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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-14
FARCICAL ATTACK ON TRUSTS,
Ihe administrations Antitrust
Bluff VIII Not Go with
the People.

Representative Griggs, chairman OF
the democratic congressional commit
tee, loses no time in remindi.S the
republicans and President Roosevelt
how open to ridicule they will he
for suddenly discovering that there
is need of federal legislation against
trusts. Do they want to make the
campaign n huge joke? Or is their
antitrust demonstration merely a
passing feint? Mr.. Griggs puts the
case p%ungently. While actually in
session, with congress in their COM
plete control, the republicans did not
lift a finger, did not even peep or
mutter, against the trusts, saws the
New York Post. On the contrary,
they applied their fine brute major
ity to voting down every proposal of
the democrats really to do something
to restrain and punish the monopo-
lies. How, then, can it be taken as
other than pure farce, or the coolest
impudence, for the republicans to 90
about the country declaring that it
is necessary to keep them in power
in order to curb the trusts? The
question will be thrown into Presi-
dent Roosevelt's face with every
speech he makes. He will be asked
to state whether the whole thing is
a sham, whether he has flung himself
into the movement with the rash ell
thusiasm of youthful ignorance, or
whether he has maturely considered
it, and is in the fight to stay. Now
we beg to assure him again that the
only way in which he can make his
sincerity and determination entirely
clear in this business is frankly to
say that he stands ready to see the
tariff breastworks of the trusts lev
eled to the ground. If he does not
mean to fight as one beateth the air,
that is the blow he must be pre-
pared to deliver.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-14
TARIFF TAX COLLECTING.
An Example OF the Beauties Of the
Republican Protective
system.

In the last report of the secretary
Of the treasury there is a statement
on page IA, of customs and receipts
and expenditures, that shows the
amount received at each port of en-
try and the number of persons IN
ployed TO collect it and the salary they
received. The receipts at some of the
ports are so absurdly small that it is
a wonder that Mr.. Shaw, our new re-
former, in charge of the treasury, does
not turn his attention to a reforma-
ton of this abuse instead of following
his present principal occupation of per-
ambulating about on pleasure excur-
slons at government expense.
The first place on the list that
strikes attention is Beaufort, n. c.,
where the expenses of the two EN-
ployes of the government were ST.
494.54, while they collected only the
paltry sum of $4.12. This shows that
every dollar collected cost the tax
payers $362.75. Bridgeton, n. j., did
not make quite as bad a showing;
there the six employees of the govern
ment collected $SO.17 and their expense
account was $1,4S9.65, or $1S.5 s expend-
ed for each dollar collected.
AT Natchez, Miss, the amount col
lected was five dollars and the collector
received $500. This lonesome colored
gentleman doubtless amused himself
by sitting on the landing and watch
ing the majestic Mississippi roll by,
with an occasional spell at fishing to
relieve the monotony. The New Hamp-
shire republican politicians evidently
were o powerful with the admins
tration, for they succeeded in EN-
balming six of their clansmen in office
at Portsmouth, who collected $27S.36,
receiving $3,645.S1 for their laborious
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-14
VOTERS SHOULD TAKE HEED.
All Legislative Candidates should Bo
Entirely Free FIR I'M Oorpor-
alton Influences.

Government 10y injunction by the
federal judges has been a crying evil
for years, but the late injunction
granted by Judge Keller in the case Of
the striking coal miners in West Vir-
ginia, in which he practically restraints
their brother miners from distributing
food and supplies to the starving min
ers in that state, is so barbarous a
proposition that it will defeat itself.
Public opinion is slow to anger and
loath to believe that the judges of the
United States courts are in league with
the coal corporations, but this sweep
ing injunction of Judge Keller, which
in effect says that these miners are TO
be starved into submission to the
hard terms of grasping corporations
and that their wives and little ones are
to be judicially murdered, that the
coal bosses may get their pound Of
flesh, will not be Endorsed by the
American people. There are only two
legal ways in which this judicial TOOL
of the coal corporation can be stayed
in his excuses. First by an appeal
to the supreme court, and secondly by
impeachment by the house of repre-
sentatives. Both long and tedious
proceedings and almost beyond the
power of the miners to bring about, I'M
less aided by the united protest of the
people of the United States. As the
senate of the United States would be
the jury before whom the judges wo1td
have to be tried it is important that
in voting for members Of the legis-
lature in those states where United
States senator's are to be elected that
only those should be selected who are
known to be free from corporation in
fiuence. For we have the word of Sem
ator Morgan that one-third of the sem
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-14

duties. There are a number of other
ports that make returns of similar
magnitude, which shows that our high
protective tariff is an expensive lux
ury to the taxpayers, requiring expen-
sive machinery at every spot a vessel
can land. Why are these so-called
ports not closed and the waste and ex-
pense of keeping collectors of Gus
toms and other officials saved? These
expensive ottice-providing ports are
among the beauties of the protective
system that has generally grown up
and expanded.
The politicians who control the APP
pointment of the collector of customs
and other officers fill these places with
their political strikers and use them
to control and conventions
and assess them for contributions to
campaign funds.
Hence they are all ardent protection
lists, not only for the reason that the
system protects their friends who
control the trusts and combines, but
also because it gives them an oppor-
tunity to ensconce some of their polit-
ical strikers in snug berths with little
or no work and good paw.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-14

His majesty the king had al
amusing experience while driving in
his motor car in Norfolk not long
ago. He was stopped by a very
young policeman, who informed the
driver that he was going too fast.
The latter was rather indignant.
Don't you know who I'm driving?"
he said. "It's the king" sect along
with your nonsense" replied the pc.
liceman. "That's the fourth king
who's passed me this morning" The
incredulous guardian of the peace
thereupon insisted on riding a short
distance on the box to see that hia
injunctions were obeyed. His face
grew bluer and bluer as the short
distance was protracted into q long
distance, and that into q longer one
still, till at last he found himself
landed at Sandringham. - London
Globe, 20
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-14
WE ARE HEALTHIER.
a Conclusi0n That Is Based on the
Death Statistics of the Last
Census.

A branch of the census of 1900 is
the vital statistics department. which
was intendedto show the ordinary
conditions of health in various locali-
ties. 1t has for the general reading
public the merit of showing the adj
vance in medical science in the Unit
ed States during a period oftenyears,
the number Of deaths being taken on
the basis of 100000 of population in
The two years of 1890 and 1900.
BY these figures it is shown that
medical science has made marked adj
vances in the United States, saws an
eastern exchange. The most conspic-
uous of these, perhaps, is in the case
of diphtheria which, since the use of
antitoxin, shows a decrease in the
death rate of from 70 per hundred
thousand to 35-one-half.
In Group the reduction in the death
rate is from 27.o6 to 9.S per hundred
thousand in typhoid fever from 46
to 80, in diarrhoeal diseases from "a
to 35, brain diseases from 80 to 1s,
bronchitis from IA to 4S, cholera in
fantum from 70 to Az, malarial fever
from 10 to s, whooping cough from
15 to IL, commissions from Sc to 80,
and scarlet fever from 10 to II.
On the other hand there are, as the
figures show, some ailments which
have increased, Notwithstanding the
exercise of increasing medical skill.
Appendicitis, not separately reported
in 1890, showed a death rate in 1900
of 10, cancer increased from AZ to 60,
apoplexy from 40 to &c, diabetes from
8 to 9, and kidney diseases from SO
to SO.
Many of these changes are ascribed
to changed conditions Of life, diet,
and mental activity which are not
within the power of medical science
to control, but the conclusion, based
on all the figures, is that the general
health OF the people of the country is
improving, as is evidenced by the
fact that the deaths from old III A
per hundred thousand in 1890 were
- in 1900.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-14
ROOSEVELT'S VERSATILITY.
Hunts Trusts with the Same Strenu-
u VigOr with Which He Hunts
wild Animals-NIt!

1t is difficult to tell when to take the
republicans seriously. Many of them
display great ferocity to trusts before
a national election, but become quite
mild and pacific when congress is in
session and they have an opportunity
to Stay the much-hated octopus. Not
a move was made against the trusts
during the last session of congress by
the republicans, but a few days after
congress adjourned President Roose-
welt began to let loose his tongue,
which had before been tied, and to
lash the monsters numerically. Just
watch him make mincemeat of the
trusts when he and Littlefield get at
them next year! His experience hunt
ing mountain lions and decapitating
government clerks, with anti-admin-
~istration views, will enable him to
make quick work once he can get at
these enemies of mankind.
But of course, if the trusts should
cough up the dough" in good shape
this %fall-well, then, of course, don't
you know, while peace might not be
declared, an armistice might be ar
ranged with the trusts for a year or
two. Patriotic trusts should not have
the life crushed out of them ruthless
ly. Keep your eye on our vacation
trust-hunting president!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-14

"When I was out in Oregon, 81
years ago." said a pleasant-looking
farmer, who has been in the red
raspberry business for rs years, 81
first saw red raspberries growing
wild in the thickets and along the
edges of the wild Oregon roads.
They were saucer-shaped, and not
so deep as the modern berry-just
like those which still grow wild in
Michigan. AS the Oregon berries
looked tempting, I picked a lot in
my hat, but did not dare to eat them,
as l did not know whether they were
poisonous or not. On my way bach
to camp I met a number of Indians
whom 1 had seen before and knew
to be friendly; in fact, they had
taken such a fancy to me that they
once offered to adopt me into the
tribe. To these genial Indians I pre-.
sented my hatful of fresh red rasp.
berries, and my joy was great when
they ate them all with relish. After
that I ate all 1 wanted."-Detroit
Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-14
TIL CHRISTOPHER.

I know a poet who all day long
Singeth amid the clover
A joyous singer whose simple song
Delighteth many a lover,
And maketh all the daisied mead
A gladstone, blessed place indeed.
His are no proud aerial flights
Enskied mid glowing splendors;
In nameless hooks, mid lowly lights
There he his song surrenders,
A humble minstrel, quaint and coy,
Mingling his note in Summers joy.
When Morning dawneth glorified,
This laureate of the meadow
Ere yet the lark hath fa~r-espied
The glowing of the shadow
Hath voiced a paean in her praise
And gone upon his happy ways.
And when at eve-tide from his glade
The linnet flutes q measure,
Silly, he lists the serenade
And folds his wings in pleasure;
For his own Elf-haunted dell
The Grasshopper is Philomell
But when the mid-noon's browsing bean
Makes every songster weary
And silent in a golden dream
A t~ireless voice and CHEEKY
Is heard within a swarded bower,
Soft-tinkling through the rapturous
hour:
TITS his! the humble g~rasshopper's,
Beloved of many a lover,
The voice that, gently shrilling, stirs
To ecstacy the clover,
And makes the daisy-starred mead
A gladstone, blessed place indeed!
Alexander Cargill, in Pail Mall Maya.
zine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-14
A EPOCH.
Recent Daily Newspapers Have Been
of More Moment Than Ancient
Chronicles.

When we consider how short is the
ordinary limit of a presidents term of
office, and then reflect upon all the
great and stirring things of actualhis-
torical Importance that have occurred
in a space of time longer than that
time by a mere bagatelle of weeks, we
shall begin to realize into what a
whirl of history-making our latter
days have been plunged, says Harper's
Weekly. Two wars of magnitude have
been begun and ended; the colonial
empire of a once powerful nation has
gone down into the dust; the colonial
empire of a great Anglo-SaXon people
has been welded, strengthened and in
creased; a great and enlightened
queen has died; a great and enlight-
ened president has been struck down
by an assassin's hand; great discover
les in science and wonderful strides
in surgery have been made; vast in
dustrial enterprises have been born
and brought to a successful though
early maturity; disasters unparalleled
have occurred upon sea and land, and
where once a smiling city nestled
among the soft verdure of a tropical
hillside now stands a smoking wilder
ness, with naught of life left to tell Of
that which used to be. The reader of
to-day does not need to rummage
through his Pliny or his Plutarch, his
chapters of revolutionary days, his
chronicles of happenings to kings and
other rulers, his stories of Newton,
Calico and of J%enner, in search of
passages to stir his soul. His daily
newspaper for four years past has
given him these things in great abund-
ance, and whether it has been of the
woes of Pelee, the horrors of Picking,
the naval victories of Santiago and Of
Manila, the privations of warin Trans
vaal or Philippines, that he reads from
those flying leaves of journalism, he
will find nothing in all the printed
pages of the historians to surpass
them. 1t has been a wonderful period,
fit in interest at least to bring one CEN
fury to a close and to start another
upon its cycle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-14
PITH AND POINT.
The winters are very cold in Man,

Inc winters are very cold IN Man.
ehuria, the ground being frozen 10 the
depth of several feet.
Bristol, England, has m~unicipalized
its docks and harbors at a cost of be-
tween $4,000 900 and $4,000, 000.
Liverpool boasts of having one of
the best street railroad systems, not
only in Great Britain, but in Europe.
The city owns the system.
The annual birth-rate in European
Russia is 46.3 per thousand and the
~death-rate only 1886, which results in
an annual surplus of births of over
100000.
Paris, according to the latest CEN
sus returns, has a population of
2,65O,0O0 persons, of whom over 1,20O,-
900 are either foreigners or provin-
cials.
The French government has decided
to install in the Pantheon, Paris, the
famous pendulum by which Foucauld,
in 1857, demonstrated the rotation of
the earth.
A summary of the Irish census re-
turns, presented to parliament, shows
that during a half century more than
5000, 900 persons have emigrated from
Ireland, and that so per cent. of these
have gone to the United States.
Human skulls are a strange article
of commerce.. Yet such is the demand
which has arisen among curiosity
dealers in Europe for the skulls of
New Guinea native ancestors, which
have ornamented the poles of native
dwellings in New Guinea, that the
Australian government has inhibited
the trade, says the London Express.
Large prices were offered the blacks
for the strange relics, and it was
feared that the temptation was be-
coming SO strong that as the supply
of genuine ancestors ran low, Illegal
methods of procuring spurious mes
would be adopted.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-14
SPAIN'S YOUNG KING.
A Few Illustrative Instances of His
Goodness of Heart and Sense
of HumOr,

There are many stories of the young
king which testify to his good heart,
and others which would seem to imply
what one guesses from his appearance
that he possesses, also, a saving sense
of humor, says Golfers Weekly.
When the king passes in his car
rage through the streets of Madrid
any one is privileged to run beside it
and throw petitions at him. The GUS
ton is medieval, and dangerous to
the king, and frequently to the pc
titioner. The other day an old woman
darted toward the kings carriage, but
a quardia civil, installing her motive,
seized her roughly and threw her into
the crowd. Instantly the king ordered
the carriage to be stopped, and, jump
ing down, ran back to the policeman.
"Why did you touch that woman?" he
demanded. "You must never lay your
hands roughly upon a woman You
have done very ILL.," Then he turned
to the old lady, and, raising his hat,
said: 81 will take your petition, ma
udlut. ANU DIS SIG udluSu IL W uluu
he thanked her and bowed.
There is another story told of him,
which seems to illustrate his sense Of
humor, and which, though it was told
of him when he was in his third year
that same year when, at the queens
garden party, he turned a hose on the
French ambassador-may be prophet
ic. Alfonso was eating something
from his plate with his fingers, when
the lady-in-waiting exclaimed in hor-
rors: "Your majesty, kings do not eat
with their fingers!" His majesty,
again helping himself with the forks
nature had given him, answered her
grimly: "This king does"
1t will be interesting to see what
other things "this king" will do. He
starts fair. He is young, strong,
eager and intelligent, and every one
wishes him well.
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Oriental Logic.

A man bought three pounds OF
meat and brought it home to his
wife to cook for dinner, and then
went his way to his place Of bust.
ness in the bazaars. The wife was
hungry and ate the meat.
In the evening the man came home
and asked for his dinner.
"There is no meat" said the wife,
"for the cat ate it,"
Bring the cat" said the man, "and
a pair Of scales"
weigh the cat" said the man,
The cat weighed three pounds.
IF this is the cat" said the man,
where is the meat? And if this ia
the meat, where is the cat?'-Har.
peris Magazine.
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ate as at present constituted is con
trolled by the railroad trusts and cor
p~orations, and it requires two-thirds
of the members of that body to ION
Wet any official who is impeached by
the house of representatives.
a few votes in close Legislative dis
tricts may decide the control of the
United States senate for the mex two
years, as far as Impeachment proceed
ing are concerned, and voters cannot
be too careful who they elect, for they
will have the electing of the senators.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-14
Court Of Justice for Women.

1t is proposed in France to estab.
fish a court of justice run by women
and for women, to which may be car
ried all those cases concerning which
the most learned men know nothing.
This will relieve a man judge, for in
stance, from determining questions
as to fit in suits brought by dress
makers against their clients, and 1t
ought to do away also with much ex
pert testimony in such cuses.-Lon-
don News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-14

The republican leaders do not
seem to appreciate the advantage of
the democrats in this congressional
contest oyer the tariff and the trusts,
1t is all the advantage of a square and
honest campaign against monopoly on
the one side and on the other a mere
sham warfare concerning which nei-
ther the trusts nor the people are de-
Observation-Disclosures Record.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-14

of course, the republicans will
make extraordinary efforts to hold
together on trusts and the tariff, with
which their party is identified and SUBJ
sidized, but the revolt in Iowa,
smoothed over by all the arts of prac-
teal politicians, means a great deal.
The people are breaking loose as they
did in 1890 and 1s92.-Pittsburg Post.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-14
-Tbe trusts are The creations

The trusts are the creations of
special privileges from government,
and the %aristocrats Of wealth, congress
sional control, executive domination
and power to plumber the people at
will are the products of the trusts.
Against them democracy is an eternal
warfare!--Atlanta Constitution.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-14
way to secure ! ar;ff ref,

The way to secure tariff reform
is to vote at every opportunity for real
tariff reformers. The only oppor-
tunity Of that kind before the people
this year is to vote for a democratic
house of representatives.-Louisvill
Courier-Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-14

There will never be any effective
action against the trusts by the repub-
lican party. The way to remedy the
trust evil is to defeat the republican
party at the polls and then proceed to
revise the tariff to the point of making
1t a tariff for revenue only. And this
task must be performed by an Ameri-
can democracy, the consistent cham
pion of the peoples rights.--st. Louis
Republic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-14

The Iowa republicans seem TO
have been taking the Administrations
anti-trust campaign seriously De-
troit Free Presg.