Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-12-17

a dozen or so points. He cheerfully
party with a patriotic self-sacrifice
| well worthy of imitation by all lovers
| of their country. And, if in these rec
reative and patriotic pursuits, he picks
up stray shekel now and then, it is
from mere force Of habit and matter
| OF no consequence, except, perhaps, to
the obscure individual who owns the
shekel. Certainly not matter to be
ing Democrat. He takes an especial
pride and delight in furnishing his
party with sound body of doctrine,
particularly upon finance, for its use
in making its platform, and also in
selecting Presidential and other cam
didates, about whose fitness and avail
ability there ought to be no cavil by
even the most captious. His prin-
ciples are entirely modern and suited
to the needs of this progressive age
wholly dissociated from the dead and
gone past. He regards Jefferson, jack
son, Madison and other Democrats of
the silurian period as fossilized back
numbers, whose principles have no
more to do with the living present of
Democracy than gavel-kind in Kent,
and if he ever disturbs the dust on one
of their volumes in his library, if he
has not forgotten to secure one, it is
only liz the spirit of the antiquary and
with no reference to present issues.
In the off year preceding the Presi
Dental election he takes great care to
have his state go Democratic in order
that it may have the call on candidates
in the convention of the ensuing year.
With the nominee of the party secur-
ed to his own state he feels that the
country is reasonably safe, for, while
the Republicans are to he put down
politically on all proper occasion, they
are sound on many points, especially
in their theories of finance, which to
his mind are of the most vital import
ance. So secure does he feel about the
welfare of the commonwealth under
these circumstances that he not un-
frequently fails to register and when
election day comes omits to cast his
ballot. He will not admit under any
circumstances that the United States
extends further west than the Ale
gheny mountains, or further south
than the northern boundary of Vir-
ginia, the rest of the country being
merely tributary and outlying prov
inces. He regards the great Missis-
sippi Valley as humbug, whose only
meritorious institution is the Pinker-
ton detective agency, and the Missis-
sippi River as a myth-at least if it
exists at all it is vastly inferior in vol
ume and Importance to his beloved
Hudson. Of late years he has been
not little disturbed by the intrusions
of the barbarians from beyond the
mountains into fields that he has here |
tofore regarded as his own peculiar
preserves. He has, with commend |
able forbearance, pointed out to them
the evil effects to himself that would
ensue from adopting their bedlamite
theories of trade and finance. He has |
to them how, by economy, |
they might relieve themselves of their |
financial burdens. True, this econ |
omy is somewhat on the line of the |
Irishman' g who tried to train his horse
to live without eating, but, neverthe- |
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task with the best intentions. He is
in favor of economy generally ifit does
not interfere with the quality or guam
tity of his wines, the elegance OF his
ings or the sumptuousness of his style
of living. While he is willing to go
among the elegant porcelain Of class
legislation that it has cost so much
and trouble to get together and
sacrifice some of the pieces that have
long since ceased to be serviceable,
that the vandals beyond the noun
tains may be pacified, he regards this
whole tariff agitation with disfavor as
to unsettle values and cur
tail pronts, and, above all else, to fos-
ter that disposition that has lately
grown up among those barbarous peo-
Piles to take a prominent part in the
affairs of the nation and to insist upon
what they conceive to be their rights.
He is willing to tolerate the tariff
question as campaign cry for capital,
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