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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-02-11
REPUBLICAN EoRERopInes.
In Quandary as to How to Increase tn

| In . Qaandary as to How to Increase the
/ Revenue.
After the bitterness with which the
| republicans have denounced the Wilson
at and the confidence with which they
| proclaimed their intentions to raise
more revenue for the tariff, it seems
| strange to hear the Washington cor
| respondent of a republican paper like
| the st. Louis Globe-Democrat writing
| guardedly about the financial situa-
| ton.
| 1T is popular" he remarks truly, to
| hold the tariff responsible for national
| ills" There is now a determined effort
to increase the revenue, but ''if the ex-
pc1ses of this government had been
| held down to what they were in 1886,
We would have had surplus of $50 ,O0o,-
900 last year, instead of a deficit of
S4O,0OO,OO0."
The exact amount of the deficit last
year, by the way, was given elsewhere
in the same paper as only S26, 200. 900.
But the essential point is that the ex-
traEagant expenditures of congress are
responsible for the deficit. In fact, the
correspondent is forced to admit that
probably the Mckinley tariff would
have failed, and certainly the tariff that
preceded the Mckinley tariff would not
have furnished the revenue for such an
addition as has been made to the ex-
penditures."
This is certainly conservative state
rrent. For the Mckinley tariff stiIl
holds the record for deficit creator, by
having fallen behind S75,OO0,0OO in its
last year. The result is that ito day
there is grave doubt in the minds of the
members of the ways and means COM
mittee whether they can frame tariff
bill which will be equal to the revenue
raising demand this increase in expend
itures makes upon it."
Naturally. For since lowering the
tariff did not increase the imports suf
ficiently to raise the required revenue,
it is difficult to accomplish the increase
of imports by raising the tariff. And
the task is rendered harder by the
necessity of diminishing the imports
even while increasing them. The feat
would be considered impossible but for
tie editorial assurance of the same pa
per that though nobody knows how it
is to be accomplished, the country has
faith in the ability of the republic
an members of the ways and means
committee to do it. If so, they ought
not to be wasting their time IN congress
when they could make 100000 or
$3.OO0,G0O a month in business. But
it will be noticed that they have grave
doubts" of their ability to frame Il
tariff that will produce enough rev.
enue when business is stagnating and
congress is trying to see how much it
can snend=KanSas CITY Times
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-02-11
Like Those of tho Past.

The valentines of to-day are very
much like the valentines of the past,
for they express the same idea to which
Josh Billings referred in his inimita-
BILE way: 'Luv is the same divine senti-
ment no matter how yu spell it, 1t
is neither the spelling nor the poetry
that captivates the youthful magma
ton, but the daring expression of affec-
ton which can be announced in a val
entine, but in no other way. No breach
of promise case has ever resulted from
the sending of valentine. Such prop
osition as this would never be consid-
cred in a court of law. although it may
count for much in the court of love:
''My valentine wilt thou be,
Accept this heart so true;
Pray bestow thought on me,
For / love only YOU"
Detroit Free Press
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-02-11
HIS FIRST VALENTINE.
Although Secondhand One, He Was in
BIIssfuI Ignorance OF the Fact.


BIissful Ignorance OF the Fact.
Eight years of age-and what glory
there was in Valentines! We had picked
one out. 1t was ugly green, impossible
pinks, and other hues too horrible to
imagine. Cupid without clothes stood
i'll snow bank, shooting darts at pair
of lovers who billed at the same old
billboard and never seemed TO mind
the frigidity of the weather. 1t cost
seven cents, envelope and stamp three
cents more. In Grabbed hand it was
sent forth upon its delightful mission
and he was at the little rural post
Office window to see that it did not go
amiss. She smiled and bIushed when
the dainty thing was handed to her.
She miss of seven, with soap curls,
and cheeks as red as rosy apples. Could
she guess? Not she; she didn't stop to
guess or think, but ran shrieking home
with the cheap affair Rugged to her
baby breast-a missive worth more
than gold or diamonds; her first valeD-
tine. And he who sent 1.-THE gazed
after the flying form with strange
feeling in his heart, He wanted 20 tell
her all about it. He wanted to tell her
that he was the one who sent it; but he
was a little man, and he kept the secret
to himself, and asked time and again
at the post office window if there was
anything for him. The others, mis-
schoolmates, boys and girls, they found
messages put up in fancy envelopes, all
nicely stamped and directed; but there
was none for him.
His head was not held upright, and
his eyes were not bright when he en-
tered his home. His mother saw that
something was wrong, and she ques-
toned him.
81 got no valentine. II sent one,
but-but-I guess she forgot And
be went TO prepare for supper.
When he sat down to tea a pretty,
dainty valentine was upon his plate
''She didn't forget me. mamma! See,
mammal" he cried, with joy.
And mamma joined in with him-but
she did not tell him that she had re-
ceived that same valentine years before
he was born.-H. S. Keller, in LesIie's
Weekly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-02-11
THE AMBITION OF HANNA.
Senatorial Honors for the Great RepuEr
lican Boss.


It has been to open the way into the
senate for Mr.. McKinley's campaign
manager that the veteran Sherman has
been pushed and pulled out of the seat
which he has honored for so many
years. The unctuous Cleveland thus
tier will rattle around in John Sher-
mans shoes like pea in gourd. He
is utterly untutored in even the pri-
mary school of craftsmanship. Thirty
years. ago the election of such man
to the United States senate would have
been regarded as proof of alteration in
the legislature of great state. But
now a millionaire ignoramus more or
less will make no great difference in the
character of that body.
The presumption, of course, is that
'FMark" will get there" Foraker and
Bushnell wsll hardly care to antagonize
Mckinley at the outset of his term,
before a single loaf has been cut or a
fish has been served. It will be fortu-
nate, indeed, if the transfer of Senator
Sherman shall involve nothing worse
than injustice and cruelty to him and
a further degradation of the senate
y. Y World
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-02-11

was what Mr.. Pigeon said in answer
to the indignant remonstrances of the
Bells. She was Kitty; that was all
he would say; perhaps il wasn't much
OF reason, but the Bells understood.
We all know what it is to give up things
to people just because they are ky
or Polly or John.
So 1t happened that the Bells dear
Dir. Pigeon went away to a little house
that he owned down a Pequanket Mills
and Miss Mehitable Pigeon came to live
at the old place on Pippin Hill and
owned half of the high-top sweeting
tree.
And the very first thing she did
1t was September when she came-was
to threaten to have Tommy Bell ar
rested, because when he shook their
side of the tree her side shook too, and
she said the top of the tree leaned to-
ward their side and more apples fell
there, so when the apples were picked
and divided she must have an extra
busbel. She threatened to have their
yellow kitten drowned because he
scampered after the flying leaves in her
garden, and, she did have their cross
gobbler killed because it ran after her
red morning gown, as a gobbler Will,
you know, and gobbled at her. He
WASH much loss, and she sent him home
Plucked and dressed, with the message
that she should have eaten him if she
had not feared he would be tough.
She complained that Becky's peacock
squawked and Dicky's guinea pigs
squeaked, and the vane on their stable
had ''a rusty squeak" that kept her
awake nights; and if one of the little
Bells mounted the fence she came out
and ''shooed" him off as if he were a
chicken.
Christine, who was inclined to look on
the bright side and to think well of every
one, said that she would probably grow
better when they got better acquainted,
and she gave Tommy and little Rufus
five cents each not to use their bean
singers over the fence or make faces
through the knothole.
But instead of growing better their
new neighbor grew worse. She had the
mutual fence built up ten feet high, she
had the branches of the sweeting tree
Topped off where they interfered with
the fence, and Christine's seat thrown
down to the ground so roughly that it
was broken. She said sbs' had let peo-
pie impose upon her all her life, and she
wasn't going to any more.
Papa Bell, who was an easy man G1d
absorbed in his business, said he sup
posed that so many children and squeak
ing things did make them troublesome
neighbors; but he thought they should
have to demonstrate with Miss Pigeon
about the fence, because it took away so
much of their sunshine. Christine begged
him to wait; she always would believe
that people were going to be better, and
she knew there Dlust be something good
about Miss Pigeon because she looked
like her brother-"only the twist
seemed to be in her mind, poor thing!"
1t was November when Christine's
seat was thrown out of the tree, so she
could not have used it any more that sea-
son any way; andwhen anyone asked her
how she was going to do without it in
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-02-11
THE DEMOCRATIC sHIBBoLErH.
Leading Feature of the Platform for
1900.

1900.
The accomplishment of the full and
complete restoration of silver to its
time-honored place as money, side by
side with gold, is the fixed purpose of
the democratic party. This will be the
leading feature of the platform of 1900
as it was for 1896. Our opponents will
talk of international agreement for
bimetallism, and international confer
ences may be held, but the real pur-
pose of all such expedients will be to
deceive the people and gain time to
more securely fasten upon them the
clutch of the gold standard. The dem
ocratic shibboieth Will be independent
action for binetallism on the part of
America, spurning to be the follower
and tool of Great Britain or any other
foreign nation.
The object and purpose of the cam
paign which began right where it left
off in November, 1896, and will con-
tinue until November, 1900, may be
epitomized in these words: The re-
peal of all laws by which silver has
been demonetized and it's use as money
abridged, the prohibition of all dis
ordinations by the government or any
CT it's officers against either gold or
silver, and the admission of both met
ais to the right of free and unlimited
coinage at our minis at the ratio of
sixteen to one, with full power for all
the money thus coined as legal tender
for all public dues and in all transac-
tions of the citizen.
This will not be debasement or re.
pudiation, as the gold standard advo-
Gates exclaim. 1t will simply put
stop to the money power scheme OF
continued contraction, and, as democ
racy believes, will provide for q
healthy enlargement of the volume OF
money on sound basis.-Illinois State
Register
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/ she would be likely to guess that it
| came from the Belfry; for she knew that
her brother had given them many of
! his belongings.
She sent it with fear and trembling.
and she told none of the others, for the
| older ones seemed, in their hearts, to
share the feeling of Tom and little Ru-
| fus, that the only form of approach TO
Miss Pigeon was bean-slinger in hand
The valentine wasn't returned; but
nothing seemed to come of it. The Bells
Jane heard from Miss Pigeons Jane
that her mistress had neuralgia. One
day after March had come, and a blue
bird had been seen to alight upon the
high-top sweeting tree, as Christine
. came along the garden path there come
shrih, imperative voice through the
knCthole in the fence.
IF you have any more of those
leaves, stuff them through the knot
hole; if you have the whole diary throw
it over the fence
OF course Christine wasn't going to
do that with the diary that seemed SO
precious; but she did send it around to
Miss Pigeon s door by old Jeremy, the
gardener, for none of the boys would
go.
1t was about week after that man
made, under Miss Pigeons direction.
new seat in the crotch of the apple tree
"a seat that was delightfully."- comfort
able for back that wasn't straight.
Miss Pigeon seemed to know lust how.
When it was finished she went IN and
examined it and tried it. Then she
called TO Christine, who was sitting on
the porch.
I'm cantankerous old woman. 1
was born cantankerous," she said. But
there's your seat!"
No one at the BeIfry knew what to
think of Miss Pigeon; it was little Ru
fus' opinion that a good fairy had
tapped her with her wand and turned
her into something else, and he was
much disappointed to find, on peeping
through the knothole, that she looked
Just the same.
ats delightful Christine said, slow
ly. But it isn't exactly what meant
by the valentine" she added, to her
self.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-02-11

| The fashion of sending valentines
might wane elsewhere, but it always
cried over them. And now she had
/ fiourished in Bloomsboro perhaps be-
cause Christine Bell kept it up. She
sent them to the very last people who
expected to have valentine-to neg
| lected old people and forIorn sick peo-
pie, 10 Biddy Mcguire, just from the
| cid country. and kilt" with homesick-
ness, and to Antony Burke, the old
miser, for whom no one had a civil
word and who, perhaps, didn't deserve
| one. And for every valentine that was
disregarded or thrown impatiently
aside. a dozen made little warmth and
comfort in a sad heart; for nobody has
vet begun to understand how great is
the day of small things.
Christine was more mysterious than
usual this year about her valentines;
she coIored when Peggy said she would
better send one to Miss Pigeon, but they
never thought she would; they thought
she was only sensitive about her Christ
mas wreath. When Mr.. Pigeon went
away he gave Christine an old desk that
he had had ever since he was boy. 1t
had initials and hearts and anchors cut
into it and was whitfield at every cor
ner; you would have known If you'd
seen it anywhere that it had belonged
to a boy. But Christine would have it
in her own room; she thought It was
beautiful. 1t had his boy-letters and
diaries in it, and she had laughed and
found in that old desk material for the
hn
made; and although she liked to share
the fun of making her valentines with
the others, she was a little secretive
about that.
What should the paper be but leaf
from one of the old diaries, one side all
written over in an uniformed, boyish
hand; and this is what was written on
it. the ink faded by time:
ct cant bare to rite becos hity has the
Fever and cant bare knot to rite hecos
II semes like telling somebody. she held
mi hand tite when she did knot now eny-
boldly last mite and / did knot let them
send me to bed the fellers say if she does
df 1 hav other sisters but they are knot
hfty the tellers do knot understand wen
enybody sails she will ever haV bo like
our augusta hity sails the Tom Tinker verse
and that meens me as is rote on the 1st
1eef of this dry mi name is Thomas Tink-
ham pigeon hity has gott Temper but so
hay a Good Meny People and she is Good
way inside and she is h!ty and she and
will alwys liv together but cant bare to
rite eny more for / want to now what the
dokter sails. they say q. Teller must be A
Man but wen it is hity cant bare"
Here the words became illegible OH
the old yellow paper; there were blots
and smudges as of tears. Though valen-
tines are supposed to be dainty, Chris
tire didn't try to clean it bit! And on
the unwritten side, instead of painting
any of her pretty flowers or drawing
hearts or cupids, she only wrote 1.-The
Tom Tinker verse" which Kitty had
lovingly quoted to her brother:
tom Tinker's my true love, and am his
dear,
I'll gang along WI him his budget to
bear"
It certainly was a very queer valen-
tire. Christine thought it would prob
ably be returned, even more scornfully
than the Christmas wreath-if Miss
Pigeon should guess who sent it-and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-02-11

1t is gratifying to observe that the
manufacturers see the futility and I'M
popularity of an attempt to secure for
themselves high tariff duties at the spe-
cfaI session of congress which it is I'M
derstood is to be called soon after Presi-
dent McEinley's Inauguration. At
the session of the National Association
of Manufacturers in Philadelphia the
following were the resolutions adopted
bearing upon the subject of the tariff:
THAT the rates of duty should be made
as low as possible, consistent with
adequate protection" If the manu-
facturers who go before congress adj
here to this policy the country will
have to be grateful. and will be saved
much agitation and the reaction that
necessarily must follow any attempt
to restore the high schedules of the tar
ffr act of 1s90.-Chicago Record (Ind.).
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OUR NEXT PREMIER.
The Selection of the Ohioan Regarded ,
q BIunder,

/ 1he Selection OF the Oh1Oan Regarded a
9 BIunder.
1t is q source of wonder TO many that
Mr.. Sherman can be regarded as safe
maj in an important government posi-
| ton. The views of these persons are
mirrored in a reference to the senator's
record by the Indianapolis Sentinel,
which exclaims at the appointment, and
says: He (Sherman) has tangled up
the financial system of the country to
| such an extent that no living man thus
far has diseptangled it. Give him time
and opportunity as secretary of state
and he wiz leave to his successors such
tries that Talleyrand would fail to
solve and settle. How the willy old
Buckeye succeeds in 'fooling' so many
people pretty much all the time is be-
yond our ken"
There is some reason in this view of
Senator Sherman's case. He was I'M
doubtedly an important factor in the
creation of the financial legislation I'M
der which the government now trans
acts business and which is admitted on
all sides to embody an unsafe and alto
gether Objectionable system. The
trouble in which the country was
plunged nearly four years ago, and
from which it has not begun to recover,
is traced to the existing financial laws,
in the making of which Mr.. Sherman's
influence was a potent influence. In
view of this, it is not to be wondered at
that the proposal to make the Ohio SEN
ator secretary of state is the cause of
some apprehension throughout the
country. He seems to be man whose
opinions waver, and it is never diff
cult matter to quote him in favor of
all sides of any of those stable public
questions that are of permanent inter
est and Importance. We have had Mr..
Sherman for and against protective
tariff; for and against the maintenance
of single gold standard, and, as a mat
ter of fact, he is widely looked upon as
a statesman with tendency to vacil-
late. Whether or not such a man is
fitted for the post of secretary of state
in the present critical condition of in
ternatlonal affairs is a question that is
reasonably open to discussion, and
there is nothing singular in the exist
ence of a widespread conviction that his
appointment to that post will amount to
a mistake if not serious blunder.-
Binghamton IN. W Leader.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-02-11
M'KINLEY's DIFFICULTIES.
Some Knotty Points In the Wilson Law
for Him to Handle.

Some Knotty Points in the Wilson Law
for Him to Handle.
Mai. Mckinley will have trouble in
finding data upon which TO base his
message calling an extra session of con-
gress to tinker with the tariff.
According to the majors favoriie
theory in political economy, the source
of prosperity is the home market and
the sign of it is the diminution of the i'm
ports of foreign goods.
When the major comes to look at the
figures he will find that under the Will
son law there is steady decline in i'm
ports. Low as the import record of last
year was, it is going lower at rapid
rate this year. At the port of New York
the imports for this month have been
falling under those of the same period
last year at the rate of about 81 200, 900
week.
On the other hand, the major will find
that while the imports have been dimin-
fishing rhe exports have been increasing.
The foreign trade of the country in
creased last year millions of dollars.
If these facts mean anything beyond
well-known market conditions they
mean that prohibition of foreign goods
and the consequent heavy taxation of
the people to fill the pockets of the IA
vored few are not needed to keep the
home market for American manufac-
turers; that under freer trade the Amer
lean manufacturers can retain the home
market and capture the foreign mar
kets.
If the major urges higher tariff taxes
for revenue purposes, the decreasing
revenues of his own law viii damn his
argument. The fact is, he is practical
~ reduced to the plain statement that
we ought to have higher taxes because
Hanna promised them to the pa
triots" who lent their purses to the re-
nuhIican nartX-St Louis Renuhlic
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Pennsylvania furnaces are no

OtIIIl.f n tAAa8t3 = IT EIttEN-' tt AAOFf
shouting for less tariff, not for more
They want the tariff duty on iron ore
repealed, so that they may avail them
selves of natural, cheap and convenient
sources of supply for their raw mate
rial without being compelled to pay a
fine for trying to do business. Times
change. and so do circumstances and
opinions. --Philadelphia Record
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-02-11
4 Valentine.

Go tell unto my lady fair
That nature whispers everywhere
tThe birds, the now'rs, the woods. thu
All whisperl: ASK the maid to ba
Thy valentine, this fourteenth day..
So I am making bold this way
To say unto my lady sweet
Nv heart and life are at he< feet
Go. dainty card-plead well my case.
And read my answer In her face
49, L. Address. In Chicago Posi-
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Right You Are.

Even If they were 5o-ceat dollars you
could get some of them, and that's
more than you can do with 2c0-cent
dollar.-Canton (o.) News-D Democrat.
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1atHIGH 7oP5mErrN6l5,,
EANAgMMe %wIHsR~

HEY all cried
everyone of t b c
Bells, from Peggy,
who vvas 16, down
TO Rufus (who was
ak, and despised a
crybaby), W b e n
O&d Mr.. Pigeon
a-a1 aa- NJ