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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-27

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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-27
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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-14
In RLAiNE,S SHOES.
Harrison's Adviser Supplants the Plumed
KNIGHT.

Harrison's Adviser Supplants the Plumed
Knight.
The one person who since his retire
ment from public life has ventured to
put open affront upon James G. Blaine
is his former chief, Benjamin Harrison.
The president has named as the sue
cessor of Mr.. Blaine in the state de-
partment a factotum of his, one John
w. Foster, of Indiana, whom he used
as an instrument to drive Blaine from
the state department, the portfolio of
which is now given to him. Mr.. Eos
ter was the presidents adviser regard
ing Chilli and the Behring sea contro-
versy at time when, fearing Blaine as
a candidate for the presidency, he chose
to hold him at arms length and DELHI
erately humiliate him. His friends,
gaining their cue from only one imagin-
able source landed Harrison for the
work of the state department. That
work was done extraofficiously by
Foster, who now has his reward. For
the first time in the history of the re-
public. an American chief magistrate
has ventured to call to the department
of state the paid attorney of various
foreign governments. This is Mr..
Fosters position. 1t is not in the minds
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-14

vote for Harrison, and such declara-
ton might have it's effect, unless coun-
teracted. But when the president
orders 'possum and sweet potatoes,
every negro voter is expected to forget
all grounds of disatfection and come
cheerfully to the support of the ticket
Apart from it's effect upon the negro
voters, there is peculiar propriety in
the introduction of the 'possum as the
representative of the republican policy
of protection and reciprocity. The sa-
lient characteristic of the 'possum is so
we'll known that it has enriched our
language with the word "'possuming"
as synonym of Discrimination. 1t is,
therefore. the best of all symbols of
republicanism. The whole republican
creed is but an example of "'possum
ing" When republicans talk of PRO
lection" they are only 'possuming:"
for they do not mean protection at all,
but spoliation of the many for the ben
eft of few. When they speak of rec
iprocity. they wink the other eye, for
they propose SO to limit it that it will
give cheap goods only to foreigners; it
is a 'possum policy from beginning to
end.
The labels of protection and ''rec-
iprocity" have only to be put upon a
couple of 'possums to tell the whole
story. The idea was genuine inspira-
tion.-Louisville Courier-Journal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-14

of men of sober Judgment recommen-
dation. but Foster had aided in humili-
ating Blaine, and the president. press
ing his reward, was willing to overlook
the fact.
Upon different grounds the appoint
ment of Foster to the state department
chieftaincy is as wretched a selection
as was the appointment of Steve" Ell
kins to the head of the war depart
ment. There is statute of the United
States forbidding the appointment of
an importer as secretary of the treas
ury. This law, based upon the idea
that the head of the treasury controll-
ing ports of entry and Interpretation of
tariff laws ought not to be tempted by
his interests to declare for himself, de-
feated Grants purpose of making AL
eXander Stewart, a great dry-goods
merchant of New York, secretary of
the treasury. No similar law was
thought necessary in the case of a sec
rotary of state, nobody dreaming that
a president of the republic would think
of placing at the head of the American
state department the paid attorney of
various foreign governments.
But Foster was an instrument in the
humiliation of Blaine. and Harrison
places him in Blaine's official shoes
Chicago Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-14
TRICKY LEGISLATION,
The Peculiar Propriety of the Presiden
tial Preference.

tial Preference.
President Harrison recently ex-
pressed desire for 'possum. Although
Mr. Harrison is not much of humorist,
the circumstances under which the
wish was expressed would have iusti-
fed the belief that the remark was
only bit of pleasantly. The wishes
of president, however, are commands
to the office seekers; and the publica-
ton of the remark brought a quick
response. Some Maryland republican
sent to the president by express two
Young 'possums, with red, white and
blue ribbons about their necks. one
marked Protection" and the other
Reciprocity"
This is supposed to have been a mas
ter stroke of political management 1t
is accepted as an advertisement of the
fact that Mr.. Harrison is fond of pos
sum. and this is expected to be worth
manv votes to him. Every darky's
heart is expected to thrill with admira-
ton when he learns that the republican
candidate for the presidency is fond of
'possum To be sure, the colored troops
have been fighting nobly in the repub-
lican column all along. but it seems
that something is now deemed neces-
sary to rouse their enthusiasm. There
have been many murmurs of discomfort
lately. Prof. Langston has declared
that no self-respecting colored man can
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-14
How the Single Tax Works.

A real estate and land specula.
ton firm in Toronto, Ont, holds
tract of vacant land in the suburbs
which they rent for market gardens.
In conversation with member of said
CUSTOM "That would never suit us, !"
he said. Every week these market
gardeners come in and pay us q good
fat rent If the tax on the land was too
high we could not hold it, and all that
would be spoiled"
Some time afterwards the subject was
again introduced. when the gentleman
was asked if he was aware that the
single tax was actually in force to o
limited extent in Manitoba, where all i'm
provements on farm and garden
property are exempt from taxation, and
that the result is that vacant land has
to bear a fair share of the burden.
YES" he answered, with q growl OF
dissatisfaction, II should think was
We have a farm up there, and every
quarter get such laundering big tax
bill that we would sell it for almost
nothing for any one who wants to farm
it"
Under the single tax the good fat
rent" has been changed into "a thunder
ing big tax BILL" and the user of the
land could step in on favorable terms.
Grove City is a village about twelve
miles from Columbus, o., on the Mid
land railroad. For the past two years
spectators in land in that village have
been making strenuous efforts to in
duce workingmen of Columbus to buy
lots and build homes out there, and, as
they put it, to ''get out of paying rent"
They have succeeded fairly well, and
have run trains morning and evening
for the accommodation of workingmen.
A gentleman from there was asked how
the boom fiourished, and he thought
that those mostly interested had done
better than they pretended. AS an evil
dence he gave the following account of
an investment he had made for his son:
There is piece of land out there of
six acres that a year ago went begging
for buyer at 500. Nobody seemed to
want it. But my son finally bought it
and rented it out. The other day he
was offered $1,000 for it. Don't you
think that that is doing well enoughP"
yes" was the reply. Ibid he take
it?'' mo, he didn't, because he has it
rented for $3.50 a year to a good tenant,
and that is 10 per cent. on 81, 800"
And SO the poor renter pays the piper.
The workingmen of Columbus leave
home early and get home late, and put
up with a thousand and one other in
conveniences, never seeing their family
in daylight for great portion Of the
year. By so doing they have increased
the value of the spectators land and
the working renter pays for it all
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-14
The Astor Will.

A few weeks ago a millionaire's will
was given to the public through the
daily press. In all his life it is doubtful
if this man did work enough to buy
him one years subsistence; and yet,
after living luxuriously, he makes a
post norton distribution of millions to
his family and favorites. 1t is SO COM
mon to regard inherited riches as &C
cumulated wealth that we look upon
the transmission of fortunes as affairs
with which none but the immediate
parties have any concern. We should
be right if it were true, that fortunes
consist of accumulated wealth; but
they do not. The requests of this mans
ancestor were chiefly not requests Of
accumulated wealth, but of power to
take wealth as it should be produced;
and he lived for years, not by his own
labor nor upon wealth produced by his
ancestors, but by the labor of masses Of
his fellowmen over whom he had inner
tied power that enabled him to de-
spoil them. And it is this power
and it's spoils that he has be-
queathed. The recipients of his
bounty may henceforth say of
the wealth that hundreds of thousands
of people produce from time to time:
$50 much of what you earn is ours"
They have inherited slaves as truly as
any heir of dying planter ever did. 1t
is not Mr.. Astor's wealth that comes to
his legatees; but power to take the
wealth of other people as it is produced.
1t is folly, however, to criticise either
him or them. They could not do justice
if they would; for 10 abandon their
power under existing conditions would
be but to confer it upon some one else
no better entitled to exercise it than
they are What is necessary is to grasp
the essential distinction between things
which, as product of labor, are the
rightful property of the producer or his
successor, and things which, as the
gift of nature, are no ones rightful
property, and to secure the profits OF
the one to the producer and those OF the
other to the communicative Stand
ard.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-14
PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS.

I -Carnegie's friendship for labor is
the true protectionist feeling. Reds
tenderness in the same direction is on
view. Platform and practice are part
of the campaign of observation-disclosures
City Times.
If the democratic party has any
clearly defined purpose it is to over
throw the system of tariff robbery,
which is maintained by, and which, in
turn, maintains the republican party
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The banners and transparencies
of Cleveland and Stevenson are flying
all over New York, and there can be
no mistake about the popular feeling
in regard to the ticket. The bosses will
be sick and sore for a little while, per-
haps, but as time advances will realize
more and more clearly the foolishness of
fighting against the nevitable.-Balti-
more News.
The people, without distinction
Of party, have right to congratulate
themselves on Mr.. Clevelands nominal
ton, since it insures a campaign in which
principles rather than persons will be
discussed, and frees the country from
wallowing in the mire of personal abuse
and vituperation which has character
lied SO many previous campaigns
Boston Traveller (rep.).
The Carnegie castle, formerly
known as the Homestead Mills has
the proper moat and draw bridge. sally
port, watch-tower, barbican and
Manifestations, but we are not in.
formed whether it has donjon kept
for the incarceration of those workmen
who foolishly thought that the Mckin-
ley tariff would save them from a re-
duction of wages.-N Y. World.
IF the democratic party has any
clearly defined purpose it is to over
throw the system of tariff robbery
which is maintained by and which in
turn maintains the republican party.
This being true, the party could afford
to say nothing else, and it recently re-
fused any longer to speak in falterinp
tones on a subject which demands un.
faltering courage.-Louisville Courier
Journal.
-Carnegie's men protesting against
a reduction in wages is not a very good
boom for the republican campaign
on the beauties of protection. Chair
man Campbell should know that one of
the duties of his position is the hasty
settlement of labor difficulties in pro-
tected industries during the campaign.
This is one of the things republican
national committee is maintained for.
Sioux CITY Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-14
Is This True?

Market men doing business at Central
Market, one-story shed, bounded by
Broadway, Seventh avenue and Forty
eight street, in the city Of New York,
tell this story: The ground comprises
between six and seven city lots, and the
space is divided into stalls and rented
to butchers, green grocers, etc. When
Broadway was widened many years ago,
the city condemned strip fifty feet
wide, for which sum was paid to the
owner in excess of the original cost TO
him of the entire tract. Within the
past twenty years the population of the
vicinity has been increased by fully 1907
900. The net rentals of the market
equal $40, 900, or per cent. on 100000
Indeed, the owner refused an offer OF
$3.50, 900 from parties who contemplated
building a fine hotel. The assessors
considered the property as unimproved,
and. therefore, value it for taxation AT
less than $4,000.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-14
THE DOCTRINE OF LIBERTY.
Democracy Stands Up for the Rights OF
PeonIe.

Democracy Stands Up for the Rights OF
the People.
The democratic party has always neId
that it is the right of the citizen to make
and control the government; that when
he is governed at all against his con-
sent he is governed UNI Justly. and that
he cannot be justly governed in any re-
spect without this consent, previously
EXPIRE ssed in the contracts created by
constitutions and by statutes made in
accor lance with them. 1t has always
held that only such rights are to be sur
rendered to the majority making and
administering the laws as are absolute
ly essential to government for the
maintenance of peace and order. Be
yond this it denies that the majority
has a right to govern the individual,
whom it holds to be free to regulate his
own morals, his own religion, his own
business, his own amusementS. his own
education, his own food and drink, his
own habits of all kinds and the whole
conduct of his life without regard to
the will of the ma iority so long and so
far to any extent whatever as he does
not disturb the peace of the majority
and by his course render good order i'm
possible.
The republican party holds now and
it has always held that the individual
has no rights which may not rightly be
taken from him by statute if he is too
weak to prevent the statute from being
enacted for his subjugation- In this
Incorporate spirit of oppression it has
passed its prohibitory laws in the name
of temperance. and in this spirit in HI
nOis, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and
other states it has attempted by statute
to overthrow the freedom of education;
to force the individual to abandon the
right to obey his own conscientious
convictions; to compel him to accept
the dictum of politicians in the educa-
ton of his children: to send policemen
to interfere between parent and child,
and to use the police power of the state
to break down such schools, religious
and secular. as are not ''authorized' by
officeholders.
The declaration of the Chicago plat
form for freedom of education and
against this tyranny is strong and time
ly. With the rest of the platform it
constitutes an emphatic reaffirmation
of the democratic tenet of individual
liberty at a time when bigoted radical
ism in the states and in the United
States is going to extremes in denying
that the individual has any rights
which a party strong enough to sub1u-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-14

made Corly believe that he ought to do
a good many things that the janitor
himself was paid for doing. but Corky
was so obliging and so good-natured
that he did not define his own rights
and duties very sharply
No one in the office knew much
about Corky. A line or two had been
put in the Male Help Wanted" column
of the Republican stating that an office
boy was wanted, and Corky was on
hand with twenty or thirty other boys
to apply for the place before the bust
ness manager had come down town on
the morning the advertisement APP
peared. Corby was about the shah
best-lressed of all the boys, but he
was perfectly clean, and there was an
iudefinable something about him that
the business manager liked, and he en-
gagged the boy after asking him but
three or four questions.
He didn't ask Corky anything about
where he lived or who or what he was,
and when Corky had been nearly a
war in the office no one there knew a
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-14

one thing more important than To
teach men what is right, it is to per-
suade them to do right in so far as they
know it
And among single tax men are there
not more Christians than would call
themselves such? For by their fruits
we know them. When see man who
laughs at religion devote himself 20 the
cause of humanity, / think that that
man is only tired of Christians; he still
believes in Christ. And when I hear
such a one say that whether the single
tax meets with success in his time mat
tiers not, for the future is ours, can not
but believe that that man feels stirring
within himself ''the power Of and end.
less life"
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| vealed the fact that the money was
gone, and over the counter went Corky,
and down the steps he ran into the al
ley that divided the block into two
parts, and by which unfrequented path
the thief was trying to make good his
escape. After him ran Corky, bare
headed, pallid of face, and with wildly
beating heart. He made no cutlery as
he ran. but sped on, with clinched fists
and tightly compressed lips.
The man was but few yards ahead
of Corky at the start; he was short and
stoutly built, and not accustomed to
running. while Corky was slender, and
the best runner in the boys baseball
club to which he belonged. and he was
running now as he had never run IN
the widest enthusiasm of the most ex-
citing ball game he had ever played in
his young life. He had more at stake
than the glory and honor of all the ball
clubs in the world. There seemed to
De ringing in his cars the business man
ayers words: Keep your eye ON that
money, Corky," and he had not kept
his eye ON it. He felt that he had
failed to show himself worthy Of the
trust imposed in him, and that the only
way to prove himself worthy was by
overtaking that man and recovering
the money. The man, on the other
hand. knew what awaited him in the
event of his capture, and the clinking
Of the gold and silver in the pockets of
the light overcoat he wore urged him
on.
He turned once and shook his fist
threateningiy at Corky, and cried out:
''Ill kill you, boy, if you don't go
back:' But Corky would not have fall
tered for an instant in his pursuit of
the man. even though he had known
that death awaited him.
The man ran out of the alley and into
the crowded street with Corky but
few feet behind him. When Corky ran
out of the alley, the man had disap-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-14
IN THE HEART OF THE HILLS.

In the warm, blue heart Of the hills
hy beautiful. beautiful one
Sleeps where he laid him down
Before the journey was done.
All the long summer day
The ghosts Of noon draw nigh,
And the tremulous aspens hear
The footing Of winds go by.
Down to the gates Of the sea-:
Out of the gates OF the west
Journeys the whispering river
Before the place OF his rest
The road he loved TO follow
When June came by his door,
Out through the dim blue haze
Leads, but allures NO more.
The trailing shadows Of clouds
Steal from the slopes and are gone;
The myriad life in the grass
Stirs, but he slumbers on.
The inland-wandsring tern
Shrek as they forage and fly;
His looms On the lonely reach
Utter their queruleus cry;
Over the floating lilies
A dragon fy lacks and steer
Ear in tke depth OF the blue
A martin settles and veerS:
To every roadside thistle
A gold-brown butterfly clings;
But he no more companions
All the dear vagrant things.
The strong req jourReying sun,
The pale and wandering rain,
VIII roam on the hills together
And find him never again
Then twilight falls with the touch
OF hand that soothes and stills.
And swamp-robin sings into light
The lone white star of the hills.
Alone in the dusk he sings,
And a burden of sorrow and wrong
as lifted up from the earth
And carried away in his song.
Alone in the dusk he sings.
And the Joy OF another day
Is folded in peace and borne
On the drift of years away.
But there in the heart OF the hills
My beautiful weary one
Sleeps where he laid him down;
And the long sweet night Is begun.
Bliss Carnan, in y. V Independent.
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very sensitive or particular boy, and he
was SO grateful for the opportunity of
earning the five dollars a week paid
him in the Republican Office that he
did not mind what they called him.
Moreover, nearly every man in the
Office had nickname of some kind.
The business manager himself re-
sponded very cbeerfuuy and readily to
the nickname of Billy" although his
cards were engraved with the name of
William Forsythe Raymond The chief
bookkeeper was never called by any
name but Captain" and his assistant
was always spoken of as The Fairy
because he was such a slight and pc
culiarly graceful little man. The young
man who kept the subscription books
spent so much of his salary for clothes,
and was so very particular about his
neckties and the combing of his hair,
that he was called DADDY" which he
did not mind in the least Nor did the
tall, slender, elerical-looking young
man who had something to do with the
advertising mind being called ''The
Deacon"
But every body around the office was
good-natured, from the colonel" who
was the editor-in-chief. down to Corky.
who held about the humblest position
of anyone in the office.
Corlxy did day work. He was at
every body's beck and call, and he did
little of everything. He brought the
mail from the post Office four or five
times day. He made paste, and kept
the counters of his business Office free
from dust and disorder of any kind.
He was tyrannized over to a mild de-
gree by the big colored janitor, who
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-14
" CORKY'S" TRUST.
The Story of a Boy Who Always
Did His Duty.

HIS boy Corky
was a kind of a
roustabout in a
big daily news
paper office in a
western state.
He was about
fourteen years
old, and his real
name was Mad
is on Corkhill,
but on the very
first day of his
arriv al some
one had called
h i'm "Corky."
and "Corky" he
had been from
that time forth.
Corky did not
care very much.
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