Iron County register., 1900-02-22

to justify such practices; nor do wish
to make fish of one class aDd fowl OF
another.
went into an old friends bank the
other day and he saluted me with an
excited assertion that he had lost all
confidence in the q. S. mails. Give
lost several drafts lately; have one
man in Jail for stealing a letter; and
now here's another draft of over $1,000
goner' "Struggle to live! to live,"
replied, The man who can steal mos
is fittest to survive under our style OF
civilization" Now that bankers faith
er came to this state on the heels OF
the Z. S. surveyor and entered the
best lands he could find in several
counties, thus showing both his '.con-
fidence in the country" and his will
ingness to take values that other men
made. Verify, ''chickens will come
home to roost."
We are badly divided here on both
the PHILIPPINE and the South African
war. 1t is more than likely, from
what one hears from his republican
neighbors, tLat Macs mischieveous
policy will secure his promotion from
the presidency to private life. if Hanna
is so foolish as to stick him up for
fgure-head in the coming campaign.
The Democrats, too, must 'look a
leedle oudt." If they cannot incor-
porate in their platform at least the
leading planks of the antitrust plat
form recently adopted in Chicago
there will be third party in the field
that will leave few beyond the "yaller
dog" variety of voters in either of the
old parties, at least in the next cam
paign. and would cripple them largely
in this. Happily there is nothing in
the antitrust declaration that some
Democratic leaders haye not already
committed themselves to, and hence,
if the plutocrats do not capture the
national convention and emasculate it's
expression of principles, the platform
will have the right ring about it.
The expressions one hears here are
generally er parte and colored by ma
tional prejudice. Ez parte because the
speakers are not well informed; and
prejudiced because we do not practice
carrying into national affairs that
! probity and discrimination which we
try to exercise, or at least advocate. in
private affairs. The best view pub
lished here is. perhaps, the temperate
and able article of Thos. G. Shearman
of New York, though he wholly fails
TO mention the Kaffir war and the cir
cumstances that brought it on.
Yesterday your scribe attended the
| funeral of soldier of our civil war,
who had died at the Soldiers Home at
Quincy. He had lived an honest, un-
pretentious man who had been a help
less invalid with consumption for sew
eral years; was a man of the |. 0. o.
f. and of the G.. A. R.; and one could
not help thinking while listening to
the encomiums of 1.-THE minister and
looking over the crowded audience,
which attended from all the other
churches In the town. how it would
have cheered us in 1.-The days that
tried mems souls" to know that our
conduct and deeds would have met
such approval and praise. Nor must
it be omitted that the preacher who
filled the pulpit was man from Mis-
souri,, who was. probably, on the other
side, in sympathy at least. during that
bloody struggle. After the simple
yet touching ceremonies of the g. A.
R., in the church, the remains were
turned over to the Odd Fellows at the
grave. Such scenes and services be-
come more frequent every year as our
heads are whitening.
In all counties in Illinois, not under
township organization. we have to
elect one of three Commissioners of
Highways. and this year clerk and
treasurer, on the first Tuesday in
March, and so we are holding primar-
les and running party politics into
these petty offices. Your scribe has
served his fourth consecutive term as
clerk and treasurer and is put up
again. but as he never asked a nomi-
nation or a vote and both parties sup
port him, he has no cause for anxiety.
Feb. 10, 1900. VIM CAMM.
CASToR REA,
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