Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-10-05

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feelings in common with the founder
of great nation. Washington is rep
resented as being very much disinclin-
ed to associate with people who occu-
pied the humber walks of life, and as
having a supreme contempt for COM
mon soldiers. This may not be cor
rect portrayal of the character of
Washington, but it certainly is OF the
character of Mr.. Smith and men of lis
class. 1t shows that the Tory of the
latter part of the 18th century holds
the common people in as bitter con-
tempt as ever did the Tory of the lat
ter part of the 18th century. Of all
our public men, Mr.. Hamilton, who
thought the people great beast to be
chained and manacled in order that
the government might be stable and
the governing classes secure, seems to
stand highest in his estimation; and
Thomas Jefferson, who believed the
welfare of the people to be the sole OBJ
Ject for which governments were in
stituted, stands no higher in his opin-
ion than in the esteem of Mr.. Whitney
or John Sherman. His dislike for
Jefferson is personal in its character.
He processes to find something feline
in his face, and something weak and
unmanly in his character. He de-
nounces him as demagogue for that
which most endears him to the heart
of every patriotic American-his i'm
plicit obedience to the will of the peo-
pie ami his implicit confidence in the
rightfulness of their judgment when
fully informed. To Mr.. Smith, as we'll
as to every man who devours the sub
stance of the people by means of class
legislation, Jefferson is an Anarchist.
Crank, q Freak. This is natural,
for if the ideas of Mr.. Jefferson were
carried into effect, these parties would
have to transfer their operations to the
highway or take the most distasteful
alternative of earning an honest living.
Mr. Jefferson believed, among other
things, that people should be govern
ed as little as possible; that there
should be no governmental partner
ship in individual enterprises; that the
powers of the Federal judiciary should
be strictly construed; and that it was
no part of the functions of government
to engage in the banking business.
He has pointed out to us every shoal
and quicksand in our course. He has
warned us o: the rocks upon which we
are likely to split, as we'll as the reef
upon which we now seem to be so
helplessly drifting. He was more
thoughtful of the masses than of the
classes. He did all he could to throw
safeguards around the liberties of the
people in his lifetime, and left us a
CldIb, ctt LID LCIGh, "hICh VIC Schh-
not depart from with safety. His
name will be loved and revered long
after Mr.. Smith, and every advocate
of the divine right of the few to thrive
at the expense of the many, shall have
been overwhelmed in the waters of OBJ
livion. Mr.. jefferson had nothing in
common with men who favor a strong
centralized government. How it must
make his bones turn in their grave to
hear men like the late lamented Roger
Q. Mills advocating the conforming of
our monetary system to that of Eu-
rope, formed for the purpose of keep
ing the masses down; formed for the
purpose of getting from them by fraud
what dare not be taken by force. Does
Mr.. Mills and Mr.. Voorhees, believe that
Tory England will ever consent to any
financial system that will tend to lift
the burdens from the common people?
AS well to expect the wolf to turn
shepherd and eschew mutton, Or the
cat to fOreswear cream. The gentle
men are as consistent as Patrick Henry
would have been had he, in his great
speech before the Virginia Convention,
advocated the formation of free gov
eminent when the other nations of the
world should agree to it!
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