Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-05

con tent TO WOFk lot tne wages auu up
on the terms their benefactors offer
The Hungarians demanded that thei
hours should he reduced from twelv
to eight. a most preposterous demand
when il is considered that one of The
main objects of their bringing here
was to prevent reduction of the hour:
of labor among American workmen
Shall the clay say TO the potter, "Wha
doest thou?" Shall the imported
European labor say to the American
importer aud employer, u like no
your terms?'' Eight hours day
Possibly the Hungarians required {
few hours daily to read, learn and in
wardly digest triumphant Democrs.
cy." Possibly they are anxious to have
more leisure to study and understand
the beauties OF protection against the
pauper labor of Europe. 1t may be
that, working twelve hours per day
they had no time TO solve the riddle
how in a country where all men are
born free the many have to bargain
with the few for right to live; how
in a land where all are born equal
there comes the vast difference observ-
able between Carnegie, rolling in his
| carriage through the picturesque por-
tions of the old world, surrounded with
all the luxuries that wealth can COM
mand, and an employe of Csrnegie,
starving and shivering through ~ Penn
sylvania winter. There are many
things Hungarian might learn, or at
least puzzle over. had he but the leis-
ure. But here's the rub. with leisure
would come knowledge, and with
knowledge discomfort with a system
which pampers the few who toll not
and starves the many who toll. And
then the Carnegies might just as well
have kept the American workmen
they imported the b Ingarians to dis
place. Why, if the Hungarians have
leisure, become intelligent and make
the demand which intelligent men
will surely make. it will become nee
essary to search for some more foreign
labor to displace them, 1t will never
do; short hours are dang erous; the
standard of ignorance among the work
ing classes must be upheld-nalled to
the mast, as it were. Without ignor-
ence among the workers the present
sweating system could not be main
tanned, and triumphant plutocracy
| yEntriI hn all
let US have long hours and. plenty OF
! ignorance, whether contented or dis.
contented, then the present system will
continue and riches and poverty will
both increase and multiply. With
short hours and resultant intelligence
who can tell but We may have social.
| ism, or anarchism, or some other OF
these things which the sayiours of So
ciety dread without Understandings
dread the more the less they under
stand?-Journal of knights of Labor.
The Tariff on the Majors Boots.
An elegant pair of hobhailed boots,
made out of porpoise leather and OF
splendid workmanship, is displayed
in the show window of Haman's shoe
store, on Main street. These boots be-
long to Major Brooks, of the G. G. S.
Ry., and were sent the Major by Col.
Alt, of London. They were made by
a fashionable artist in leather, in the
great city on the Thames, in fact by
one who adds to his advertisement the
legend, "Bootmaker to the Queen" in
order to assure the public of his pro-
| ficiency in his craft. And it must be
said that the boots are piece of art
istic work, and although made very
heavy and strong, the ne ptus ultra of
elegance AS a matter of fact the Ma
jor now has magnificent pair Of boots
for work on wet or recky ground. He
is "well heeled" This is the pleasant
and gratifying part of the story about
the Majors boots. But another tale
appends to the importation of these
boots. One should think that boots
ought to come into this country free of
the tariff duty, especially since all the
leather used by our manufacturers
is imported free of duty, and hence
our manufacturers have built up a
considerable export trade to other
countries But when these boots
were landed in New York, they wan
dered into the custom house, and the
following is list of the charges they
were compelled to undergo before they
could reach their destination, that is
to say:
Duty paid in New York. 20
U. S. c. 81. warehouse chan ges....:.... 80
Brokerage clearance. ce................... L %
Total S6.91
A nice little bill to get pair of boots
into the United States, is it not? Of
course the Major don't object, as he is
too genial Republican and too good
natured to "kick" about the matter
But he is satisfied of one thing, that
the tariff is not paid by the manufact-
urer in Europe, as was SO oindustriously
circulated ''around about these
woods" a couple of years ago, but by
our own people. And maybe he is al
so of the opinion that the tariff is a
"tax." In the mean time we wish the
Naior p,onr r1aa uont xxyallyu in iC