Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-10-04
Fresh Facts Concerning the Tide of
Events in the Political
Arena.
SCALY TRICKS OF REPUBLICAN LEADERS
Defense of the Trusts by Hanna's
- Batting Starving
Mckinley Making
Ready for PIunder-The Philippine
War Not Over.
Especial Correspondence

| OON, A1OuAI openly oA1SS
But the mischief is done
Hanna now Iamely explains that he
used trusts III a technical sense That
does not better his position, because
in tbs speech he failed TO say a word
which Indicated that he knew OF
any sort of a combination hurtful to
the people. He failed 10 indicate tIat
he or his party were in favor OF re-
straining trusts or combinations OF
any sort.
The gas belt of Indiana has suffered
especially from trusts, and h men
who have been rendered idle by them
are furious at Hanna's selfish. ind1f-
ference to their troubles
/ Right on the heels of Hanna's tias-
co comes a campaign report prepared
for the republicans by Carroll D.
Wright, of the bureau of labor sta
~tistics. which assumes to show that
trusts pay higher wages and employ
more skilled men than did the sep
arate industries.
He takes IA selected" trusts. Very
carefully selected The Standard Oil
| and coal combine, for instance, are
omitted.
If there is not such things as trusts.
! why this defense from CARROLL d.
Wright?
The bureau of labor statistics, like
: the industrial commission and every
! other governmental bureau. is being
! pressed into service by the admins
t~ration. Statistics are manufactured
to order to prove anything that the
republicans desire.
" -@% RI chny- thu
flaws in Wright's statistics-tnough
there are plenty of them-let every
workiugman Judge for himself. If
he is working for a trust is he get
ting higher wages han before the
trusts came into existence. If he
is. does the slight increase in wages
. cover the increased cost of living?
Let the strike of 10000 coal miners
against one of the greatest trusts on
earth answer Carroll d. Wright. These
men are striking for living wages.
They Go not aspire to prosperity or
the full dinner pail.
Let the parade CT hundreds OF chill
dren from the coal mines of Pennsyl-
vania answer the republican conten-
ton about the blessings which trusts
bring to w~orkingmen.
. No man puts his eight-year-old
( child into a coal mine to work. I'M
less forced to do so by the starva-
ton wages paid TO himself.
Let the reduction of wages made 10
the 10000 employees of the steel and
iron trusts answer Carroll D. Wright's
statistics.
These men have been idle since June
so. locked out while their trust en-
pIoyes decided whether or not they
would pay fair wages
Now, having been starved into sub
mission. the men are invited to go
pack to work at a reduction. They
are glad to go. in order to live. but
they are not going to vote for the
party which puts into the hands of
a trust the power to starve them
into submission.
The Miners Strike.
The coal miners strike is likely
to be a long and bitter one. The
trusts secured Euorpe for years and
imported the cheapest labor that
could be had there. under the i'm
preston that it would submit to low
wages and bad conditions more meek
" than the independent American
workman. The foreign workmen were
tractabIe enough until they found
that they were starved worse than
slaves or dumb beasts of burden. Now
they have come to the conclusion that
they may as well starve idle as work
ing. Their habits of passive endur-
ance viii keep them out on strike
longer than the American. Thus the
Goa operators are reaping a harvest
which they deserved, but did not ex-
Peet-
The administration press has been
bowling about the danger IF violence
and ~bIoodshed from the first day OF
the miners strike. 1t seemed to know
what was going to happen. Sure
enough when some miners began to
t'irow stones a lot of Pinkerton's men
shot into a crowd indiscriminately,
and then the militia was called out.
How convenient for the coal opera
tors to have a republican governor
and 11.0CO militia at their beck and
call. No wonder the trust refused
arbitration
Last Sunday the militia desecrated
the day by parading in the mining
villages with Calling guns. Not that
IL AAlACAS HSkC XII III. ~
but to show them what they may ex-
Pect in the next two or three weeks.
It is 10 be hoped that violence and
b~iooCshed may be avoided, but this !
batting of starving men is paving
tie way for something worse than
Homestead or HazletoY.
4 Clumsy Back Down
The administration has executed a
rather clumsy back-down On the Chi
nsse situation. and it Is purely for
campaign purposes.
Frightened by the popular uproar I!
against any further alliances or med
ding with foreign powers, the admin
~istTation now intimates that our
forces viii be withdrawn from Picking.
They have not marched out. how
ever, and if they do, it will only be
to the coast.
Six warships have just been or
dered to Asiatic waters. What for?
Time viii show, q it is clear now
that Mckinley proposes to be right on
the ground when there is any Chinese
plumber to be had. He is making a
desperate effort to delay matters until
after election. In case the republican |