Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-09-01
Pilot Knob Items.

Prof. Greenwood has returned after
making an extended trip through Mis-
souri,. The public school opened to-
day under his supervision, with an en-
rollment of about seventy.
Ferd c. Kaths of Boatmen's Bank is
down for his annual vacation. For the
coming three weeks our young ladies
will look their handsomest.
Mrs. Schultz and family of Freder-
icktown are visiting her daughter, Mrs.
j. G. Gamma.
Miss Emma Smith of Fredericktown
is the guest of Miss Louisa Schmittner
Miss Emma Kesler of ST. Louis is
visiting her mother, Mrs. w. Kesler.
Miss Allie Manter of Bismarck spent
one day last week with Miss Belle
CRANE.
Everything is green in P. X. since
the shower.
Mrs. G. Spencer of De Soto is visit
ing her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Price.
Miss Annie Katns is expected home
this week from Chicago, where she has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. w. r.
Hinsdale, for the past month.
Murphy" in long and tedious ar
ticle, full of disconnected statements
and repetitions, tries to uphold the
stand he has taken on the Homestead
question. TX" does not say that the
strikers were destroying property,
neither was the armed guard there to
destroy them. Does murphy" night
ha 10 Ioor ond hora loadal rr,,r,
in his house because he expects bur-
glar? Not at all, it is for the protection
of his property in case a thief should
effect an entrance into his house. Such,
no doubt, was Mr.. Tricks view of the
subject. .sMurphy's" smile between
the burglar ransacking a house and
the entrance of the Pinkerton men into
Homestead is as bright and expressive
(?) as the rest of his article. There is
a wide difference between protecting
and pillaging. We will not go into a
rison, neither will we attempt to up
hold the Mckinley bill. By its own
workings it speaks for itself, and :'X''
can cite cases here in our State where
he knows definitely that it has built up
new industries and has given employ
ment to labor. As for the tissue of alb
surdities contained in his article, such
as laborer smelling bad to *" "a
statement, perhaps, more expressive
than elegantly and "willful and bare
face lies" electing President Harrison,
they effect us in the way mentioned by
the patent medicine advertisements,
we have that tired feeling" Il am
Mr.. Murphy, Esq, man who earns
his bread by his sweat" please do not
call me names. But as 10 the bloated
capitalists and enemies of labor, ..Ben
Harrison, Prick, Carnegie and McKin-
ley," why just deride them as much as
you please, that is another question.
"Murphy's" unlimited capacity OF al
gument forcibly forcibly reminds us Of
Goldsmith's lines relative to the village
pedagogue.
"In arguing too. the parson own'd his skill,
For cen though vangushed he could argue still
1t has been our endeavOr to limit our
articles to purely local news, and we
sincerely beg the pardon of the readers
of the REGISTER if they have been bor-
ed by a political argument which, no
doubt, was of no interest to them, and
to which .'X'has contributed his share.
s'Murphy," like the strikers, was the
aggressOr, and we were obliged to de-
fend our position, and, in so doing, no
doubt revealed our political inclination,
which, in the beginning, was not our
intention. Our critic, like Gratiano,
.sspeaks an infinite deal of nothing"
and would. no doubt, continue to do so
indefinitely, but, for our part, we will
bring this most interesting (?) article
to a close. Murphy" an reUoir.
August 30th, 1892. x.