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Iron County register., 1899-04-13
DEMOCRATIC DUTY.
The People Must BE Redeemed freD
the Pawnbrokers of Wall
Street.

Day by day it is becoming evident
| that the rank and file of the republican
party are prepared, complacently and
blindly, to follow their leaders in the
support OF trusts.
Hereis one of their recent utterances:
"Those who oppose trusts are simply
getting in the way of the car of prog
gress.' Trusts are the natural out
growth of our advanced civilization.
They lessen the cost of production and
put the necessities of life within reach
Of the poor. The trusts are big, but this
Is the era of big things. The day of
small things has passed. The men who
are whining because they are about to
De driven out of business by the trusts
nil make more money and have an
easier time working for these trusts
than ever before"
When men drift into the condition of
mind to voice such sentiments or to ap-
prove of them they are ripe fer serf-
3om. They already have passed the pre-
requisite of pusillanimous servility and
there only remains to be branded on
their backs the ownership mark of some
trust to make them full-f1edged and
contented serfs.
The claims made by the republicans
in favor of trusts are braZenly false. 1t
is hardly possible to name single ar
ticle that has fallen under trust control
the price of which has not been marked
up from 25 to 200 per cent.
That some of the trusts will be forced
temporarily to advance wages as part
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petition is almost inevitable. When
competition shall have been effectually
strangled, and the trusts have full con-
troll of the industries, the prediction
that they will pay generous wages to
their employees is supremely absurd.
The trusts are always ready to spend
money lavishly in crushing out competi-
ton. 1t may be set down as certain that
they do not do this with the desire and
intention of enjoying a monopoly of
paying generous wages" of of selling
merchandise to the poor at low prices.
When the trust system is more fully
established and the compact between
he trusts shall be in good working or
ier. there need be no hope of high rates
of wages. On the contrary, it can be
Win JdlF deSFeG Ol
that the rate of wages generally paid
will very nearly represent the very low
est amount, scientifically ascertained,
upon which a man can keep alive and
work from 12 to Is hours a day.
With McKinley's protective tariff
shutting out foreign competition, and
the trusts cutting off domestic compe-
tition, the question is not whether the
people will have to pray for mercy. The
only open question is: What can the
people do to save themselves?
The republican party promised the
people big things" and they have
given them in the shape of trusts. After
taking good look at these "big things"
the chances are the people will turn to
the democratic party and ask for some
"Jeffersonian simplicity"
Leaders of democracy, get together
and redeem the nation from the pawn
brokers of Wall street.-Chicago Dem
Iron County register., 1899-04-13
HAPPY YEARS OF YOUTH.
The Older Generations Have HaA
Them and Should BE Consider
ate of the Young.

AS the years go by we become little
by little out of touch with the things
with which we were wont to delight
our childish hearts. Who that is
grown to manhood or womanhood
would find much pleasure in wading
through the deep snow and exposing
himself to cold and wet? Yet when
the thick mantle of white recently cov-
cred the earth. boys and girls by the
dozens might be seen romping where
the drifts were deepest, falling, rolling,
deluging one another. and all in the
best of spirits. Or they built strong
forts behind whose walls an enormous
amount of ammunition was stored in
the shape of snowballs deftly rolled.
ready for use in repelling an attack of
the enemy, should one be ventured
Then came the sally with arms laden
with the cold. white missiles. and such
shouting and laughter as only children
can produce. And, too. there was the
building of great snow men. whose
portly bodies rested on prodigious legs
and whose heads comfortably adjoined
their shoulders without the bother of
intervening necks. All these are among
the joys that we knew in younger days.
They are just as potent and full of at
tractiveness to the youths of to-day as
they were to us. and so it will be as long
as the world wags on and snow fails
And although we no longer feel our
spirits moving US to take part in these
sports. we should look upon them with
a deal of sympathy, recalling the ti.ues
when they were to us of as much i'm
portance as the more serious game of
life now seems to be.-Detroit Free
Press
Iron County register., 1899-04-13
GOLD EASILY CORNERED.
In Times OF Panic 1t Quickly Disap-
pears-Hoarded by Large Banks
and the Wealthy.

In conversation with the president of
the First national bank of Pierre, S. D.,
few days ago, accidentally we got to
discussing the merits of the gold stand
ard, and the convenience of gold as a
circulating medium, and reckoning on
about how much of it was on hand in
banks and in circulation. The panic
of 1898, and it's cause, was discussed
also. He told me that just before and
all during the panic, gold disappeared,
and that they seldom saw any pass over
the bank counter. To my mind that
statement was a strong argument in
favor of giving silver all the privileges
allowed to gold. Where did the gold
go? Ifgold Disappeared from the nation
al banks of our city, undoubtedly it also
disappeared from the banks in all OF
the cities and villages throughout the
United States and was held and cor
nered in the large banks by trust COM
panies of the larger cities like New
York and Chicago. Where did the gold
go? Did the poor people, or even the
merchant or farmer draw it out of the
banks and hoard it? Oh, no. We all
know better than that. 1t seems as
if we all should know that if gold can
so quickly be cornered and concen.
trated into the hands of a few wealthy
people, it makes poor, and in fact, a
bad foundation on which to do bust
ness. And l really believe that 90 peo-
pie out of every 100 who will give the
subject few days of study will think
the same, that gold makes bad founda-
ton on which to do business. The
bankers and wealthy people do not
think so, for they are interested in
keeping our country on gold basis.
and, in fact, every person, with but few
exceptions, who is possessor of $4,000
or more, is interested as above stated.
Bankers, money lenders, all wealthy
people, can loan money at good rates
of interest and purchase what they de-
sire for their comfort for a song. Ger
tainly ideal times for the wealthy peo-
pie, and no wonder they are so jealous
in the cause for the gold standard.
And those deluded people who think
high tariff viii remedy the evil are
doomed to rude awakening.-C. A
Bartlett.
Iron County register., 1899-04-13
INCREASED GOLD PRODUCTION.
Gold Standard Advocates Are Ac-
knOVyledGinE the Truth-Free
Silver Doctrines.

The goldbug newspapers are rejoic
ing over the fact that gold production
was vastly increased last year. They
say the increase in the volume of gold
currency will insure increased pros
perity. 1t is true that if the increase
in gold production is great enough,
business will feel the benefit. If the
volume of gold currency could be
doubled, for example, boom would re-
suit, the beneficial effects of which
would reach the workingmen instead
of stopping short in the offices of trust
magnates. Free silver men know these
things, but heretofore the gold papers
have pretended disbelief in the benefits
of an increased volume of currency.
And a table is appearing in the gold
papers showing that prices have in
creased somewhat during 1898. If the
volume of gold currency has increased
100000 900, as they claim, free silver
men know that the general level prices
would increase also. The goldbug ed
itors are simply engaged at present in
publishing fundamental free silver
doctrine. But there is every reason
to believe that the increased produc-
ton of gold cannot even keep pace with
the rapid increase of population and
still more rapid increase in the volume
of business. The pinch of the single
gold standard is still felt, and will be
felt more and more. No goldbug claims
that there will ever be gold enough
to meet the demand for currency. They
all concede that gold must always be
supplemented by silver as subsidiary
coin and by paper money-although the
only style of paper money they are
prepared to recognize as ''honest" is
the bank note, so profitable to the
usurer who issues it. The people are
growing more and more to prefer the
free use as money of all of the gold and
silver offered at the mints, supplement.
ed with government greenbacks. Bank.
controlled currency means a bank
people.
Iron County register., 1899-04-13
OPINIONS AND POINTERS.

1T is historical fact that most of
the boasted accomplishments of the
present administration have been the
subjects of official inquiry.-Omaha
World-Herald.
1t is hinted that Mr.. Hanna is
looking for some one to go on the
ticket with President Mckinley in 1900.
Sealed proposals should be invited
Cincinnati Enquirer.
With wars, rumors of wars and
Algerism turning their hair gray, Pres
ident Mckinley appears to be still hunt
ing trouble. He has announced to his
cabinet that he will soon issue a civil
service order placing $500 offices at the
disposal of republican spoilsmen.-Phil-
adelphia Times.
THE president is quoted as say
ing that the newspaper criticisms of
Secretary Alger applied to him as much
as they did to the secretary. This is
true as gospel. For haven't we Mark
Hanna's word for it that Alger made no
move without first consulting the pres
ident Register.
As defects in the laws have per-
mitted the trusts to organize, and as
legislation to wipe them out of exist
ence appears impossible now that so
many have been organized, in direct eva
sion at least of national and state stat
utes, the most feasible way of disposing
of them is by opening the doors to un-
restrained trade and an increase in the
volume of money.-Denver News.
IF the election of 1900 were all
that President Mckinley had to consid-
er, we might be certain of the dismissal
of Alger and the termination of the
petty attempts to humiliate Gen. Miles.
But there re'other considerations, and,
if not greater ones, they are at least
more influential. Secretary Alger's APP
pointment was universally recognized
as a redemption of one of Hanna's
pledges.-Rochester Herald.
IF it be true that the Sherman
antitrust law is not sufficient to meet
the ends sought, then it should be
amended. There is no hope of amend
ing it, however, under republican con-
troll of congress. Mr.. McKinley's law
officer has demonstrated in his lame ex-
cuses for his departments indifference
toward this growing menace to Amer
lean industry and freedom the neces-
sity of democratic control of national
Post.
when you say a man is repub-
lican, then, you do not thereby indicate
his attitude toward any public ques-
ton. Think of Hanna, Quay, Platt, De-
pew, Fairbanks and other plutocratic
leaders of the republican party sitting
down to discuss matters with Pingree,
Monnett and Mayor Jones, of
Ohio, and other alleged republicans of
that class. The former are for the
trusts every time; the latter are against
them, or claim to obe.-Indianapolis Sem
tinel.
So it may be said that while Sec>
retary Alger has not been proved guilty
of any intentional wrong-doing, it has
been sufficiently demonstrated that he
was incompetent, slack and inefficient;
that he was controlled bJ political con-
at time when the Ue-
mands of his party should have been
to those of patriotism,
and that he has shown since the war in
holding his place as high a degree of
to public opinion as he did
before his appointment in seeking it,
Chicago Tribune (Rep.l.
Iron County register., 1899-04-13
Bimetalri.m or barbarian.

From a financial point of view the
japanese were better off when they
lived by themselves. in Z closed coup-
try, than they now are, when COM
PEELED to fight, under bandicaps. for a
place in civilization. Then they had
few wants and enough to meet them.
Now their wants are many times great
er and their resources Of gain have not
increased proportionately. How to in
crease them and how to reduce the
wants of the people present as puzzling
problem to Japanese publicists as
any with which modern statesmen have
to deal 1t is now believed that Japan
will either have to go back to bimetal-
lsm or back to be rbarism.-Rochester
Times,
Iron County register., 1899-04-13
By ELI D AXE.
THE ENGINEERS STORY

Wen. yes, it's a hair-curlin' story
would it could not be recalled!
Inc terrible fright Of that hell-tinctured
night
Is the cause of my head bein, bald,
i was runnin' the Git-There express. sir.
On the Yankee Creek Jerkwater Line.
An the track along there was as crooked,
swear,
As the growth of field pumpkin vine
MY run was night one, an nights on the
Yank
War as black as the coal piled back there
on the tank.
we pulled out of Tenderfoot station
day and almost a half late,
AN every durn wheel was a-poundin' the
Al wildly extravagant rate!
My fireman KEEP pilin' the coal in
The jaws of the oil 81
In the sweat from his nose seemed to play
through a hose
An spIashed round his feet on the floor
flight,
A-rippin' streak through the breast of
the night!
As we rounded a curve on the mountain.
Fuu sixty an hour, will swear
Just ahead was sight that with blood
freezin fright
Would have raised a stuffed buffalo's
hair!
The bridge over Ute Creek was burnin',
The flames shootin' up in their gleei
My God. how they cleaned in the air. till
they seemed
Like hery-tongued inps on a spree!
jest snickered an sparkled an laughed
like they knowed
Ia make my next trip on different road
In frenzy reached for the throttle
But twas stuck an refused to obey!
yelled in alright, for our maddening
flight
felt that never could stay!
1 hen wildly grasped the big lever
Threw her over. then held my hot breat tn
An. waited fur what 1 assuredly thought
Was sure an terrible deathi
Then came the wild crash, an with horror
fringed yell
Down into that great fiery chasm fell!
When came to myself was lying
On the floor of the bedroom; my wife
Sat astride of my form, an was making it
watrn
For her darling, you bet your sweet life!
My hair she had clutched in her fingers
An was jamming my head on the floor
ct yelled with delight when found that
my fright
Was horrible dream, nothing moreI
L had wildly grabbed one of her ankles, she
said.
An reversed her clear over the head of the
bed
Denver Evening Post.
Iron County register., 1899-04-13
THE G. o. p. AND TRUSTS.
Even Republican Organs Are BeEin-
ming to Take a Grand
Tumble.

The Syracuse Post-Standard is an
other republican paper that has taken
alarm at the rapid growth of the trust
system, that system which other re-
publican papers have frankly charged
to the republican protective tariff poll
icy. The Post-Standard declares that
this subject of the trusts invites atten-
ton, and it wants to know what the
republican party is going to do about
IL. That the G. o. p. will do something
about it that paper is confident. The
fact that some of the combines claim to
have reduced prices does not affect the
situation, as the Post-Standard sees it.
That paper says:
"It is not enough that trust shall not be
convicted of raising the prices of it's prod
ucts? Does 1t not dawn on the most casual
students mind that an unorganized
public is just now poorly protected
against the frightful influence of combi-
nations of capital in our legislatures and
elsewhere? 1t is not entirely a matter OF
the price of sugar or kerosene, and we be-
lieve that the party of Lincoln and Grant.
which can never afford to be less than fear
less, is coming to realize this fact.
'The multiplying trusts are a present
menace If not present grave danger to
business, and even to government. In this
that have threatened equally, the reliance
of the people is in the republican party.
THE old party has served them before; IL
is not likely to fail them now.''
1t is apparent, on the admission of
leading republican papers, that ''the
old party has served them" with trusts,
and lot of them, and it may fairly be
doubted that it will move against those
combinations of capital. 1t has al
ready made a pretense of attacking
them. In congress and in the state
legislatures it has passed ANTITRUST
laws that are found to be unservice-
able; laws with which aiding them,
states attorneys have laughed out of
court. Perhaps that party is worthy
of ''the reliance of the people," and il
is not unlikely that it viii ask them tn
rely on it. 1t ought not to surprise
anybody If the g. o. p. suddenly comes
forth in the character of defender of
the people against the trusts; but, all
the same the trusts will foot it's cam
pa;gn hills.-Binghamton IN. W Lead
err.
Iron County register., 1899-04-13
Hi. Fatal BIunder.

Don't you think you could learn to
love me, Mildred?" faltered the young
man.
II might have done so, Harry" she
answered, ''if you had not taught me to
play chess, but how can l ever learn to
love a man whom can give the odds of
a pawn and checkmate in 13 moves?''-
Chicago Tribune.
Iron County register., 1899-04-13
The Flower of Death
A Night of Wild Despair and Its joyful
Morning

VoG as. are as ; good as dead" said the
-fole.
Anatole staggered. He had come to
pass a cheerful evening with his old
friend, DIR. Bardais, the savant whose
works in poisonous substances are SO
well and favorably known, but one
whose excellence of heart and almost
fatherly kindness Anatole had been
able to appreciate more than anyone.
And now all of sudden, without re-
gard for his feelings, without being
prepared to hear it, the terrible prog
nostic is uttered by so great an author
ity.
unfortunate fellow" continued the
doctor, what have you done?"
Nothing that I know Of" STAN
mered Anatole, greatly troubled.
''Try to recollect. Tell me what you
have drank, what you have eaten, and
what you have breathed."
The last word spoken by the doctor
was ray of light to Anatole. That
very morning he had received letter
from one of his friends who was trav-
-eling in India. In this letter had
been a flower plucked on the shores
sof the Ganges by the traveller flow
.er, red, warped, and of bizarre shape,
the odor of which, he remembered well
now, had seemed to him strangely pene-
trating. Anatole searched in his pock-
-etbook and took therefrom the letter
and flower in question, which he showed
to the sayant.
without doubt" exclaimed the doc
tor. lit is the Pyramenensis Indica-
the fatal flower, the flower of death" I"
do you really think SOP
81 am sure of it,
''But it is not possible. am only 25
health
'When did you open that fatal let
ter?"
..At nine o'clock this morning"
s'Well, tomorrow morning, at the
same hour, indeed at the same moment,
YOU will feel sharp anguish at the
heart, and it will be all over with YOU"
'And do you not know any remedy,
any means Of"
None" said the doctor, and, hiding
his face in his hands, he sank back
ward in his armchair, choked with
grief.
From the emotion displayed by his
ol friend. Anatole realized that there
was no hope. He departed in a dazed
manner.
With beads of cold perspiration on
his brow and his thoughts confused,
Anatole moved along unconscious of
what was passing around him, and not
even suspecting that the streets were
becoming deserted. He wandered a
long time thus; but at length, coming
to a bench, he sat down.
The rest did him good. Until then
he had been like a man who has been
struck on the head with club. The
effects of the shock were disappearing,
and he began now to collect his va
grant thoughts.
my plight thought he, sis that of
a person condemned to death. Yet 1
can still hope for mercy. BY the way,
bow much longer have to live?"
He looked at his watch.
"It lacks three hours of morning. 1t
is time was ip bed. go to bed, in
deed, To devote the last sad hours
of my life to sleep! No. can certainly
do better than that. But, what? Par
bleu! / have it. will draw up my last
will and testament"
A restaurant which remained open all
night was near by. Anatole entered
and sat down.
waiter, a bottle of champagne and
a bottle of ink"
He drank a glass and looked at ms
writing paper, rejecting: ITO whom
shall l leave my 5000 francs income?
i have neither father nor motner-a
fact which is lucky for them And
Iron County register., 1899-04-13
sometbipu 20 Remember.

Whenever you hear or read Of cor.
poration raising the wages of its en-
ployes, you should not fail to bear in
mind the reductions that were made
since 1885, and that the presidential
election is only about one year distant
Iron County register., 1899-04-13

The republicans are enjoying the
spectacle of squabbles among the dem
ocrats. But they will learn that this
means live party with something to ac-
complish. The dead never fight. WASH
ington Times.
Iron County register., 1899-04-13

"Nlcette!"
"AnatoIe!"
The young couple had rushed into
each others arms, and were locked in
a fond mbrace.-Translated from the
French for the San Francisco Argonaut
by Judson +. Davidson.
Iron County register., 1899-04-13

NOU are as good as dead" said the
doctor, looking steadily at Ana
Graham guardian., 1899-10-20
-'-----------se'4 -
Had Ability to Spare.

A person recently inserted in q
trade journal an advertisement for
q first class bookkeeper with ir
reproachable references and sup
error ability as an all around office
manager. The salary offered, So a
week, attracted but one applicant
who wrote as follows:
81 am young man, thirty.seven
years of age, having had a bust.
ness experience of twenty-three
years, being connected with the
United States Embassy at NADIA
gascar, and feel confident, if you
will give me trial, / can prove
worth to you. ] am not only an
expert bookkeeper and proficient
stenographer and typewriter, OK.
cellent operator and erudite col
lege graduate, but have several
other accomplishments W b i C b
might make me desirable. am
an experienced snow shoveler, u
first class peanut roaster, have
some knowledge of removing
superfuous hair and clipping pup.
py dogs ears, have a medal for
reciting "Curfew Shall Not Ring
To. night" am a skilled chlropo-
dist and a practical farmer; can
also cook, take care of horses,
crease trousers, open oysters and
repair umbrellas being possessed
of great physical beauty, l would
not only be useful but would be
ornamental as well, lending to the
sacred precincts Of your Office that
delightful artistic charm that a
Satuma vase or stuffed billy goat
would. As to salary, would feel
l was robbing the widow and
swiping the sponge cake from the
orphan If were to take advantage
of your munificence by accepting
the too fabulous sum of So per
week, and l would be entirely
willing to give you my services
for less and by accepting sl.ST
per week would give you an op.
portunity Of not only increasing
your donation TO the church pay
your butcher and keep mp your
life insurau, but also found d
home for indigent fly paper sales
men and esdow free bed in; the
cat house. Ere.
Graham guardian., 1899-10-20
The Place For Bargains.

Dry goods. Calico from 5 cents
up. A large line of outing at 10
cents. All bargains. Plaid dress
goods at Is cents. Plain dress
goods from 15 cents to rs cents.
Very cheap! The largest as
sortment of silks in the valley
from rs cents up to S1.25 per
yard. All kinds of fancy trimming
in guimps from scents up to 25.
Clothing! See our little boys
fine REFER suits, they are beauties;
also youths and mems clothing at
prices to suit all. A fine line of
ladies and misses plush and cloth
capes on which we defy competi-
tion. Ladies walking hats the
very latest styles.
Glover Brand shoes speciality.
Remember we sell nearly every
thing at prices below anything
ever sold in the valley. Come and
see our goods and prices. Whether
Won buy or not you are welcome.
j. R. WELKER & Co.