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Iron County register., 1899-10-26
scHooLeoY DAYS.
MISSOURI.

TN thoughts tnat truant-~ard incline.
anu Woe-Degone and rueful face
Ills satchel slung across his back
10 schooI he creeps with snail-like pace.
Qul6e sure no'toilirg galley slave
.-ihed TO such a dreadful fate
As tn4t which compasses a bout
1h1s martyr of the book ard State
An me. perhaps in years to come
nat orlng iife's trials in their train,
1Ge wearIed man of trade will wish
as schoolboy days were back again:
ne q nan with joy their glad return,
ana ceem himself by fortune blessed
If participles, verbs and nouns
No greater care his mind possessed
The statesman whom the world admires
Fer eioquence and intellect
Norn-oUt and gray with public cares.
May for moment recoIIect
ne old frame schoolhouse in the lane.
Ihe mlH-pond and the shaded stream,
And sigh to think that boyhood's DAYS
Are now TO him faded dream.
If pampered with the sweets of life.
Ihat wealth has on his pathway poured
Perehance the ennuied man may see,
Whilst sitting at his banquet board
"A barefoot, inky-fingered lad
With watery mouth and sparkling eyes,
Investing boarded coppers in
Aunt Martha Jones homemade pies.
Oh, martyr of the book and slate.
We poor. weak mortaIs never know
TIE sweetest hours that filled our life
Until they Joined the long ago;
And as we peer into the past,
Ger tangled roads and tortuous ways,
W armed Is the heart and moist the eye
In memory of our golden days
p c Fossett, in Golden Days.
Iron County register., 1899-10-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Hanna appears to have shiftedthe
ieg-pulling from himself to the federal
officeholders.-St Louis Republic.
There is one thing about Bryan's
having lectured for money; nobody
hung around the door wanting his
money back.-N. Y. World.
Mr.. Mckinley fails to say any
thing about opening the mills when he
strikes a town whose mills have been
closed by a trust.-Omaha World Her
aid.
President Mckinley will be per-
mitted to WELD the trowel, so long as
Mark Hanna can pick out the bricks be-
fore they are put in place.-Albany
Argus.
Senator Hanna says that he is
credited with saying a great many
things that he did not say. No doubt he
has some cause to be worried about it
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
THE republican party has not hes
ttated to deal with the trusts in the past
exactly as the trusts wished to be dealt
with, and Mr.. McKinley's seat in the
white house is evidence of his faithful
ness to them.-Kansas City Times.
President Mckinley says we have
already acquired" the Philippines.
Yes, very much as a boy acquires" a
hornets nest when the angry swarm
lights on him in resentment of his pol
icy of benevolent assimilation. IN. Y.
World.
Over in Ohio republican postmas-
ters are so strongly suspected of tam
pering with the official mail of the dem
ocratic state committee, particularly as
to poll sheets of the various counties,
that orders have been wired all county
ehairmen to send important documents
by express hereafter.-Wheeling Reg
lister.
-Cowardice is not strength, and the
republican party is not to be envied the
possession of advisers who deem it a
smart piece of political strategy to
leave the currency question open for
purposes next year. To
party conspirators of this stripe the
danger of panic or the likelihood of
financial upheaval is of minor moment
with the Importance of po-
litical victory.-Detroit Tree Press.
The value of Mr.. McKinley's
great work of cutting off the broom corn
crop and thus creating a demand that
has advanced the price to 500 ton
.annot be overestimated. We have
lever until now had a president who
could control the weather and regulate
he crops. Perhaps Mr.. Mckinley will
ext year do something TO the corn
soils that will greatly increase the price
If ,dissonri's corncob pipes.-St. Louis
2 .st-Dis. atca-
Iron County register., 1899-10-26
PROFITS OF SILVER MINING.
A Foolish Argument of the Goldites
and an Outrage on an Impor-
tant Industry.

For years it has been stock argu-
ment with the gold people that silver
has fallen in value because of the re-
duced cost of production The idea
that misunderstanding off the
regular demand for the metal-had any
effect has been secuted as ridiculous.
Not word have they uttered as to
the reduced expense of gold mining;
the circumstance that the richest sill
yer mines, so called, yield nearly as
much gold as silver, and hence that
any economy of production must ap-
ply to both, has been passed by in
silence. Not mention have they made
of the hundreds and thousands of sill
yer mines that never paid for even the
labor expended upon them. They have
simply taken a few very rich mines,
based their calculations upon them, and
figured it out to their own satisfac-
ton that silver can be produced at
from IA to Al cents an ounce. The
closing of the East Indian mint de-
stroyed both arguments. Almost in
stantly silver dropped from above 80
cents to 63 cents per ounce. 1t rail-
lied back to about ~. and there it
stood until the repeal of the Sherman
law, when the decline began again, and
continued until it fell below 50 cents.
With the sudden and tremendous fall
which followed the closing of the East
Indian mint. silver mines all over the
west closed. thousands of miners were
thrown out of employment and whole
towns were almost depopulated. For
10 ha Df g
yer bullion was a little more than 63
cents, % cents above the highest cost
of mining, according to the figures
given by the eminent champions of the
gold standard, and yet it fairly cast
a blight upon the silver mining states
and territories of the union. What the
effect would have been had silver
dropped to II, the highest cost of pro-
duction, according to our opponents,
can be easily imagined. 1t would have
virtually put an end to silver mining
in the United States. Modern history
fails to record another act of legisla-
tive injustice at all comparable with
that of demonetizing silver. Not only
did it increase the burden of every
struggling debtor, but it was deadly
DION dt oIlS VI the O1
the country. When the debtor objects
to having his obligation doubled, he is
denounced by the money power as a
repudiator. When the silver mining
states object to the ruin of their in
dustries by the denial to silver of its
chief use ii. e. as money! they are
characterized as free hooters, attempt
ing to levy tribute upon the rest of
the country. For the first time since
the dawn of history. civilized and
presumably intelligent country, heavily
in debt, has gone deliberately at work
to double its debt and at the same time
destroy one of its most important indus
tries. And what is stranger than all, the
outrage is defended by the most brutal
accusations hurled at the heads of those
who protest against its consummation,
Will the people permit themselves to be
deceived forever?
Iron County register., 1899-10-26

1t seems to be generally conceded
that it was the attachment of the Ger
man-Americans to the gold standard
which in 1896 saved the middle west
for Mckinley. The question is, how do
they stand upon the new issue of inn
perialism? Evidently, if the Milwaukee
Sentinel's figures are correct, should
large proportion of this German-Ameri-
can strength desert the republican
party, the middle west is lost to that
party and to Mckinley. The Milwaukee
Sentinel, which is a republican paper,
thinks that there is no substantiation
of the theory that these German
Americans are anti-imperialists, and
will carry their anti-imperialism to the
polls. In reply to which the Germania,
of Milwaukee, hidebound republican
newspaper, says:
"We feel ii our duty to warn our Eng
lish colleague against Understanding
the present movement among German
born voters. If the closing sentence OF
the Sentinel's editorial quoted above
means the German-Americans, as such,
are not opposed to expansion, this is an
error. The Germania, daily and weekly,
is read in more families than any other
German-American paper. Especially In
the states mentioned in the table, the Ger
mania has very wide circulation. There
fore If there Is any newspaper qualified to
give an opinion as to the position of the
German-born citizens of those states II Is
the Germania. The letters which we re-
ceive continually from those states leave no
kind of doubt possible that such Germans
are against expansion and Imperialism in
overwhelming majority, and are conse-
quently opposed to the administration, that
is, IL the assumption Is correct that the ad-
ministration has inscribed these principles
on its banner. These letters come almost
exclusively from voters who deposited
their ballots for Mckinley and honest
money, and If the money question were
the only issue next year they would un-
hesitatingly do the same thing again, but
they find themselves in a hard position IL
ii is to be choice between the evil of bad
money on the one hand and the evil of ex-
pansion on the other. We believe that the
Sentinel lays too much weight on occa-
sional letters signed 'Teuton' or 'Germani-
cus,' whose authors break a lance for the
cause of expansion. These are but single
voices, which would never be heard in the
great chorus of German-American voters.
And although we still do not believe to-day
that Bryan and the bad money men will
succeed in gaining any great per cent. OF
German-Amerfcan votes away from the
republican party and the question of good
money, still the German-American vote is
such an important factor that one cannot
do the republican leaders greater favor
than to give them true picture of the atti-
tude of the German-American citizen to-
wards the expansion question, which is our
reason for this article.
Read between the lines, and consider
ing its source, the above certainly
seems to justify Mr.. Hanna's very evil
dent fears concerning the impending
result in Ohio and the middle west
Albany Argus.
Iron County register., 1899-10-26
A Pie Trust.

Nineteen pie bakeries in New York
have combined, with S3,oO0,o00 capital
Iron County register., 1899-10-26
Both Right.

First Lawyer-You are cheat and
a swindler.
Second Lawyer-You are liar and
blackguard.
The Court (softly)-Come, gentle
men let's get down to the disputed
points of the case.-Philadelphia North
American.
Iron County register., 1899-10-26
Gold STANDARD I'm the Philippine.

The gold standard has been estab-
Iished in the Philippines. The price of
slaTes is $50, gold basis.-Illinois State
Register.
Iron County register., 1899-10-26
M'KINLEY VS.. M'KINLEY.
William the Shifter-Has Been on
Both Sides of NOtabi Pub
lie Questions.

William Mckinley has been on both
sides of the forcible conquest ques-
ton. Once within two years he was
free silver and single gold standard
man. And note the following attack
on McKinleyism. On April "a, 1890. Nc
kinley said in congress:
''If we would invade the worlds markets,
harsher conditions ard greater sacrifices
would be demanded of the masses Talk
about depression-we would have it in its
fullness. We should revel in unrestrained
trade. Everything would, indeed, be cheap,
but how costly when measured by the
degradation which would ensue. When
merchandise is the cheapest men are the
poorest: and the most distressing expert
ences in the history of our country-aye,
in all human h:story-have been when ev-
erything was the lowest and cheapest
measured by gold, for everything was the
highest and the dearest measured by labor.
With me this position is deep conviction
not theory
On February Z. 1899, at the Boston
banquet he said:
THE past year has recorded a volume of
business. domestic and foreign, unparal-
feled in any former operations in the United
States. Our enormous export trade has
made American balances satisfactory and
almost for the first time the money OF the
country has been so great that our capt.
talists have sought foreign investments.
We are fast going from debtor to a cred
itor nation. 1 hope nothing win check it,
Call the wage-workers to the stand
and receive their testimony as to
whether Mckinley, in his 1890 speech,
did not accurately describe the condi-
tions which, in 1899, he not only ad-
mits but boasts have now arrived.-Mis-
sissippi Valley Democrat.
Iron County register., 1899-10-26
OMINOUS INDICATIONS.
Cause for Fear ON the Part OF
the ImperiaIist Boss
Hanna.

The attitude of the German-American
element, which is a large factor in the
voting strength of New York state, but
even more so in the great region known
as the middle west, upon the question
of Imperialism is subject of much
debate. The Milwaukee Sentinel pub
fishes the estimate of the German
American population and vote in the
following states:
Iron County register., 1899-10-26
MERE PARTY BRAG.
Republicans Rejoicing Over the
Effects of the Magic Ding
ley Law.

The appearance of the September
statement of our foreign commerce by
| the treasury department statistician is
made the occasion for another hurrah
for the great advance agent of prosper
| ity and the party which furnishes forth
the show.
According to the statement the ex-
cess of exports over imports of mer-
chandise during the nine months end
ing September 80 was $317, ,292, ,402. This
is about $76, 100000 less than the excess
of merchandise exports during the same
time last year. But the administration
economists hasten to assure us that this
decrease in the favorable balance is not
due to any falling off in merchandise
exports, which, in fact, have increased
S33, ,750. 900, but to the increase in inn
ports, which amounts to $110,360,000.
And curiously these economists pro-
fess to be delighted at this proof that
the Dingley law has not decreased our
imports. Why should they be delighted
at this is mystery, seeing that the
avowed purpose of the Dingley law was
to exclude foreign goods. When boast
ing of the miraculous efficacy of the law
why should they also boast that it has
failed in the accomplishment of its chief
purpose?
The truth obviously is that the natu-
raj effect of the law is to reduce imports,
and the fact that they have increased
only proves that the country in its rapid
recovery from panic depression takes
more foreign goods in spite of duties
intended to be prohibitory.
The monthly hurrah over the COM
merce reports reminds one of the al.
most equally absurd hurrah over the
debt statements when Grant was presi.
dent. These statements showed con-
siderable reduction of the debt nearly
every month, and the republican papers
and orators all held them aloft and
shouted: See what our president is do
ingi How our administration is pay
ing the debt! Thepeoplewho were earn
ing the money by hard days work were
given no credit; all the glory went to
the administration.
So now Mckinley and his magic tar
iff are given all the credit for short
crops in Europe and Asia and for the
rain and sunshine and labor which have
enabled us to supply the wants of the
rest OF In6 WOTlu at ROOu prices. IN
deed, the men of to-day are even more
absurd in their worship of parties and
statutes than were the men of a quarter
of century ago.--Chicago Chronicle.
President Mckinney, in his part
ing speech at Chicago had something
to say about the ship building interests
of the United States, and he said moro
large ocean steamers are under con-
struction in the United States than ever
before" and he dwelt upon the fact that
ship plants are being enlarged and new
establishments are being projected.
Yet Hanna, backing n shipbuilding
subsidy, will attempt to force a scheme
through congress requiring taxpayers
to go down in their pockets and pay in
the shape of subsidies millions annual.
~ to Hanna's shipping trust. The pres-
ident and Senator Hanna failed to con-
fer before the Chicago speech. h.-Nash.
vile American.
Iron County register., 1899-10-26
Nn Such Thing.

There is no such thing as good trust
and cannot be until human nature un-
derRoes radical change.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-03-10

NEW YORK, March 9.-The general
cotton goods situation at first hands
shows fully as strong tone MS before.
but there has this week been some fall
ing off In the volume of business act
uulIy passing. There are bids for large
quantities of staples floating around
but buyers do not come up 10 practi-
cable prices In such instances with any
celebrity. Advances In quotations are
less frequent. There Is no giving way
In any direction, but the upward move
ment ss less pronounced than OF late.
Cotton hosiery and underwear In better
demand than of late. No change In the
wooden goods division.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-03-10
tE+o GERMANY'S CRACK SHIP
nha just suddenly govern


us free to deal with Spain alone. The
countries of.Eu:ope declared their neu-
trdltty, and they maintained It.
Still after Dewey went 10 Manila there
were number OF foreign warships In
the bay. ayowedly for the protection OF
their people there. There was no tr!c-
ton with any OF them except Germany.
Admiral Dewey felt Obliged to tell the
German Admiral that 1t would be nee
essary for him 10 keep out OF his line
OF fire. This has very generally been
Interpreted as a threat, but It was not
II was simply declaration OF prin-
ciple OF international law. When two
countries are at war, neutral nations
may have their warships In the neigh
Aarhood Of hostile operations. but they
must maintain absolute neutrality
hey cGn rot as neutrals interfere with
the military operations OF a bell!gerent
II citizens Or subjects of q neutral ma
Ton choose to remain In q city In a
state Of siege, they can not on that ac-
count Interfere with the rights OF bellI-
Eeren,s. 1t Is customary. indeed. when
city Is about to be bombarded 10
Antity non-combntants TO get out of the
way. But even this Is not necessary
Wien the besie2ers are themselves Mt
tackled or when any other military nee
ehsity compels them 10 act at once.
There was a time last summer when
thstre' were more German warshlps In
Manila. Bay than were required for any
protection that might lcGltimately be
demanded by German residents. There
WIS bumpt!ousness about the opera
Hons OF Admiral Won Dicdrichs that
was not justified by the conditions then
existing. Admiral Dewey, however.
knew his rights as the representative OF
d oeliIgerent. He raised no unnecessary
issues with the foreign warships. But
ne understood perfectly that they had
no right to interfere With him In the
siege OF Manila. When there Was ap-
parent danger that this might happen
Ge told them TO keep out OF his line Of
IRE That ,wns their duty az neutrals.
ma they acted accordingly.
II ought not 10 have been necessary
10Y Dewey to'giye his warning. What
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-03-10
In two pieces, and on accoun. of its tolls
it Is estimated that several thousands OF
dollars In trade has gone to the county
seats Of the adjacent counties.


WASHINGTON. March 0. = Senator
Jones. of Arkansas, chairman of the
national Democratic committee, Is In a
precarious condition owing to his liabIi-
ity to another dangerous attack of heart
trouble at any time. AS is usually the
case In the intervals between attacks Of
this nature he Is getting along very we'll
just now. and to-day was in compare
lively fair condition after a good nights
rest. but he is maintaining the utmost
caution and under strict orders of his
physician is avoiding any exertion. This
Is radical change for man OF Senator
Jones active habits and he naturally
chafes under 1t. His malady, angina
pcctoris, is at best n grave one, and the
outcome never can be foreScen. So far.
however, there have been no untownrd
complications In Senator Jones. case,
and there is strong hope that, with alb
solute quiet and rest. away from his
work FOR considerable period, he may
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-03-10
ADMIRAL Won DIEDRICHS

And his Lack of Tact ut Manila The,
Cause Of Temporary Estrangemcnt
Between Germany and the United
States.
Louisville Courier Journal: Whether
or not high official of the German
Empire has expressed his opinion that
Admiral Won Diedrichs exhibited a lack
OF tact at Manila last summer may very
we'll wait for confirmation. That such
lack was exhibited by the Admiral Is
thoroughly well known, and It requires
no official confirmation. It was. no
doubt 70 Diedrlchs' want OF tact that
was due the impression that Germany
proposed TO interfere. at Manila.
We need not impose upon ourselves
any illusions as to the general senti-
men. OF Europe at the time we went to
war with Spain. 1t was distinctly hos
tile TO us. There was a very general
feeling that the proper thing to do was
70 form q European coalition to protect
Spain from an attack from the United
States. There would probably not have
been single case OF dissent from this
course had Great Britain consented.
Why Great Britain chose to stand our
friend in this emergency 1t Is not nee
cssary. to inquire. The fact Is that she
refused TO Join any combination against
the United States. People say that she
was actuated by selfish reasons. Per-
haps she was, but her support was Just
as valuable to us at the time as II II
had proceeded from pure aItruisnl. It
settled the whole question OF European
interference, for the reason that the
combined navles OF Great Britain and
the United States rule the multHudln-
Gus seas. 1t was 50 In 1923, when Can
ming, the. British statesman, and Mon
roe. the American President, imposed
the Monroe doctrine on the Holy al
lance, and brought the schemes OF that
combination to naught. Great Britain
md the United States had the power
10 prevent the shipment Of any hostile
troops from Europe to America. They
were strong enough to sink all the war;
ships that the Holy alliance could put
upon the ocean. This Is the rationale
OF the Monroe doctrine. 1t was put for
gestion Of Great Britain. and 1t repres-
cuted the. wishes OF the people who
ruled the ocean.
Just the same thing happened in 1898.
When 1t was proposed that combined
Europe should discipline the big repub-
lie OF the Western Hemisphere, Great
Britain said: No. That answer was
absolutely conclusive. Europe could
only fight US on the water or on our
coasts. and with Great Britain on our
side 1t could not fight us at all. So the
No OF Great Britain settled the uues-
ton OF European interference, and left