Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-02-04
Murrayvllle, Ills.
E. ID. A.

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| The hogs, as well as Mr.. Hicks,
seem to miss it on the weather. The
other day | noticed some sows, with
young pigs, had picked the lot clear of
! shucks and soft litter, and had carried
| it all to their beds; though the wealth
er was very fine prepared for bliz-
zard; but it only clouded and misled
and came out again finer and warmer
than ever. Hicks may be putting his
storms in some where, but they have
not struck this part of the Lords i'm
moral vineyard yet.
Isay immoral vineyard because there
| seems to be big screw loose some
where. Four years ago Illinois gave
Cleveland majority OF 81 900. nearly,
this year it gave Bryan $4,000 more
than Cleveland got; and yet Mckinley
carried the State by over 143, 900.
Where did the votes come from? We
have heard of one tramp boasting of
voting six times at one election, and
another seemed to pride himself upon
having voted, in Chicago, "a times
last November. Is the republic rot
ten?
Some of our Republicans are most
heartily ashamed of the manner in
which Altgeld was treated at Spring
field, by their party, and they do not
hesitate to say so. 1t was a scurvy
trick; and it showed what dirty stuff
our Republican legislators, in this
State, are made.
In our legislature, as in yours, there
are far more pegs than holes. They
run. we are told, from fifty to one
hundred applicants for each Office,
from bottle washer up. Of course
from forty-nine to ninety-nine will be
disappointed and then-listen!
The mass of the people are so dis
gusted with legislators and legislation
that they do not protest against the
growth of antocracy, so apparent just
now. This growth seems likely to
continue until our republic is lost or
revolution comes. With all our boast
ed intelligence the large majority of
our people fail to understand the sim
pie principles upon which human pros
perity is based, and the demagogue
has things pretty much his own way.
Local matters are dull to stagnation.
Corn is Il cents a bushel; and ii you
want a bushel of meal you must sell
four bushels of corn TO get the money
to pay for it. Discomfort and misery
are the results of such conditions. We
hear exclamations some times that
put one in mind of on old resident OF
Scott county, who, when preacher
tried to convince him of the greatness
aud goodness of God, exclaimed, eff
the Boss of the universe don't run
things any better in the other worlds
than he does in this heaven will be
hell of place to go to-" They are
like Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Woman in
the House of Wants.
s'She hated the world that had used her i'll;
She was bitter with discomfort;
She was weary of toll in the dull treadmill,
Where she wasted her life in trying to ill
The mouth of the monster-RENT.
She hated the man with acres broad;
And she doubted God.''
They have not learned the Lesson
which our poetess teaches in the next
stanza,-
so woman, weary of toll and pain,
No wonder your heart is gall;
God gave his people a wide domain
He gives them the seasons, the sun, and the
rain,
And room and food for them all.
IT'S man, the author Of selfish crimes,
Who brings hard times
Let me appeal, as Miss w. does, to
those who have plenty. But l appeal
not for charity but for justice.
o lady, in your Palace of ease,
You are happy and well content;
But what would do were you one of these
Who toll and suffer, and starve, and freeze
To iatten the monster, RENT?
Yet God rules ever, and right some day
Win have its way"
Looking at the future from between
the handles of q plow. the country's
prospect never seemed darker than