Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-08-11
vine right to govern this nation? I
do so would be fiat heresy.

vine right to govern this nation? TO
do so would be fiat heresy.
When the Sans ideal shall be re-
allied, Old Glory will float over no
volunteer soldiers who come from the
domestic hearthstone, who have but
recently listened to the prattle OF little
children, and whose discipline has been
undermined by the endearments of
home. The army OF the United States
will then be an engine upon which the
governors of the United States can rely
implicitly. 1t will have nothing in
common with the citizens whose bread
it eats. 1t will be, as its masters in
tenG it shall be. an instrument of de-
structiOn not responsive to humane con-
siderations. The soldier in that day
can be depended upon to shoot into a
mob of starving women and children
with far less conjunction than did the
Italian soldiers at the recent bread
riots in Milan.
That ideas of this nature are haunt
ing the brains of our multi-millionaires,
and those whom they control, is evil
dent from the trend of events in this
country for the last quarter of centu-
ry. First, through the abrogation of
State lines and local self-government,
they seek to center all power at the
national capital. Through the national
executive, whom they have hitherto
controlled. and through the Supreme
Court, which they own in fee simple,
they have made gigantic strides in this
direction in recent years. Give them
an army out of touch with the people
without domestic ties-and they
have the full assurance of realizing
their wishes.
These men are not patriots. They
have no country. They worship at no
shrine but the shrine of mammon.
While prating of national honor, they
will engage in any transaction, no
matter how vile, or how much Of
treachery or deceit on their own part,
or how much of misery and heartache
on the part of their victims it produces,
if it results in adding to their already
Overlooking Golfers. Of course there
are exceptions that prove the rule.
The lid has recently been lifted from
the caldron in the Hooly case at Lon
don, and while it has been replaced
quickly, enough has come to light to
exhibit the English end of the combi-
nation in it's true light. 1t is said that
when British officer asked CONT
mental what Americans would do with
Benedict Arnold should they catch
him, the reply was we would cut off
the leg that was wounded at Quebec
and Saratoga, bury it with the honors
of war, and hang the rest of him."
Should a Continental pass judgment
upon the Sun there would be no part
of it that would be entitled to honor
able entombment.
The treason of the Sun is cold-blood-
ed and calculating. 1t is without a
redeeming feature. 1t is prompted by
no generous impulse; it is fostered by
no burst of rage or passion. 1t is a
deliberate prostitution for power. The
cause of patriotism would have the
Suns aid were the paper controlled by
the Dana whose cry was, ''Reduce the
army to 10000 men,"
When the plutocracy succeed in all
their designs and have moulded this
country entirely to their liking, then
will Old Glory cease to be beacon of
liberty. 1t will become the ensign of
sullen tyranny, sodden and heartless
1t will be an emblem of
and dishonor more detest-
ed by men who love liberty and have
a merciful regard for their kind than
is the piratical red and yellow flag of
Spain to-day.
But we do not believe that the flag
that has floated over so many of free
dom's battlefields will go down in the |
gloom of night of greed and tyranny. |
We do not believe that the gentlemen |
who are so solicitous for this nations
honor and their own pocket-books will
be allowed to have their way. God |
forbid that they should!
Once Vallegian.
CLEVELAND, o., Aug. 3, 1898.