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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-01-25

to look above the superstitious ideas of
his people. and when he returned home,
his education complete, he dared to
give expression to his radical ideas;
this was the method taken to convince
him that conservatism was the best
policy" He evidently learned the last
lesson well, for, when telling ice the
story, he said: Watch me tomorrow,
and you will see that l dance more
vigorously than any other Acoma In
diam And so he did. bat the religious
influence of it was somewhat lost by
the fact that each time l passed him
and he thought he was unobseryed by
his people, he turned and gravely
'winked" at me.
Just as sun is about to set all the Wis
iting Indians are called together and
the chief shaman or medicine man
throws one after another among them
the gifts that have been placed on the
shrine during the day. There IS d great
scramble for these gifts. for not only
are they deemed OF value. but the
prayers and Thanksgiving of the donors
TO the Great Sun are supposed 10 &C.
company the gifts, and thus bring
blessings and good luck to the recip
tents. G. WHARTON JAMES.
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Now watch the dance. Tie me,

now watch int dance. 1Ne men
come two by two, followed at yard
or so distance by two women, side by
side, men rafting, women gently
| shaking their pine twigs. The men
move their lower limbs in a wild,
| quick, hippety hop fashion that is as
| impossible to describe as it is to imi-
| tate, for l verify believe a French
dancing master would strive in vain
to learn that step" The women, on
the other hand, follow the men in a
kind of slow, gentle, shutting move
| ment, merely advancing few inches
at each shuttle toward and scarce
" lifting their feet from the ground,
but keeping perfect time to the ges-
ticula+ing antics and frog-like jump
ings of the men.
BY the side of the dancers is band
of men who form the chorus. These
are singing with a iusty yigor never
excelled by the congregation at Il
negro camp meeting. Their leader
gesticulates with hands and arms,
waving them to and fro, tossing them
upwards and thus invoking the favors
of the sun god and Those Above upon
the Ounce. Some of their music is
wild and crude, but one song WAS
sung with precision and accuracy OF
tone and attack that would have COM
PEELED admiration from the most crit
zeal of eastern audiences.
Now the dancers face each other,
and march and countermarch, then
they march in open order, some go
ing north and others south. Several
1onaaH with
feet time and order, until the dancers
are very weary and return to their I'M
derground "kiva'' for n rest. Then
the dancers from the ether kiva come
forth and keep up the ceremonies u =
til they are ready to retire. And thus
the afternoon is occupied.
Here and there on the housetops
groups Of interested spectators may
be seen, clothed in their picturesque
garments, highly colored, white and
variesated, and almost as interesting
because of their pronounced absorb
ton in the ceremony as the dancers
themselves.
Do you see that energetic dancer
there? He seems to be the most sim
cere and earnest worshiper of the lot.
And yet a few years ago that young
man was taken into one of the kivas in
the dead of the night, bound hand and
foot and gagged, and whipped with
cruel rawhide scourge until his LAGER
ated back flowed blood, because he had
ridicuied and scoffeG at this religious
service of his people. He had been to
one of the United States governments
Indian schools, where he was taught
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-01-25
Bryan ON Expansion.

Il have for one year been discussiI 8
imperialism. and / have tried to dis
tinguish between such an extension.
of the nations limits as would not
change the character of the govern
ment and an expansion which converts
a homogeneous republic into hetero-
geneous empire. When the annexation
of. any given territory is under con-
siGeration the question is whether the
people want to come in, and, second
whether the people are capable of shar-
ing in the government and destiny of
this nation. / believe that all people
are capable of governing themselves,
and that the Filipinos should be al
lowed to govern themselves, but l
don't think that they are sufficiently
advanced to share with us the gov
eminent of the ration. If the Phiip-
pine islands are annexed the people
there must either become citizens or
subjects. l am not willing to admit
them as citizens, and do not believe
that republic can have subjects;
therefore / want this nation to give
them independence and then protect
them from outside interference, Each
proposed annexation must be consie-
ere9 on its own merits, but in consider
iLg these merits the condition OF the
people should have more weight than
position or commercial
advantage. w. J. Bryan.
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Thrift in TIC Crnnrtc CITY.

y good story is TOLD by an English
tourist who stayed for week in a;art-
ments in Aberdeen. the "GIs5ije City,
II had heard" he says. OF tie carr
folk of Aberdeen. and my experience
short though it was. proved that rII-
NOR had rightly estimated the char
acter of the people. The streets are
granite, the houses are granite. ard the
inhabitants are granite: and when
they have a granite baby they give it
ball of granite. for fear il should
break any other toy. had granite
landlady. and one day when was GO
ing fishing her son volunteered to &c-
company me. l provided the lU3ch.
the rods. and the lines: he provided! the
worms-dug them up in neighbor's
garden with borrowed spade. caught
10 trout; he ate the lunch ard broke my
best rod. When we got home l mace
a present OF II of the fish to my graz
lite landlady and asked her to cook ;kc
other two for my tea. She did-aEd
charged me threepence for the drip
ping in which they were fried!"-Lon-
don Tit-Bits.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-01-25
THE TRUSTS ARE NOT AFRAID,
President McKinley's Attempt to Mis-.
lead the People and Cater to
the Peoples Enemies.

No man can read that portion of the
presidents message relating to trusts
and say what it means. The sentences
flow smoothly and the words glitter
with meaningless generalities; but
there is nothing in them. They are as
sounding brass and tinkling cymbaL
On reading them one gets the impress
sion that the president meant to catch
the antitrust sentiment without hurt
ing the trusts. He is like the man out
west who sought the bubble reputation
by loudly proclaiming his intention to
catch a troublesome bear, but care
fully refrained from going near the
haunts of the animal.
The trusts are not afraid. They know
their friends. They will hardly begin
to put up their shutters and go out OF
business while Mr.. Mckinley remains in
office. Words do not scare them. In 1890
Mr.. Bryan said that the trusts and CON-
binations did not oppose him because
they were afraid he would not enforce
the law; their anxiety arose from a
feeling of certainty that he would give
them the laws limit. They were not
looking for justice. What they wanted
was a man who could gull the public
with meaningless words, and let the
law rest quietly on the statute books
and they got him.
There is plenty of law to put down
the trusts if it were enforced. The gun
is loaded and the bear is in sight, but
the president shoots in the opposite
direction. Then he shouts for more
law, more ammunition. He wants to
make the people think that he is in
a frenzy to kill the bear; but all the
time he winks the other eye, and the
bear smiles broadly. 1t is beautiful
farce, and some of the people, as honest
Abe Lincoln said, are fooled by it. But
not all of them. - Mississippi Valley
Democrat.
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THE MASK THROWN OFF.
Mckinley Proud of the Fact That &c
Fooled His Party An
1896.

"Nge are on a gold basis, and we mean
to stay there" exultingly exclaimed Mr.
Mckinley in his talk at Ackley, Ia.
on his recent trip through the west
Mr.. Mckinley seems proud OF the
fact that he and his party sue
ceeded in fooling the American people
in 1896. He was nominated and elected
Tor counted inn on platform protested
ly friendly to bimetallism and pledging
the party to use every possible effort to
secure it by international agreement
Subsequently 100000 of the peoples
money was spent in sending commits
sion of pleasure-seekers to Europe on q
pretended search for international
bimetallism, but in fact as part of the
general movement to deceive and
swindle the people. The gold standard
was the thing aimed at and intended
from the start. But the declaration for
international bimetallism deceived
many free silver republicans and kept
them in the party. Now the president
and his advisers think they are suffi-
GENTLY intrenched behind the breast
works of the British money system and
imperialism to unmask and boldly hoist
the yellow flag. But they may find
themselves mistaken. The people have
lost none of their interest in the money
issue. Every principle claimed by the
democrats in the campaign of go has
been proved true by the progress of
events, and no bimetallist has changed
his mind regarding the real issue. On
the contrary, every man who has stud
led the money question since 1896 has
become bimetallist by the irrefutable
logic and the common sense and justice
of the principle. 1t is vastly stronger
now among the masses of the people
than it was in 1896, and from this time
forward silver republicans will have no
cause to remain in their party under
the delusive hope of international BIZ
metaliism.
Mark Hanna returns from Europe
proclaiming that the English govern
ment is better than ours. The bank
syndicate asserts that the English
money system is the best in the world.
The administration stands by England
in her unjust war on the African re-
publics, and has sent an army of 10000
men and As warships to subdue the only
republic in Asia, this stupendous war
being declared and carried ON wholly
without authority private war of
Mark Hanna and the president. All
these lawless and scandalous measures
are part and parcel of the conspiracy
to fasten the gold standard shackles ir-
revocably on the limbs of the common
people of the world, and make them
serfs of the ruling plutocratic class.
Backing this movement we have an
army of 100000 regulars" armed and
drilled as grim menace to our people
and republican institutions. 1t is time
for the people to act.-Mississippi Val
ley Democrat.
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MIR. CAGES DEFENSE.
ic Administration Does Not Seer
to BE Wrong Now.

That may be a very fine defense OF
the practice of depositing many mill
lions of public money in banks which
Mr.. Gage has sent to congress in re-
Spouse TO certain resolutions of in
4uiry. But the question remains
whether Mr.. Gage has completely re-
futed certain speech made by Will
lam Mckinley on certain occasion.
That speech was made when Cleye-
land was president the first time, and
that was some years ago. But princi-
pies do not change with the times,
though some people change their
principles with the times. At that
time Mr.. Mckinney declared that it was
all wrong to deposit over $4,000 eco
of the pubic money in national banks.
And he grew red in the face with right
eous indignation as he thought of the
such a disposition of the public money
implied.
If it was wrong then to deposit some
S61,O00,0OG of the public money in banks
it is certainly wong now to do the
same thing with over $4,000, GOO of the
pubic money. Mr.. Mckinley was then
very Impressive in his declaration that
If there was any more money in the
public treasu ry than was required to
meet current expenditures it should
rot be handed over to banks to be
loaned for their private profit, but
Shcu-G be applied to the purchase or re-
aer.ption of United States bonds in
craer TO save interest to the dear peo-
pie.
Vel, Mr.. Gage tells us there is
surplus now, and we all know that
there are bonds Of the United States
that can be bought in the market. Then
why does not Mr.. Mckinley order Mr..
Gage TO go into the market and buy
them and save interest to the dear peo-
pie instead of turning over $S7 100000
Of money to pet banks" for them to
lend out for their OWL private profit?
Was Mr., AcNiniey demagogue 10
years ago or is he wicked!y coddling
some pet banks now? Let US hear
Chj"ago Chronicle.
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you. This place we'd got into wUz
what they call floral hail at the county
fair. All the stuff we'd been eatiu' VIZ
the exhibitions of the best biscuits, the
best watermelons. the best cake. the
best butter, an so on. OF tie Who
county. You know tie q".lt had
around me. 1t WIZ made out of atouT
million little pieces o silk. IN
woman that made it put in IS ysi.ra
on it, an it WIZ supposed to bt wcrti.
$500. That all come cut at the -ial."
Well, there must a been u,a
crowd o grangers around there" su:-
cestcd the listener, after he had leane;!
back and laughed joyfui!v.
Honest. it's Il wonder they Didn't
kill us. We come mighty near busJin'
up the whole show By eatin' them cX-
hibitions. When they led us OUT O.
the grounds an took US in town to the
Jail there wuz a big crowd followed us
an hollered: Lynch EN- String
'em up an few more remarks like
that. That WIZ the one time l WIZ
in a hurry to be in Jail. Do you know
what they made Of it when it came TO
4 trial? Burglary! An do you know
what jeff done? He got up an swore
that I'd hypnotizcd him. He testified
that he didn't want to go into this
buildin' at all, but [ made him by
threatenin' to cast spell over him.
YOU never heard such iyiT' III yGuc
life. They sent him back to jail for
three months an put me over the road
for year. They bieached me .itisy
about right. amt they? That's all
right. Look here
He put his hand into i raveled side
Pocket and brought cut a copy of
Henry Ge01ge's Progress ard Fov-
erty." He made a deeper reach and
found Il brass ''knucl;s' WITH a 1Iinf
head and three staring firrer-holds.
''TEI savin' that for the COON" is
said.AChicacO Daily Record
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WHEN FARMERS PRosPERED.
Prices Were Highest when There
Was q Plentiful supply of
Legal Tender Money.

Under the simple law that prices
are regulated by the quantity of the
money by which they are fixed and
measured, which is as invariable as
any law of nature, acknowledged as
self-evident by all standard writer's
on the subject and established by the
worlds financial experience through
out history, it stands to reason that
the larger supply of standard money
afforded by the volume of the two
metals under bimetallism would di-
rninish its exchange value in relation
to the demand for it and consequently
prices would rise to their old-time
healthy normal level, affording farm
ers fair prices for their products.
From 1865, at the close of war, until
1873, when we had the bimetallic
standard supplemented with bounti-
full supply of legal tender greenbacks
as medium of exchange, the gold
price of farmers products was the
highest in the history of our country.
National Rural
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CLEMENTS OF THE PRESS.

imperialism battles have been
Just about as costly as useless.-Chi-
cago Democrat.
1t is understood that Mark Hanna
will write the republican platform and
act as the republican national conven-
tion.-Indanapolis Sentinel.
The report that Mr.. Bryan has
beer converted to favoring a tariff on
WOOL needs to be taken with liberal
pinches of salt. If tariff on wool is
right no tariff can be wrong.--N. \.
WCrld.
-Secratary Root says that he will
not be u candidate for vice president.
Inasmuch as this is understood to agree
with Mr.. flanna's present View of the
matter, il is probably coYrect.-Albany
Argus.
An administration paper refers
TO Col. Bryan as "a stalwart visionist,
whose head is in the Clouds All the
same. the editor forces his reaching
limit in ain endeavcr to give him PEN
jab in the neck.-Denver Post.
-Hanna's losing streak has not yet
left him. He lost majority in the
late Ohio election and had to be con-
tent with beggarly plurality; he lost
his home county and city at that cleo
ton by a vote of nearly two against him
to one for him, and now he has let the
organization of the popular branch of
the Ohio legislature get away from
him.-Helena Independent.
Mr.. Gage willing to have his Off
cial acts investigated by a congress
sional committee? To be sure. What
has Mr.. Gage done that is not Endorsed
bv the administration? And will not
the committee appointed by republic
an speaker be in hearty accord with the
and therefore sure to
declare that Mr.. Gage has acted the
part of a great and good patriot, and
wise nancier?-Omaha World-Herald-
Protection has bred the trusts
that are planting monopoly in every
field of production. and they will, if I'M
checked. abase American citizens to a
condition of political peonage and COM
mercial serfdom. To sweep away the
shadow of this robber doctrine from
American thresholds and American en-
terprise, with all the clouds of oppres-
sion, discrimination and inequality be-
fore the law it has brought in its train.
is one OF the tasks which the democ-
racy Aas set itself.-Kansas City
Times.
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sun DANCE.
He linen Ceremonials Observed by
the Acoma Indians
Although OStensibIy Christians the
PeOpI OF Various Far Western
PuebIos Still Worship the
Orb of Day.
Especial Acona (Ario letter.

Travellers return from India and
tell US of the sun worship of the
Parsees; of the prayers offered to
the rising sun by Gevout citizens of
Bombay. They would lift up their
hands in amGzement and horror were
they told that there are thousands of
sun worshipers in the United States or
America at the present time. And yet
such is the case. Every morning in the
year men and women may be seen
among our sun-worshipers, sprinkling
their sacred meal to the rising sun and
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give to JEFF. He fou1c a match in hss
cioze an struck it, an we saw in front
of Es Fooden shelf covered with pies
an Gales, an all kinds O. cooked stuff.
Tie match only burned for a minute.
but we made out that much. JEFF
found plate O. butter, an we ct the
biscuit with butter, an / amt tasted
anything like it since ran away from
home in Lowell 80 years ago. Then
jeff broke cake in two an give ne
half OF 1T. 1t wuz kind O. dry eatin',
but we put lots OF butter on it,. j
spose 1 ought to have stopped an re-
membered that all this provender be-
longed to somebody, but l was so
blamed hungry l didn't wait to think
OF nothin'. An / must say l never
seen anybody eat the way that coon
did. / didn't exactly see Kim eat,
neither, but could hear him all right.
After he ct all the cakes an pies an
biscuits he could lay his hands on he
went back to watermelon. an | could
hear him sloshin' an gulpin' there in
the dark l started to feel around for
a soft place to lay down. an what
do you guess? / run into lot of bed
close strung on lines"
Say, what kind Of a pipe is this?'
asked the listener. with siGewiSc
turn in his chair, Indicating skept;-
cism.
Its the truth. every wcrd Of it,
There must a been a dozen quits. |
pulled EN- down an me an Jeff rolled
ourselves up in 'em an went to sleep.
We'd ct lot an it wuz cold nigh.
an under them warm covers we Silent
like couple o logs. Well, the next
thing / remember somebody was Shak-
in me good an hard. an l locked u
at a fellow that had tin star on his
coat an a broonlstick in his nard.
kin o remembered what had happened
an looked around. II WIZ broad day
light. We laid there in the infernGle.t
mess of eatables YOU ever see. Pc
Fle WIZ pilin' through the doors to f-et
a look at Us. l don't s'pose you've fis
ured out what wed done, SO I'll tell
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praying to the great morning luminary
TO bestow all his best gifts upon them.
But" you ask, where are such be-
ricEted heather as this to be found in
trr United States?'
IN Arizona and New Mexico. The
rucDIo or town Indians Of Isieta, La
gura. Zuni, Acoma, etc.. are all wor-
sinners OF the sun, and daily their
aGcration is offered. as well as in spe-
cial ceremonies Of great pomp and i'm
rortance which occur less regularly.
II ore leaves the transcOntinental
lire of the Santa Fe railway on the
Journey to California. at the little town
of Laguna in New Mexico, and drives,
or rides horseback. IL or Is miles south,
he will reach the wonderful City of the
Gifts AcCma. Here. in the first day
of September of each year, the feast of
ST. Stephen" the patron saint of the
people. is observed. The feast is a
strange ard interesting mixture of
Roman Catholic religious ceremonial
arC pure and unadulterated sun wor-
ship. l have seen the dance and its at
tenGart ceremonies several times, and
each time the "'ioiniugs' of the two
KINGS OF WORSHIP DecOHe more dppdI-
ent. The old priests. when Acoma was
subiGgated tic Spanish rule $50 years
ago. were wise. Instead of totally pro-
l. Citing the religious ceremonials of
the people. they gave new and Chris
tiaE Interpretations TO them. hence, to-
GaE. we see an orthodox Catholic priest
cr"aGing in the rites of holy mass, and
then marching in a procession to the
pi;Za where the whole afternoon is
sr,ut in & dance performed in honor of
tie sun.
curing these processiors the visiting
NeNicans often unite with the Indians,
though. regarding themselves as SUI
perior to the natives, they head this pro-
cession. and slightly TO one side, and thus
reserve their dignity unimpaired. One
of their number, on one occasion, was
Induced to add charm to the perform
SEce by rendition of certain airs on his
accordion. During a solemn song.
when the indians were praying for the
continued blessings of Those Above,
the accompanist compelled his accor-
dion loudly and insistently to give forth
the strains Marching Through Geor-
gia." Soon he changed it to La Palo-
ma" and then. when the most solemn
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THE CONVERTED sCoFFER.

part of the ceremony was reached, he
auditors by bringing forth with in
tense fervor and power that soui-stir-
ring melody. after the Ball Is Over
But. happily unconscious of any incon-
gruity. the earnest Indians sang on.
and felt grateful to their Mexican
friend for his helpful accompaniment.
IN one of the main streets was bow
er made o. cottonwood benches, in
which the wooden figure of St. Stephen.
the patron saint, was placed, and here,
curing the day. all the devout wom-
en came TO pray. offer up thanks giving
and. at the same time, deposit at the
shrine corn. bread. melons. beans, and
other products of their gardens as
thank offering. Then began the dances.
Two families or clans took charge of
this portion of the ceremonies. The
women were clothed in all the finest
garments they were able to obtain.
Robes. elegantly woven and highly col
ored sashes, buckskin leggins. mecca
sins, necklaces and the like, and upon
the head each woman wore a headdress
of wood or leather. a foot or more high.
and painted or carved. or both. to repre-
sent symbols connected with the wor-
ship of the sun. The lightning, rain
clouds, the sun. the moon, the morning
and evening stars. the planets. the
milky way even, were all represented
upon these heaGdresses. The mems
chief article of clothing was the kilt,
made of white cotton of home weaving
aDS ambroidered in e0lorS AplxlafS
moccasins. necklaces and banda
around the head to bind the hair, with
armtets and rattles, completed their
outflt, while the women held twigs of
pine or juniper in their hands, which
they moved back and forth in time with
abe rafting of the men.