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Iron County register., 1900-05-31
Letting the Cat Loose.

Mark Hanna, according to the New
York Herald, says that fofr years ago
we were practically u hermit nation.
isolated from all world forces that
promote industry, trade and COM
merce. The statement is absurd. We
invite Mr.. Hanna to the contemplation
of the reports of our trade. He
adds that our manufacturing capabil
tiles and facilities were beyond our
own needs. That is what the trusts
think. Competition forces prices
down, so they combine, close up sew
eral factories, choke down production.
and then, in the scarcity thus pro-
duced and made possible in part by
the tariff that protects them from
world competition, raise the prices.
Mr.. Hanna adds that the home de-
mand was enormous. but that manu-
facture for home demand does not
add to general wealth. Is it so? Then
it seems to us the Hon. Mark has
let very large cat out of the
bag. With our high protective tariff
we hand over our home markets
to our home manufacturers. The
market thus at their mercy is sim
ply plucked by them. 1t adds to their
special wealth, witness Carnegie and
Frick, with their yearly millions of
profits. But their enrichment, ac-
cording to Mr.. Hanna, is at the ex-
pense of the rest of the country.-Iu-
dianapolis Sentinel.
Iron County register., 1900-05-31

gett's little boy. I've oeen waitn' all
day for an answer. 1t hasn't come
yet, but haven't give up"
The little room was quiet save for
the soft rustic when Diantha Berry
turned leaf. At the top of the new
page she began again:
I've give up. Leah amt goin' to
answer my letter. It's most night
now, and sent it acrost yesterday
mornin' when Mis- Daggett's little
boy went past to school. She don't
want me to come Overland to-mor-
row mornin' they'll bury Little Ben
jie! / shan't ever see his face again!''
1t was like a cry of pain, in little
neat set letters, there on the page.
1t seemed to echo through the room.
The diary slipped to the floor with
a gentle thud. 1t lay there, unno-
ticed, a long while. The twilight
dimmed tonight while Diantha Ber-
ry sat musing. The darkness crept
about her like soft mantle and
wrapped her in. The low creak of
her chair, as she rocked monotonous-
ly, was the only sound in the room.
After awhile she began to talk again
aloud as lonely women do.
Tuesdays Decoration days, 90,
80, yes, Tuesday. To-day's the 27th
O. May. Well, I'm goin' to cut off
some O. my geranium tree blooms and
carry 'em down to Little Benjie Tues
day. They'll look so beautiful-and
Benjie was dreadful fond o. pink flow
ers. ThereIl be enough to make a
Iron County register., 1900-05-31

Seventeen, IS blossoms dropped into
the basket Little Benjie had liked.
Mis- Diantha had a new idea.
I'll cut off % for Little Beniie-
one for every year that the Lor6 let
him stay. I'm glad I thought of it.
Yes. I'll cut off 22."
The great tree geranium, shorn Of
most of its glory, stood in the window,
alone. Diantha had taken her little
basket of flowers and had gone away
down the road. It was at the crooked
elm she stopped. Little Benjie had
always stopped there, years ago.
With sudden distress Diantha thought
of the poor little mother he would
never wave his cap to again.
Poor Leah!" she cried, aloud. The
fountain of her pity was unsealed at
last. The bitterness and anger were
swept away-she forgot, for the mo-
ment, everything but Little Benjie's
mother, alone in her pain. She re-
membered how it had always been
her part to comfort Leah, when they
were little girls together. She would
go back now and comfort her.
Leah" she called at the door, a
minute later. Leah, I've come. You
didn't answer my letter. and mebbe
you don't want me, but I've come.
couldn't help it,
The suffering woman's face was a
study of joy and wonder. The won
der prevailed.
= 81 never got any letter, Diantha,"
she said, slowly. Diantha sprang to-
ward her eagerly.
Not my letter askin' if I could
come over to see little dead Beniie?
Didn't you get that, Leah Swallow?
I sent it acrost by Mis- Daggett's H.
tie boy-and the Lord kno VS. how
eager I waited for the answer! I
couldn't seem to give it up
II never got it, Diantha. Do you
think I wouldn't have answered?
You don't know how 1 waited. tool"
Leah, Leah-dear child. what
dreadful mistake it all was, and how
we've ben sufferin' for it! 1 might
have comforted you little mite-and
l needed comfortin', too, Leah. Is it
too late now? See. dear. I was goin'
down to decorate Little Benjie's grave
with my geraniums. There's 22-one
for every year he lived. Put your face
in 'em, Leah; see how,sweet they arer
I'll carry them down for you, dear
they're yours, now. You can send me.
because you can't go, and Little Benjie
will understand
She had drawn the slight figure into
her arms, and was rocking it back
and forth as mothers rock babies.
The long misery was over. After all,
it had only been the forgetfulness of
a little child.
After awhile she took up the basket
of flowers and started again for the
cemetery; but at the door Leah called
her back half timidly.
There's something I'd like. Dian
tha," she said. "If-if you wouldn't
mind arranging the flowers kind of in
the shape of a flag. I wanted to.
Benjie was so fond of his flag. Am
ME Hamilton Donnell, in Country
Gentleman.
Iron County register., 1900-05-31
ADaIpH PATTERSON
A TRIBUTE TO BRYAN.
The Democratic Leader Is No Quitter
and Remains True to His
Political Faith.

The New York Sun, in a generous
moment, pays the following tribute
to William ]. Bryan:
1.-THE Bryan of 1900 stands before
theepeople as man with the boldness
of honest convictions. The sincerity
and courage of such an attitude are
admira BILE, however deplorable the
convictions may be. He is not quit
ter. The American people hate quit
ter; we have had the testimony of
Hon. Samuel Fessenden that the AL
mighty hates a quitter, too.
.'Mr. Bryan has resisted to the pres
ent time all the efforts on the time
servers to make hiTn an accomplice in
the suppression of the main issue
which bore him upward to the COM
manding position he occupies IN his
party's councils. He is using his un-
equaled power to hold the democracy
to its declared creed, notwithstand-
ing the temptations of supposed expe-
diency.
1T is a somewhat curious circum-
stance that Mr.. Bryan should prove
to be more stalwart for free silver
than Mr.. Cleveland was for tariff re-
form.
Indeed, Bryan is showing in 1900
that he really possesses the moral
stamina and unyielding adherence to
principle which the mugwumps of ten
or dozen years ago thought they had
discovered and chiefly admired in
their idealized prophet.
ssIn the case of Mr. Rryan the mart
of honesty is likewise the part of po-
litical wisdom. He has been urged
to ALLEVIATE several millions of voters
for the sake of pleasing a few hum
dreds of thousands"
Iron County register., 1900-05-31
No More FooIery About II.

I am glad the issue has at last been
made. am glad to know that the
republican party has made its last
running retreat; that they have taken
their true stand on the financial ques-
tion, hoisted their flag the colors Of
which cannot now be changed. and
that they must leave it to be upheld
or hauled down by the American peo-
pie in 1900. / am glad that
the issue is boiled down to its last
analysis and that the question has
been made whether this government
shall adopt the single gold standard.
pure and simple, or not invite the
issue and willingly submit it to the
American people.-Congressman Ell
iah r. Lewis. of Georgia.
Iron County register., 1900-05-31
A GENTLE REBUKE.
A ThOughtless Mans Stupid Practical
Joke Played ON a Lady
Musician.

The following little anecdote, says
the Philadelphia Times, is told by
man who, while spending some time
in the different cities of Italy, used
to frequent, in one particular place, a
the main room was a large marble
slab, which covered the pipes that
heated the place, and the tables were
arranged around this.
There was always fine music there
in the evening, made by a man and
his wife. She played on a stringed
instrument and after several selections
she carried around a little fiigree sill
YER basket, in which she collected coins
from the guests.
One night, as the music began,
man seated at one of the tables held
up a gold coin. The woman smiled,
and the man dropped it on the mar
BILE slab that covered the hot pipes.
When she made her collection she went
last for the gold coin, but as she
picked it up, she gave a cry and
dropped it again, for it had become
heated on the slab. The husband
glared at the man, but did not say
word.
The next evening, when the musi.
clans appeared, the woman's hand was
bandaged and she had some difficulty
in managing her instrument. When
she made her collection, she avoided
the man who had played the practical
joke on her; and night after night, she
did the same thing. In vain he offered
her aDoTopies and other coins but she
merely bowed and smiled in passing
him, and never allowed him to give her
the slightest donation. Of course one
can imagine the offenders feelings;
but who can find fault with the wom-
ans gentle yet dignified rebuke?-Phil-
adelphia Times
Iron County register., 1900-05-31

seem to guard TIE silent battle lines;
Oer all the land, from sea to sea, the gar
lands softly fall
On those who sleep upon the plain or on
the mountain wall;
The gentle ringdove softly cooes where
once the grass was red,
And tears and blossoms mingle DER the
Nations sacred dead.
For them no more the stirring fight, for
them no chargers neigh
The blades they drew where Death was
king a Nation wreathes to-day;
The bushes in Virginia's wales wave Ger
them fair and free,
And seraphs guard their bivouac from At
lanta to the sea;
common country hastes to pay its trib-
ute fair of fiow'rs,
For May tor them her treasures yields
from all her fragrant bow'rs,
The Southland and the Northland meet be-
side the crystal rill
Beneath the flag that won the day on grim
San Juan's Hill.
Columbia's heart beats fast to-day DER
every silent line
AS she mingles the palmetto with the
branches of the pine;
She looks and in a vision sees marching
line of gray
And on each flank a dash of blue, and then
she turns away;
My Children,' cries Columbia. 'See! In
/ hear again their martial tread, hear the
rnuffied drum;
No NorthI No Southi One Union meath
the flag that made us free,
They crown their hero comrades sleeping
now 'twixt sea and sea-"
The ocean sings requiem to the lands i'm
mortal brave,
The rose of peace blooms sweetly upon
every sacred grave;
They fought and died beneath our flag
from Sacramento's pines
To where the war-cloud hovered DER Ma
nila's battle lines;
They sleep the soldiers dreamless sleep
where clear the rivers run
Through lands of peace and plenty to the
mighty seas of sun;
The blue-bird trills her matohless lays
from out the cannon's mouth
Which guarded grimly long ago the gate
way of the South.
In peace they rest this holy day-Colum-
bias gallant dead,
For them again the banners wave, for
them the tear is shed;
Their campfires burn no longer on the
mountain and the plain,
But where they sleep beneath the flag the
blossoms fall like rain;
To them the Nations boundless love goes
out from shore to shore,
They fought the fight they kept the faith;
they're ours forevermore;
A grateful Nation bows her head beneath
the skies of May,
And Columbia strews her garlands on her
own Memorial Day.
Il. c. Harbaugh, in Ledger Monthly.
Iron County register., 1900-05-31

Over 10000 men are said to have
been thrown out of work by the new
departure of the steel and wire trust.
The tobacco and sugar trusts have also
dispensed with good deal of assist
ance. When the presidential cam
paign opens there will be a good deal of
analyzation of the claim that the trust
system assures continuous employment
for all who want to work at high wages.
The truth is that the success of the
trusts depends largely on the cheap
ness of labor, and the trust managers
get their work done at as low a fig
ure as possible, and when they get
overstocked they discharge men with
cut compunction. There is no senti-
ment about these gentlemen.
Iron County register., 1900-05-31
FOR LITTLE
@BENJlE@
Decoration Dey Story.

eipht-thirty-nine!" Diantha Berry
cried, delightedly. The level rays of
the late afternoon sunshine sifted
through the close branches of the
great tree geranium and made an &C.
centric tracery in lines of light on
her plain face. The splendid plant
stood head and shoulders above her,
and its topmost leaves swept the
whitewashed ceiling. Its clusters of
rosy pink petals peeped out blushing-
ly, all over it.
Across a narrow space of yard little
Leah Swallow put on her glasses and
tried to count the blossoms, too. Her
pale, lean face was wistfui with long
ing. On her own window-sill pot of
stunted cactus grew.
It was late May, and the tiny village
.sband" down the street a little way
was practicing the"S Spangled Ban
ner" ambitiously. It was hired to go
to a little distant town to play on
Memorial day. There was only one
soldiers grave at home, and the peo-
pie had never made any observance
of the day there. It was of that one
soldiers grave that little Leah Swal-
low was thinking-and Diantha Ber-
~, across the yard. But it was Leah
who was crying.
By and by the great tree geranium's
petting ended; Diantha went back to
her sewing at the other window.
81 declare, I believe / can smell fni-
ment," she said, aloud. LEANS got
another of her spells of rheumatism,
/ guess. She uses dreadful smelly
Iiniment, and the winds this way. /
can smell it as sure as I live"
A sudden memory made her grim
features relax into a smile. She was
thinking how Leah used to say-when
they were bits, knee-high-that she
could smell Mis- Job Daggett's boiled
dinner round two corners. Her talent
for smelling had developed early.
The band struck up the Red, White
and Blue" "and the faint rhythm of the
music set Diantha Berry's feet tap
ming. Across the strip of brown
Grass. it sent Leah Swallows head
down into her open hands.
"Not that-I can't let 'em play
that!" she sobbed, desolately. THAT
was Benjie's tune. 1t don't seem as
if anybody else had any right to 1t
but Beniie. He used to sing 1T when
he wasn't but a speck of a knee-high
boy and played soldier Then, after
ward. when--when it wasn't play, he
marched to that tune away from me-
Why do they keep on playin' it?
Don't they know it makes me see
Beniie right before me now, with his
soldier things on-the handsomest
how that marched away? And. then
%. why don't they remember? Why
don't they remember that BenJle
never marched back to me again p
The tree geranium was weI along
in years, as geraniums grow old, anc
its history was minutely told in Dian
tha,s diary. Just the number OF
blossoms it had had last year-and
the year before-was set down there
with auxiliary remarks.
Iron County register., 1900-05-31
GOLD, NOT LIBERTY.
Greed, Infamous, Detestable, Soul
Destroying, the Inspiration
OF the ROer War.

Many times since the beginning OF
Great Britain's brutal and greedNin-
spired war upon the two little repub-
lies the pretext that the course was
taken by the empire to protect the
uitlanders from oppression and secure
their rights has been made, and was
again reiterated in Salisbury's reply
to the Boer appeal for peace. This
pretext, says the Illinois State Jour
nal, has been shattered time and
again, but nowhere more convincing
ly than in the message of John Dill
Ion, the Irish parliamentary leader,
sent to the Marquette club of Kan
sas City, to be read at its annual BAN
quet.
As stated by the Times, of Kansas
City, Mr.. Dillon cites in particular one
incontestable fact showing that, al
though England, through the lip serv-
ice of Colonial Secretary Chamber
lain, constituted herself tthe cham
pion of the uitlanders"-yet, side by
side with the burghers fighting to
keep back the British invaders are
found these same uitlanders-Cer-
mans, Irishmen, Frenchmen, BelgiAns
and even Englishmen.
This stubborn fact scatters to the
four winds Great Britain's pharisaic
pretext. Greed, infamous, detestable,
soul destroying, liberty numbering
greed, is the root and inspiration of
this infamous war. 1t is the Beers
gold mines England is after, and she
will put them into the NAV of her
syndicates, no matter if the butchery
of every one of $4,000 freemen and pa
triots that stand in her way must be
done in the accomplishment of her
y,lIruose
Iron County register., 1900-05-31
How 1t In Settled.

The republicans are fond of saying
that the money question is settled.
Yes, it is settled, just like the tariff
question is settled, like the foreign
policy is settled, like the army ques-
ton is settled, like the Porto Rican
question is settled, like the rule of
the trusts is settled, like Imperialism
is settled, like all the iniquities perpe-
trated by republican legislators are
settled, or to gum it all up. like the
rule of Mark Hanna is settled. The
next election win show them that
several things are still far from be-
ing settled.
Iron County register., 1900-05-31
Almost every republican sena

Almost every republican senator
is to be delegate at large from his
state to the national convention. They
are the ones whom Hanna has select
ed to do the work of the convention.
He knows them, and can depend upon
them. Hanna seems to have a poor
opinion of the members of the house.
He cannot manage them as easily as
he controls senator's. Some of them
feel obliged to consult their constitu-
ents. If there were no house of rep
resentatives, but only a senate and a
president, Hanna would be quite
happy. They he could govern the
country with facility and Dispatch.
Boston Herald
Iron County register., 1900-05-31
Strikes are indubitaple eyidene

Strikes are indubitaple evidence
of dissatisfaction on the part { { work.
men, The toilers of the land are real
izing more and more that they are not
getting anything like as much pros
perity" as the trusts are getting. They
are realizing that the whole effect of
legislation enacted by the republican
party and signed by Mckinley is in
favor of the man with millions already
accumulated, and not in favor of the
man who has skilled hands and will
ingness to work for the support OF him.
self and his family Helena Independ-
ent.
Iron County register., 1900-05-31
Set a Patriotic Example.

The glory we remember we are to
hand down unimpaired. The next
generation needs the example of IA
theirs as well as forefathers.-BostoD
Congregationalist-
Iron County register., 1900-05-31
Literary Ornaments.

"What is library, pap
"a library, Jimmy, is what a man
has when he gets together an awful
lot of books that he never has time
to read. Chicago Record.
Iron County register., 1900-05-31

Let Memorial Day be hallowed;
And the parent, widow, child,
AS they gather where are resting
What to them death has despoiled.
Feel that with them it's BETTING
Thus to spend the time apart,
With the dead, who lie around them.
And the sorrows of the heart.
II. NJ. Thompson
Iron County register., 1900-05-31
McKinler rnar nAt !

President Mckinley may not be
directly responsible for the strikes
all over the country, but the man
who assumes credit for favorable busi-
ness conditions cannot shirk bla1ne
for unfavorable business conditions
st. Louis Republic
Iron County register., 1900-05-31
ATE In lSUl
GOIn
OPPOSITION.

1.-The table shows a possible major
ity of only two for gold, over oppo-
sition votes, including Kyle, who has
declared his position by vote upon the
Porto Rican amendment. If the
states of Illinois and New Jersey,
which went democratic in 1892, should
happen. to elect democratic legisla-
lures this fall, the small majority for
gold might be reversed. And when
the analysis is carried into the class
of senator's retiring in 1908, 1t viii
be found that Deboe, of Kentucky;
Kyle, of South Dakota; Pritchard, of
North Carolina, and Wellington, of
Maryland, with others in less doubt
full states, will retire. possibly to
make way for men of opposite politi-
cal faith and bound by chains of par
ty regularity, further decreasing the
strength of the gold men in that
event"
Iron County register., 1900-05-31
~ SN q G . |
. (oLUMBIkS
MEMORlAL DAN

THERE stately trees
beneath the sun
I h eir emerald
foliage spread
And the rivers seek
the ocean, sleep
Columbia's hero
dead;
No bugle blast awakes
them now, no war
cry shakes the
pines,
Iron County register., 1900-05-31

The Boer envoys now in Washington
are giving emphasis to the pro-British
attitude of the administration and the
pro-Boer sentiment of the people.
They are fine sturdy trio of Drawn
and intellect. Vessels, one of the three.
Is farmer and ranchman, who. ac-
cording TO old residents of Washing
ton, looks. acts and talks like Abraham
Lincoln At the enormous Grand
opera honse meeting on the night of
the 20th. ne made short, simple, pa
thetic speech, not over ten minutes in
length, which fairly took his audience
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-06-15
SENSATIONAL REPORT.
II Ia Said That the Boer Envoys Will Ask
President Mckinley to Annex the South
African Republics.

Omaha, Neb., June 12.-Peace En-
voy Vessels, in "A confidential talk
with one of the best known men of
Omaha, said the Beers would make a
proposal to the United States look
ing to annexation of the Dutch re-
publics. The matter has been under
serious consideration for weeks. 1t has
been urged upon them that by so do
ing, although they would give up their
present independence, they would be-
come part of the greatest and freest
republic on earth. and would be sure
measure of civil liberty. Annexation
of foreign countries has several pre-
cedents. notably that of Texas and re-
Gently that of Hawaii. In the case of
Texas the proposition was once made
and rejected and later accepted. In
the case of Hawaii, after the treaty
of annexation had been delayed the
end was accomplished by legislative
enactment, which requires merely a
majority of both houses of congress.
The attitude of President Mckinley
is still to be sounded. nor has the
proposition been submitted formally
to Secretary Hay, but there is no
doubt it will be submitted this week.
The fact that congress is no longer
in session would leave the decision
entirely with the president and his
cabinet.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-06-15
A SECRET ORGANIZATION.
Filipino Junta at Manila Has Formed q
Society Which Amounts Almost to
Governments.

Manila, May 13.-[Correspondence
of the Associated Press. IF we were
fighting an army the work would be
comparatively easy" said Gen. Mac
Arthur, in speaking of the situation
which confronted him when he as
sumed the Office of governor general
The report had come from Gen.
Young that Tinio and Aguinaldo were
gathering a force in the Benguet
mountains where they had been
hunted and scattered five months be-
fore. The military were hoping that
Tinio would form another army. be-
cause an army can be located and fol-
lowed, and if it will try to make a
stand can be defeated, but such good
fortune is improbable. What Gen.
Macarthur has. to fight is secret or
ganiZatiOn which amounts almost to a
government, which exercises power to
some extent and enforces it's DEGREES
over all of Luzon and most of the
other islands, which collects taxes
here in Manila and even gives re-
ceipts for duties paid on the cargo
and of native boats passing up the
rivers in tho suburbs
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-06-15
THE CHURCH IS BARRED.
SpaIn's Old-Time Auxiliary In Governins
the Philippine Has No Standing with
New United States Commission.

Manila, June 12-Judge William H
Taft and his colleagues of the Phil
fppine civil commission were beset
during their first week in Manila by
3 multitude of callers of all nation
alities, professions and interests, who
presented a bewildering assortment
of recommendations touching milf
tary and civil policies. The commits
sioners admit that, while they antici-
pated an enormous task, the complex
ity and difficulty of the problems and
conditions are well nigh staggering.
One of the foremost questions is how
and from what material to organize
civil force with which gradually to
supercede the army as a governing
machine. SPANS auxiliary, the
church, is barred from consideration
American experience with the natives
discourages the hope of honest gov
eminent through them until gener-
alton or more have eradicated the re-
suits of Spain's tutelage.