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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-08
TRUST CHAMPION.
President Mckinley Has Permitted
Trust Formation to Pass
Unheeded.

| As chief magistrate of the republic
President Mckinley is sworn to take
care that the laws shall be faithfully
executed. No discrimination as to
statutes can lawfully be made. He can
not properly make mental reservation,
assuming that he may discriminate as
to statutes, enforcing those which he
deems proper and refusing to give eff
feet to those which do not meet his ap-
proval. He must enforce the laws-all
of them-or he fails necessarily in the
full performance of his sworn duty.
Doubtless Mr.. Mckinley, who is a
close and shrewd observer of the trend
of public opinion, as has been his habit
for lifetime, notes with some uneasi-
ness the growing sentiment of the COM
munity against trusts and combina-
tions in restraint of trade. The more
trusts the greater the feeling of public
indignation at the fact that they are
permitted unrebuked to organize. As a
matter of course candidate for re-
election, he calculates the force of this
opposition, which, gathering strength.
may be sufficiently powerful to over
turn him. He knows that he has de-
liberately ignored the Sherman anti
trust law and that trusts have been
organized and operated with absolute
impunity under his administration.
They have found a useful defender in
his Encouragement. who discovers
various reasons why he should not pro-
ceed against them.
But, solicitous as he may be on the eff
feet of this agitation against trusts, Nc
Kinley will stand by them. All his po-
litical life has been devoted to cham
pionship of the protective tariff, under
which trusts flourish. Trusts have
made him politically. Trusts will
furnish the sinews of the campaign that
he will enter upon next year. The peo-
pie may cry out in indignation, but the
president will disregard them. He is
bound up with the trusts. Sink or swim.
survive or perish, he must be with his
friends If he were to disclose hostility
to the trusts by an active, aggressive,
sincere attempt to apply the federal
law against them and therein merely
discharge his duties as chief magistrate
they would turn upon him and rend
him.
II any citizen OF the United states
should engage his attention sufficiently
to point out to him the obligation which
he is under to enforce all federal laws,
the Sherman antitrust law as well as
any other, he would probably suavely
point to the fact that the ST. Louis con-
vention which named him for the presi-
dency forbore to make any declaration
concerning trusts. But, as is inevita-
BILE, the agitation in opposition con-
tinues, and he will concur with equal
complacency in the suggestion that a
platform declaration be made against
trusts, explaining to his familiars that
as a president may ignore statute that
he has sworn to execute he may pay no
attention whatever to a platform dec
laration of the piecrust order.-Chicago
Chronicle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-08
ALGER'S SMALtNESS.
The IndiEnities Which Are Now Be.
ing Heaped Upon Gen.
Miles.

To the average American citizen
whose love of truth and justice is in
born it must be simply maddening to
read the daily doings of the war depart
ment. Russell a. Alger, secretary of
war, is justifying his claim TO being the
smallest thing on the continent. Gen.
Miles reported that the beef which was
served to the troops was bad, and he
was censured; Gen. Eagan, who abused
the commanding general most villain
oUsly, and most deliberately, too, since
he wrote it out on the typewriter and
read his villfication. was sentenced to
leave of absence for six years with full
pay. Now Lieut.. Col. NJ. P. Maus, the
inspector general who supported Miles
in the embalmed beef scandal, has been
punished.
The punishment comes in the form of
an order relieving him of duty at Gen.
Miles headquarters and ordering him to
report to Gen. Shaf<er at San Francisco.
The malice of the assignment lies in the
fact that Maus in his capacity as in
spector general had occasion to call at
tention to the shortcomings of the San
tiago expedition under Shafter. 1t is
not likely that Shafter has forgotten
this.
The way Maus has been treated is pis-
itively shameful. He was censured per-
sonally by the investigating board for
not reporting sooner the bad character
of the beef supplied to Skaters army.
and this in the face of the fact that the
board in its findings reported the beef
good. 1t was cowardly attack upon
the man, because it gave him no oppor-
tupity to defend himself. Maus had
just fitted up n home in Washington,
where he had reason to believe he would
spend the remainder of his term of
service.
Gen. Miles, in na4ee the commanding
general of the army of the United
States, has been deprived of every yes
tige of authority. He has been forbid
den to issue any order directing the
movement of staff officer unless per-
sonally signed by Alger. Staff officers
have been told to report directly to Al
ger and not to Miles. Now the secre-
tary is dissipating the generals per-
sonal staff to the four quarters of the
continent. and the satire of it all lies in
the fact that every ortler is signed with
Miles name.-Cleveland Plain Dealer,
-''I am anti-Hanna, but every body
is for Mckinley and the administra-
tion.'' says Gov. Bushnell, of Ohio. Per-
haps Bushnell will explain how he can
be for the shadow while rejecting the
substance; for the creature, and OPP
posed to the creator.-Chicago Demo.
crat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-08
Carlyle and the Checker Player.

anu the Shecker JBaSers
James WyIlie, the recently deceased
Herd Laddie," on a wet and tempestu-
Gus day many years ago turned into a
little roadside inn near Loeb ma ben.
Soon afterward he was joined by a
couple of strangers, the younger OF
whom, a burly farmer, began TO boast
about his proficiency on the ''dalnbrod."
as the draught board is called in Scot
land. He was at once challenged by the
Herd Laddie to play, and consented,
while the game was attentively
watched by the third man, person of
rugged aspect. Time after time Wyllie
swept the board, while the vanquished
farmer fumed. swore and fairly lost his
temper. Suddenly the third party
broke the silence with the following
warning to his companion: Stop,
stop; leave off, mani Can't you see
that you are either playing with Satan
himself or the Herd Laddie?" Wyliie
smililngly acknowledged his identity;
a iorum of punch was ordered, and the
trio had an amicable chat, although the
farmer said no more about his proves
with the checkers. But at the .irst or
portunity he took Wyllie aside and
whispered: THAT chiefs a relation
of mine, and as big man as you are
in some things. Maybe you've heard of
him up in London. That's Thomas Car.
lyle!"-LondOn telegraph
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-08
A TURNING POINT COMING.
The President's Policy Towards the
Philippines VIII Always
Prevail.

/ The absurd notion that the attitude,
of Aguinaldo and his wild and igno-
rant" followers is due to the encour-
agement of the anti-imperialists at
home is exposed and exploded by q
letter from a soldier in Manila, pub
lished in the New York Evening Post.
From this letter we learn that not only
the wild and ignorant" natives I'M
informed as to what is going on in
the United States, but our own soldiers
do not know what the people at home
are thinking or saying. He writes:
There is one thing the army suffers from
which is extremely aggravating. and that
is the lack of Geographic news from home.
For full month the men have been fight
ing, and yet not even an linking of what
the people at home think of the matter has
reached the troops, except one or two tel
egrams of congratulation. They would
like to know whether the people are back
ing the army up. or whether the fact that
we are compelled to fight the natives has
strengthened the sentiment against hold
ing the islands They would also like to
know the fate of the army bill and the
probable policy of the administration in the
matter of sending the volunteers home.
Not that the latter are so anxious to go
home as they were. They are having lit
tie fun now, and are willing to remain
over they will clamor to so home as loudly
as ever"
1t will be borne in mind that mill
tary censorship is exercised in the
Philippines, and the only free COM
munication is through private letters
between soldiers and their families. All
dispatches and news must pass the CEN
sorship both ways. So we learn only
what Gen. Otis desires us to know, and
the soldiers learn only what Gen. Otis
permits them to know. How, then, can
Aguinaldo and his wild and ignorant"
followers who are cut off from all COM
munication whatever with America
know that they are being ''encour-
aged?"
The clamor of the soldiers to re-
turn which was told in this letter is
already heard. The department at
Washington is being reminded daily of
the fact that the war for which the SOL
diers volunteered is over, and not five
per cent. of the volunteers are willing
to remain in the service to perform gar
rison duty or to slaughter the Filipinos.
A turning point in the policy towards
the Philippines is surely coming
Utica Observer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-08
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.

According to the Syracuse Post
Standard, Alger is losing heart. But
Mckinley isn't losing Alger.-Chicago
Democrat.
Michigan republican leaders are
impressed with the necessity of drop
ping all of their convictions and prin-
ciples and getting together.-Detroit
Free Press.
Ohio has queer politicians. One
faction of the republican party declares
that it is against Hanna but not against
Mckinley. As though that were posi-
ble.-Milwaukee journal.
The war in the Philippines and
the beef scandal are about all that is
left of our trouble with Spain. OF
course, Mckinley and Alger are still on
our hands, but their official days are
numbered.-Kansas City Times.
IF we want to carry out President
McKinley's policy of benevolent assim-
ilation" all copies of the declaration of
independence should be edited by the
press censor before being admitted to
the Philippines.-Buffalo Times.
The talk that the republican par
ty is opposed to trusts will count for alb
solutely nothing as long as the repub-
lican party, with full control of the leg
islative and executive branches of the
government, does nothing to check
trusts.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
Protected wool is now being ex-
ported and sold under the pauper wool
Of Europe. However, the wool used to
pull over the eyes of American con-
sumers is not being exported. And it
will not be until the tariff takers find
that the people will no longer stand for
it.-Omaha WorldHerald.
If the protection which has been
abused and turned against those whose
! benefit it was nominally laid were taken
away from every industry that has
come under the control of trust we
would have q chance 10 buy homemade
goods as eheaply as the foreigner At
present he has decided advantage over
us in the purchase of many articles
which are made right under our eyes
and shipped thousands of miles to him.
Atlanta Journal.
The republican confusion in Ohio
| is becoming so prominent that the
democrats are taking courage and
claiming that they viii carry the state
by heavy majority in the coming fail.
The president is anxious and perpiexed
| and Hanna seems to be in bad way rs
| regards popularity. The republican
convention viii be fortunate II il does
not end in bolt and two tickets and
it viii create lots of heartbt,rpings IN
any eyent.-Boston Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-08

When he was so he returned to his
native town, just to see how the old
place looked" He found it unchanged.
The old store where, as a lad. he had
clerlled it, and sold calicos and grocer
les to the old farmers, was just the
same. He contrasted the sleepy old
place with himself, and felt a glow of
satisfaction when he thought how
much those so years had done for him.
They ought to be proud of me- he
said to himself. Presently he met one
of the old inhabitants. wall, / de-
clare, is it RELY you, Hank?' said the
old man, increduously. ''We've heerd
you've been prospecting fust rate sence
you went west. They've made YOU a
railroad president, or sunthin' of the
sort, amt they? 1 heerd so, but /
couldn't believe it. It's RELY true, is
it? Wall, all I've got to say is, they
must be purity hard up for railroad
presidents out there" He took the
next train for the west.-N. Y. CONNER
cial Advertiser.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-30

that The condition Of business Will resu-
late autcmat icaify ana to the public M
terest the state u credit. which u the
basis Of modern trade. Behind credit
stands money. That money must be
GOOD: not the creature OF nat, not SUBJ
jsct 20 arbitrary fluctuations Of vol-
ums. Credit expands; or contracts BY
billions. although currency volume re-
mains substantially uhaitered. II is
credit that u the real regulator; and
credit 10 sensitive and easily thrown
from it's balance BY tampsrins with the
currency. This h the theory Of govern-
ment finance In its simplest terms.
Money supply and money volume are
not At matters Tor legislative control
Let the money Of q country be such as
Is recognised for Its face value every
where. Make no attempt to accomplish
the impossible task of adapting the
amount OF II to varying needs. Natural
laws working through the extension
and the withdrawal Of credit, will regu-
late that to the best interest Of trade
as no human intelligence could ever do.
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spring, there Il necessarily = sprinkling
of toushs and Temperatures. Nothing
reduces these gentry TO order 90 quick.
" - the death Of one Of their number
1t the hands Of an outraged citizen.
Only a year or two ago there was sue
cession Of street assaults ana robberies
in st. Paul which no police force could
control. The mayor publicly authorized
the carrying Of arms by every citizen
who made application. ana all such re-
ceived commissions as officers Of the
peace. The thugs who had hoped to
defy a limited number Of policemen
were cowed by the knowledge that any
man might shoot them on sight. and
not hold-up or assault was reported
for months. No such situation exists
here; but the effect Of the courageous
act OF private citizens and the visible
lesson OF a dead robber are excellent
persuasives and guarantees OF order.
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BRITAIN AND BorR.

Seattle, Dec. %, 1890
To the Editor: heartily indorse the
opinion of Judge Burke In Sundays Post
1ntelligencer regarding the Boer war I
am British subject (Canadian). there
fore / am in position to know Of
what say. 1t is cruel, unjust and bar
barous for Britain to force this war on the
Transvaal. The war Is not one for civil
ixation, as many good people think. I
have travelled In thirteen British colonies,
and I think the Beers are as clever as any
of them. ] think the Beers are more civil
lied than the people OF Newfoundland, and
II IL Britain's Oldest colony. There Is no
government on the earth more maligned
than that of the South African republic.
know Dom Paul well, and am satisfied
that II the American people understood the
Transvaal situation they would agree with
the liberty-ioving Beers.
II. HILL.
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A Row Cabinet Officer.

A bill has been introduced in the
United States senate by Senator Frye,
the purpose Of which is to create new
cabinet department to be known as the
department of commerce and indus
tries. The object of this new depart-
ment, It is stated, is to provide for the
needs of our growing commerce, for
eign and domestic, and to furnish a
head for various minor bureaus which
have been placed under the direction
of the several cabinet officers without
having any close relation to the work
originally intended for those officers.
Under the Frye bill the new depart
ment would include the life saving SER
vice. the lighthouse board, the marine
hospital service, the bureau Of steam
boat inspection, the bureau of naviga-
ton, the bureau of immigration, the
coast and geodetic survey, the bureau
of statistics, the department of labor
and the consular service SO far as 1t
relates to the commerce and trade Of
the country, besides all matters per-
tanning to our manufacturing interests.
The state and treasury departments
would be relieved of various duties now
devolving upon them and some inde-
pendent ommissionerships would be
placed under one head until such time
as certain interests claimed further
recognition or mania for more new
departments sets in.
No one will deny that everything
should be done to encourage our COM
merce and industry. but most will
doubt whether this collecting of vari-
GUS departmental odds and ends under
one head will result in SO much good
as is expected. There are some depart
ments, the treasury especially, to which
have been allotted various bureaus hav-
ing charge of matters really foreign to
the business these departments are
supposed to transact. but 1t is doubt
ful II anything would be gained by
grouping them under one head unless
they all had some relation the one to
the other. Matters pertaining to marine
commerce might well be placed In
charge Of single officer. but 1t Is a
question II the public service would be
benefited by turning over to the same
department the work now performed
by the bureaus of immigration, sta
ties, labor and the consular service. 1t
Is not likely that department with
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divisions 70 diversified in character
would Be Z great Improvement over the
present system with an eflicient busl-
ness man at the head OF ? commerce
bureau or one equally well qualified 10
charge Of industrial interests. better re-
suits might be obtained than under the
present distribution Of work. but It can
not be said with certainty that more
efsicient service would follow the estab-
Iishment OF = new department compris-
Ing all the orphaned bureaus which
hitherto have been without any dcfl-
mite or permanent relation to any de-
partment.
Many departments now directed by
a cabinet oflicer have grown to be cum
bersome and are too often asylums for
politicians in need. If the proposed de-
partment OF commerce and industries
is to be created with the idea that more
applicants for a place are to be taken
care of then THE sooner the Frye bill Is
pigeon-holed the better. 1t would be
unwise to inaugprate any expensive
change unless 1t is certain that the SER
Vice imperatively demands It ana that
the change ia to be permanent and q
positive Improvement
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A wholesome Condition.

The condition OF the national banks
of the state OF Washington. as reported
to the controller Of the currency Decenn-
Der .. gives cause for congratuiation. II
shows not only a gratifying increase OF
business. but such changes as indicate
that. while the earnings and savings of
our people are on the increase. their
accumulated capital il being put to
active and profitable use. The state
ment IL very satisfactory both a. to
safety and as to the expansion Of bust
mesa
Thus we md that the average reserve
IL s7.Ss per cent. against 1878 per cent.
three months ago. The present figure
is well above the safety line. When the
reserve is abnormaily high. II indicates
either lack of confidence or stagnation
OF business, which are the two causes
that heap up cash unnecessarily In the
banks The best condition FOR the bank
and the public is a reserve not much
above or below the per cent. estab-
lished for conservative banking.
Business activity appears especially
in the totals Of loans and discounts.
which has increased million and
three-quarters since September. This
means corresponding enlargement OF
credits and Of the volume of CONNER
cial business done. There is that much
more capital at work in the state: and
ample capital with work for 1t to do Is
as much an essential Of prosperity as
abundant labor engaged in remunera-
tive employment
These conclusions are still further
borne out by the item on which most
of all perhaps we may congratulate
ourselves. This ID the growth Of indi-
vidual deposits from $ls.7O2.s72 70
s1s.774.sSs. It shows the addition Of
over q million dollars to the surplus
wealth. the cash working capital Of the
state. in the last quarter Of the year.
1t means more money earned, more
money saved. more money at work for
US. The bank report is a real bulletin
Of prosperity.
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ENGLAND IN EGYPT.



q. w. Sleeves In Leslie's Monthly.
Nations, like individuals, have their
streaks of good luck and OF bad. For sew
eral years after 1852 England, in Egypt
could do nothing right. The ambiguous
position which she had taken in that coun-
try, leaving 1t neither universally depend
ent nor really free. hampered her diplo-
macy and furnished her good faith. 1t
offered a perpetual weak point, of which
her opponents on any question could take
occasion to embarrass her: and In Egypt
itself 1t rendered any efforts towards re-
form ana progress at the same time irrf-
tating and ineffective. England refused to
command and Egypt refused to take adj
vice. The country was bankrupt, besides
was cosnatose. Cholera fell upon the land
and demonstrated with merciless cogency
the utter incapacity of Its administration.
The Mahdi arose IN the Soudan and DEM
onstrated as mercilessly the hopeless dis
organisation of It's army. British help H.
Illuminated the gloom with few flashes of
barren glory. until the lonely death Of
Gordon left it covered with a deeper and
a permanent pail Of shame France quilted
and insulted and England sat meek. Her
interventions, conceived in the honest in
tentions toward civilization and Egypt her.
self. seemed only to have complicated bad
policy by bad faith, and multiplied bad
luck by bad Judgment.
On period or three years or utility and
failure followed more than a dozen Of
comparative obscurity. Egypt was still by
way of being weak Joint in England's
armor. with live wound beneath 1t: but
during this period the world at large heard
little of the Nile valley, and cared less
Then suddenly, at the end Of 1885, Egypt
pushed In the world again and everything
was utterly changed. With the internal
tional status of an undischarged bankrupt,
she was found to be almost embarrassing
ly solvent. Her people were more prosper
GUS than they had been in history of 5000
years, and there was continual demand
for capital to develop her resources. She
was entering. on the strength Of her own
credit. upon project to tame and regulate
the Nile that would have stopped the most
pyramidal of the Pharaohs. The Soudan
had been conquered In series of cam
paigns which. for economy, efficiency and
precision, have never been excelled In his
tory. And France. the unrelaxing oppo-
nent of half a generation, had withdrawn
from the best position the long duel had
ever afforded her. and had signed con-
yention resigning all pretenson to the Nile
forever. AS England could do nothing
right in 1883, so In 1898 she could do nothing
wrong. The game was played, she had
won every trick.
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THE BOER.


Brave Afr!cander! pitting thy hundreds
Pigmy strength 'gainst the might of Brit
ish
Thousands; logged defiant, as who breads
Not death, but bondage to an aliens wish.
So thou battlest; helpless to save the land
Thy slres' toll won OF old from savagery,
Yet with their old fierce spirit In thee
famed
To flame by encroaching foreign livery.
Such front OF valor thou show'st to the foe:
The shock of contest strews that veldt with
dead.
But vain thy victories! For thine over
throw
Thousands go forth in place of thousands
sped,
Till. vanquished all thy few defending
lives,
England upon thy birthright slips her
gyves.
SIDNEY ALL1s.