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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-06
PRESS COMMENTS.

Nearly six months of prosperity
has made business men very tired. =
Philadelphia Item.
-Republican prosperity seems to
be the same size and shape of Cleveland
adversely. The thing hasn't even had
its hair cut.-Atlanta Constitution.
Mr.. Dingiey's tariff bill seems to
be giving the republicans considerable
worry. They hope it will, and are afraid
it won't; and even Uncle Dirgley himself
suspects that it can't.-Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
when Maj. Mckinley was getting
up tariff bill and proposed to take
hides off the free list man from Maine,
named Blaine, called him down AID
asked him if he wanted to protect the
republican party out of existence. But
the republican party has lost a lot of
brains since that time.-St. Louis Re
public.
Mr.. Dingley contends that the re-
publicans were restored to power to en-
act Dingley bill even more than TO
secure sound money. The voters of the
country have already given expression
to a contrary opinion whenever they
have had an opportunity, and in COM
ing elections they are likely still further
to open Mr.. Dingley's mspd.-N. Y.
World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-06
THE JOURNEY OF LIFE.
MISSOURI

over tie and trestle runs the track Of life
onward with much hustle, friction, FRAY
and strife;
At times with speed of madness. at times
with some delay:
Some with songs of gladness all the live
long day,
Some with weighty sorrow bearing down
the heart
Some who needless borrow of grff ard
Some who never care or think of either
now or ever,
And also shut their eyes and blink at the
Hmitless forever.
Over tie and trestIe, over rail and track.
With time and tide to wrestIe and no
thought of loss or lack.
Going forth with feeble creeping to the
ever open tomb,
Briefly hating at the keeping where come
bride and groom,
with VOWS to love and cherish all the
varied ways of life
And love to never perish, from either man
or wife;
Then hand in hand departing, with merry
hearts and brave
As when at first outstarting on their way
towards the grave.
Over tie and trestle, over hill and plain.
Rusn and mingled rustic, close with ease
and pain,
Either by eIectrfcs, or superheated steam,
mixture Of eclectics, like waking from a
Sometimes hot and dusty. sometimes cold
and drear,
Sometimes damp and musty, sometimes
bright and clear,
Sometimes worn and weary. in readiness
to die,
But continuing their CHEEKY way. DER
trestle track and tie
Whether on modern made track, or on the
old highway,
They who halt and wait to look back rarely
win the day:
While those who are up and doing" and
keep doing all the while,
"Stin achieving, still pursuing" compass
many a weary mile;
1hose VINO run with perseverance like
those who persevere and walk,
Making their way in clearance of a stumble
or a balk,
VIII find a prize worth craving when the
race of life is run,
w orth waiting for and haVing-earth's
last award: We'll done"
Clark W. Bryan.
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lively small stock subscription, fair
percentage of free right of way" and
the bonding of the township for only
$4,000. A little group of farmers were
talking it over while Gavin read it
through and they urged him to support
the new movement. 1t had been discov-
cred through a new preliminary survey,
they informed him, that the route
around Bald Hill and through the Will
sey settlement to Slatertown was after
all more feasible than through Bark
ley's Corners, on the other side of the
hill, and that was why, they said, the
amount of bonds demanded by the COM
pany had been reduced from SIS, 900 to
$4,000.
And 1 hear, Gavin" said one of the
farmers, that this is all the doin's of
young Doc Opdyke, the Teller that has
just moved down to Slatertown from
Barkley's Corners and is readin' medi-
cine now with Doc Silvernan. Great fell
ler that Young Doc hear. Going to
make speech to the meetin', I'm told.
Better come, Gavin; they say he's got
the thing all worked out and that Wen
see the railroa a-running right
through our farms. For one, hope we
do. We're all a-goin' to sleep as fast as
we can here. and the BarkIey Corners
folks is CROWN over us in great STYLE"
Gavin was so mad about it that he
could hardly talk. Finally he found
voice enough to swear he'd never go to
the meeting, and then he drove away
in high state of Indignation.
Well. the meeting was a great sue
cess. Gavin tried to stay away, but
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iii not have to, Meg, never fear, but
even if I'm wrong Wen find some way
to change his mind.'
1t was not over the hill and towards
the Corners that Melville turned his
horses head when he drove away from
Iavin Ingram's that night, but in the
direction of Slatertown, where he knew
the chief engineer of the new railroad
was staying for few days. The young
medical student had CHANGED to make
himself of some service in dressing a
sprained ankle for this great parsonage
lew days previous, and therefore had
no difficulty in getting him to listen to
his story 1t was long past midnight
when they parted and the young doe
whistled confidently to himself as he
drove over Bald Hill back to the Cor
ners.
A few days later Gavin Ingram,
whose opinion of Melville had not been
at all increased by the Iatter's apparent
lack of nerve with regard to Meg, was
surprised on going to the WilseyviIIe
post office after his mail, by the sight
of n piacard printed in the blacklist of
bold faced type.
Railroad meeting" was its title, and
the substance of the bill was a strong
appeal to the public spirited citizens of
the township to turn out and make one
more last effort to procure change in
the route of the new railroad. 1t had
been learned, according to the an
nouncement, that the change could be
effected by the securing of a compara-
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Illustrate Young Docs plan. Gavin did
most, of course, for he had double
motive. He hardly slept until the day
of the special meeting, and he called
On almost every voter in the settle
ment. Of course Young Doc didn't rest
minute, and Miss Meg wanted to
help, but Gavin, in a voice of thunder,
forbade her going out of the house or
seeing Opdyke till after the fight was
over, and both she and her lover
thought it best to heed her fathers
command.
At the finish Young Doc won. The
bonding proposition was carried by n
vote of three to one.
Before winter set in grading was well
begun in the valley, and by next mid
summer the construction train actually
crossed the fiat lands of Gavin's farm,
and the engine seemed to toot a laugh
at the old Londonderry man every time
the engineer pulled the whistle cord.
Gavin made a great stand against the
men when they got ready to go to
work on his land, taking up his posi-
ton right in the middle of the line
as surveyed, but a dozen of the men
picked him up bodily and carried him
away roaring with rage, in spite of his
frantic struggles. 1t was a great les
son to him, and he took it to heart most
pitifully. For a month or two he man.
aged to avoid Young Doc, but the meet
ing could not be put off for ever, and
one day they ran against one another
at Graham's store at Slatertown.
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| Young Doc held out his hand, but for
minute Ingram refused to see it,
Then he suddenly changed his mind.
and gripped Opdyke's hand till the
bones cracked.
you're a fine lad, Young Doc" said
Gavin, and I'd be pleased to welcome
We at the house whenever ye're minded
to come up and set the day. Ye've
won yer point, and I'll not gairsay We
ser reward
1t was not till after that that any
outsider knew why Young Doc had
taken up the railroad fight, but when It
got noised abroad it made him more
popular than ever, for every body then
thought the building of the railroad
would make good-sized towns spring
up at every crOssroad. Whether it did
or not is neither here nor there. For
years nobody knew, either, that the
railroad men had made up their minds
that the Wilseyville route was the bet
ter Of the two before ever Melville
Opdyke went to see the engineer, and
that the latter always looked upon
Young Docs bargain with Gavin as an
especial dispensation Of providence in
favor of the railroad company. It's
only fair to say, though, that Young
Doc didn't know this either.
Gavin Ingram was a great success in
his defeat, for he gave his lass and
Young Doc such wedding as the val.
ley had never seen before or since He
insisted on their being married right
HwaV after the rails were laid across
his farm, and then he forced Young
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-06
WHY HARD TIMES7
Some Facts and Figures That Spea1
for Themselves

for Themselves.
Why hard times in this country is a
| question well worth considering. Why
such suffering as we have had foI
| years when the land has been blessed
with abundant harvest and with a
population disposed to active industry
with organized industries of the very
| best and natural resources unequaled
| A recent government report shows
how the farmers have suffered from
low prices, and this gives us some light
at least. We give some figures that
speak for themselves:
| In 1896 we produced 2,2S3, 0OO, 0OO
| bushels of corn; the farm price for it
was 21.5 cents a bushel, and the total
value S491 100000. In 1891, for a
corn production of 1900, 600, 900 bush
els, the farm price was 400 cents a
bushel, and the total value was $780,
100000, or S345, 100000 more than the
farmers received in 1896 for a vastly
larger crop. A loss like this must af-
feet the whole country.
In the latter part of 1896 slight i'm
provement took place in the price of
wheat, owing to scarcity abroad, yet
the farmers got for the crop of that
year $500, 100000 less than for the
crop of 1891. The average of wheat
was 72.6 cents a bushel, against 81 in
1891, but we had the advantage of 4
failure of the European and Indian
crops, which forced up the price of
wheat; otherwise we would scarcely
have got more than the 5O-cent aver
age. With crops of wheat half as
large again as ten years ago we are
getting some $7O,OOO,0OO a year less
for it.
Oats make worse showing. For a
vastly larger crop in 1896 the farmer
receives $7O,OO0.OOO less than for the av-
erage crop of the six years from 1890 to
1895, and $4,000 less than for the ay-
erage from 1880 to 1889.
In these three great farm products
the farmers received S57O,OOO,OOO less
in 1896 than the average of preceding
years. This decline in prices has been
going on for some 20 years, and if
cotton and other crops were taken into
the account the loss would be increased
by hundreds of millions more.
All this explains the shrinkage in
everything else; in the prices of mill
and factory products and the wages of
the mechanic, the laborer and miner.
Farmers and those dependent on the
marketing of their products constitute
fully one-half the population of the
union.
The republican party proposes to
remedy all this by increasing taxation,
thereby making dearer those articles
the farmer has to buy. In addition to
this, their protective policy is ealcu-
lated to seriously cripple our trade with
foreign nations where our breadstuffs
and provisions find a market. Let US
not forget that the country during all
these years has been under republican
policy. The ruin is theirs.-Springtield
Qll.) Register.
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IF WE WANT SILVER RESTORED.
This Country Must Act Upon Its Own
Responsibility.

1
This Country Must Act Upon Its Oyvn
Responsibility.
| The so-called silver men" in the
United States have no desire to block
the way to a just and proper interna-
| tional agreement for the restoration of
| Eimetallism. If the monetary system
known by that name is a good one, or
| if it be better than gold monometallism,
it follows, as of course, that it cannot
become bad thing if procured by inter
national agreement.
But we do not believe that such an
agreement with the leading commercial
nations is within the scope of reason
able probability under existing condi-
tions. The two nations whose concur
renee is deemed essential are England
and Germany. The finacial policy of
both countries is absolutely controlled
by the creditor classes. It is true that
the best economic thought of Europe,
both in England and upon the CONT
nent, is in favor of bimetallism. But
this economic thought is not the con-
trolling force in European politics.
While the great arguments in favor OF
bimetallism are unanswered, and will
remain unanswered, it is not apparent
that any progress has been made toward
its establishment. In truth, the ten
denotes seem to be the other way. The
reason is perfectly plain. The moneyed
men. who constitute the worlds great
creditors, are benefited by the appre-
citation of money. It enables them to
collect their pay in money more valu-
able Il. e., of greater purchasing power)
than that which they loaned. Now and
then we find a man whose generous in
stincts lead him to surrender a Pc
cuniary advantage. But such men are
few, and, as rule, they do not belong
to the class of professional money lend
ers. The latter are altogether insen-
sible to argument based upon moral
and equitable considerations if those
considerations are opposed 10 their in
terests. When dealing with the p9oney
lenders themselves argument il favor
of charging the money volume is SIM
ply wasted.
These same classes are all powerful
in shaping the financial policy of their
respective governments. There is no
form of wealth so potential as ready
money. We know something of its pow
er in our own politics. The banker
controls the business man." the bust
ness man controls his employees, and to-
gether they, in large measure, control
the elections. In Europe, where uni
versal suffrage is unknown, where the
governments are either practically in
the hands of a single man or select
few, it necessarily follows that the dis
tinctively creditor classes" constitute
a relatively greater power" than they
do here. They not only influence the
elections in countries where elections
are held, but they influence the leading
statesmen" and, in large measure. die
tate their policy.-Nationa Bimetallist.
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THE MoNARcHIcAL THEORY.
Has Received Some severe Blows OF
Late Years.

Has Received Some severe blows OF
Late Years.
To the student of political institu-
tions perhaps the most characteristic
thing about the history of the German
empire is the example that it gives
us of the revival or reaffirmation, SO
to speak, of the principle of monarchy.
That principle has received some rude
shocks in recent years. The establish
ment of the French republic was one,
and the deposition of the emperor of
Brazil was certainly another. Both
events gave great encouragement to
republican ideas. Kingship in the old
absolute sense had long been on the
wane. The French revolution almost
shattered the foundations of the old
monarchical rule. In England the old
kingship received it's final blow when
George ". surrendered his position on
the question of the emancipation of the
Catholics. No attempt has since been
made to impose the royal will upon
reluctant ministry or parliament. In
France the old kingship disappeared
when Louis Philippe, the citizen king,
was summoned to the throne, for the
monarchy of July was built on strictly
constitutional lines. Even in Prussia
q very restricted constitution was re-
luctantly conceded.
King Frederick William ". vowed
that he would never let sheet Of paper
intervene between the God in Heaven
and his subjects, but even he was forced
at last to yield to the spirit of the age,
and, as Bismarck picturesquely put it,
the crown itself threw n clod upon its
coffin. The italian states and Spain
were for long in a condition of chronic
revolution, and either constitutions
were extorted or republics were es-
tablished. It almost seemed as though
the principle of kingship was doomed
ere long to disappear. But the history
Of the German empire has done much
toward the restoration of monarchy in
its old illustrious position.-Macmil.
Inns MaUaZiuR
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he couldn't, though when he got there
he did his best first to work up strong
no-raiIroad sentiment. and then to
break up the gathering. But it WAS OF
no use. Young Doc had laid his plans
too well, and he carried the meeting
with him from start to finish. His
speech was Il masterpiece He told the
assembled farmers all about the natural
advantages of their township. and the
beauties of their valley. Then he pie
tured the disgrace it would lie to such
an enterprising lot of citizens if the
road were to be gobbied UP by such
bacllwoods and behind-hand settle
ment as Barkley's Corners. He hal
himself left the Corners because of the
superior attractions of their township
and he was personally - much inter
ested that he would start the subscrip-
ton with S2CO. nearly his entire say
irgs from his wages as school-teach-
err before he had begun TO read medi-
cine. If the others would properly fol!
low suit and then vote the bonds a:
n special town meeting. to be called
some time the EeNt week, the prize
would be won.
Young Doc" must have accom-
piished a good deal among the farmers
before the meeting. as well as in his
speech. for the needed subscriptions
were all made, and a resolution in IA
vor of bonding at a special town meet
ing to be held the next month was
Dassed without a dissenting voice,
Gavin being too enraged TO vote at all.
IT was then that the real fight began.
Although Gavin had been the only one
present at the meeting who was OPP
posed to the railroad, there were sew
eral others in the township, and they
and Ingram strained every nerve TO
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-06
INTERNATIONAL BIMETALLIsM
The Present Duty of All SiIverites
Regardless of Party.

The Present Duty of All StIverttes
Regardless of Party.
Senator Wolcott, in an interview, be-
ieves that the recent course of Japan
will hasten international bimetallism.
When silver is demonetized in all the
leading nations of the world it will not
give England the same advantage that
she possesses at the present time, and
with not sufficient gold to transact
business something must be done to
relieve the strain. Probably no man
is giving the question the same careful
consideration at the present time as
Senator Wolcott, who is fully aware
that a great responsibility is resting
upon him. as he has virtually fathered
international bimetallism, upon which
not only the prosperity of this great
nation. but the civilized world depends,
and also his future political suprem-
acy. If international bimetallism is
possible, Senator Wolcott will see that
it is obtained. The republican party
stands pledged, and the senator will
not stand idly by and see the pledge ig.
nored. To this extent. if no further.
our junior senator should be given the
encouragement and aid of the people.
lie will either be largely instrumental
in bringing about bimetallism or he
will succeed in tearing the mask off
under which so many hundreds of thou
sands have been parading and thus
place the issue squarely before the
voters of these United States-gold and
silver for the masses or monometallism
for the rich, which in itself will be a
blessing, as with international bimet-
allism proven delusion the eyes of the
people may be opened. Let US assist
those who assert that the republican
party will restore silver coinage, and
then if the party proves recreant to its
promise it cannot say it was hampered
by the friends of silver. - Durango
(Col.) Herald.
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Developments in Hypnotism.

Developments in hypnotism are con.
ytantly taking place. DIR. Lieteault says
that it is possible to hypnotic SIS per
cent. of mankind-that men are more
easily hypnotized than women, be-
cause they have more power of con-
centration, and that person of very
nervous temperament or whose mind
is somewhat unbalanced makes a very
poor subject. He believes that no per-
son can be induced by hypnotist to
commit crime, and that hypnosis, which
is. after all, sleep induced by the sug-
Gestion of another, is better than all
drugs and medicines to relieve a per.
son in pain.-Chicago Journal.
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The action of the repu blican party
n upturning the whole Wilson-Gorman
tariff simply because it was inaugu-
rated b. a democratic administration
is child's play, and the drafting of u
tariff bill that exceeds the high average
of the Mckinley bill is criminal in it's
folly, even from the standpoint of par
tisan politics. It disrupts trade. in
terferes with commerce, unsettles bust
ness and invites opposition that will in
sure its overthrow as soon as the dis
satisfied public gets chance to show it's
disapproval at the ballot box.-Chatta-
noo9a Times.
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The New York Tribune saws

- ne Nc" 4OEh L EIDliHe avs tlaI
farmers in England are suffering WORSE
than American farmers from the gold
system. which is the system of scarce
money. Many properties within few
miles of London are deserted, as they
are in our eastern states near factory
towns Farms that rented. near Lon
don, few years ago for s.. 900 rent now
for only $500. Houses that were valued
ct $4,000 in 1875 are now only worth
one-fourth that much. Farmers are
throwing up their farms and joining
cooperative colonies as a necessary step
Cor self-preservation. England has had
the gold standard since 1916, and its
fruit is getting dead ripe.-Philadelp
Item
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-05-06

Il heard a queer story about that
mountain over yonder from our natiys
driver to-day"
What was that?"
"A young lady and gentleman wen,
out for a walk on that hill; they went
up higher and higher and-never came
back again"
Dear me! and what became of the
unhappy pair?"
They went down the other side
Chicago News.
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Doc to take enough money 70 carry
him through his course al che of the
big medical colleges. for Gavin was wei
heeled as to the dollars.
That's all there is to the story. but it
isn't likely many folks outside the Cor
ners and the Valley have ever before
heard that he sought to change the
route of a railroad TO get his wife.
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The Bryan idea.

The Bryan idea" is simply the idea
of the ablest political economists. Aris-
totle entertained it. and every man af-
firms it when he says that supply and
demand govern values. Money is sub
ject to this law, the same as commodi-
ties. The idea is a part of eternal truth,
and therefore Observation-Disclosures
rT.alanrr-arnh
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No Marbles About Ne.

There, Jimmie, your knuckles are
all bleeding. You've been playing mar
bles again"
''Me play marbles? guess not.
got them knuckles givin' Petite Jones
a birds nest under the eyei"-Cleyea
land Plain Dealer.
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Mhen Prosperttp VIII Como.

President Mckinney can never make
the country really prosperous until he
restores silver to the place it originally
held as the ''Dollar of our daddies."-
Philadelphia Item.
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Idle Money and Idle Men.

Idle money in the banks. Idle men
walking the streets. Monopoly keepa
them apart.-Buffalo Times.