Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-11-17

aud with the consent of the governed
follows in the footsteps OF the des.
potlsms of the Old World whose un-
DERIVING principle is that might makes
right; that he shall take who has the
power, and be shall keep who can? Il
| Is a simple if not ..good old plan. :
| The trouble Is. our lords amounted
our Haunas, our Goulds. our Astors,
our Vanderbilts and Rockefellers-may
become SO infatuated with military
government in those far-ofT islands
may find it so easy of conduct aud SO
efIective-that its simple form may be
extended 10 these United States and
made to replace the complicated and
unsatisfactory machinery necessary to
a government .'of, for and by the peo-
ple-''
Expansion Military Expansion. II
is the dea:h-knell to Freedom, 1t is
the antithesis TO Justicei 1t makes a
dictator o; the President. 1t creates a
horde of military satraps and a pseudo
nobility to look down upon the people
they rule by the strong hand. So self
ish is human nature that this might be
borne so long as the prod of the bayo-
net and the slash OF the sword were
felt only by those poor, ignorant, far
of islanders; but when leprosy takes
hold of the hand the body is doomed.
No nation, no more than an Individual,
can touch the pitch of unrighteousness
and remain undefiled.
A larger standing army-say, one
hundred thousand men, for starter:
it will grow apace; no fear of that.
The road 10 hell is easy and the pace
accelerating.
Yet we may be all wrong in this, for
a big army is handy to have around
when 1.-The mob" at home gets out of
place. The government of our con-
quered possessions gives the warrant
for its expansion Expansion of the
army must logically follow Expansion
of territory, you know. Any school
boy can see that. and it is only the
Anarchist-the Tom jefferson mobo-
crat-who can say nay TO it. What!
shall not this great Government-this
Nation, with big N--show forth its
power and splendor:
To sensible up-to- date man the big
standing army is tie thing, from every
pint o. view. Armed for the fray,
Uncle Sam can proudly prauce the
world over with chip on his shoulder
and his coat-tails dragging the ground.
The groundlings at home will be put
under proper subsection and the '.busi-
ness interests" of Wall Street and the
grain-pit made safe from disturbance
by agitation from the canGilLe.
The Imam and brother" in the South
where white taxpayers wickedly
object to his domination-will be fully
habilitated with freeman's right to
squander the public funds and hold all
the offices of trust and profit. He will
be panoplied. we say, in power,
even though it requires a file of sol
diers at every polling-place. and reg
iment in every town, to accomplish so
laudable a purpose. See what Grover
the Failing did at Chicago few years
ago with the limited means at his COM
msnd! With Failing on the presi-
dents throne and big standing army
to back it, peace and quietude might
be made to bless the broad domain.
The National Debt-that National
Blessing-would be made permanent,
and all that would be required of US
common cattle would be to pay the
taxes. On second thought
All hail Dictator Mckinley. Hurrah
for Expansion and a Big Standing
Army! Up with the Military, down
with the Civilian, and d-n the man
who reveres the memory and PIRATES of
the teachings of the Fathers!
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