Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-12-08
OPINIONS AND POINTERS.

swim or take ferryboat- The United
States navy will not be at his disposal.
st Louis Globe-Democrat trep).
in estimating and cataioguing
the causes of republican defeat. the
trifiinS circumstance of lack of re-
publican votes ought not to be over
looked.-St. Locis Globe-Democrat
(rep).
The republicans cannot become
reconciled to their defeat. and they are
still trying to convict the people of
ignorance and stupidity in failing to
give them further lease of power
n. Y. Post
Mckinley claims that protection
is just as dear to republicans as ever.
1t is because his bill was considerably
dearer to democrats than any previous
tariff legislation that his party was
showed under.-Kansas City Times.
"A new republican reason for the
landslide has been brought out. THE
social unrest of the country was
against us" it is said. Well, when six
or seven millions of voters get uneasy
there is very apt to be an overturn.-N.
! Y. World.
The election of Mr.. Cleveland
shows that popular opinion. however
slow it may be in forming. is when
| once formed almost inevitably right.
and that the will of the people when
clearly expressed is irresistible.-Bal-
timore News
In the next house the democratic
majority is about ninety over all This
is large enough for all the practical
nm of 1oriclof;on and xxil
less unwieldy than the majority of one
house.-St. Louis Republic:
The republican party has tried to
purchase the soldier vote by pledging
| the nation to payroll that has grown
| from S27, 200. 900 in 1878 to S1SG, 900, 900
| in 1892, much the greater part of
| which is squandered on camp followers
and treasury hooters. Cou-
| rier-Journal.
The campaign of education on the
tariff began with Cleveland's great
tariff message of 1887. That coura-
geous document helped to defeat the
democratic leader in 1883, but it was
! lamp unto the feet of the nation. and it
prepared all the conditions that led to
| the overwhelming victory at the polls
Newark journal.
Mr.. Depew says that the people
of the United States are tired of GER
| tainty and want to speculate. Chaun-
| cey is partly right The people are
tired of the certainty of being squeezed
in the interests of monopoly. But they
have now invested in another certainty
| lower taxes, pure government and
apu.I RIGHTS -Chicau Herald
-Whateyer else may have contrib
utetl to his success, Gemagogism cannot
! be charged against Mr.. Cleveland He
has adhered to his principles, when
| such adherence, from a political point
! of view, was iInpoiitic, and this leads
| to the belief that he will be able to
| hold in check the radical element of
his party and give the country a con-
sentative adminis:ration.--P sburgh
| Chronicle.
And this prophet is stuffed. He
| is stuffed with the virtue that accepts
| public office only as a public trust;
! stuffed with the honor which refuses to
''palter in double sense" with words
! or even to keep silent when-as at the
| time of the silver craZe-franh utter
ance seems to promise only destruction
for his own and his party's ambitions;
stuffed with sturdy common sense.-N.
Y. World.
We do not think it would be wise
for the party of revision to undertake
the great work of substituting an hon.
est tariff for the Mckinley act at a
called session of the new congress. If
| the republicans are really anxious-as
| they say they are-that a test of the
new policy shall be made at once, let
them pass the bills which the present
house has sent to the senate. That
would be beginning and would per-
| ceptibly decrease the labor to be done
| in the subsequent general revisicn.-N.
Y. Times.
--One of the surprises of election
| day was the revelation which the re-
| turns make that Cleveland is stronger
| than Tammany in New York city.
where he ran ahead of Gilroy, the
| Tammany candidate for mayor. and
| WAS as strong in Illinois as Atgeld, who
was expected to run from Il, 900 to co.
OO6 ahead of the national ticket. These
| facts show that the democratic party
won its victory on the square issue of
| principle, and that the personality of
!
, it-St. Louis Republic.
| -For FIVE years, or since .ha,
! famous tariff message sent by Grover
Cleveland to congress IN 1887. the coun-
try has been celebrating the tariff
question to the exclusion of almost
| every other public issue. For two
years, or since the election of 1890
! tariff reform has been the avowed de-
| sire of the country. That desire has
| just received another and even more in
sistcnt expression at the polls, and
further delay would be not only need
| less. but a positive disregard of the
popular demsnd.--St Paul Globe.
1t recalls to our mind the famous
saying of Abraham Lincoln that you
can fool some of the people all the time,
| and all of the people some of the time,
but you cannot fool all of the people all
of the time. The people have at last
seen through the stupidity of the recL-
less protection logic and are ready to
! try that which promises to limit taxa
| ton to the revenue needs of the gov
| eminent. They have concluded to
abandon the policy of taxing nine
tenths for the benefit of one tenth and
give the former few of the advan-
tages of equal taxation.-New Haven
Register.