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Iron County register., 1897-09-23
PARTIES AND pAH,cs.
ron Reed Puts the Republicans in n
Rad Light.

FOm Reed Puts the Republicans I'm q
bad Light.
Says Tom Reed, statesman and eco
nomic philosopher: After a great
smash, like that of 1893. or that of 1878,
there is nothing to do but wait and let
the business world settle ITSELF
So it seems We have the admission of
one of the great lights of the repub-
hcan party that there was a great
smash in 1873, and that it was of the
same kind as the great smash" OF
1858, and that in each case there was
nothing to do but wait and let the busi-
ness world settle itself.
What will the organs and spouters of
the republican party do with this ad-
mission? It has been their practice TO
lay the great smash of 1898 all to demo-
cratic success and to democratic tariff
which did not exist until more than a
year after the smash. And in order to
avoid troublesome questions arising
out of their assignment of cause for
the smash they have also made il their
practice studiously to ignore the smash
of 1878.
But now stands forth one of their
chief prophets and frankly admits that
there was great smash in 1879. They
can no longer ignore or deny the fact
without repudiating one of their in
fallible leaders. How, then, are they
going to account for the result?
The democratic party was not in pow
.er in the summer OF 1873 when the panic
occurred. A republican president had
been elected by an overwhelming ma
jcrity less than year before and still
had three and half years to serve.
There was large republican majority
in both houses of the congress-elect.
Never did the democratic party seem
farther from power, never did its pros
poets seem darker. Nothing could be
more absurd, therefore, than to charge
the panic of 1873 up against the demo-
cratic party.
But according to the assumption of
the republican organs some party must
have caused the great smash" OF
course. it was the republican party, if
any. Now, we were living under rePub-
lican legislation in 1893, as we were in
1873, not a line of the currency laws or
the tariff laws which the republican
party had given the country had been
repealed or changed in the least par
ticular.
1t is then a necessary conclusion.
from which the republican organs can
in no way escape, that if republican
policy and administration produced the
great smash of 1873 they must also
have produced the great smash of 1898.
MIR. Reed has put all his party organs
in a position where they must admit,
unless they throw all consistency to the
winds, either that their party caused
beth the great smashes or that~these
events occur no matter what party may
BE- in power. Mr.. Reed himself is evil
IDENTIFY disposed to admit the latter
Chicago Chronicle.
Iron County register., 1897-09-23

| all of youse put together. Maybe he'll
I get the sack over this thing. but I've got
| direct and special information that the
solid and influential citizen who owns
this sheet thinks there's more style in
one of Morton's articles than in all the
rest of the paper. outside of the work
of myself in the department devoted to
the noble arts of sport and of my dis
tinguished colleague, the editor in chief
in the columns given over to politics.
And youse may all put il in your pipes
and smoke it, that no matter what hap
pens to Morton just now, he'll be
a-writin' literatoor while yous're still
reporting local news"
well, Patsy" said his mother, as her
son gave pause to begin on the cold
snack, Its altogether too bad, so it
I is, and I wisht 1 could think of some
way We might help Mr.. Morton out, but
can't, I'm afraid. I know somethin'
mighty little about newspapers, for
sure. And by the same token 1 must
be gettin' away if 1 want to begin me
work early"
AS she spoke she opened the back
door of the little house to go out by the
alieyway. From door a broad beam
of yellow lampIight streamed across the
narrow passage, brightly Illuminating
a sort of niche under the flight of out
side stairs on the building opposite.
patsy" she called, ''come here a
minute. What's that, over there under
the stairs: a basket? Let's have a look
at it, anyhow"
Patsy ran out of the house and across
the alley and kicked the object to which
his mother had drawn attention. AS he
did so he heard a clicking sound, as of
metal.
Lets take it into the house." he
whispered, breathless with a sudden
suspicion. "It feels heavy to me fut
and it sounds"
Before the sentence was finished they
had the weighty basket inside the little
house and were stripping off its cover
ing of burlap. Then the widow began
to take spoons and pepper boxes, forks
and soup ladies, all of shining silver,
from the baskets depths.
"Begob!" cried Patsy, in his excite
ment, using an ejaculation which he
had been trying to leave off ever since
the beginning of his service on the
Morning Moon, what dye t'ink? May
be this is the very silver them bur-
glars stole. 1t was Judge Rollins house
they broke into, and here it is! Here's
the r. on the spoons! See that? Well
help out Mr.. Morton yeti"
'Sure, Patsy" interrupted his moth
er, "spake lower, PLACE, and tell me:
How is our findin' the silver to help out
Mr.. Morton? And tell me how was it
that they hid it right here in the alley?
And what"
"Ye're as excited as me, every bit,
mother, DEAR" cried Patsy, "or ye'd
give me time to answer wan question
afore We fired another wan at me. Wen
keep the silver here all day, and the
thief'l come to get it at night, and then
we'll have him arrested and will have
Mr.. Morton help detect the thief, and
he'll get a big scoop on the Daily
Spread Eagle, and then he won't lose his
place.
.''How was it that the burglars left
the stuff here? Why, they was a-movin'
the basket last night, and got scared of
a noise or something, and for fear of
bein' caught, and seein' it was dark
under them stairs, they hid it in a hur-
Iron County register., 1897-09-23

standard. The only saving clause d
that in getting down to the gold stand
ard she declares q tender Of two gold
roubles to be fun satisfaction for q
debt of three. and has commenced the
recoinage Of her gold. taking one-third
OF the gold out of each piece. Thus. she
DEGREES the adoption OF monetary sys-
tenn that condemns debtors to give what
would have been six roubles' worth Of
produce at old prices for debt Of three
roubles. but she DEGREES the debt Of
three roubles shall be arbitrarily re-
duced to two, so that the burden Of
debts may be increased not 1e0 per cent.
but only SS per cent. by her plunge 20
tie gold standard. But. as gold goes on
appreciating, debts viii 60 on increas-
ing. and the Russian wheat producer
VIII find himself more and more handi-
capped by such increase. a handicap
which will not be exacted of his Gem,
petitors in silver and paper using coun.
tries
Iron County register., 1897-09-23

Thompson. ~but you must be historian
and you must get plenty of snap into
your story. It'Il be the best scoop in
year. if we have no more bad luck enc
you'll get of the extra list fast enough.
but it'll be to go on as regular. sure"
In order to lure the burglars into the
trap the basket was emptiec Of the sii-
verware, filled with stones, and. with the
covering all in place was set out again
in the niche under the stairs. This was
done before night, OF course, and as
quietly as possible little after dark
the vigil began Every man who passed
through the little alley was watched as
suspects had never been watched be-
fore, but the guilty parties did not APP
pear till near midnight, and when they
did they wore skirts. Twice the two
women, as they seemed to be, Sauntered
through the alley, apparently paying no
attention to the basket. The first time
no attention was paid to them because
of their dress. Their return through
the alley made the watchers suspicious,
however, and when they came back the
third time everything was in readi-
ness. AS they stopped to lift the basket
the ambushed forces sprang forward
ard in a twinkling both men, for the
skirts were only worn as disguise, were
thrown off their feet, and, after short,
sharp and decisive struggle, the ''brace-
LET'S" were fastened on their wrists.
Patsy was of the party, of course,
having begged night off, and in a mo-
1nent he was on his way to The Morn
ing Moon" office with the first part of
AIorton's ''story" held tight in his hand.
After that it was all matter of mere
detail. The thieves were taken into the
little house and held until it was too
late for THE Daily Spread Eagle" to
get any of the news and then the regu-
lar police were called in and the cui-
prits locked up in stronger prison
than the widows little home.
And before the newsboys finished
calling out: Full account of burglars
captured" Morton knew he was no
longer an ''extry'' but full-fedged
regular" on the city staff of ''Ths
Morning Moon"
Iron County register., 1897-09-23
CONFUSION RElGNs.



Deficit Producer
The Boston Advertiser by ITS com
meEss on the Ding:ey law illustrates
the confusion of mind that protection
lsts, who used to howl about the deficit
until they were black in the face, are
in now that the Dingley law is a greater
deficit producer than any other bill
that was ever framed. 1t confesses to
disappointment. but it must be remem-
bered, it says, that "the new tariff is not
like the old one, the work of party
pledged to lay import taxes for revenue
only The lone great end OF we'll
constructed American tariff must al
ways be the protection of American
industry" and if the Dingley act
should ultimately prove to be made
quate, to the extent of a few millions
a year. for the raising of revenue. it
would still stand before the country
in favorable comparison with its pre-
decessor." Finally the Advertiser ex-
poets in the future to get both revenue
and protection from the Dingley bill,
when in ''the better times the people
will buy enough of such foreign goods
as are not made at home to bring up
the receipts from imports to high-water
mark"
just how this expectation will be
realized, when the protection policy
is to tax only goods produced here and
admit goods not made here free of duty.
isn't quite clear.
But to revert to the pretense that the
Dingley bill was not designed to raise
revenue. Such claim is an insult to
President Mckinley, who called con-
gress together in extra session. 1t is
a refutation of the national republican
platform, which declares: I'VE de-
mard such an equitable tariff on i'm
ports which come into competition with
American products as will not only
furnish adequate revenue for the nee
essary expenses of the government, but
will protect American labor from the
degradation to the wage level of other
lands.'
In his inaugural address President
Mckinley saidi ''It is the paramount
duty of congress to stop deficiencies
bv the restoration of that protective
legislation which has always been the
frmest prop of the treasury"
1t won't do for defenders of Ding
ieyism to claim now that the revenue
matter is of secondary Importance. 1t
won't do for republicans who were ap-
pal!ed at an average deficit of So. 100000
a month under the Wilson law to make
light of deficit of $4,000, 900 the very
first month of the operation of a new
law designed by order of the president
to stop deficiencies. 1t won't do for
defenders of Dingleyism to expect to
raise revenue upon such foreign goods
as are not made at home, because the
doctrine of protection as laid down in
the republican platform calls for the
free admission of such goods.
We refer to these troubles of our re-
publican friends not for the purpose of
embarrassing them, but to point out to
them the fact that protection conflicts
with revenue raising. They didn't set
tie the tariff question. On the con-
trary, it must be thoroughly overhauled
in a very short time and a new tariff
must be made, for revenue only. and
upon lines distinctively different from
those upon which Mr.. Dingley pro-
ceeded.-Utica Observer.
Iron County register., 1897-09-23
IN mEMoRIAm.

The golden gates swung wide that summer
morning.
As through the portals passed an angel
blest
Bearing a message from the highest Heav-
Come. faithful soul. come unto me and
rest"
You knew him not. although he stood be-
And. bending IowIy, whispered in her ear
You could not see him clasp his arm about
You only knew-the world grew dark and
dresr.
And yet the angel kissed her brow so weary.
And pressed the fevered hands with low
And saw the dear face catch the radiant
brightness,
Nor guessed why it had grown so won
But ahl the weary days and years that
followed
The listening for the well-beloved voice.
The call Of Mother" and the painful
The wondering that the world could still
rejoice
But day by day you understood more clear
ly
The gift God sent her on that summer
day;
His angel cast ufe's garments from about
And care and pain forever rolled away
He gently took from out her tired fingers
The vari-colored web and woof of time.
He touched her heart, with Gods dear
name engraven,
And bowed his head before her faith sub
lime.
And then he raised her on his shining pin
ions
While yet you knelt, bowed down with
grief and fears,
Far. far above-she did not hear you weep
ing.
For Gods own music burst upon her
ears
God gave her rest. For you the lonely
waiting,
The taking up the broken threads of life.
While starlike shines this hope amid the
darkness,
He knoweth best. His peace will follow
strife.
He knoweth best. The while our feet are
stumbling
Along life's rugged road. and at our side
The loved ones faint and faIter on the
journey
Or in the darkness sink into the tide.
still through the vista of a darkened fu-
ture,
Faith lights the pathway upward to
Gods throne,
He knoweth best-with Him in all His
glory
Some day He will unite US to our own.
Margaret II. Punch. in Boston Budget
Iron County register., 1897-09-23
LILLE BENJAMIN.
Stories of the Late Master of BaiIiOI
College.

College.
The many stories that are tod of
Benjamin Jowett, the late master Of
Balliol college, Oxford, show a strong
ly marked individuality, one calculated
to make many friends. He was de-
clared, indeed, to be the only man liv-
ing who could maintain close friend
ship with so people at once; but in his
early days, at least, his manner to pupils
repelled rather than attracted, while
to shy men he was positively alarming.
Il remember one OCCASION" an un-
dergraduate of that day relates, ION
which he invited me to take a walk
with him. The number of words ex-
changed between US was incredibly
small, and believe that it was relief
to both when we regained the college
gate.''
His long silences were felt as an awk-
ward bar to conversation, and to in
terrupt this silence by starting a fresh
topic was often to provoke snub. AS
he never made an unmeaning remark
himself, he was impatient of empty
speech from others.
Once friend was accompanying him
on a long walk. Arriving at Tewks-
bury, the quaint old world town seemed
asleep in the summer sunshine, and
Iron County register., 1897-09-23

ry, never dreamin' annybody'd see il
there. And sure nobody would have
seen it if you hadn't opened the door
just right, to let the lamplight shine
across the alley. An"
But, Patsy" interrupted the widow
again, Il do Zoe thinkin' we'd better turn
it over to the police right now and not
wait for Mr.. Morton. Suppose some
wan finds we have the basket in our
possession, isn't possession nine points
of the law? And won't they be thinkin'
maybe we're the thieves
''Sure, mother" cried Patsy, well
chance it, won't we? Nobodym think
we have it here, and we'll shove it right
back here in the cupboard and you'll
go to work while start out to find the
scrumptious MIR. Colley Thompson and
get him to help me help Morton pinch
the thieves when they come.
'All right, Patsy" said the widow,
secretly pleased with her sons thought
fulness for Mr.. Morton, but it's slang
to say pinch since you've been on the
Mornin' Moon; arrest would be better
And you'se want to look out for some
sleep before the day is over, sure"
And so the two parted, the widow to
her tubs, and her son on his way to help
the extra" who called him Patsy and
not Peleg. This was not so easy a mat
ter as Patsy had thought. He hadn't
the slightest idea where 1.-The scrump-
tious Mr.. Colley Thompson lived, and
it was quite noon before he found out.
After that they both had to go hunting
for Morton's lodgings, and when he had
been found a plan had to be devised by
which the arrest could be made and the
news preserved from the Daily Spread
Eagle. 1t was ThompsOns day off. and
he went straight to the police Office.
where as an old-time police reporter ne
was well known, and was sworn in as
special Then a large and varied as
sortment of handouts was secured, for
no one could tell how many would come
for the basket. Half a dozen men from
the Morning Moons pressrooms and
elsewhere were called in as deputies,
so that there should be help enough in
case the burglars were numerous, the
forms were ordered left open late if the
thieves should be dilatory, and Morton
was set to writing the story.
"I'n run this enterprise" declared
Iron County register., 1897-09-23
CHANDLER ON MONEY.
Fall I'm silver VIII Not Lessen Woe
of MOnOmctaI1Ism.

Fall fn silver VIII Not Lessen Woes
of MOnOmctaIllsm.
"f the complete results of diBcardina
silver, which lowers prices, and thereby
hinders trade, have. been already
reached, and no future injury from de.
monetization is to be apprehended. pos.
sibly the world may be held to the sin
gle gold standard. But IL the tendency
of the last "a years to fall in prices
caused, as alleged, by stopping the coin
age of silver, is much longer to continue
to prevail, the nations of the world can,
not be held to gold monometaIfism.
The renewed coinage of silver will be
irresistible decreed by uncontrolla-
BILE popular movements. The temporary
conditions of to-day or tomorrow will
not settle a question so broad and uni
versal as the issue between the new gold
monometaltism and the old biInet
alIism.
''Thc fall in silver will not lessen th,
present or prospective woes from mono
metallism. It only points the moral OF
demonetization. The gold prices of sill
yer falls and so fall the prices of all
other commodities. Such fall in the
prices of the necessaries of life is ben
eficial IL 1t comes from natural causes,
but is injurious according to all polit-
ical economists If it results from the
cancellation or destruction Of the
money of the world, which is the meas
ure of values. If thin wrong to society
has been progressing for 20 years it viii
be wise for the free citizens of America
who can accomplish results by votes
to begin the inquiry anew (now that
the tariff question passes out of sight
for a time), whether the work of RENE
dying the wrong ought not soon TO be-
gin. This question is not TO be an.
Swered alone by the money lenders and
the persons of fixed incomes. All classes
in the community will study 1t, and viii
reach and act upon their conclusions
should be glad If I could think the
question had disappeared fc- the rea.
son that silver has gone down in price
everywhere because demonetized, and
wheat has gone up because OF short
age of crops in various countries. But
is the question really gone? Let us not
be too sure but make inquiry. Senator
Chandler, of Vermont, in Washingtou
Post.
M
Iron County register., 1897-09-23
THE wAGE-woRkERs FOOLED,
Wages of Mckinley Voters Being Re
duced.

Wages of Mckinley Voters being Re
duced.
During the last presidential cam
paign the laboring men were told by the
gold advocating employers and the re-
publican spellbinders that a vote for
Bryan was a vote to reduce wages and
to increase the cost of living.
Under threats of this kind enough Of
the labor vote was coerced into repub-
lican ranks to put Mckinley in the
presidential chair. To-day the laborer
is confronted with demand TO submit
to a reduction of wages. The president
of the Amalgamated Association of
Iron and Steel Workers has already
sia ned a scale reducing wages all along
the line. These laborers get less money
fer their work than heretofore, and are
compelled to pay more for the neces-
stiles of life When the workman buys
flour now he has to pay dollar for the
same quantity that IS cents would buy
last month. Soon woolen goods will go
up because of the beneficent DingIey
tariff, and. in fact, almost every neces-
sity of life is going to cost more money.
But let the wage-worker dare suggest
an increase in pay to the gold brick
employer. who played confidence
game on the empIoye to get his vote,
and what is the result? Refusal, and. if
the demand is persisted in. discharge.
What glorious things the republican
party has brought to pass for the
massesI How perfectly have the poll
ticians kept their promises! Surely the
wage-workers will believe these hypo-
critics hereafter and always vote for low
wages. high prices and protection
Chicago Dispatch.
Iron County register., 1897-09-23

/ his companion rashly ventured to say:
Il believe that there are more dogs
/ than people in the streets this morn
ing"
Jowett instantly awoke from his
revery and replied: IF you have moth
ing more sensible to observe, you had
better be silent altogether!"
Another thing which hampered his
intimate association with younger men
was his fastidious taste in the use of
language, particularly evidenced in his
adherence of slang, which undergrad
yates thought piece of donnishness.
With one of his child friends in the
country he took a singular way of en-
forcing this lesson. He insisted on Civ
ing her shilling every time she used
the word 'awfully," and so shamed her
out of the habit.
In after years, however, most of those
who had been his pupils were glad to
acknowledge the inf1uence-stimulat-
ing rather than formative-that Law
behind the abrupt and peremptory. vet
always serene and kindly, ways of the
master, known in undergraduate cir
cles as little Benjamin, our ruler"
"a paternal from Jowett." as one of
his severe admonitory interviews was
termed, rarely indeed failed of its eff
feet, and the father,y vigilance with
which he watched over able but un-
steady young men, his untiring efforts
to keep them straight, and when they
failed to set them on their feet again.
caused one grateful pupil to declare:
NO minister of Christ ever more fully
realized the precepts: Strengthen tbv
brethren. Support the weak
Youths Companion.
Iron County register., 1897-09-23

-Horseshoes which can be attached
TO the hoof without the use of nails have
a broad steel band attached TO the front
and sides of the shoe, ending in screw
sockets at the rear to draw the band
tight over the hoof by means of screws
inserted in the rear of the shoe.
Iron County register., 1897-09-23
There seems to be no good rea.

There seems to be no good rea-
son why Secretary John Sherman
should speak in this years campaign.
He has already said more than he can
atone for or explain in the rest of his
natural life. Anything he might say
would probably be an extension of his
iniquities rather than apology or rep
aration for the past Cincinnati Ex-
amineP.
Iron County register., 1897-09-23

I'm holding two sections of drain
pipe together while cementfng, newly
patented core will be found useful. the
device being divided into three wedge
shaped sections, which force the pipes
toalign and can be withdrawn after the
cement hardens by means of handle
or cord.
Iron County register., 1897-09-23

"a man may walk along the atrcet
making great gestures in his conversa-
tion, and yet not be saying much c9
Importance. Washington DemanEat.