Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-09-26
Alexander Illinois.

not enough to make stubble break well.
Corn varies in different parts of the
county but taken altogether it makes
about two fifths of an average crop.
Your writer sent to Iowa for seed corn
last spring and, where chinch have
not injured it, it will make between
thirty and forty bushels Il the acre.
Seed corn of a variety that l had been
trying to improve for ten or twelve
years, has not done nearly so well as
the northern seed, though planted and
tended with it in the same field.
This is neutrality-suspicious.. 1 noticed
the small blue lowered morning-glory
grow in the woods in Belleview; but l
never saw it mat the ground over as 1t
has done here since the rains anne
All the old lands here are poisoned
with morning = glory, cotton : weed,
cockle-burr and other pests. For a
few years wild barley has been spread
ing on roadsides and in pastures, while
wild carrot is getting started. An IL
linois farmer visiting Switzerland no.
ticed hat the abundant flora growing
there, and which had been praised so
glowingly by other travellers, was, for
the most part, such weeds as we con-
slider pestiferous here. 1t will not be
many decades when the same fact will
be apparent here.
A stranger here has been making
many cash purchases of land and Civ
ing what was considered, a month or
so ago, from S. to 81 per acre above
the market price. The result has been
to put land put of the reach of all but
the rich. Some think the result of
these purchases will be to swell what
u Republican friends call 'a favora-
BILE balance of trade" AS the treasury
report showed that for the year ending
June 80, 1901, we sent out, in goods,
gold, and silver, over six hundred and
seventy-one millions of dollars more
than we brought in, one would think
that this favorable (O balance was
about as high now as any imperialis-
tic Republican, who knows beans
when the bag is united, would desire
it to climb.
1t would be amusing were it not dis
gushing to hear all the n-Democratic
legislation proposed, while We are 60
ing through an anarchy spasm. 1t
would do harm than good. Bryan,
is last weeks Comnaoner, seems to
think the the teaching of the Anar-
chists might be tolerated in a country
where kings rule by divine right; but
that is uncalled for here, under a con-
stitutional form of government like
ours. But Bryan should bear in mind
that the masses of men accept the old
couplet:
''For forms of government let fools contest,
That which is best administered is best"
In other words most men, in every
country, judge a government by it's
fruits, its actual results, rather than
by its form; and Bryan himself said,
a few days ago, in a labor day speech,
that while we increase the productive
power of labor we lessened it's reward.
Bryan toe no doubt accepts the statis-
tics which show that one per cent. of
our people own more wealth than the
ninety-nine per cent. do, and he would
not say this was a result of good gov
eminent; yet the sword of Damocles
must yer hang over the head of every
state that is badly governed. Even
among our ministers we seem to have
some as brutal fools as Czolgosz SHAW
gotch.) If this murderer had accom-
plices look for them among the stock
and bond spectators. s'If thou
would'st learn who has committed a
crime first find out who would profit
by it." OF course such incidents are
shocking; but if we don't like the acts
of desperate men we should quit driv-
ing men into desperation-necessity
that knows no law. Promptly try and
execute the assassin. Icould take the
detail as executiouer with much less
conjunction than 1 felt when ordered
to do duty at the scaffold when the first
presidential murderers were hung.
We must kill human wolves; but we
ought to quit making them. There
lies before us a higher, nobler, grand
er civilization than were those who
conceived the Golden Era ever dreamed
of if 10 many men were not Anarchists,
If the majority did not so shamefully
neglect their public duties.
Sept. 16. 1901. WIN. CAMM.