Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-22
The Buoyancy OF We Apples.

A little more than year ago MARI
Hanna was rushing around the Capito
at Washington tearing his shirt an(
begging Democratic Senators and Con
gressmen not to force the issue of wa
with Spain. at will hurt business.
shouted Mark with apoplectic vehe
mence. "It's none of our business tt
look after the Cubans-let them starve
Give us peace at any price," etc., etc
The people remember these thing:
very we'll. They remember also thai
Hanna and fabbergaster Depew anG
other bond and gold worshiping sons
of Belial, even went so far as to declare
that the destruction of the 'Maire'
was due to the incompetence and igno
rance of her own efficers and men, and
that Spain should not be held respon
sible for this shocking crime.
With these and other like incidents
Of that eventful period stamped indel
IDLY upon the memory of the people,
this paragraph from Hanna's platform,
adopted at Columbus the other day,
sounds passing strange:
The magnificent achievements of our
army and navy in the war with Spain
for the liberation OF the downtrodden
and oppressed people of Cuba from the
domination of Castilian despotism, &C.
complished under the master guidance
of a Republican administration, are
necessarily subjects for highest encomi.
um by convention of Ohio Republi.
cans.
How things have changed in one
short year! The Democrats, backed
by a few independent Republicans,
forced the issue, declared the war for
humanity, and thrashed Spain within
an inch of her villanous life. Now
the Hannacrats bob up serenely and
claim all the glory. They whipped
Spain and set Cuba free!
They also did some other things that
the Convention forgot to mention. No
sooner had the Democrats forced a
declaration ot war than the Hanna
Gratis saw their opportunity, and at
once proceeded to lay a few more mil
lions of bonds on the shoulders of a
patient people, and to burden them
with an unnecessary load of special
taxation. Every piece Of paper, note,
check, deed, contract, telegram, ex-
press receipt, or any other .'old thing"
that would carry stamp was hauled
up to be taxed; and although the war
was fought to finish in three months,
the tax goes on just the same, and.
like the brook, may go on forever.
Nobody knows when it will stop, ex-
cept Hanna and Providence. The Con-
vention forgot to say anything about
this tax business. 1t also forgot to
mention the five thousand and odd
graves of brave young Americans who
died from the neglect of a speculative
war department or from eating pois-
oned canned beef or embalmed beef
furnished to them as army rations-
food which the soldiers declare the
wild and hungry dogs of Cuba would
not eat. Neither did the Convention
make the slightest reference to the
500, 100000 tribute that Spain forced
its party to pay, nor the ten and odd
millions more that have been spent in
the niger killing frolic over in the
Philippines; and not a word was said
about the trick which turned a war for
liberty and humanity into a war for
CON quest and criminal aggression. 1t
is really surprising how many things
the Convention forgot. The absent
mindedness must have been due to the
excessive heat Valley Democrat.