Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-09-21
They Will Not be Put off.

Great events are never realized or
fully understood by the generation
amongst whom they take place. To
the politicians of the day the present
political disturbance is nothing more
than the struggle between the boys at
the hog-through and those who want
to get there. And yet all thoughtful
people must see that we have reached
crisis in our national iife--'.a part
ing of the ways" For half century
the issnes that caused the war; and the
issues that grew out of it, filed the
eyes of the people, to the exclusion of
all others. Slavery and Reconstruc-
tion are things of the past. The po-
litical war-cries oka quarter of a cen
tury ago are as sounding brass and a
tinkling cymbal in the ears of the pres
ent generation. The old soldiers an
nually meet around their G. A. r.
camp-fires and fight their battles anew,
sing them songs and tell their tales of
the times that tried the metal in a man,
but they belong to a fading past whose
issues and contests resounded through
out the land, but are now merely ech-
oes that come from the horizon of the
setting sun.
The boy in blue and the boy in grey
are passing from the land, side by side,
with a mutual regard for each other
that no one could have foreseen in 80.
The pensioner on the bounty of a
grateful government shares ungrudg-
ingly with the man he shot at in the six
ties to preserve that government. The
war is gone with its hatred and pas
sion, but it has left its lesson. 1t has
taught the new generation that the
man north of the Ohio river is as brave,
generous and as patriotic as the. man
south of it.
But the politicians who have thriven
and waxed fat on the old war issues,
who have known no flag but the red
flag of the '.bloody shirt" and who
have under its protecting shadow roll
ed in plunder and ill-gotten wealth
beyond the most iridescent dream of
any anarchist who ever coveted his
neighbours property-these men are at
sea. So many times have they seen
the dearest rights of the people taken
from them, without any serious conse-
quences to the despoiler. that they
imagine the present agitation for rem
edial legislation will go the way of
others, and they will be troubled no
more. These men have yet to learn
that old things have passed away-that
the people are awake and watchful
once more. That John Browns body
lying moldering in the ground, has lost
its old-time power over them. They
will Rally Round the Flag" but it will
be the flag of their country, and not
the bloody shirt hoisted aloft.
They feel that they have lost their
by the treachery of their
trusted agents, and are not going to |
take a tin rattle as substitute. They |
want silver made once more a money |
of final account. They will not be sat-
isfied with any body's liabilities in lieu
of the money of the constitution. They
DON'T want any Vanderbilt firm to
construction company, buy
in, US individuals, the bonds they
have issued as a corporation, deposit
hem with Treasury Department, issue
heir notcs-mere promises to pay-in
he place of the gold and silver money
hey are entitled to. K
They have ordered their servants to s
'educe the tariff to revenue basis, to It