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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-11
PARAGRAPAIc POINTERS.

The hardest task confronting the
republican party is to find out what it
believes on the money question.-St.
Louis Republic.
The difference between the pres
ent cost of trust products and the pres
ent cost of products of free competition,
with regard to former cost, can be ac-
curately measured. 1t is precisely the
amount of nine-tenths of the private
fortunes of Messrs. Rockefeller, Have
meyer ct AIN. Y. Journal.
The most curious thing about the
proposed new tariff bill is that on near
ly all articles it restores the rates of the
Mckinley law, and still the Mckinley
law was entitled IAN act to reduce the
revenues" whereas the excuse for the
coming bill is that the revenues must
be Observation-Disclosures City Star.
Good times have not yet come
back. The republican party is doing
it's best to defer Fheir coming by enter
ing upon a general revision of the tariff,
the most upsetting and business-de-
stroying occupation in which it could
have engaged. The fall elections will
give the people an opportunity to pass
upon this policy.-N. 7. Times.
MIR Hanna is going to give our in
dustries a tariff stimulus" What that
is we all know. They have been dosed
with stimuli for IS years until most OF
them, like confirmed old topers, really
believe that they cannot get along with
out it. The last debauch resulted from
the stimulus given in 1890, and most of
the precious infants have been aching
with katzenjammer ever since. Now
Mr.. Hanna is going TO give them an
other dose.-St. Paul Globe.
-American labor, although it is the
best paid labor in the world, is also in
the end the cheapest, at least in many
lines of manufacture, because it is the
most productive. 1t is high time there
fore for our republican friends TO drop
the claim that the skilled labor of the
United States needs high tariff for its
own protection. If the republican
statesmen at Washington insist upon in
creasing duties, let them candidly adj
vance the true reason for this policy
- namely. the demand of protected
manufacturers for large share OF the
governments bounty.-Rochester IN.
81 Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-11
DAY OF RECKONING COMING.
When America VIII Cease Making
MilIiOnaireH by Law.

When America VIII Cease Making
MilIiOnaireB by Law.
A special correspondent of the Lon
don Telegraph, writing from New York
regarding the Bradley Martin ball be-
fore that much-advertised event came
off, has the following to say regarding
the opposition to the function that man
ifested itself and the causes leading up
tc that opposition:
There is much in the social condition
of this great republic to cause real
anxiety. The gaps are too broad. 1t
is said on good authority that the total
number of rich families, despite the
great difference of population, Is only
u little larger than in Britain, and their
aggregate wealth is less, and yet the
disparities of condition excite here far
deeper feeling. But there is reason for
this. In the United Kingdom the law
does not interfere to enrich the towns
at the expense of the country, to impov-
erish the farm in order to aggrandize
the factory, to penalize west and south
with the view of favoring the north and
east. to make wealthy the manufac-
tlrer at the cost of the consumer, where
as the law does step in to lay the burden
of taxation on the shoulders best able
to bear it. Here everything the poor
man buys is made dearer in order that
some rich man may be made richer.
In every way the rich man is taxed in
England, living or dying; in every way
he escapes in the United States. Trusts
and tariffs fleece the people of the
rural districts and the poor everywhere
for the benefit of the capitalists-and,
so far as tariffs are concerned, the next
government aud congress actually pro-
pose to make matters still worse. The
true inwardness of the outcry is that
it is symptom of how deep there Is
sinking into the conscience of the Amer
lean people the wrong that has been and
is being perpetrated. A loud cry will
rise TO Heaven by and by that the manu-
facture of millionaires by acts of con-
eress and defiance OF law must cease
Chicago Chronicle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-11
CLOTH FROM cAT-TAlL.
A New Use for the Humble But Pretty
Water Plant.

"A Pretty
Water Plant.
Very few probably are aware that the
fur, or vegetable down, of the cat-tail
is a marketable article, superior to
feathers or cotton for many purposes.
it is not quite so valuable or useful as
eiderdown, but it approaches it very
closely, and is cheaper than any of the
three. AS matter of fact great many
people are to-day using articles covered
with cat-tail products who have no idea
where the material comes from.
It is vast extent of country, COM
paratively speaking, from which the
cat-tail is gathered. 1t comes from the
swamps along the numerous creeks
that put in from the Delaware bay, from
Morris river to Cape May. The average
amount gathered in the season is a ton
a day. The work of gathering and
transporting it, and then weaving it
into the many forms which it must take
before becoming salable, constitutes a
considerable industry
One of the most elaborate uses to
which this material is put is that of
covering sofas. Very many of the sup
posed plush-covered divans are really
covered with fabric of cat-tail. 1t
wears better than the plush and is in
finitely cheaper.
The same argument that applies to
the sofa is applicable to the pillow.
Very often, however, such pillows go
by another name.
Sofa pillows, also, are made of cat
tail, because a pillow avowedly covered
with cat-tail would probably be regard
ed with contempt. Call it Alaskan
plush, however, or Shetland wool that
has been treated by new process, and
ii will sell readily enough, and give sat
isfaction, too.
The family album which graces the
center table in the parlor of so many
farmhouses is also in many instances
adorned with cat-tail covers, although
the housewife cannot be convinced that
they are not plush. She has doubtless
paid almost as much as if they were
what she supposes, and naturally she
SCOTS at any person who hints that she
has been victimized.
1t is becoming a prevalent custom
to use cat-tail fur on the back of hand
mirrors and brushes, which have here
tofore been backed with plush. Some
say that the substitute is really proving
better than the original. The head rest
too, seen on the easy chair, is often of
cat-tail-and it is none the less COM
Portable for that.
Another article for which the cat-tail
is used is the bed-quilt. The eiderdown
quilt is an old-time article of luxury.
The cat-tail quilt is every whit as COM
Portable, and costs about one-quarter
as much. In New Jersey, at least, the
housewife fully appreciates the value of
the cat-tail quilt, however much her
less well-informed sister may scoff at
the idea.-St. Louis GIobe-Democrat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-11
FoREleN GOSSIP.

Emperor William Is military pa
pers will be published by the Prussian
ministry of war, with explanatory
notes, on the occasion of the one hun
dredth anniversary of his birth.
Archbishop Benson's forthcoming
saint Cyprian" is called by the Satur-
day Review "a posthumous bid for
much fuller literary and scholastic
laurels than any which DIR. Benson
gathered during his lifetime
English curates without influence
are encouraged to keep on in their pro-
fession by the recent death of Rev.
Howell Thomas, a Welshman, who had
worked his way up from humble cir
eumstances" in the Newport work
house.
A London butcher who put up the
royal arms over his shop on the strength
of having sold some beef to Queen Vic
toria has been prosecuted by the ssIn-
corporated Association of Her Maiesty's
Warrant Holders (Limited)," and fined.
Persian papier mache articles are
made of the Bibles sent out by British
mission societies, according to Mr.. Hold
gets, a recent traveller in the east. He
quotes the British consul at Tabreez as
saying: you have no idea what boon
these Bibles are to the village indus
tries of Persia
Great Britain's admiralty court con-
fesses to not knowing what sailing
ship is. In a recent collision case on
appeal it decided that a barge on which
jury sail had been rugged to assist the
rowers was sailing vessel, but added
that when the question of what was
sailing ship came to be decided, it woul6
have to be very carefully considered.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-11
Mark Hanna, senator.

Gov. Bushnell definitely announces
his purpose to appoint Mark Hanna as
Il senator of the United States to sue
coed John Sherman. 1t is an appoint
ment utterly and conspicuously unfit to
be made. 1t is the outcome of a COM
plicated political decker, which unhap-
PLY involves the president-elect him
self, as our Canton dispatches show.
Mark Hanna has no pretensions what
ever to craftsmanship. He has neither
learning nor experience, neither an ac-
quaintance with public affairs nor skill
in their conduct. His solitary claim
upon attention is that he raised and dis
bursed a gigantic campaign fund for
the debauchment of American politics.
Without that claim upon attention his
appointment to the senate would be 1u-
dicrous. With it that appointment is a
blistering scandal.-N. Y. World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-11
jim DUNCAN COULD TALK.
His PcrsuadinE Tongue Used i'm .
Good Cause.

His PcrsuadinE Tongue Used i'm "A
Good Cause.
The crowd had been talking of elo.
quent speakers, and Ingersol. Burke
Cochran. Depew, Talmage and other no
table orators had in turn been cham
pioncd by their respective admirers
The old cattle man had listened to it all,
and when the talk tagged a little he
asked if anybody present had ever
heard of Jim Duncan. Nobody had.
Il never heard any of the fellows YOU
mentioned, said the cattle man, but
| wouldn't be afraid to back Jim against
amy of EN- fer persuadin' ways. Jim
Duncan was talker. I'll tell YOU what
he did enc time, just as n specimen.
There was a fellow named Bob Harris
moved to Alliance-that was the name
of the town-and he had Young wife
and seemed to be pretty well fixed One
day Harris was killed uptown in a row.
Some five or six of us got together and
tried to figure it out who was TO break
;he news to his wife. Squire Irwin, our
Justice of the peace, was the Oldest one
among us, and we wanted him to so,
bSt he said he'd rather face a grizzly
bear tnan 70 take such news as that to a
woman. Finally we pitched on Jim
Duncan to go and tell her, he bein' so
handy with his tongue. and Jim said he
was wiIlin' to do his best. He kind of
run his fingers through his red hair.
hitched up his cravat and went into Mrs.
Harris house, while the rest of us
waited at the corner. In about min
utes Jim came TO the door and called
Squire Irwin in. We lowed the widow
must be cuttin' up real sharp. In ten.
minutes more Jim came out to US.
How'd she stand it. Jim o. we asked.
II guess it's pretty well smoothed
over says Jim, and Mrs. Duncan and
me would ike all of you to come in and
have some refreshments.'
Jim Duncan shore had a pei-suadin
tongue."-Detroit Free Press
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-11
MONEY AGGREGATION.
An Important Decision OF the Minne-
sofa Supreme Court.

An Important Decision OF the Minne-
sofa Supreme Court.
Ex-Lieut. oGv. Day, in the Martin
County (Minn.) Sentinel, has the fol-
lowing treatment of the question of APP
probation of money, as per the SUI
preme court decision in the case of
johnson VS.. st. Paul City Railway COM
pany, which decision is quoted as fol-
lows in the Northwestern Reporter:
"There is another consideration we
think we may take into account and
that is that however statesmen and
fnanciers may disagree as to the cause,
a given sum of money has greater value
that is greater purchasing power
than it had years ago."
'This," says Senator Day, was the
unanimous opinion of the court on this
point, and they reduced the judgment
of the trial court, which was $4,000, to
So, 500, in consequence, and, no doubt,
correctly.
''Now, who got the benefit of the ST.
500 gain in purchasing power of the
money in the last few years? Certainly
the one who held the money, and, con-
versely, it came out of the producer.
When a silver man advanced that same
argument last fall he was derided as a
calamity bowler, crank and anarchist,
and on the 10th day of January, in the
year of grace 1897, halfway between
McKinley's so-called election and i'm
auguration, the highest tribunal in the
state of Minnesota candidly, impartial
ly, solemnly and unanimously, lays it
down as cold-blooded proposition of
abstract fact that decisions may be
found which would, by comparison,
justify the verdict but that by the
great appreciation of money it is SO
clearly excessive that it ought not to
stand
1.-THE supreme court is right-the
purchasing power of money is toe
rreat'o
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-11
AFTER THE JEsuITs.
fnhuman Treatment of the Indians
by the Spanish.


by the Spanish.
The Jesuits were expelled in 176s
from the missions. From this time I'M
til 1901 the colonies, as they were then
called, languished under the rule of
the Spanish, corruptly administered
from Buenos Ayres. At this date all
east of the Uruguay was conquered
from the Spanish by the Portuguese
The cities were almost completely de-
stroyed and the inhabitants massacred
taken prisoners or driven from the
country.
During the reign of the Spanish, from
176S to 1901, their treatment of the In
dams was so inhuman that the poor
creatures were continually escaping
back to the forest, until at the time of
the conquest by the Portuguese in 1901
there were not over 10000 in all the
missions. To-day, of the IS cities there
once so populous and prosperous, there
are only a very few that have inhab-
itants at all, and in these the total popu-
lation would not exceed 10000.
Although at present difficult of &C
cess. a visit to the ruins of these old
Jesuit cities would interest the curious.
Large trees are growing in the center
of churches, the domestic shrubs and
flowers mingle with the wild forest
growth that covers the debris of fallen
houses; here is Corinthian column
and there stone or fragments of fine
carved cornices lying about in profuse
Observation-Disclosures
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-11
WEAK ON TIE REVENUE.
The Nations income Reduced by
High Tariff.

The 60Hf0m,8 income kkG0UGG0 ny -
High Tariff.
The New York Press has undertaken
the formidable task of proving that ex-
treme protection viii bring about in-
creased revenues. Sensible republicans
usually abandon such nonsense immedi-
ately after the campaign. But the Press
takes its tariff doctrine seriously, and
insists that we can have tariff high
enough to keep out foreign goods and at
the same time supply revenue to meet
the extravagant demands OF more
than billion-dollar congress. 1t says:
Zone of the theories held by extreme
believers in low tariff is that. il 1t
does nothing else, low tariff should in
crease revenues in those classifcations
where duties are cut down, by stimulat-
ing larger imports, and consequently,
giving the government greater volume
of articles from which to exact duties.
We have found that occasionally some
cf those who believe in protection be-
cause it permits Americans to do busi-
ness are weak on the revenue part of a
protective tariff"
One of the republicans who is weak
on the revenue part" of a protective tariff
is John E. Henderson, formerly United
States senator from Missouri, and re-
garded as fully up to the level of Ed
munds, of Vermont, in craftsmanship.
In an interview last week Mr.. Hender-
son said:
81 am afraid that II the tariff is made
higher the import duties will fall Off and
decrease the revenues of the government
considerably. They will fall OF for this
reason, viz: Our manufacturers can now
manufacture twice as much as they can
consume, and the surplus they expect to
export. They can successfully compete
with the imported goods, and with a high
tariff they can underselL As result we
will not have such large importations, and
we will have to raise our revenue in another
manner.
Another who is weak on the revenue
part" is President-eIect Mckinley.
When he made his tariff bill he called IL
an "act to reduce the public revenues"
and he made speech showing how the
increase of tariff rates would reduce
the revenue. 1t worked exactly as was
predicted. The revenues were reduced
until there was deficit under the Nc
Klnley law of $6y,00o,o00.,
If the Press could shut out imports
and collect duty on them at the same
time it would have a really strong rev.
cnue system. But as long as shutting
out goods deprives US of tariff duties
that might otherwise be collected the
protective tariff system viii be ''weaL
in it's revenue part."-Utica Observer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-11
Deputy President Hanna.

Mr.. Sherman's prospective successor
in the senate does not appear over
burdened with modesty. He ascribes
Bushnell's intention to appoint him to
the fact that the sentiment in Ohio
toward him (Hanna) was such that
Bushnell thought he had better appoint
him. This seems rather ungracious
return for the favor promised, and dis
tinctiy implies that the governor was
forced to make the appointment. Then
Mr.. Hanna sent his regrets to Detroit,
where he had been invited to participate
in the celebration of Washington's
birthday, assigning as one of the rea
sons for not coming that Mckinley was
sick This seems 70 imply that Hanna
has to attend to presidential business
when Mckinley is i'll. Have we already
a deputy president?-Louisville Cou-
rier-Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-11
CUT 1T SHORT.

III you've got thought that's happy,
Boil il down
MAKE 1t short and crisp and snappy,
Boil Ii down.
Nhen your brain it's coin has minted.
Town the page your pen has sprinted,
II you want your effort printed,
Boil IT down.
rake out every surplus letter
Boil IL down;
FEWER syllables the better
Boil il down.
Make your meaning plain-express IL
80 Wen know, not merely guess IL.
Then. my friend. ere you address IL,
Boil 1t down.
Boil out all the extra Trimmings
Boil il down;
Skim IL well, then skin the TRIMMINGS
Boil it down.
When you're sure 'twould be a sin to
Cut another sentence into,
Send ii on, and Wen begin TO
Boil IL down.
Joe Lincoln. in L. A w. Bulletin.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-11
Chandler .on the Standards.

Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire,
sook occasion recently to notify his re-
publican senatorial brethren that he
regarded it as unwise policy for the
United States to acquiesce in the per-.
manent retention of the single gold
standard. Mr.. Chandler traced the ex-
listing depression, from which there APP
pears to be little hone of escape, to the
decentralization of silver. and insisted
that the only chance for improvement
lay in the policy of restoring the hi
metallic standard.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-11
The FIGHT IS ON.
Nj. Bryan Holds That the Money
Question Is StiII an Issue.

Mr.. Bryan Holds That the Money
Question Is StiIl an Issue.
Free Coinage" was the subject of
lecture delivered by William Jennings
Bryan at Carnegie hall under the aus
pices of the New York Bimetallic asso-
citation. In his speech Mr.. Bryan said:
''It will not be necessary for me to speak
longer than to thank you for the encourage
ment of your presence. and to express my
appreciation of the work which has been
done by the advocates of bimetallism in
the eastern states. l have never lost an
opportunity to assure those who labored
west and south have more of local victories
to rejoice over, recognize the obstacles
which were in your way. and recognize the
valor with which you fought. do not
know any democrat, free silver republican
or populist who deserves more credit than
those who made the fight in New York city.
i want to say that your fight here has given
you a warm place in the hearts of the west
and south
Now a word of encouragement. 1 want
to say to those who have fought that the
fight is not done. l want to encourage you
by saying that l have not found one per-
son who was with US who is sorry that he
was with US, and of those who fought
under the allied forces not one to-day re-
grets the part he took on election day and
during the campaign.
II am proud of the work done by the
allied forces during the last campaign.
No matter what may be the permanent
settlement of the money question, the
American people are better for the cam
paign through which they have passed.
The government will be better; the laws
will be better. The next four years are go
ing to be the hardest Tor the men who are
in politics for pecuniary benefits OF any
years in recent history.
Il want to say that do not believe that
this money question is yet settled. We are
no better now than we were before election.
l have not reformed. i believe in those
principles as much now as then, and 1t Is
going TO be no easier for monometallists
and bimetallists to associate than before.
Any man who comes to act with US must
be one of US and his sins will be forgiven,
but he cannot bring his sins with him..
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-11
-Four Centuries of BAmetanI.m.

Prior to 1879 the principal nations
of Europe, except England, were on a
bimetallic basis. England adopted the
gold basis in 1916. The British empire
as a whole was, however, practically
bimetallic, gold standard England and
her gold standard provinces being of
get By silver standard India and her 9TH
er silver standard possessions. 1873
marked the beginning of crisis in the
monetary history of the world, the ef-
fects of which are seen in the wide
variation between the coinage ratio and
the market ratio of the two metals
as it exists to-day.-Farm, Field and
Preside.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-11

The first step toward the crafty
ing of Hanna's ambition was taken
when John Sherman was forced to re-
sign; the second, when the president
elect laid aside his dignity and asked
the Ohio governor to appoint his mort
gagee; the third. when terms were made
with Foraker and Bushnell-Bushnell
to have n denomination for governor,
and Foraker's share as yet undisclosed.
After all, what right has anyone TO OBJ
ject? II the principal actors in the
fraud of 70 were rewarded by lucrative
federal places; If Harrison made Woods
a Judge, and Wanamaker his postmas-
ter-general, why should not Hanna be
made United States senator, in consid-
Grafton of his skill in buying delegates
and states for Mckinley ALBANY Ar
gus
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-11

Mrs. Strongmind-And for what are
you incarcerated here, my poor man?
The Prisoner married new WON
an.
(Astonished) - ''Impossiblei You
couldn't be put in Jail for that"
But 1 was! married a new WON.
an, and the old woman / had put me
here for bigamy. "-Household Words
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-11

That night they change At Chicago.
He had been in hopes that he might be
OF assistance to her in making the
change. but the omnipresent porter was
there, who sees to all her luggage. The
sleeper is crowded and they are sep
aIated by the length of the car.
The next day they have only occa-
sional glimpses of one another. Once
their eyes meet, and again the rich color
spreads over her face as she diVerts her
glance.
He laughs softly TO himself as he
strokes his black mustache.
tAh, well. some fate seems to keep US
apart"
He has found out from the porter
that she is going to Washington. and
she has caught sight of his ticket,
marked New York.
They are in the dining-car-he at one
end. she midway up. facing each other.
They are stealing furtiye glances at
one another.
''She's a fine creature, fine creature,
and in few hours she'll be gone. That's
the worldl (Sighing9