Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-11-28
Murrayville, Illinois.

Murrayville, Illinois.
At last we have had rain-about one
and one-half inches. It is question
whether we shall ever have enough il
this part again to raise the well:
much. This year but few wells yield
ed good water, while an increasing
number failed altogether. Many new
wells were dug, but they were mostly
failures. Drilling was resorted to. il
some cases as deep as 40f feet, an6
plenty of water was found, but more
or less off in taste on account of min.
eral. Jacksonville went 5000 feet
with city we'll and claims to have ar
abundance of good soft water. Mostly
people are drinking riley water out ol
the hard pan, which is the mud or de-
posit of former period in which We
find swamps, bits of broken coal and
now and then a block of granite. The
effect of such poor drinking water is
plenty of typhoid fever.
The hog plague does not seem tc
abate. We are offered all sorts o1
remedies and the hog quack is every
where, but those who have tried him
seem to think their money was thrown
away. Corn is a good feed, but stuff
ing with it over does the business
Too many hogs are kept together and
forced to drink bad water, and wher
once the plague gets started it infest:
others, no matter whether in small OF
large droves, and no matter how care
fully fed.
The election was no surprise to any
acquainted with the voters. The Demo
cratic party loaded itself down with
Cleveland, and in this state Palmer
had been added to the load, so thai
Democracy had become another name
for demagoguery. Newspapers, too,
had started the prosperity claque
about the Wilson bill, while times on
the farm were only going from bad to
worse. Everything low and getting
lower, except rent, which was con-
stantly rising. The party leaders shut
their eyes to simple facts and this is
the result. Murrayville is the banner
precinct of Morgan county this year.
but this is largely due to some detection
among the Republicans. We did elect
a pound master, but he has no pound
and the highway commissioners have
not the means to buy and build one, SO
our victory (9) will be barren.
The last report of the Bureau of
Labor for this state deals wholly with
the question of taxation as affecting
wages, and is, in some respects, a
stronger argument for the single tax
than Henry Georges progress and
Poverty" 1t gives tables, figures and
facts taken from the assessors books
that is surprising even to those who
were already convinced of the crooked
1t shows that in Cook county and
Chicago the land, or site values, are
put at about five per cent of true value,
and building or Improvement values
are put at fifteen per cent, SO that is
e. Al, e
labor, as represented in the improve
ments. is taxed three times as much
as land. The report clearly shows
that our whole double tax system is
but legalized robbery of the poor by
the rich affected through perjury, in
which the banks make the worst show
ing of all There is little doubt but
that similar investigation Of the
double tax in every other state would
show conditions nearly or quite as
bad. Where the laws offer a premium
for perjury there will be plenty to
compete where every mans inalienable
rights are bounty of the almighty dol
lar. One thing is certain unless we
adopt some radical reforms thisexperi-
ment of sels-government will prove a
quicker and worse failure than Lord
Macauley said it would. The best
plan would he for the voters to under
stand and declare the reforms neces-
sary and give the public notice that
their votes would be denied to every
on any ticket who would
not pledge himself to do all in his
power to secure their adoption. This
plan would stop wire-pulling in con-
as the Australian system OF
balloting breaks off bribery in elec-
lions. 1t stands to reason that it the
voters do not use common sense in dis
charging their public duties they will
be always imposed upon by q set OF
.ricksters posing as statesmen.
Raining again.
Nov. IS, 1895. WV. CAMA.