Iron County register., 1899-05-11
Poor Edward Atkinson.

mas Oeen familiar with the name o
Edward Atkinson. Edward has been
from early childhood, staunch Repub
lican. In his early manhood he estab
lished a reputation as a statistican
| What Mulhall has been to England
Atkinson has been to America, in 6
| slightly different sense. Mulhall is 6
statistician who gathers statistics anG
| complies figures for the entire world
He covers every land and cline, and
publishes them for what they are
who has complied columns upon col
umns of figures to show that the Re-
publican party was the greatest polit-
ical party that ever existed in the tide
of time. That under its benefcient
rule men did not need money, clothing.
food, nor any of the etceteras of civili-
zation.
The average man could not under
stand. according to Mr.. Atkinson,
when he was well off, and was an un-
civilized ass if he could not live lux
uriously on pint of kerosene, tin
stove and so cents a week. Mulhall
was vulgar mathematical historian
who compiled figures to Illustrate ex-
istent facts. Mr.. Atkinson was a
mathematical philosopher who would
lead the world past the antiquated sys-
TENS of Aristotle and Bacon, to the
fields of an Elysian economy that
would enable the poor to become rich,
and the rich to place an honest penny
in rainy day stocking.
Mr.. Atkinson was hailed as the
solver of great national problem, and
the deliverer of nation. His praises
were sounded from east to west, from
north to south. On the highway. from
his philosophy. The dwellers in
Jerusalem heated the city with kero-
SCuS pS Suu bHS IIdhSIS VI LL1C OAN-
fashioned ninety-two-per-cent-of-waste
cast iron ranges went into bankruptcy
and Gehenna Atkinson was exalted.
His name was heard throughout the
land. "Mr. Chairman" said the Re-
publican orator of 1896, ave are not
having hard times. The poor are not
growing poorer, and the rich richer,
as / shall prove from recent statistics
compiled by one of the most eminent
authorities in the world-the Honor
able Edward Atkinson of Boston. |
pity the man, Mr.. Chairman, who
would question the honesty, independ-
ence and fairness Of Mr.. Atkinson"
Mr.. Atkinson is no longer an idol.
He has come into disgrace, along with
Tom Reed, Eddy Hale, George Hoar
and other numerous members of the
pantheon. He has been
charged, as was the most sublime phil
osopher of the ages, with the commits
sion of political crime. He is cor
rupting the youth of the nation, and
must be made to drink the Socratic
hyssop.
His tracts, pamphlets and mlscel-
laneous pieces, heretofore held in the
highest regard. and receiving the
of the profound McKin-
ley, the literary Hanna, and the New
Jersey trusts, are now barred the
mails, and, like Mahomet's coffin, sus-
pended in transit.
Ito be honest as the world goes"
said the prince of Denmark, ''is to be
one man picked out of 10000 Ed
ward Atkinson, even though often
mistaken. is always honest. This is
the head and front of his offending. |
He has committed the crime of less
majestic.
You don't believe. being an Ameri-
can, that one can commit treason by
being honest and telling the truth.
are not familiar with recent de-
velopments and are unacquainted with |
the Dreyfus case. You are not aware |
that man may be thrust into outer
darkness for criticising the reputed |
head of the nation, as in Germany he |
may be arrested and imprisoned for
questioning the divine and godlike
of the kaiser. Mr.. |
Atkinson may corrupt the youth of the
country, and the soldiers in the Philip
pines, with the facts and figures of the
last congressional and senatorial his |
tory as culled from the columns of that |
and truthfully sensational
sheet, the Congressional Record, but no
word must be uttered against the i'm
gentleman who rules the en-
0ire and the illustrious coterie of Atkin-
,oniau economists who surround. him
f he would save himself from ever
asting infamy and disgrace
Listeni This is the real reason,
ound in his phamplet, why ''the gov
has undertaken to silence
he erstwhile Republican philosopher
Ind sage:
s'Is it not our misfortune to have in
he chair of the president of the United
states a man of weak and uncertain
purpose, without convictions, and un-