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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-02-15
A Scandalous Ideal.

There was no safeguard of good
government which the founders of the
Republic regarded with more Jealous
care than the freedom of one branch OF
the Government from interference,
control or undue influence by another.
To guard Congressman from corrupt
motives in the creation of Offices and
the increase of salaries and from pos
sible combinations for mutual benefit
| with Presidents. the trainers of the
| constitution deemed it sufficient to make
| members of Congress ineligible for an y
Office created or the emolument where
of had been increased during the period
for which they were elected. and TO
forbid the incumbent Of any Office from
holding seat in Congress.
The intention was TO cover all possi-
BILE avenues by which the President
could influence Congressman through
the power OF appointment. The view
of the majority of the Constitutional
Convention was clearly expressed in a
clause prohibiting members of Congress
from accepting any Office during their
elective period, which was incorporat-
ed in the Constitution, but was after
wards changed during the absence of
the Representative Of State favoring
- Co,o,o} SY,fac ,,copooo6 tho brca /.
er provision as an amendment, and
during Madison's presidency pre-
posed amendment cutting off Senators
and Representatives from the accept
ance of Office during the term Of the
President, under whose incu bency
they were elected, missed securing a
two-thirds majority of the House by
only three votes.
1t was belivcd that the mild and linn
tied prohibition of the constitution
would be amply sufficient to prevent
any commerce of mutual benefit be-
tween the executive and legislat-
i've branches. A transaction Involving
an exchange of votes for q patronage
consideration was undreamt of. The
Independence of the two branches Of
the GOVERNMENT was an essential prin-
ciple of the constitution, and it was
not believed possible that men intrust-
ed with power by the people could be
guilty of SO monstrous an offense as to
violate it by bargain and sale of votes
and appointments. The scorn with
which the suggestion OF this possibil
ity was rejected is shown by the follow
ing extract from the Federalist on the
subject:
The improbability OF such a mcrcen-
ary and perfdious combination OF the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-02-15
Close to Springtime.

From Atlanta Constitution.
Gettin' close to spring ngtime-know it by The
way
The sun is streamin' gleamin' in the middle
O. the day;
Know it by the river that is lazyin' along,
An the mockin' birds a-primpin' O. thei1
feathers for song!
Gettin' close to springtime-know it by the
signs:
Hear it in the whisper O. the naples an the
pines:
Feel it in the blowin' o. the breezes, singin'
sweet,
See it in the DAISIES that are dreamin' at my
feet!
Gettin' close to springtime; hope IL come
to stay;
Get million kisses for the red lips O. the
May!
Wearyin' to meet her-list' min all the time
For the tinkle O. her footsteps-her roses an
her rhyme! F. L. STANTON.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-02-15
SOCIETIES.:

@ IRoNToN LODGE, No. s44, X.
E&Aof p. Ironton, No., meets every I'd
F.THe9 md 4th FRIDAY evening of each month
Sat Odd Fellows Hall:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-02-15
For the Common Faith.

Much as has been said and written
lately about the administration at
Washington, it is still u matter for con-
graduation that the Democratic party
of Missouri is just as solid, unbroken
and substantial as it ever was in its
history. Whatever we dislike or dis
approve of in the conduct of President
Cleveland or any member of his cabinet
does not argue any loss of faith in the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-02-15
A Big Enterprise.

There was considerable surprise cx-
pressed in commercial circles the other
day when tho Bell Telephone Co., on
the eve of the expiration OF its patents.
applied to the legislature of Massachu-
setts for an increase OF capital stock
from its present amount of $20. 0.000.0 900
to the enormous amount of $50. 900, 900.
Everybody had supposed that when the
patents expired the business OF the Bell
company would be encroached upon by
heavy competition and its revenues
largely diminished. Hence the only
explanation that could be found for the
vast increase of it's capital was that 1t
had in view a general watering OF its
stock, SO that the public might share
in its final ruin.
But this was all mistake. The Bell
Telephone Co., it. seems, has for ten
years or less been quietly foreshadow-
ing the day when the telephone will
wipe out the telegraph. Already this
company has strung its wires from
Boston to Now York and from New
York to Chicago. Every word of news
printed by the Philadelphia papers
from New York is telephoned by the
long-distance system, and between
Boston and New York the telegraph
has been largely superseded by the tel
ephone in the transmission OF private
messages. The line between Chicago
and New York is now doing a large
business, not only between the news
papers of the east and west, but also
among individual patrons.
In other words, the Bell Telephone
Co. gives it out cold and fiat that it
proposes to wipe the Western Union
Telegraph Co. off the face Of the earth
and succeed to all the telegraph busi-
ness in the country by the use OF the
long-distance telephone. It Is now
ascertained, also, that the law Of Mas
sachusetts requires an actual dollar to
be shown for every dollar represented
in the capital stock of an incorporated
company, and hence the Bell Tele-
phone people must produce $3O.000,-
900 in cash or its equivalent before
the legislature can declare an increase
OF its capital stock. 1t is certainly
prepared to do this or it would not
have made such an application.
But the item of general interest in
all this is the fact of an impending
revolution in the transmission of mes
sages. Now that daily newspapers are
being printed from type manufactured
and set by machinery every night.
nothing ought to be surprising. and
the long-distance tclephone is not new
--only we have been wont to regard it
as an expensive and somewhat i'm
practical toy. And when the two giant
monoplies represented in the Western
Union:and the Bell Telephone Co.'s
begin crushing each other there will
be renewed hopes that the common
people may stand some show for ex-
istence. Jefferson City Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-02-15
Gems From Orator Reed.

graphs" says an Eastern protection
journal, lauding Mr.. Reeds closing
speech in the House. And then this
enthusiastic organ proceeds to quote
some of these abounding quotable par
agraphs. The first one is as follows:
On no trackless future will we vent
ure unless the prospect of increased
happiness is large enough to justify
risk and exposure.
Was Mr. Reed venturing on no track
less future when he forced the McKin-
ley bill, written by selfish and interest
ed persons, through the House?"
When he was working for this scheme
of robbery, did he anticipate the over
whelming rebuke at the polls that fol-
lowed the reckless and dishonest legis-
lation of 1892 Did that increase his
happiness?
The second quotable paragraph
reads:
When certain manufacturers want
free trade, they have secured large
foundation trade, along with desire
for foreign wages for their working
men.
That is to say, all the manufacturers
who don't want free trade freely con-
tribute large sums to political cam
paign funds merely to save their men
from foreign wages. This being the
case, all trades unions may as we'll ad-
journ sine die. There employers will
see that wages are kept up. No mills
will be closed by combines, and all
things will proceed in the loveliest
manner.
Mr.. Reeds third quotable paragraph
says:
Let us not divide our magnificent
market on the chance of getting the
markets of the world.
Our magnificent market is the mar
ket that brings farmers SO cents a
bushel for wheat and makes fuel of
their corn. It is the market in which
farmers buy dear and sell cheap.
Mr. Reeds fourth brilliant "quota-
BILE" reads:
What country is going to surrender
the markets of the world to us?
He might as well have said: 1t is
impossible for us to compete with any
other country for the markets OF the
world. We are every way inferior to
other nations, and it is useless for us
to try to keep store so long as they too
have goods to sell.
The sixth crusher to free traders
comes from Mr.. Reed in this shape:
If you will give me all that capital
has made by railroads, au unprotected
industry, will give you all that capi-
tai has made on factories.
Does Mr.. Reed mean by this that in
dustries that are unprotected are as
profitable as those which are protect
ed, and therefore protection is useless?
The last of these quoted paragraphs
reads:
It often happens that men will begin
manufacturing under a tariff that does
not raise prices, because they know
such u tariff will prevent them from
going down.
But when high-tariff spell-binders
on every stump have assured the peo-
pie that the tariff has cheapened ev-
erything-not even allowing cent for
improved machinery-whatm man would
be so foolish as to begin manufacturing
in the belief that prices would go
down?
How Mr.. Reed is to con vince any
one in these .'quotable paragraphs it
is difficult to understand. A string OF
more meaningless assertions never
found their way into u political haran-
gue.-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-02-15
Official Directory.
MEMBER OF CONGRESS:

MEMBER OF CONGRESS:
Hon. IL. w. FYAN, Thirteenth Distric
Marshticld Mo.
u. 5. L.ND OFFICE j. G. Nj ELL,
Register; WM. b. NEWMAN, Receiver -
Ironson, Mo.
J. FRANK GREEN, Judge Twenty-First
.ircuit, De Soto, Mo.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-02-15
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY IRON COUNTY
COURTS:

w -
CIRCUIT COURT is held on the
Fourth Monday in April and October.
COUNTY COURT convenes on the
First Monday Of March, June, September
and December.
PROBATE COURT is held on the First
Monday in February, May, August and No.
Sember.
OFFICERS:
A. W. HoLLoMAN, Presiding Judge Coun-
ty Court.
CHARLES HART, County Judge, South
srl District.
X. j. HILL, County Judge, Western Dis
trict.
J. 8. JORDAN, Prosecuting Attorney.
=. w. WHITwORTH, Collector.
w. A. FLETCHER, County Clerk.
JOS. HUFF, Circuit clerk.
FRANZ DINGER, Probate Judge.
ID. +. REESE, Treasurer.
w. III. FISHER, Sheriff.
s. p. REYBURN, Assessor.
q. w. HULL, Coroner.
A. w. HOLLOMAN, Surveyor.
E Il. MCKENZIE, school Commissioner.
CITY OFFICERS:
MdgOr, W. T. Gay.
Marshal, j. l.. Baldwin.
City Attorney, j. S. Jordan.
City Clerk, W. G. Fairchild.
City treasurer, D. +. Reese.
Collector, j. l.. Baldwin.
Ctr CoaRcitmen-W. Il. Edgar, J. N
Bishop, A. Bsgley,J NJ. Reel, NJ Clay baugh
and Jno. Baldwin.
Street Con,mittee-,. Begley, Jno. Baldwin
and NJ. Claybadgh.
Fire COmm,ttee-J. NJ. Reel, Jno. BALDWIN
and NJ. Claybaugh.
Health C0n,naittee-W. r. Edgar, j. n.
Bishop and A. Begley.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-02-15

FoR SALE-One two-horse team, also
one bay mare and colt. Apply to w.
I GAY. Ironton. Mo. If
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-28
THE FAR EAST.

OF the 1000 miles which form the
land girdle of China, 6,0OO touch Rus
sian territory, 1880 British territory
and only 400 French. while 500 may be
described as doubtful.
Bishop TAYLOR says there is dis
tillery in Liberia which the natives
call the Good Jesus Factory" so close
~ in their minds is the liquor traffic
associated with Christianity.
WHEN member of the royal family
of Corea dies every grown male in the
country has to wear white hat for
three years. If he wears any other
kind it is gently taken off with his
head in it.
A COLLECTION of Australian stamps has
just been bought by a London dealer
for $4,000, the largest price ever paid
for a stamp collection. The collection
was begun in 1872, and includes stamped
envelopes, postal cards and wrappers
A QUEER law exists in some of the
country districts of Japan. In case Of
G robbery, all the suspected persons are
arrested. The male population then
decide by ballot which is the guilty in
dividual. The unfortunate fellow who
gets the most votes is elected" and
goes to prison. If there is tie vote,
both of the suspects are imprisoned.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-28
NEWS ITEMS.

Mrs. William Waldorf Astor died at
Cliveden, Eng, on the 22d.
Several cases of cholera are report
ed in Rosario, Brazil. Great precau-
tions have been taken to prevent the
spread of the disease.
Oliver Jewell, a noted killer of the
the territory, escaped from the Wood
ward, Ok. Jail Saturday night and half
the people of the country are on his
track. He was to have been hanged
next Friday for the murder in the
Cherokee strip of Thomas Arnett and
his l1-year-old son.
In Sioux City, Ia, the citizens com
mittee investigating county boodling
has made another sensational discov-
cry. The committee has been working
on warrants of 1898 and finds forgeries
by the wholesale, $4,000 in warrants
having been issued without a pretense
of consideration.
Eight men with pillow cases over
their heads broke open the door of
Charles Stair, an ex-policeman at Dun
kirk, n. Y, at , o'clock on the morn
ing of the 22d. bound and dragged him
outside and administered twenty lashes
from q rawhide to his back. The white
caps then ordered him to leave town.
1t was alleged he had broken up
neighbours home.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-28
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

MEMBERS of the Cook gang held up
the station agent at Nowata, l. T., and
secured $3.50.
IMMENSE damage was done in all
parts of England by the recent gales,
buildings being blown down and ships
driven ashore. Nearly one hundred
persons were reported dead and many
others injured.
TIE killing of a white man In Brooks
county, Ga, by negroes recently started
race war between the whites and
blacks in that section. Seven negroes
had been killed within twenty-four
hours and two large bodies of white
and black men were under arms. The
situation was very grave, the author
tiles being powerless to preserve peace.
THE japanese papers were discussing
what Japan must demand of China for
peace. A summary was also given of
the Japanese loss in men and what
booty they had captured from the
Chinese. A telegram from Yokohama
stated that on December 10 10000 Chi
nese were routed by Japs near Haiti
Cheng.
THE Chickasaw legislature adjourned
on the 22d, after electing two delegates
to Washington to oppose any legisla-
ton looking to a change of form of
government by congress.
EIGHT men with pillow cases over
their heads broke open the door of
Charles Stair, an ex-policeman at Dun
kirk, n. Y, at . o'clock on the morn
ing of the 22d, bound and dragged him
outside and administered twenty lashes
from a rawhide to his back. The
whitecaps then ordered him to leave
town. 1t was alleged he had broken
up neighbours home.
Mrs. WILLIAM WALDORF Aston died
at Cliveden, Eng, on the 22d.
SEVERAL cases of cholera are reported
in Rosario, Brazil. Great precautions
have been taken to prevent the spread
of the disease.
THE whisky trust has reduced the
prices on all classes of goods per cent.
per gallon. This reduction goes into
effect at once.
REPRESENTATIVE BRYAN has intro
duced two joint resolutions affecting
the term of Office of the president One
resolution proposes an amendment to
the constitution making the president
Ineligible to succeed himself; the other
makes the president ineligible to
second term.
MAIL advices from Madagascar say
that an incendiary fire recently burned |
200 houses and destroyed much French |
property. The confiagration was finally |
quenched by the sailors from the |
French warships.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-28
10th Companies Liable.

KANSAS CITY, Kan, Dec. GA jury
in the district court decided at 1870
o'clock yesterday afternoon that the
Rock Island and Union Pacific rail-
ways were jointly liable for the wreck
at Linwood, Kan, on the morning of
January ., 1894, which was due to a
Rock Island engine crushing into the
rear of a Union Pacific stock train.
The administrator of Morris Johnson,
an Osborn county stockman, who was
killed in the wreck and his body ere
mated in the fire that followed, was
awarded $1,000 damages, the amount
to be shared equally by the two rail-
WAYS
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-28
GREAT CANALS.
Progress in the Building of Waterways In
the United States.

Progress in the building of Waterways In
the United States.
The history of the struggle between
canals of small dimensions and of rail-
roads has been the same in all countries.
The fight ragged bitterly for number
of years; the canals acting on the de-
fensive; although they had as allies the
states under whose patronage they
were built and operated. The result
has been the same in all cases, the I'M
conditional surrender of the canals to
the railroads. This, however is not so
much the fault of the system as of their
management. The railroads have great
advantages over canals. They are
better able to abridge distances both
by reason of superior speed, and of ia
cilities for overcoming elevations,
spanning streams, free from danger of
destructive floods, and piercing through,
the highest mountains; but their great
success is mainly due to the fact that
they have kept up pace with the pro-
gress of the world.
Waterways built from the beginning
of the eighteenth century to the first
quarter of the nineteenth century were
ample to meet the re-
quirements of trade at the time they
were constructed, and there was IN
many instances a progressive improve
ment in their dimensions and appur-
tenances. But while the industrial,
agricultural and commercial develop
ments of the world have advanced IN
not dreamed Of a century
ago, canals have remained stationary.
They are now obsolete and can no
longer fulfill the requirements of cheap
transportation in competition with rail-
roads The canals of the future must
have the dimensions and the facilities
for rapid transport to adapt them to
the new conditions of commerce. They
must not be barge or boat canals, but
ample waterways for the free passage
of such ships as are now engaged in
carrying the worlds trade. OF such
canals wes have now some important
types in successful operation, and
others in process of construction or in
completion.-A \. G.. Menocal, c. E., In
Chautauquan.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-28
THOSE OUTRAGES.
England Determined to Make Inquiry
into Armenian Atrocities-The United
States Firm.

England Determined to Make an Inquiry
into Armenian Atrocities-The United
states Firm.
VIENNA, Dec. "a. -Advices received
here from Constantinople are that the
porte objects to part of the instruc-
tions given to the delegates of the
foreign powers who are to go with
the Armenian commission. The pow
ers, however, with the exception of
Germany, refuse to modify their in
Great Britain is now determined to
make an impartial inquiry into the
stories of Turkish atrocities. and insist
upon the punishment of the guilty per-
sons. In addition, should the present
inquiry fail to be as thorough as Great
Britain expects, it will demand the ap-
pointment of fresh commission.
The German ambassador is reported
to be agreeable to the sultan's request
for a modification of the instructions
given to the German delegate and is
said to be trying to arrange for similar
notifications on the part of the three
other powers-Great Britain, France
and Russia-but to no purpose whatso-
ever.
Thursday evening the situation at
Constantinople was very grave and a
council of ministers was held atsthe
palace. The sultan was to have come
to decision in regard to the accept
ance or rejection of the instructions
given to the delegates. He did not do
so but it is the general belief that he
will yield before the determined at
titude of the powers.
All foreign newspapers containing
accounts of the Armenian outrages
continue to be confscated at the Turk
ish frontier.
THE UNITED STATES DETERMINED.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.-The latest adj
vices from United States Minister Ter
rell at Constantinople to the state de-
partment indicate that the porte is still
firm in its opposition to the inquiry
proposed to be made into the Armenian
outrages by United States Consul
Jewett under the conditions pre-
scribed by the president. If Mr.. jew
EFT persists in undertaking the inquiry
he will do so at great personal risk
1t is probable that the United States
minister will persist in his efforts to in
duce the porte to accede to a request
for an armed guard and, if it should
be finally refused, Mr.. Jewett will still
undertake the inquiry with which he
is charged and the Turkish govern
ment will be held responsible for his
safety, for the state department. cannot
concede the right of foreign nation
to prevent its officers from collecting
information for its own use and guild
ance.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-28
HE KEPT THE UMBRELLA.
And Whether He Did Right or Wrong He
Did Not KnOw.


The ethics of meum and tuum are
elastic as regarded by most individuals.
One man thinks it is his duty to keep
what another man will feel it a sin not
to render up, and where the respOn-
sibility ends in the search for an owner
of lost property is an undecided ques-
ton. One man formed his decision in
public the other day in this regard and
no doubt came out the better for it.
He had stepped down the staircase
of the Third avenue sd" at the Grand
Central station and been whaclled on
the shoulders by an excited woman
with a very genteel umbrella.
at belongs to the lady in red she
screamed, and the man, who was a gen
tlemanly. middle-aged individual,
forged ahead. gripping the umbrella,
which he offered to the young woman
in crimson, already carrying Il white
parasOl.
This young woman disclaimed it, and
the man, casting about for another
woman in red, lit on portly female
we'll on in front. with n wealth of red
roses in her bonnet.
This second also refused it. display
ing her own black gloria, and then the
perspiring, breathless gentleman fled
on painting and pinning his hope on a
vestige of red which he saw in far off
young woman's collar.
She didn't own it, either, and then
beneath the blazing afternoon sun the
overwOrked man stood and looked to
every side of him for one other woman
with a glimmer of red, but he couldn't
see any. Then he felt he had dis
charged his duty. and his face assumed
an expression not only of pleasure, but
of hope.
He unfurled the umbrella and stroked
the silk appraisingly. He regarded
the handle, then the ferule, raised it,
eyed it approvingly, closed it again.
stuck it under his arm to see how it
felt when it wasn't raining, then
opened it finally again, and. thrusting
it with an air of well satisfied posses
sion between him and the sunlight,
strolled down Forty-second street
And there was no one to remark as
to whether or not his duty might have
been considered to end, or that there
was any such place as lost property
Cffice.-N. Y. Herald.