Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-13

are no longer solely the results of
sturdy industry and enlightened fore
sight, but that they result from the
discriminating favor of the govern
ment and are largely built upon un-
due exactions from the masses of
our people. The gulf between en-
ployer and employe is constantly
widening and classes are rapidly form
ing, one comprising the very rich and
powerful, while in another are found
the toiling poor. AS we view the
achievements of aggregated capital,
we discover the existence OF trusts,
combinations and monopolies, while
the citizen is struggling far in the rear
or is trampled beneath an iron heel.
Corporations which should be careful
" restrained creatures OF the law. are
fast becoming the peoples masters.
The existing situation is in
furious to the health of our entire body
polite. It stiles in those for whose
benefit it is permitted all patriotic love
of country and substitutes in its place
selfish greed and grasping avarice.
Devotion to American citizenship for
it's own sake and for what it should
accomplish as a motive TO our nations
advancement and the happiness of all
our people is displaced by the assunp-
ton that the government, instead of
being the embodiment of equaIi-
t., is but an instrumentality
through which especial and in
dividual advantages are 20 be gained.
The arrogance OF this assumption is
unconcealed. 1t appears. in the sordid
disregard of all but personal interests.
IL the refusal to ab2te. Tor the
benefit of others. one iota of
selfish advantage. and iEs combinations
to perpetuate such advantages through
efforts to control Legislation ami TO in
fiuence improperly the s:l%srages Of the
people. Communism is hate
full thing and 4 menace. to peace and
organized government. Bue the com
munisn of combined wealth and capi-
tai. the outgrowth OF overweenirg GU
piditv and selfishness, which insid ious-
~ undernlines the justice and the in
tegrity of free institutions, IS not less
dangerous than the communism of OPP
pressed poverty and toll which. exasper-
ated by injustice and discomfort, at
taks with wild disorder the citadel of
rule. He Inoclzs the, people who pro-
poses that the government shall pro
tect the rich aud that they il t-rn
will care for the 1aboring poor, ANY
intermediary between the people and
their government, Or the least delega-
ton of the care and protection the gov
eminent owes to the humb citizen,
makes the boast of free institutions a
glittering delusion and the pretended
boon of American citizenship a shame
less imposition
plutrocraey has dictated great in
crease in taxes and in the expenses of
government. It has inaugurased
policy of paying cat millions annually
ia subsidies and bounties direet.frou
she treasury. It has forced the agri-
cultural states deeper and deeper into
debt. It has asserted a right to en-
ploy cenaries for use m private wars
against labor. It has demanded COM
plete control of elections through a
force bill provided for returning boards
and supervisors, to take the places of
judges and officers chosen by the peo-
pie. And after all this and more it
comes once more before the people as
serting its right to control them. and
TO subject their inherent manhood
rights to its assumptions of money
privilege. And on this issue Of popu-
lar government against plutocratic gov
eminent Grover Cleveland is once more
at the front of the democratic party.
challenging the judgment OF every
enlightened American on the justice
of its cause--St Louis Republic