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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-12
M'KINLEY'S WAR.
The Philippine Policy OF the Presi-
dent Is Based Upon
Politics.

The pain and amazement of the Nc
Kin1eyites at the fact that anybody
should be base enough to desire tc
| make party capital out of their gigan-
tic laundering in the Philippines, is
getting to be such that they can nc
| longer contain themselves. They are
beginning to explode with indignation
| and horror. While trying to win votes
for you fellows out of the mistakes we
fellows have made. Mercifu1 heavens
was ever such political turpitude heard
Of before? Col. Hay was aghast at the
thought, in his letter to the Ohio re-
publicans. Tt is true that his horror
and disgust were trifie too plainly
theatric; his starts and gasps and
stares were cleary STACEY; yol all
along saw that he would be perfectly
willing to go off and take a drink with
the villains when the play was over;
but he already has many imitators. and
we shall hear much more of the I'M
speakable conduct of party opponents
N holding republican administration
10 account for the colossal failure of its
Philippine policy.
Bear in mind. however, that the OBJ
lection is not to making party capital
out of the Philippines, as such. 1t is
only TO making democratic party cap
ital. The truth is. Mckinley and Han
Ma had intended all the political capital
that could be made out of the Philip
pines strictly for themselves. For the
democrats to interfere and claim any
D it is a pure perversion of Il sacred
fund, and the courts should intervene.
An injunction would. we think, be
granted by any federal Judge, restrain
ing Bryan and other democratic ora
tors from so much as mentioning the
word Philippines. The president has
IN exclusive property right to all the
party capital which the Philippines can
be made to yield. and what are we
coming to if outsiders can break in and
take it away from him? We know what
his adulators would have said if his
plans had not gone so grievously
wrong If Aguinaldo had groveied at
his feet; if the Filipinos had FASTENED
to submit to his usurpation and Illegal
proclamation, what powerful argu-
ment the republicans would have seen
III it all for rejecting the great, strong.
fnfiexible, far-seeing, infallible man.
who spake and it was done. who COM
manded and it stood fast. To demand
votes for success in foreign complica-
tons is legitimate; but to say that
votes should be withheld on account of
the humiliating failure-why, that is
simply monstrous. Men who would do
that would botanic upon mothers
grave and traffic in their country's
shame. This is a republican, a MeKin
ley, war. if it succeeds, but if it goes
IN from one disgrace to another it is Il
national war, for which all are respon-
are bound to stand together.-N. Y.
Post.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-12
PROFIT AND LOSS.
Expense of Tmperia Iism to the Peo-
pie of the United
States.

When the administration gets ready
to make report to the people as to the
profit and loss of the policy of imperial
ism. how will the account stand?
Certainly not in favor of a policy
which burdens the nation with taxes
and gives no adequate return.
In 1890 the national receipts We're
S403, 0SO,9S2 and the expenditures $31S,-
040,710, and the army and navy cost the
government SOC, 5S9,044.
How does the account stand for the
present fiscal year2
The receipts were S515, 1860, $40 and the
expenditures sos, ore, 179, of which
So93, $3.50 went for the army and
navy.
While McKinley's administration has
increased taxes and raised the revenue
in every possible way. the deficit this
year amounts to $50, $50.
Taxes have been increased - per cent.
by the republican administration and
the expenditure has doubled since 1890.
Not only this, but the Understanding
debt of the government has grown from
$4,000 900 to $1.1S2, 149.050.
Now, what has Mckinley to show for
this enormous increase in debt and
taxes?
The war with Spain ended more than
year ago. This nation is supposed to
be at peace with all. other nations, yet
war expenses go on at an increased
scale.
II will be difficult for Mckinley to
make his profit and loss account bal
ance. The people of the United States
are patriotic, but they are not imperial
lists and they will not long approve of a
policy which costs much more than it
comes to.--Chicago Democrat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-12
GALLANT TENNEssEEANs.
GEN. Otis Tells of the CO lfant Act OF
the Tennessee Troops Ina the
Affair at CebG.

Washington, Oct. S.-Ger,. Otis has
advised the war deparmens chat the
transport Puebla sailed from Manila.
Friday, with los sick and 400 dis
charged men. The Caronns was 10
sail Saturday, and the Indiana Sunday,
with the Tennessee troops. Gen. Otis
said:
The Indiana was sent south es~sy in
September to collect the Tcnfrs
regiment. at Iloilo and Ceha. She
picked up a portion at Iloilo ard pro-
ceeded to Cebu. where the regiment
volunteered service to assist to drive
off insurgents from the mountains
near that city. Their services were ac-
cepted by Gen. Snyder, and the insur-
gents were overwhelmingly defeated.
the Tennesseans taking a prominent
part. The regiment re-embarked at
Cebu, reaching this harbor the 1st
inst. They were detained to complete
the necessary discharge papers, and
will sail on the Indiana tomorrow"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-12

| a nations well springs, founS work foa
willing hands to do and filed them
with q just return, whils honest capt.
tai, daily larger and more secure, min
istered to glad prosperity. Or it was
currency, wickealy and selfsh1y Jug
gled, that made merchants bankrupt
and starved labor into discomfort and
slavery while capital added house to
house and field to field and gathered
into its misery hands all the wealth
left in ruined land"
The first question, therefore, in an
industrial nation is: Where ought con-
troll of the currency to rest? In whose
hands can this almost omnipotent pow
er be trusted? Every writer of politi-
cal economy, from Aristotle to Adam
Smith, allows that a change in the
currency alters the price of every
ounce and yard of merchandise and ev-
cry foot of land. Whom can we trust
with this despotism? At present the
banks and the money kings WELD this
power. They own the yardstick and
can make it longer or shorter as they
please. They own every pound weight,
and can make it heavier or lighter, as
they choose. This explains the riddle
so mysterious to common people, that
these who trade in money always
grow rich, even while those who trade
in other things GO into bankruptcy.
The third objection to national
banks of issue is that the moment the
bank is permitted to issue money that
moment it becomes, for pecuniary
reasons, the enemy of any government
paper.
The banks are now urging that the
issue of paper money is a function of
the banks and that the government
ought to go out of the banking bust
ness. Our answer is that the issue OF
money is a function of government
and the banks ought to go out of the
governing business. The government
can not afford to build up a strong
financial interest hostile to the exer-
else by the government of the right
to issue and control both the metallic
and paper money of the nation.
W. j. BRYAN.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-12
n WISHING WERE HAVING

hey. little lassies with eyes of blue /.
And brave little laddies with ewes of
browni "a
What if fairy should come to You
Ana show you the way to Grown-un
TOWN.
New tell me truly, IL have guessed
That this is the gift your heart holds best
Would you drop your dolly and leave your
ball.
-Aad quit your frolics in field and glen.
For the sake Of feeling yourselves grow
tail,
Fer the bliss of being real women and
men2
Say. little lassies, and ladies, too.
Now isn't this just what you would doe
Tel me, oh women, with wistful eyes
And men who plod on life's toilsome uav
What il kind Fate, in some fairy guise.
Should grant the wish of your hear TO-
day? -
Weighed in the balance of times true test
Which. Of all gifts. would you count the
best?
Would you leave the crowded CITY mart
The glitter of gold, the crown of fame
To sport as child with care-free heart.
And eyes unclouded by grief or shame ?
Tell me, oh world-tired women and men.
Would you be, if you could, child again?
Ida Goldsmith Morris, in Ladies' Home
Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-12

creams, and smiled. Below him was
covered board, and Almond Blossom
lifted the end of the cloth that was
draped over it, and there found duck
roasted. jars of potted fish and sweet
cakes-all her favorite Dishes
She knew then that she was in Magic
Land, and she smiled back at the brown
man and ate ravenously.
The night passed by. Almond Bios
som sleeping profoundly in the soft
robes of the Exalted Few. and then. Te-
placing them in the morning, she be
gan another day of weary waiting for
the opening of the temple door.
At Almond Blossoms home you can
understand the excitement They
mourned her as dead. and thought the
angry devils had spirited her away.
They gave up searching for her after
awhile, and when the fourth day came
her tea sets and wooden dolls were put
away and the family shrine lit with
seven tapers, for her years.
The Welcome Cat was removed from
the hospitable door. and they mourned.
Aside from the mere loneliness of the
situation Sum See was faring well. No
royal daughter of the Eight Houses
Jared better in lifetime. She ate of
the glazed brown pork nimbly and
Toasted with the freedom of a rat in a
corner cupboard. She and the friendly
joss looked solemnly at each other over
the viands and said nothing.
1t was so high TO the shelf that il
seemed like standing up to a lurcl
way of retiring to the floor with her
bites and there enjoying herself.
And when the fifth day came they
found her there when the joss house
was opened for airing and worship Of
the smiling man who sat there.
They would have been Mortified at the
familiarity of Sum See with His Great
ness if they could have known, but she
said nothing of her conclaves with tbs
Ruler of the Destinies of the Faithful
Followers. and as she looked fat ard
well they said nothing.
The food for the departed spirit had
disappeared, and it was well that the
religious miracle should be told CT.
They did not know that Sum See had
eaten it all. and that she had burned
the leavings in a pan in the oven where
she had first seen the cat.
Her restoration to her fond family
was taken as another part of the
miracle, and no questions were asked.
and Almond Blossom did not explain.
All she knew was that she had had
all the duck she ever wanted in her life.
and that she had been rather happy il,
the punk sealed silence of the dim and
painted interior of the joss house. And
no one ever knew that the friendly god
had smiled upon her eating the funeral
baked meats for her own mother.
Thus did the spirit of Ii Cum watch
over her daughter in the Land of Sill
YER Shades and Forked Sunbeams, and
she and the joss had so conspired that
the lonely girl should not starve-no
matter if the sacred yiands that were
to speed ST Kun on her way were COIL
sumed in the process.
And, of course, the friendly joss never
mentioned any of the facts.-Chicago
Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-12

HE walls were hung with strips q
paper, in yellow and red, and Miss Sun
liked the orderly way they were ar
rayed.
Tell me-" she said to the joss, 81
wish to go to the Land of Ceaseless
ohine and Diamond Stars-do you know
the way?'
The kindly joss only smiled, OF
course
All, you are dumb!" said Sum.
Poor thing! I have a neighbor boy,
dwarf, who is deaf and dumb. You
are like him."
Again the joss smiled happily, so
Sum knew that she had not offended
him.
Presently she went over to the door
by which she had come in and found
IT locked. She had. indeed. started on
the way to the Land of Silver Shadows,
and there was no turning back.
Sum See sighed and turned away.
There was the window yet. But the
window opened out on a balcony of
stone eight feet wide; and she could
not see the street from there; only the
tops of the other houses in the Chinese
quarter and q row of black chimneys.
THAT must be the City of the Cross
and Envious Serpents?" said Sum.
questioningly. 1t was the way to the
land where her parents had gone. Hip
had told her so.
If l am still and say nothing maybe
we shall travel there in this shut-up
place., said Sum to herself reassur-
ingly.
1t was pleasant at first, for there
were Nhe dolls on the shrine-the lesser
gods-and Sum could play with them
without fear, because of the smile OF
the main functionary.
Then there were the toy banners to
sway in the scented air. now so heavy
and cloying with the dying sandal flame
that Sum was glad it was charring to
a finish. The room reeled with these
serpents of smoke filtering out through
the crannies of the room and window
to the street and the sky above
Sum noticed after several hours two
things that their room had
not got beyond the chimney pots, and
that she was very hungry.
She had had q small bowl of rice and
pork that noon in her own home, but
now it was getting dark outside. and
she knew that they were getting into
the Land of Silver Shades and Star
Beams.
So she sat still and wondered why
she could not get out and what she
should eat for dinner. And then she
went around and consulted the joss
There he sat. as if made of chocolate
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-12
A Statesman Is Needed.

We are upon grave times. Great new
issues have arisen, new questions of SUI
preme importance have come into view,
even since Mr.. McKinley's nomination
little more than three years ago. While
2rediting him with honesty of intention,
there is a feeling among vast number
of people that a president is needed
more thoroughly equipped in states
nanship, more vigorous in determine
ton and action, less dependent upon the
promptings of advisers in his personal
circle, less subject to be swayed by pop
ular clamor from conscientious convic-
ton We believe that with an ADLER
leader the democratic party will carry
the election next year, for the mass Of
the people are still and ever viii be true
to the principles upon which our coun-
try was founded and for more than
century maintained; and, although at
times in numbers misled, or influenced
for the maintenance of some appealing
issue TO sacrifice others, there is no
doubt that they understand the present
condition well. They know that the
new era upon which the nation has en-
tered calls for the services of master
mind and a stout heart.-Buffalo Cour-
Ter.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-12
GOLD AT A PREMIUM.
1t Has Already Doubled Its Value
Measured I'm Products Of
the Farm.

The cry of premium on gold is mere
~ "scarecrow." The gold advocates
would make people who never saw
gold piece from one years end to an
other believe that the moment gold
rises a cent or two above some other
kind of money, the whole country will
go to the dogs. Gold is already at a
premium of 100 per cent, measured in
the products of the farm. The gold
champion can see nothing wrong about
that; but he is Mortified at the thought
of gold dollar being worth cent or
two more than some other kind of
dollar. But the point to which the read
er's mind is here sought to be especial
ly directed is that the substitution OF
bank notes for United States notes
would do no good. To would certainly
add nothing to the output OF our gold
mines. 1t would not stop gold from go-
ing abroad when needed there; it would
bring gold into the country, it would
add nothing to the aggregate supply
anywhere, and the scarcity of gold
would threaten our finances just as
it does to-day. The truth is, gold is
scarce everywhere, except in few
great banks silver has been demone-
tized, the demand for gold greatly in
creased, and the whole of the world that
has adopted the gold standard is strug-
CLING madly for the limited supply
Prices have fallen about one-half and
the end is not vet. This is the real
trouble. but the goldite would make
people believe than an evil of this kind
can be overcome by the simple expedf-
e1lt of changing one kind of paper for
another, and giving the banks complete
control of our finances.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-12
A General Alarm.

4 general alarm was sent out toward
midnight from the West Thirtieth
street station. for a driver and furni-
ture van which were seen between five
and six o'clock yesterday morning at
the foot of Seventeenth street. The
mans conduct was so strange as to ex-
cite comment. He is described as n
man of stout build, of medium height
and having n sandy mustache.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-12

1t is necessary first that we
should remove from the independent
peoples of the new world the fear that
We are intending as soon as possible to
'.gobbIe them up" in the course of our
destiny" We ought not to have the
hostility Of American republics, but
rather their loyal friendship. 1t is i'm
portant to them as to US that the Mon
roe doctrine should be upheld, and
if it be fact that there is to the south
of us growing suspicion of us, or hos
tility toward us, the craftsmanship and
the press of the United States ought TO
go out of the way to remove such SEN
timent ut once.-Hnuston (Tex.l Post.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-12
A. British Flying sauadron.

London, Oct. SIT is rumored at
Portsmouth that the admiralty viii
organize Q flying squadron fer the
Cape.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-12
Aboard the Yacht.

The Skipper-You look terribly
gloomy. What's got into you?
The other--Nothing that hasn't rot
out again.--N. Y. World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-12
Tell-TaI@ Cuts.

The physicians examination OF the
parts at the morgue disclosed q
cut three inches long on the left thigh
and above this several smaller cuts,
giving the impression that the body
had been hacked. A number of little
cuts were found on the bullock, on
the left side, and these correspondent
to the cuts on the left thigh, indicating
that they were inflicted before the
body was cut to pieces, and establish
ing the relationship between the two
parts.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-12
A Close Watch.

Last night the water fronts all
around the city We're closely watched
by the police, the threatening night
being considered a likely time for the
disposal of the rest Of tie dismem-
bered body
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-12
Wendell Philllpa' Y

"In other words, it was the cur
Eency: which, rightly arranged opened
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-12
Thigh and Trunk Fitted Together.

1t was found that the portion of the
thigh fitted the dfsmembered trunk
and a general alarm was sent out.
Scores of police were detailed along
the North river front and throughout
the precinct in which the portions of
the body were found, in search of the
missing parts. Up to a late hour last
night nothing had been found.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-12

The newspapers in which the parts
of the body were wrapped including
one of the date of October S, showing
that the body had been dismembered
on that date or subsequent to it. There
were several marks en- the papers, but
the nature of these the police will
not disclose.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-12
ANOTHER MURDER MYSTERY
A Case to Test the Efficiency of New
York's Sleuths Who are All
I'm the Search.

New York, Oct. 9.-Seyeral parts of
dismembered body of a woman are
at the morgue, and the police are in
vestigating another river mystery.
Fished from the North River.
In the North river, at the foot of
West Thirteenth street, a man fishing
Saturday night, hauled up on his hook
a bundle containing the trunk of
woman's body. Early in the morning
the left thigh of a woman, wrapped
in several newspapers, had been found
in front of 100 West Seventeenth
street.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-12

The coroner's physician and several
other physicians who have examined
the parts are of the opinion that they
are those of a woman about five feet
six inches in height and weighing be-
tween 40 and $50 pounds. It was
stated also that the woman was prob
ably less than middle aged and had
been a mother.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-11-08
S,.RF SLIDING IN HAWAII.
An Old Time Incident of the Indul-
gence In IL of Royal Danes.

The old practice of surf sliding-"hee
nalu"-upon surf boards was magnificent
sport. 1t has fallen almost entirely into
disuse since 40 years ago, when horses be-
came numerous and cheap. Before that
date used frequently to see it at Lahama
as well as earlier at Kailua | believe
some adopts still practice it at Hilo. The
board used in surf sliding is from to s
feet long and 10 to 10 inches wide, ronnd-
ed at the ends and sharpened at the edges,
very much like paper cutter. The rider
swims out with the board under one arm,
diving under the rollers until outside
where the surf is just beginning to break.
There, by an adroit movement, he stretch
es himself upon the board just in front Of
a big roller, at the same time violently
plying arms and legs to 'get move on, "
while the roller lifts him from behind
Once in motion the wave does the rest,
although great skill is needed to keep the
board poised precisely at the proper height
and inclination upon the front of the vio-
lently breaking roller The riders will
thus shoot several hundred yards to the
shore.
By early and long practice great skill
was attained in this sport The more ex-
pert would often rise to standing pos
ture, balancing their boards by their feet
at the right point Oh the wave. l can re.
member in early boyhood daily watching
from my home through the stems of the
lofty cocoa palms scores Of natives flying
In together in the white roaring surf.
Some were prone, Others crouching on
their boards and some standing erect.
Both sexes participated, and modesty was
much at discount, except when the ven
Grated missionary was in sight. The males
wore the malo or breech girdle when dis
porting thus in our neighborhood. The
females did not stand up on theii boards.
Customs in those carly days were Area
dian. At about 1924 the writer's young
mother at Kailua once received in her
thatched cottage a morning call from a
bevy of royal danes with their attendants,
all fresh from surf play. The maidens
carried the garments while their mistress
es stalked into the missionary's parlor in
stately simplicity and proceeded to dress.
All that was utterly innocent, and so in
certain sense was the nearly entire unre-
straint of domestic morals in those early
days. To infuse some degree of conscience
on that point has been altogether the most
difficult part of the missionary's task in
Hawaii. Star.