Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-09-03
Wealth and Patriotism.

In the day when the plain, common
people of this country were struggling
to throw of the yoke Of Great Britain
and reduce his Lordship and his Grace
to the ranks on this side of The ocean,
and establish the principle. the theory
OF which none of our citizens now ques-
ton. that all just governments derive
their powers from the consent OF the
governed, the mercantile classes, the
money lords and tax-eaters of the day
were arrayed against US. His majes-
ty, a crazy man, and his ministers,
knew what was best for the people.
What could farmers and mechanics
know about affairs of State? The
senseless agitation of few irreconcll-
able cranks was destroying business
and unsetlling values. The quicker
the King knocked them on the head,
or hung them, the better for the bust
ness interests of the colonies.
This is the argument of the Money
LORD of to-day. He usually cares moth
ing about the right or the wrong of the
present discussion. Present conditions
are satisfactory to him, as they we're
to his predecessor in the days of the
Revolution. He has no desire to listen
to the man who wants to change them.
He does not care to hear his argu-
ments, no matter how logical or just.
Such man is an Anarchist, disturb
err of the public peace, destroyer of
confidence, and is TO be suppressed,
regardless of the justice or injustice of
his cause.
There, are however, some men of
great wealth whose love of country
and whose regard for justice are strong
er than their love of money. In the
days of the Revolution, Robert Morris
poured out his great fortune for the
benefit of his country as if it had been
water. 1t was to lin Washington
turned in his hour of extremity and
was never turned away empty handed.
In the days of the French Revolu-
ton Mirabeau descended from his high
estate and cast his lot with the COM
mon people, because he believed the
good of his country demanded the sac
rifice. Had he lived the history of
that great upheaval might not have
been written in blood.
In the present fight of the common
people against the oppression of the
money power, three men from the
moneyed classes have placed the well
fare of their country above their own
personal interests, and are found in
the fore front OF the present battle for
human liberty and the preservation of
the middle class from servitude. They
are William P. st. John of New York,
Arthur Sewall of Maine, and Lon. v.
Stephens of Missouri.
When Mr.. st. John was called upon
to either lay down his salary of eigh-
teen thousand dollars, or abandon the
cause of the people, he let his magni-
ficent income go without a murmur,
and bravely devoted his whole atten-
ton to the cause of his country. Lon.
V. Stephens turned his back upon the
agents of the Goulds and Vauderbilts
in this State and espoused the cause OF
the people. These men want him pun
ished, but Democrats will see to it that
they are not ,gratified. They have
placed their standard in his hands and
will Loyalty stand by him. As a Ma
tional banker Mr.. Stephens is willing
to help destroy the whole system, be-
cause he believes its destruction would
be for the best interests of the whole
people. In this State he contributed
as much as any other single man to
make the Chicago platform possible.
He has cast his individual interests to
the winds and taken his place beside
st. John. If the united aggregation
of cow-coroners in this State, and the
other acolytes of the money power,
have an idea they can defeat Lon.
Stephens they had better get rid oft al
once, for the people have caught on to
the tactics that defeated Jim Fox two
years ago in this district, and they will
not work this year in any part OF the
State.
Let every Democrat see to it that
the full party vote is cast for Stephens.
No aid and comfort for the enemy!
In a recent letter to the manufacture
ers Mr.. W. F. Benjamin, editor of the
Spectator. Rushford, n. Y, says: at
may be pleasure to you to know the
high esteem In which Chamberlain s
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