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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-21
TIE HOMESTEAD EXAMPLE
Protected Plutocracy Deals Death to
American Labor.


American Labor.
Blood has been shed at the Home
stead mills. Pinkerton jauizaries hired
by Carnegie have killed and wounded a
score Or more of wOrkingmen in bat
tie brought ON by Carnegie's determine
ton to lower the wages of his en-
ployes, peaceably if he can, forcibly if
he must. His employment of these
armed hirelings shows that he is ready
to shoot down the wages of American
labor if he can't lower them by simply
posting a notice of reduction.
It is not necessary to defend the
locked-out workingmen in their acts OF
violence. They have become particeps
criminis IN a breach of the peace. but
they are not responsible for the tragedy
at the Carnegie iron works. They sim
ply fought plutocracy with its own
weapons, and until Pinl1ertonism is put
down by law the hirelings of the
plutocrats must be taught by such les
sons as that at Homestead that if they
appeal to Winchesters they shall perish
hy Winchesters.
The Carnegie Steel Company, limited,
deliberately and probably Intention
ally provoked breach of the peace by
sending the armed Pinkertons to Home
stead. According to their own pub
lished statement they had appealed to
the sheriff of Allegheny county for
protection, and he was acting upon
their appeal Beyond doubt, had the
sheriff found himself unable to pro-
tect them in their legal rights with the
posse at his command, he would have
sought such other aid as is provided for
in emergencies by the laws of Pennsyl-
vania. Without waiting for him to act
in the regular and lawful way, the
Carnegie Steel Company, limited.
sought to steal a march on their en-
ployes by sending down a body of
private mercenaries to take possession
of the works at night and from behind
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-21
Income Tax.
parallel.

Very frequently the World advocates
an income tax as a substitute for other
forms of taxation; and it somtimes Of
fers good arguments in favor of that
tax as compared with some others, as
when it speaks of it as falling upon ac-
cumulated wealth and not upon the pro-
cess by which wealth is produced. But
it invariably avoids three fundamental
objections to the income tax. In the
first place, the tax can not be fairly inn
posed, as incomes can be hidden or made
to appear smaller than they are; honest
men will pay the tax and others will
escape. In the second place, the at
tempts to ascertain incomes, clumsy at
best are inquisitorial to degree that
ought not to be tolerated. In the third
place. an income tax confiscates private
property. If there were no common
property out of which to collect public
revenues it would be necessary to con-
fiscate private property for public use;
but so long as there is common property
that necessity does not exist. And there
is ample common property. 1t consists
in the value of the privilege OF living or
doing business in a community. The
value of this privilege is produced by no
one in particular, but by everyone in
general. This is distinctly, therefore,
common property; ard so long as such
property can be reached by taxation it
is confiscation in the worst sense of that
term to take legitimate private incomes
for public use. 1t can be reached by
the simple method of tax on the value
of land irrespective of its improvements,
a method having several advantages
over the tax on incomes, among which
are ease Of assessment, fairness in coll
lection, justice and the fact that it is al
ready more popular than the income
tax-The Standard.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-21

included under the reciprocity section.
at a rate of one and one-haf cents tax
per pound, but with ali New England,
except Maine and Vermont, in the bal
ance, President Harrison has not dared
to enforce that section. The victims of
bunco game, the Arnours now refuse
to lend their skilled hired man to Har-
rison. who is in need of precisely those
services covered in his former descrip-
ton OF Mr.. Campbell. The whole cpl
sode Eliminates republican protection.
ALBANY
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-21
BABY.

Bright eyes: They're baby's eyes,
Ilumined with heavens own light:
Ihey seem to tell of suD-lit skies,
OF star-land broad and bright
Sweet lips. They're baby's lips,
just smiling for q kiss:
Not cen the sweets the hum-bird sips
Are half as sweet as this
Fair face. It's baby's face
All fresh and pure from Heaven:
Oh. was there ever such a face
To other mortals given:
Wee hands. They're babys hands.
So dainty and so dear:
o. baby hands a strong hearts bands
Are twined about you here.
sWee feet. They're baby's feet
Pink, dimpled. soft and small:
Within my hands they lightly meet
My little life. Ny all.
Yet this is just one baby life
One shrine of worship here
How many million millions more
Some other hearts hold dear,
Josie F. Cappleman, in Detroit Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-21

the stOckade of Fort Frick overawe
their discharged workingmen by a dis
play of armed force.
In this they have been beaten after a
bloody battle, in which human lives
were sacrificed, for which Carnegie and
his managers are clearly responsible.
They will now abandon their private
war and wait, as they should have done
at first, for the sheriff to act. He must,
and no doubt will, protect them in the
possession and operation of their works,
and the state military has been called
out in order to accomplish it.
Ultimately, of course, Carnegie will
win. He has the law on his side, and
behind the law is the resistless power
Of the state. If the Homestead work
ingmen do not surrender and accept his
terms they must give place to strangers
imported for the purpose who are will
ing to take what they can get. They
must leave the little homes which they
nave built for themselves and paid for
put of their scanty savings, the churches
where they have worsbiped and the
cemeteries where lie their dead. They
must take their wives and little ones
and seek elsewhere the opportunity to
earn bread by the sweat of their brows.
They must move on or he shot down
when they venture to assert against
millionaire employers their right to
share in the benefits of protection.
Perhaps it may occur to the Amalga-
mated Association of Steel and Iron
Workers that when the Homesteaders
are driven out they may be set to MS
sionary work. If they were scattered
over the country, they could impress
upon their fellow-workmcn everywhere
a most instructive object lesson upon
tie workings of Mckinley protection in
making Carnegie forty times million
aire while giving his workingmen the
choice of accepting reduced wages or
becoming tramps.-St. Louis Repu bile.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-21

First Conductor-''That is mighty
nice man. that new superintendent; he
fred McGinniss last night for knocking
down, and then thanked him." Second
Conductor-"Whatd did he thank him
for?" First Confederation bringing
the car back"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-21

Scene, auditorium of theater.
Spectator, intensely interested in the
action of the drama, leans too far over
the balcony rail and suddenly loses his
balance, falling into the orchestra
Excited Individual (hastening to the
unfortunate's assistance)-Are you
much injured? Unfortunate with con-
siderable show of feeling)--Much in
iured! / should think am! have lost
the best seat IN the very middle of the
front rOw-Harper'S Bazaar.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-21

-"Why docs donkey eat thistles?''
asked a teacher of one of the largest
boys in the class because he is .
dc ,key, reckon was the prompt 70
ply.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-21

Just Like a Modern.-"This mum
my fell to pieces as we were unpacHng
it." said the director of the muse-m to
Gazzam "Ah," replied Gazzam, dead
broke, evidently" Free Press
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-21

emotional insanity prevails. Or, as
described by medical expert in recent
case the defendant is view cd as suffering
from 'invalidiuy of intellectual in
tegrity. y
In such cases an enraged person may
plan the killing of human being, the
method of concealing his crime, the
means of escape and his subsequent de-
pertinent, and yet not be legally pun
ishable because of his tinvalidity of in
tellectual integrity.'' This looks like
a burlesque upon law and an excuse for
preventing justice.
The sickly sentlmentality of sympath-
izing persons, chiefly hysterical women,
who treat vile criminal as though he
were demi-god and the interest ar oused
as to his fate by every day accounts of
his doings in the papers, aid in depriving
crime Of its most repulsive aspects and
renders the condition of the criminal any
thing but horrifying to the untutored
mind.
The uncertainties of the law and the
lack of disposition to enforce it in capital
cases have something to do with the prev
alence of crime. If the committing of
murder was unhesitatingly followed by
capital punishment on proof of guilt, it
would doubtless have deterrent effect.
Sentimentalists may express horror OF
such extreme measures, but the old time
divine fat has. not been improved upon
by modern pretended philanthropists.
The low class literature which deals of
stabbing and poisoning, and shooting and
arson, with all kinds OF terrible details,
tends to familiarize the juvenile mind
with the taking of human life and other
criminal action and no doubt fosters
lawlessness. The carrying of deadly
weapons which is totally unnecessary for
the ordinary citizen in nearly every part
of this country is also conclusive to acts
OF violence. So far as possible these pro-
moters of criminal conduct should be
suppressed. But, after all, it is education
OF mankind in the direction of self-re-
straint instead of self-indulgence, and a
respect for right in itself and the liberties
and rights of others which will prove the
greatest deterrent of criminal progress.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-21
Promotion for the Soldier.

An announcement was made a short
time ago by the secretary of war which
opens up great opportunities for the pri-
vate soldier. Under new regulations any
soldier not over 80 years of age who has
served two years in the army may, after
passing a prescribed examination, be eli
gible to gain a second lieutenancy.
This cannot fail to be healthy stimu
lus to men in the ranks. 1t will arouse in
them ambition to improve themselves so
as to be eligible for the honor thus made
possible of attainment. The common
SOLDIER will have worthy object in
view and something substantial to live
for It will promote education and NOR
atty and train men to become efficient in
their profession, even if they do not sue
coed in rising to the rank desired. 1t will
also improve the higher branch of the SER
vice, because those who reach it will have
become thoroughly familiar with all its
duties.
The ordinary soldier is usually some
what of an idIer, addicted to drink
ing and gambling, if not more
debasing habits, and though ready
when called upon to go into active
service, spends. ordinarily, much of his
time in a trifing way. The new regula-
tions will, in all probability, effect con-
siderable change in these respects and
emulation will be promoted which will
tend to raise the standard of the soldier
status.
Another benefit that will probably ac-
crue to the army from this wise move
ment is the inducement it will offer fer a
better class of men to enlist. The army is
often refuge for men who can find no
other employment or who are under some
other great necessity. With the prospect
of becoming an "officer and gentle
men. - young men of capability and am
bition will not think it demeaning them
selves to enter the ranks as private SOL
diers. The war department has done a
good thing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-21
The Liberty of HeresY.

The arguments of journalistic SYM
pathizers with Messrs. BRIGGS and
SMITH, more particularly the latter,
would be all very well if any attempt was
being made to muzzle those expounders
of modern liberal religious ideas, or to
punish them in any way for their alleged
heresies.
There is no parallel between their posi-
ton and the jeopardy in which heretics
were put in the middle ages. They are
not to be deprived of any right or liberty
or possession. They have been on trial
simply to find whether it is true that
they have been teaching doctrines con-
trary to the tenets of the church to which
they belong.
If the suspension of Mr.. SMITH should
be continued or result in his expulsion,
the charges or insinuations made as to who
acted on his case will be illogical and
unfounded. If an organized church with
a defined creed must not deal with one of
its ministers who departs from the recog-
nized faith, where would be proper disci-
pline and of what use would be creed
or a church?
Some people, perhaps. will say we do
not see any good in either. That may be
SO. But in these cases there is a church
and creed, and these defendants are
accused of teaching doctrines contrary to
that creed under the cover of the ministry
in that church. If they do not believe in
the creed, if they object to the restrictions
of the church, let them go outside OF both,
honestly and in manly way. Nobody is
trying to hinder them or to bring re-
proach upon them for exercising their
freedom.
1t does not matter how much those
preachers may be right as to principle or
how wrong the church may be as TO doc
trine, they profess to be ministers of the
church and of its doctrine, and they have
no right to maintain their position if they
have, as they think, grown out of the
restraints of both. The church has the
right to expel them and ought to do it. if
they persist in the course they appear to
have taken.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-21
Increase OF Crime.

The prevalence of crime and particu-
larly the increase of capital offenses make
food for thought among the active minds
of the world. Sometimes it appears as
though crime was contagious. There are
epidemics, seemingly, in the mental or
spiritual sphere as there are in the natu-
raj sphere. Certain it is that when any
novel form of crime is made public it is
speedily initiated, and that any peculiar
mode of suicide ormurder is straightway
adopted in other cases and becomes preva-
lent for awhile.
Psychology is as yet very imperfect
science, and has not, up to present date,
afforded any satisfactory explanation of
this phenomenon. That there is su bile
and unforeseen influence acting upon
persons of similar organism and produc-
ing similar effects under similar circum-
stances, seems to be warranted by a
volume OF reliable data. What it is,
the modes Of its action, and what
sets it in motion may be discovered and
demonstrated through continued scien-
tific investigation. 1t looks as though the
deed OF one extraordinary criminal pro-
duces an effect upon the sphere of mind or
spirit, which sets upon other persons
peculiarly susceptible to the influence,
and they are impelled to similar action
unless they possess the desire and will
power to resist it.
But, leaving the region OF speculative
hypothesis, we come down to the fact,
which is that notwithstanding the march
of education crime flows on in steady
stream, and the frequency of murder is a
theme for philosophical and journalistic
treatment. 1t may not be possible until
we know more to reach the secret causes
of criminal contagion, but is it not posi-
bic to do something to check criminal ac-
ton by the proper enforcement of penal
lawsg
One of the reasons for the in
crease of homicides is believed to be
the improper treatment of the
guilty. There are too many
loopholes through which the criminal
may creep. The modern doctrine of
irresponsible conditions. which obtains
SO much in the courts. seems to have
been devised for the especial protection OF
murderers. If it can be shown that at
lifetime when destroyer of human life
committed the Tense his mental balance
was temporarily deranged, the plea Of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-21
Comical Conceits.

Troy Press: An old-timer-your great
grandfather's clock.
Union County Standard: Puts house
in a roar-a confiagration.
Kate Fields Washington: Those. who
marry in haste now repent in Dakota.
Tens S1tings; Many man has made
a goose OF himself with a sings quill.
Galveston Neus: The trouble about
female reformers is that they always have
so much hustle about it.
Chicago Tribune: In Missouri they sell
Shetland ponies by the perpendicular foot
and the purchaser has to pony up.
Chicago inter Ocean: Mrs. Lease may
never getinto the Senate, but Mr.. Lease
knows if she does he is elected for the
house.
Chicago Inter Ocean: Martini How
well Miss Greenbough keeps her age!'
Mrs. Grinder-'sW Why, of course; no one
could induce her to give it away"
Good Neus: Wee Brother-ssTell me a
stowy bout zee old woman who lived in
shoe.'' Little Sister-"Oh, I'm tired
of that. I'll tell you bout an old woman
who lived in flat, an SO many children
she-she had to sleep on the door mat.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-21
A Big Railway Project.

| If there is truth in the report that the
Chicago and Northwestern company is
figuring Tor connections so as to form
line by aid of the. Utah Southern clear to
the Pacific coast, it will be one of the
greatest railway projects of the times.
Eastern papers profess to have informa-
ton to that effect, and there may be
something in it.
With its present connection eastward a
clear line would be opened up from New
York to San Francisco. The intermediate
roads spoken of are the Fremont, Elk
horn and Missouri valley, and the Wyo-
ming and Utah. These would take the
Northwestern traffic from Sioux City to
Ogden. The w. and U. is at present
only on paper. 1t cuts an important fig
ure, however, in the great project, as it
would form the real connecting link be-
tween the eastern and western lines that
are to complete the system.
The Importance of such line must be
nows anything of the country. Wyom-
ing would be immensely benefited, in
the development it would bring to large
areas of her unsettled lands and the mar
ket it would open for her numerals as we'll
as agricultural products. Utah and the
whole west would reap great advantages
from it, if it were only in a great Compel
ing line relieving them from monopoly.
Articles OF incorporation for the Wyom-
ing and Utah have been filed in Denver,
and the progress of the road will be
watched with interest by the the western
public. Railroad projects are plentiful
in the air and on the public records, but
until dirt flies and rails are laid they do
not amount to much except food for COM
ment and speculation. We hope the
through line scheme will materialize. It
is perfectly practicable and would prove
one of the finest railroad enterprises in
America
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-21
Judgment Has Been Rendered.

Il is pitiful to see the struggles that
champions of the defeated party in the re-
cent election make to furnish excuses for
the result and relieve the protection her.
esy OF the odium that has come upon it.
The people have spoken and their voice is
the end of controversy. Suppose many
Republicans did stay at home on election
day. What does that prove? Does it not
show that they were dissatisfied with the
excessive tariff policy known as McKin-
leyism and that they would have no more
of it?
When the author of the last high tariff
measure was defending it in Congress he
said:
"This bill makes and emphasizes the
great industrial issue. We have proffered
it: YOU have accepted it; from here it
goes to the people; Before that tribunal
we invite you and invoke its deliberate
and patriotic judgement, and to it all of
US must yield.'
That tribunal has given its deliberate
and patriotic Judgment" and now the
only graceful thing for the defeated party
to do is to syield'' without more ado.
The verdict was given by the people in
the several states in returning large
majority of Democrats to the House of
Representatives. That Judgment. was
ratified and confirmed at the presidential
election, and its effects are SO far reaching
that they are seen in the Legislatures of
the various states, to the extent of max
ing Democratic several of them which
were Republican, and more desperate
efforts are being made to overturn the
popular vote sufficiently to prevent the
election of Democratic Senators on joint
vote, and thus if possible prevent a DEM
ocratic majority in the upper House of
Congress.
This does not look as though the disci-
pies of McKINLEYIsM were very well sat-
isfied with the Judgment OF the people,
nor that they are willing to ''yield'' to it.
The course that is being pursued will, in
our opinion, if persisted in prove still
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-21

INA recent sermon the Rev.. w. R.
GOODWIN of Chicago expressed his be-
lief that JAY GOULD has not gone to
heaven, though admitting at the same
time that ''the ways of GoD are strange. -
He felt sure, however, that if the Wall
streeI wizard has gone there he would n t
receive very cordial welcome. Such ex-
pressions do not strike either the ordinary
church-goer or the general reader as de-
corous or decent, but rather as both flip
pant and blasphemous. It would not re-
quire great symposium OF such observa-
tons to produce change in the popular
feeling toward JAY GOULD.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-21

OUR NOTED Salt Lake necrologist, in
writing death notice, is not deferred by
the trivial Circumstance OF the person men
toned not being quite dead. To one who
lives among tombstones, the open, yawn-
ing grave is as suggestive as the mound
above the buried form. Therefore, though
forestalling the event in cutting off yard
or SO of prepared obituary, labelling it
stJAMEs G. BLAINE and printing it in
the Tribune, our neighbor throws upon
the post-mortem market portion of its
funereal surplus as a result of over-pro-
duction. To be sure, the telegraph editor
who evidently remains at the office after
shutdown, fatty contradicted the fourth
page in his cold leaden headlines. and by
observation the Tribune readers have
probably discovered which page is the
most reliable. But newspaper, like a
steamboat, can't get along very well that
goes ahead on one wheel and backs on the
other.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-21

TaE United States Inoestor OF Boston
offers 8, 900 in prizes for essays OF not
more thar one thousand words on the
merits 81 an American city or town as a
desirable place of residence, or as pos
sessing any other claim to unique inter-
est or special distinction, the judges to
consider the literary merits OF the essay.
as well as the merits of the town or city
described-s5OO for the best. $500 for the
next best, and s2OOfor the next best essay.
Here is a chance for some Salt Lake citi-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-21

IN THE recent trial at New York of a
case against Colonel SHEPARD, of the
Nail and Express, for breach of contract,
the Colonel admitted that he occasionally
took horn, but not to the extent of in
toxication, and at the public bars, too.
Thus are our idols shattered. II the
Worlds fair should be closed on SUM-
days, as he advocates, he would probably
know wLore to find side door.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-21

MODEST MERIT starves in garnet,
while pushing self-assertion builds itself
marble halls and fares sumptuously every
day. There's great deal to be done be-
sides good work. In these words pop
ular authoress in new story makes one
of her characters tell another that adver-
Using is the only means of success.