Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-19
Endorses the President.

To lie Editor Of HE RcbnbHe:
ARCADIA, Mo-, July 9.-Hurrah for Pres
ident Cleveland, the man with brains and a
backbone! Down with anarchy and up with
the reign of law, if it takes the last man and
the last dollar. J. w. EMERSON.
When the next Republican President,
copying Cleveland's example, sends U. 5.
troops to the south to CO cree the people and
put them under negro rule, on the plea that
there is interference with some United States
law, will J. w. Emerson again cry out,
"Hurr.ah for -, the man with brains
and "?-Regisker.
insurer: beg to say that the time
will never come when 81. w. Emer-
son" will favor putting any community
of Anglo-SaxOns-in the south or else
where-under negro rule.
But if New Orleans, should suffer
such violence and disorder-such scan
dalous breaches of the law both State
and Nationwide occur as Chicago and
Illinois have permitted, | will be only
too glad to hurrah for any President
who will promptly use all the power of
the military or civil-to
aid in suppressing it, and so ought ev-
cry other right thinking man.
j. w. EMERSON.
Judge Emerson, in seeking to en-
force the law, advocates greater
breach of it than any committed by
the strikers at Chicago or elsewhere.
The Constitution provides in Article
w, Section 4: 1.-The United States shall
guarantee to every State in this Union
a republican form of government, and
shall protect each of them against in
vasion, and on application of the legis-
lature, or of the executive, when the
legislature can not be convened, against
domestic violence Did Governor
Altgeld. or the State Legislature OF Illi-
nois, demand Federal aid? Then, so
far as the Federal power was used to
enforce municipal regulation. there
was gross usurpation and violation OF
the fundamental law of the land. Men
of Judge Emerson's way Of thinking
Sdy tioop5 "CiO ooSu SihiPAy
to enforce the laws of the United States
against interference with interstate
commerce and the U. S. mails. This
is the fimsiest subterfuge. There was
| no act of the strikers that violated the
| law of the United States that did not
violate the statutes OF the State of Hi.
| nois. The state authorities were not
only not notified but contemptuously
showed aside. Again, there was never
any interference with either the mails
or interstate commerce law on the part
of the employees. There was a quarrel
between the employees of the railroad
companies and the managers.
The employees did not refuse to han
die the United States mail, but simply
refused to handle Pullman cars. They
stood ready at all times to help the
companies in handling the mails. The
managers said to them: '.f you don't
handle Pullman cars, you shall not
| handle the mails OF the United States. ,
Instead of the United States authorities
saying to the railroad companies,
"Send the mails according to contract
they step in between the companies
and their men and assume the fight OIL
the Pullman company and the railroad
managers. They say to the strikers
IF you advise man to quit the EN-
ployment Of the railroads, that will be
construed as an interference with in
terstate commerce laws and with the
mails" In some instances they have
said, ''if you quit work before your
place can be supplied you are equally
guilty and must go to jail" In othel
words, tbe authorities have given it t.