced loan of
over fifty millions from a sacred trust for
the redemption Of bank notes, the Treas
ury is now certain to present deficit of
from fifty to eighty millions at the close
of the coming fiscal year.
When it is considered that the expen-
ditures of the last Congress exceed the
entire expenditures of the first half CEN
tury OF the government, including the
cost of the second war with England
and that the entire expenditures of
the nation when Mr.. Lincoln became
President did not exceed sixty millions
a year, or one hundred and twenty
millions by each Congress, the full
measure of the bewildering protligacy
OF the last Congress may be appreciated.
Tuink of single Congress at the close
of a century of free government expend-
ing more than the entire public expendi-
ture during the first halt of the century,
including the exceptional cost of pro-
tracted war with England.
But the last Congress was not content
with the expenditure of thousand mil
lions. In addition to that appalling
waste OF public money, II loaded the ma
ton with another thousand millions of
debt that must be paid in shape of fu-
ture pensions. subsidies, bounties, etc.
The true record of the last Congress is.
therefore, one thousand millions actually
appropriated for immediate expenditure
and another thousand millions of debt
loaded upon future Congresses in addi-
ton to the Legitimate expenses of the gov
eminent.
The first Republican Congress under
President Lincoln had little over one
hundred millions of revenue exclusive OF
loans-or TO be precise, the revenue was
S4l 476, 299 in 1861 and SOL .9l9, 261 i'm
'S62-and the entire expenditure of 1861,
the first year of Lincoln's Presidency,
including interest on public debt, was,
in exact figures. S66, ,G50,2l3. The last
Republican Congress, in time of peace
has expended over one tn ousand millions
and added thousand millions more TO
the ordinary expenditures of the future.
With such a record OF iobbine and pro-
fligacy, it would seem reasonable to as
sumo that the nation has had the last
Republican Congress OF cur history
Philadelphia Times.
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Lessons From the Sugar Tax.

The Boston journal, high tariff Repub
lcan, is hilarious, and we fear delirious
over the approaching abolition of the
sugar duty. On the 10th of March it eX-
laimed:
In three weeks from the present time we
shall all be eating Mckinley sugar, and we
shall eniov it the more because 1t Will cost
Us . cents pound less than we have been in
the habit of paying. Even the
smallest child will realize the benefit of the
change in an unexpected but most grateful
thickening of the coating OF molasses upon
his slice of bread, and if he knew what he
was about, he would hymn the praises OF
Mckinley.
The removal of the duty. then, will re =
suit in a reduced price, and this will af-
ford great delight to the people Of the
United States because it will reduce their
expenses.
When Mr.. Mckinley arranged for the
repeal of the sugar duty he sawed off the
branch he and his friends were roosting
on. After the people of the United States
find out by sweet experience how much
nicer untaxed sugar is than taxed sugar
they will take the taxes off some other
things. When they have learned from
sugar that the tariff is tax they can be
depended on to see to it that the tariff is
as low as possible.
Smacking its lips with delight at the
prospect of free raw sugar, the Journal
fmprudently says:
The tax heretofore on the raw sugar from
which the refined sugars are made has been
from pa to "a cents per pound. This has
been paid, first by the retiners and ultimately
by the consumers. This tax the Mckinley
law wipes out altogether. The duty on re-
fined sugars has been 3 to 81 cent per pound.
This duty the Mckinley law reduces TO q
cent a pound.
The duty. then, is advanced bv the i'm
porter, but paid ultimately by the con-
sumer. For manv years the Journal and
other papers Of its class have been teach
ing their benighted readers that the con-
sumers do not pay the duty; that the
duty is paid by the foreigner; according
to which theory the repeal of the sugar
duty is of no benefit to Americans, but
free gift of immense size TO the Cuban
planters.
The Journal concludes its disquisitiOn
on free sugar thus:
Cheaper sugar comes as a result of the
Mckinley law, and il comes to stay. No
Democratic Congress, whatever its majority,
will find it prudent TO fool with the sugar
duties or try to put back the tax on this ar
ticle of prime domestic necessity.
Perhaps not, but the journal has not
studied the sugar schedule of the Nc
kinley law thoroughly. A part of it,
which the Journal ignores, is the pay
ment of bounties to the American sugar
planters. When the agricultural readers
of the Boston Journal. who are abandon
ing their farms because they can't make
both ends meet even when their farms
adjoin the factories, observe the Secretary
of the Treasury paving out ten or fifteen
million dollars a year 20 the sugar raisers
of Louisiana they will presently begin
Democratic Congress to
change this excellent Mckinley law.
Besides, the Republican papers are tell
ing us that the late Congress did not ap-
propriate any too much money, but that
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APRIL 9. 1891.

down bad. l said to myself, ''Those ar
old tusken tracks. now look out" Th
tracks were very fresh. | walked along
very carefully and listened. | thought
could hear the tusks striking together
Just then the wind blew me toward:
them. Wug. wug! they had got The
wind of me and broke for the fence
and never stopped to let the fence
down but just went over that fence
just as neat as an old buck woulC
have done. After running about a
hundred yards they stopped. Now is
my time. drew "Old Betsey" to my
face, and, at the crack of my rifle, one
of them rolled over on his side and lay
there. The other with a ''wuh" left.
The next evening went down again,
for L knew the other one would come
back for his supper. Sure enough he
was there. AS soon as he discovered
me he broke for the fence, and, as he
went over the fence, / pulled the trig-
ger, and when he struck the ground
he lay there.
/ well remember one warm summer
afternoon when black berries were
ripe. All the children of the neigh
borhood went up to the old Powell
place, what is now the north part of
the city of Ironton. 1t was at that
time an old w"rn out field, all grown
up in briers and bushes. Some of
those briers bore the largest, most de-
HciOus berries I ever tasted. AS the
boys and girls were having real good
time, picking those delicious berries,
all at once they heard tremendous
racket down in the lower part of the
field. Such gnashing of teeth, and
growing, and barking, and here came
cold Tige" just a sailing and big
herd of hogs close at his heels. The
way those boys and girls ran for the
old log cabin that stood in the edge of
the field was not slow, and were none
too soon for hardly had they got on
the roof and on the o'd chimney than
the house was surrounded with hogs,
charging around the edges. 1t SEEM
ed as though those hogs thought the
boys and girls were the cause Of all
that trouble and were determined to
make an example of them. All at
once an old sow made a charge on the
old chimney, which was made of sticks
and clay, and one little girl fell off
and lit on the ground right before the
old sow. AS she went to catch the
girl "old Tige' rushed up and caught
the old SOW by the south end. That
tooS her atten ton from the girl, which
she improved in getting back on the
chimney again. AS "old Tigen was
getting the better of the SOW, all the
rest of the herd came to her aid. AS
they began to be too thick and too
many for "old Tige," he broke for
tall timb Der, and the whole herd after
him. AS soon as they were gone the
children lost no time getting away.
Fortunately, they did not lose many
of their berries.
1 never liked dog much. They are
always ready to pitch in just at the
wrong time. | could always kill more
game in a days hunt without dog
than I could with one. No, I don't
like dog. Some day L will tell you
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-04-09
-FFIGIAL DIRECTORY IRON COUNTY
COURTS-

CoO RIS-
CIRCUIT COURT is held on the
Fourth Monday in April and October.
COUNTY COURT convenes on the
First Monday of March, June, September
and December.
PROBATE COURT is held on the First
Monday in February, May, August and No
Fember.
OFFICERS:
4. W. HOLLoNIAN, Presiding Judge Coun-
ty Court.
JOHN kEMPER, County Judge, South
ern District.
J. E. Low, County Judge, Western Dis
trict.
j. ). JORDAN, Prosecuting Attorney.
i. w. WHITWORTH, Collector.
w. y. FLETCHER, County Clerk.
JOS. HUFF, Circuit Clerk.
FRANZ DINGER, Probate Judge.
ID. +. REESE, Treasurer.
w. III. FISHER, Sheriff.
). p. REYBURN, Assessor.
q. w. HULL, Coroner.
j. I. AXE, Public Admir-, Ironton.
y. w. HoLLOMAN, Surveyor
y. =. VANCE, School Commissioner.
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He Was No Dude.

They met. And afterward she said
She liked him very well,
And yet it might be better if
He were q shade more swell.
He took her to the play one night,
And felt he'd met.his fate;
She said she'd had good time-but
His hat was not on straight.
And after they'd been to ball,
With fearful eyes she wrote
She'd had a splendid time-but, oh =
That speck upon his coat.
81 love you, DEAR" he said, at last;
The maiden sighed, 81 find
| love you, too, but, oh, dear me-
Your necktie's up behind"
--ClOthier and Furnisher.
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Official Directory.
MEMRER OF CONGRFSS.

1Ii-NIbrA VT toNNRES>:
HON. SAMUEL BYRNs, Tenth District,
PO'7s:, Mo.
L. ;. LAND OFFICE j. &. Ne ELL,
Register; NM. =. NEWMAN, Receiver
1ronton, Mo.
!. FRANK GREEN, Judge Twenty-SIxth
-ircuit, De Soto, Mo.
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SOCIETIES:

IRON LODGE, No. 107, I. o. o. F.,
meets every Monday at its hall, corner Maiu
and Madison streets. HERMAN DAVIS, n.
G.. J. T. BALDWIN, Secretary.
IRONTON ENCAMPMENT, No. %, L
o. o. T., meets on the first and .hird Thurs
lay evenings of every month in OddFel-
lows Hall, corner Main and Madison streets.
j. T. BALDWIN, c. z. f. DIHGmR, Scribe.
STAR OF THE WEST Lou,E}. No. 1873,
A. F. & A. NJ, meets in Masonie al, corner
Main and Madison streets, on Saturday of or
preceding full moon. f. d. AXE, w. NJ.
J. T. AXE Secretary.
INDIAN CHAPTER, No. Il. r. A,
meets at the Masonic Hall on the first and
.hird Tuesdays OF each month, AT : 81. w.
II. EDGAR, Nj. E. II. 2. ii. B. JOINS, Sec
retary.
teA VALLEY LODGE, No. 1870,
ESI#NM KNIGHTS OP HONOR, meets in
ESA-5EzOdd-F Fellows Hall every alternate
kAMG# w ednesday ev'gs. j. :. 10 DAN,
XHzss$S~ d. A. z. VANCE, Reporter.
EASTERN STAR LODGE, No. g., A
r. 81 A. NJ. (colored), meets on the second
Saturday of each month.
IRON POST, No. $40, G. A. r.,
EIIf meets the I'd and 4th Thursday
cslialll, Evenings of each month.
N JR. HIGHLEY, PC.
w T.. *. PECK, Aul'l.
PILOT KNOB.
PILOT KNOB LODGE, No. 253, a. ..
u. w. meets every I'd and 4th Friday
evenings, 1880 p. NJ, upstairs in Union
Church.
PILOT KNOB LODGE, No. 156, L. .. o..
F., meets every Tuesday evening at their
hall. CHAS. MASCHMEYER, Secretary.
IRON LODGE, No. so, Sons OF HER
MAN, meets on the second and last sunday of
each month. VIM. STEPHENS, President.
VAL. EFFINGER, Secretary.
IRON MOUNTAIN.
IRON MOUNTAIN LODGE, No. 430,
A. +. Il 4. NJ, meets Saturday night on or
before the full moon. Louis PETIT, w. NJ.
j. \. PARKER, Secretary.
IRON MOUNTAIN LODGE, No. 260, L.
o. F., meets Wednesday night of each week.
PAT. CAUGHLIN, \. q.
j. \. PARKER Se'y.
IRON MOUNTAIN LODGE, No. 293,
4. O. e. w, meets on the first and third
Friday of each month.
BELLEVIEW.
MOSAIC LODGE No. 35l, A. F. & y .
NJ, meets on Saturday night of or after the
full moon. \. j. HARRALI, w. VI.
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Early Rose, Ohio and Beauty Of Hebron
Potatoes a. Newman's.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-08-14
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THE wINKELRIED MONUMENT.

The popular story goes that Werner
Stau'facher had fine house in Schwyz-
TOO fine for peasant" said Gessler, and
so the governor conliscated it. Another
governor outraged Arnold Won Melchtal,
of Unterwalden, in a similar way, and
these two met Walter FuerSt mt his house
in Attinghausen and laid their first plans
On the night of Nov L. 1901. these three
met on the Ruetli and solemuly pledged
their lives to the fatherland The story of
William Tell, of Altorf in Cr, is famil
lar to all. The original agreement of the
three cantons, in medieval Latin, is still
preserved at SchwyZ. One by one the
other cantons came in till the twenty-five
were united, and so Switzerland is the old
est republic in the world.
The most elaborate display is to take
place at Berne, and the panoramas repre-
senting the progress of the republic will be
the finest ever seen III the republic. This
is for the Tooth anniversary of the founda-
ton of the city 1t is of interest to note
that the people around Lake Uri are from
the Alemann mentioned by Tacitus,
After their descent upon the Roman EN-
pire they returned and located in Switzer-
land, and have ever remained the enemies
of despotsm.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-08-14

war and set the feet of the colonists in the
path of liberty and union Stark's loss was
seventy killed and wounded. Of the British
force of LOCO men only "A tenth escaped
No wonder that Baum said of the Green
mountain boys while dying, "They fought
more like hell hounds than soldiers" And
no wonder also that congress- far away at
Philadelphia, when it heard of the splendid
triumph of Aug 10, FASTENED to eXpunge
its censure of Stark adopted on Aug. l9
and to give him vote of thanks and a
generals commission.
The years have come and gone since then
in the due order of the seasons and of hu.
man progress, but the republic ia not un-
grateful, and the memory of that heroic
day remains as verdant as do the summer
hillsides that reverberated with the roar of
conflict and wrapped their peaks in the
smoke of battle. So there towers above the
peaceful and busy Bennington of today the
highest military monument in the world,
shaft of magnetism limestone, rising
more than 300 feet toward the stars and
sun in perpetual memory OF the fact that
there were giants in those years of change
and revolution when the United States of
America found their being.
The ceremonies of dedication which take
place on Aug 10 will fttingly call together
host of distinguished people. 1t also
chances that that date is the centennial of
the admission OF Vermont to the Union
So the two noteworthy events will be duly
honored at the same time. President Har
rison is to deliver an Grafton and the in.
vited guests include the members of the
cabinet, congress and the governors of all
the states The militia of New England
will make grand display, and the liter
airy exercises and banquet will be of ma
ture commensurate with the dignity and
Importance of the occasion.
1t may he of interest in this connection
to follow briefly the career of General
Stark after the battle that gave him fame.
Reinstated and recognized us was his due,
he served his country faithfully until the
end of the struggle, when he retired to his
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+ Continued from Oh PAGE.

WINNEBAGo CHIEF, JR., bright bay
with small star, Isl hands, $50 lbs;
foaled May u, 1887; bred by Horace
Brown, Rockford, ILL.,. got by Winneba-
90 Chief, son of Mountain Chief by Nor
rill dam, bay, bred by Horace Brown;
got by Borders Magma Charta Boy, son
of McCommon's Magma Charta by Nor
rill; second dam, bay, bred by Horace
Brown, got by Mountain Chief, son OF
Morrill,; third dam, dark bay, bred by
Jonathan Brown, Springfield, VT; got
by Knights Black Hawk, son of Black
Hawk by Sherman Morgan; fourth dam,
bay, bred by Willard Davis; got by Earl
Horse.
Registerd by ). Y. FELTON,, sudbury,
Rutland Co., VT.
BLACK ETHAN, black, 14i hands, 800
lbs. foaled 1856; bred by ;. Y. FELTON,,
sudbury, Rutland Co., VT; got by St.
julien, son of Aristos dam, black, bred
by J. r. Stickney, Shoreham, VT; got
by Parker Horse, son of Ethan Allen !;
second dam, bay, bred by J. r. Stickney,
got by Sherman Black Hawk, son of
Black Hawk.
GENERAL HARRISON. Il hands: foaled
Aug. ID, 1883; bred by ). y. FELTON,, Sud-
bury, VT; got by Aristos, son of Daniel
Lambert; dam, chestnut, bred by ;. Y.
FELTON,, Orwell, VT; got by Abraham,
son of Daniel Lambert; second dam,
Kate bred by Sheldon Doane, Benson,
VT; got by Howard Horse. son of Black
Hawk; third dam. black, bred by Shell
don Doane, and said to be Morgan.
Registered by a. B. Shaner, shannon,
ILL.,:
BLACK HAWK MORGAN, chestnut with
star, III hands, 1000 lbs; foaled lSSS ;
bred by A. c. Huffman, Forreston, Ogle
Co.. H.; got by Morg, son of Cub, by
Black Hawk Prophet: dam, chestnut,
untraced, but said to be Morgan.
MARES AND FILLIEs.
Registered by II. Brown, Rockford,
H.:
92O lbs; foaed May u, 1888: bred by
Horace Brown, Rockford, H.: got by
Winnebago Chief, son of Mountain Chief
by Morrill,: dam. bay. bred by Horace
Brown; got by Borders Magma Charta
Boy, son of McCommon's Magma Charta
second dam, Jessie, bay, bred by Horace
Brown; got BY Mountain Chief, son of
Morrill,; third dam. dark bay, bred by
Jonathan Brown, Springfield, VT; got
by knights Black Hawk, son of Black
Hawk by Sherman Morgan; fourth dam
bred by Willard Davis, got by Earl Horse
Registered by 5. Y. FELTON,, Sudbury,
Rutland Co., VT.
LILLE LAMBERT. chestnut with one
White hind foot, Isl hands. 1000 lbs.
foaled 1873; bred by :. Y. FELTON,. sud
bury. VT; got by Abraham. son of Dan
lei Lambert: dam, chestnut, bred by
sheldon Doane and said to be Morgan.
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THE SWISS CELEBRATIONS.
Appropriate Commemoration of Notable
Anniversaries.

Anniversaries.
Switzerland is now in the centennial era,
so to speak several of her greatest ami
versaries being celebrated this year; but
she has one great advantage over America
in that her cycles run back from five to
seven hundred years The most recent
event celebrated is the famous battle of
Sempach, of July 8, 1885, in which Arnold
Struth Won Winkelried made way for
liberty and died" A monument was
erected to him at Stanz. i'll the canton of
Unterwalden, in 1863
In 1921 was consummated the original
"Ewige Bund," or perpetual alliance-the
beginning of the republic of Switzerland.
So this is the G0Oth anniversary. y ver,'
singular fact is that, though it was so re
cent, the history is half legendary Indeed,
it is almost certain that no such man IS
William Tell ever lived, and there WAS no
such governor as Gessler But it is certain
that Austria set governors over the prov
inces to wiring as much money out of them
as possible, that there We're many isolated
cases Of resistance and that the three can
tons Of Ur, Schwyz and Cnterwalden,
comprising the lovely valleys which open
upon Lake Uri, united in the league in 1921
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itary arrogance despiseh the raw leves
that opposed his progress toward Sara
toga. His views were shared by Colonel
Baum, who started on his foragng trip at
the head of a force of 800 men-IIessians,
New York Tories and Indians.
Indeed the over confident German wrote
back after capturing a -four mill that he
understood some Yankee militia were in
front of him, but they would doubtless
get out of the way the moment they caught
sight of the English colors and heard the
drum beat of King Georges hrelings.
When he bad penned this dispatch the val
orous colonel marched on to encounter the
greatest and last surprise of his military
career
While Baum prepared leisurely for his
foraging promenade, Mr. John Wier, a
Wing farmer of Cambridge Washington
county, n. T., was bestirring himself to
some extent A Tory neighbor had dropped
hint of the impending raid, and Wier
threw aside his sickle, mounted his horse
and spread the alarm among the patriots
The latter turned with a single impulse to
their friend and neighbor, John Stark, and
besought him to lead them. Stark at that
time was doing the Achilles act-sulking
in his tent A native of New Hampshire,
a man of vast physical strength and of
much ability, although not bred in the
schools, he had served his country we'll
and thought that country ungrateful