Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-01-12

same class of harpies that have been
the undoing of France.
The Italian people are in state of
collapse, with the government far gone
with paralysis. unable to help her peo-
pie or to render effective aid to her al
lies.
Socialism rears its front in Germany,
in spite of the Imprisonment of little
girls for making faces at the picture of
her War Lord; her rural population
continues to decrease and her urban
continues to increase. The farmer de-
mands protection against the Ameri-
can hog and other American products,
while the jewellers in her cities protest
that such legislation means destruction
to themselves and those who depend
upon them for bread.
Austria seems to be falling to pieces
from lack of cohesive power.
Russia, over vast extent of her ter
ritory, Is famiue-stricken.
England is prosperous. She has no
rural population. Her money-chang-
ers, and money-changers the world
over, had never so much reason to re-
joice. They have their proboces in the
carcass of every nation that has any
blood left in it. 1t has been carni-
val year for this class of people. The
ryot of India may turn and turn I'M
easily until he starves-what cares his
English master, who despoils him of
his crops?
Amid this confusion there is an I'M
der tone of cursing and malediction
which in central Europe is combined
and concentrated into bitter denuucia-
ton of the jew and his methods. In
France it is this Jew-baiting spirit
that renders the continuance of her
corrupt army clique possible. The
common people of that country regard
hatred of the Jew and love of France
as interchangeable. To less extent
the same feeling is manifested in Ger
many and Austria.
Turning to our own country. We have
seen in the last year a successful war
conducted by our army and navy
against dead nation. At touch, the
Empire of Spain crumbled the world
over. We find the plutocracy of the
United States at the bidding of their
overlords on the other side of the
ocean, bowling for territorial expan-
sion. We must take the Philippines,
Cuba, Porto Rico, part of China-or
anything else that will be to the ad-
vantage of our English cousins. Incl
dentally there must be expansion of
another kind. The constitution pre-
pared by the fathers must not be al
lowed to bar the advancement of civil
ization and money-getting. No con-
stitutional considerations must be al
lowed to interfere with our control o:
the new territory we are to grab. The
Cuban and Porto Rican, as we'll as the
Filipino, must be governed for his own
good. The antiquated idea that the
all just governments are based upon
the consent of the governed must be
relegated to the lumber-room for dis
used political maxims. No man, wom-
an or child must be allowed to whisper
word about personal liberty and con-
stitutional rights. When Lord Guy V.
Henry, or any other of our brand new
potentates. has an inhabitant of a
Cuban or Porto Rican city publicly
horsewhipped, without trial Of any
kind, for throwing a banana peal on
the public highway, no one must be
allowed to question their right to whip
or kill when the interests of clviliza
ton and the Sugar Trust demand it.
The close of the year just past finds
the plutocracy intrenched and fortified
in this county as it has never been in
trenched and fortified before Inc
Mckinley administration is the puppet
of the trusts. 1t exists but to do their
bidding, just as the Cleveland admin
istration did before it. When an is
sue of bonds was wanted a system of
pairing was inaugurated. by which one
congressman whose constituents were
opposed to the iniquity paired with
another congressman from another
part of the country whose constituents
were equally opposed to the measure,
thus letting it go through by agree
| ment, the opposition being only a
sham and a pretense.
The end of the year found all, or