Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-08-04


lucky, is not regarded as an interloper
nor is he branded as q carpet-bagger. :"
How dare Maj. Warner address such
language as that to Missourians in the
hearing of all tho world? How dare he
assert by direction or indirection, by
open statement or covert inference,
that any honest man coming to Mis-
souri, from any state in this Union to
seek home will be regarded or treat
ed as an interloper or carpet-bagger,
or will be in anywise ostracised, mis-
used or Disseminated against? What
warrant has he for calumny so base
as that? In what county or city or
hamlet in Missouri is that sort of thing
done or permitted? Is it here in st.
Louis? Is it in Jackson? Is it in Bu-
chanan? l want to know where it is.
OF course there is no such place any
where in this broad state. OF course
You know, as does Maj. Warner, that in
no land under the sun is there a drawer,
more hospitable. kindly, moral, intelli-
gent or enterprising people than those
who inhabit the sunny slopes and
fecund plains of this great state.
The vast population Of the state,
comprising near 100000 souls, is
composed of enormous contributions
from every section of the Union and
from almost every country in Eu-
rope, and no honest man can
say he is ever Disseminated
against in this day and genera
tion because of his nativity, his politics
this as well, full as well, as you or L;
and yet to subservc partisan ends and
to advance his vaulting ambition he
levels his reckless, monstrous and ma
lignant invectives against the state and
the people of Missouri. His speech is
replete with bitter, rasping gibes and
denuncia like that l have quoted
and farpitched and stained COMPARE
sons made to the discredit of the state.
He struggles with all his might to put
the black mark of shame across the
fair white brow of this queenly COM
monwealth, under whose uplifted and
protecting arm he has prospered for
years, and whose generous hand has
showered undeserved honors on his
head. OF Illinois, Iowa and Kansas he
speaks in terms of elegant praise. OF
these he paints picture-attractive
beautiful, suberb. On the foreground.
hands linked and luscious lips
parted, are liberty, happiness,
and singing in the sunlight He paints
picture of Missouri 1ikewise-dark,
forbidding, repulsive. In the fore
ground, sullen and somber, are pro-
scription, discomfort, sloth-a hateful
trinity-crouching and scowling in the
shadow. These pictures he hangs upon
the outer wall, and standing there
calls the world to witness. To one he
points with proud, exultant smile; to
the other with sheer supon his lip.
Mr.. Chairman, these things are not
true. They are sbase libels. they are
atrocious calumnies. But if they were
true. what part has Maj. Warner and
his associates contributed to produce
such result? Who has been creep
ing like assassins on the track of the
state? Who has given wing to coarse
and brutal accusations against the
people and their institutions? Who
as bigoted and proscriptive. inhOspita-
BILE and fossilized? Who has denounced
the state by all manner of contemptu-
Gus epithets? Who has denounced it
as the robber state, and its government
as being in league with bandits? Who
has labored in season and out, at home
and abroad, to put upon it the brand
of shame and of reproach?
THE SAME OLD GANG.
And now, sir, after having thus de-
bauched the state, having sacked it's
treasury, having prescribed it's citizens,
having disfranchised it's taxpayers, hav-
ing stolen it's offices from the people,
having imprisoned its women, its priests
and preachers, having put every OBJ
struction possible in the way of it's
progress, that same old crew come
careering over the hills again under the
leadership of Maj. Warner, Col. Van
Horn and the balance of the old gang,
CRYING Justify: "Down with democracyi
Give us New Missouri
Mr.. Chairman, read sad story once
of beautiful matron upon whom a
fend had set his lustful eye. From his
and love-making she fled
with loathing and disgust. In revenge
woe fast upon the heels of another. He
kidnapped her child and hid it away.
He dispoiled her OF her possessions and
reduced her to want. He put lies
abroad on black wings and with whis-
pering lips to scandalize and dishonor
her. At last she turned to him and,
lifting her hands walled out, as did One
in the olden time: "Why persecutest
Thou me? What wonldst Thou have
me do?" Surrender thyself to my en-
brace; give thy beauty and thy charm
to my rude lust" he said. "Do this and
1 will put thy child in thine arms again;
l will restore thy possessions to thee; /
will go forth and absolve thee from all
polluting shame, and swear thou art as
pure and chaste as anything in Heaven.
But your defilement must be the price
Of your redemption"
Mr.. Chairman, in like manner this
old radical party, which has done all
these hateful things have enumerated
against the state, and many more be-
sides, comes now to us, not repentant
and apologize, but with inso1ent and
mien, and says: I'VE will
cease our war of defamation against
the state; We will retract the SANDER
BUS stories we have circulated; we will
with you henceforth in your
efforts to bear the state onward and
upward in the march to progress. But
f you would have us do these things
you must abase yourselves before us;
your must surrender the government to
)ur hands and restore to us absolute
power and dominion in the state" Is
here Missouri democrat living to-day
-eady to do that thing? If so, then he
S unworty to be freeman. He is
made of that vile stuff from which
,on tented slaves do come, or of that
metallic stuff which puts some new
nope of dividend above self-respect, and
makes commerce of liberty.
Mr.. Chairman, thank God that Mis-
ouri Is not dependent upon these peo-
Die for her prosperity or her good name.
Ter star of progress has gone steadily
along its shining pathway in
pite of the baying and the snarling OF
he animals Her proud escutcheon is
90 high-lifted to be reached by the de-
ling touch of these defamers. Her
equation is like C@sar's wife-above
uspicion. ...-- .- ---.
Let US turn now to the brighter page
n Missouri's history, and behold how
lain tale will put these slanderers
own. .-.... --s 80,
UNFAIR COMPARISONS. 5-