Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-08-31
unPATRIoTlc PAKTlsANs.


ContemptibIe Methods Of Repubalcan Pro
fessional Politicians
Some Of the republican organs ct tho
country that can find nothing In the
message of President Cleveland to im-
pair its soundness or raise . question
as to its timeliness in dealing with the
situation confronting the nation. aro
seeking devious ways in their effort 70
iniure its author and the party which
he so ably represents. IL there has
been time in the history OF the United
States government for the last twenty
Ave years when disinterested and pat
riotic action was demanded on the part
Of those who seek to influence the con-
duct of its affairs, it is the present 1t
is not one party or the other that is
afflicted by financial disaster, but every
section and the entire people. They
cali upon congress for relief. and the
party or the representatives Of the par
ty attempting to make capital out OF
the existing trouble at the risk OF sac
rifcing or impairing the highest public
interests, are demagogues who have
only to be exposed to be condemned.
One of the methods adopted by these
organs who think more of the g. o. p.
than of the country is to print in parallel
columns the opening OF President Har-
rison's message to congress in Decem-
Der, 1892. and that just issued by Presi-
dent Cleveland. recommending course
to be pursued in the present emergency
They are not presented because of SIM
ilarity, but as a matter of contrast
Mr.. Harrison congratulated the people
do hvyh
the general conditions affecting the
commercial and industrial interests OF
the United States were in the highest
degree favorable. He believed that SO
high degree Of prosperity and so gem
eral diffusion of the comforts OF life
had never been enjoyed by the people
of the country. Mr.. Cleveland told OF
the existence Of an alarming and ex-
traordinary business situation involv-
ing the welfare and prosperity OF all
our people, and then, in the most direct
and statesmanlike manner, pointed out
what he thought the shortest and
surest way to relief.
What the partisan demagogues would
have inferred from this comparison IL
that the marked change involved came
about because President Harrison was
voted out of office and the people
placed the reins of government in the
hands of President Cleveland. There
can be no greater reflection upon the
intelligence of the American people
and no more despicable plan adopted.
were its direct purpose to prevent that
restoration of confidence SO essential to
the establishment of good times. It
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the affairs of our government that the
present calamity is the result OF re-
publican legislation, extravaganza and
corruption.
The trouble was upon us before
President Harrison's term expired. He
and Secretary Foster walked the floor
and invoked the genius of finance with
the prayer that the surplus in the
treasury might be maintained intact
until turned over to the party in which
the people had SO generally expressed
their confidence. The Sherman law,
the tariff legislation fostering trusts,
monopolies and centralized wealth, the
constant looting of the treasury and
the billion-dollar congress had wrought
the evil, and it was the legacy given
by the &. o. p. to its successor in
power. No one can question the truth
of what President Cleveland said in
the opening of his message. If Presi-
dent Harrison believed what he said,
standing. as he did, upon the verge of
financial disaster and with the causes
leading thereto as part of his@own
record, the country has greater reason
than ever before to congratulate itself
upon the fact Of having relegated him
to the practice of Indiana law.-De
troit Free Press.