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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-26
HANNA'S VOTE WINNER.
A FIimsy Scheme of h Repuo1iean
Ross for Boosting the Party
In 1904.

Serious discussion of the Hanna
proposal to pension former slaves in
like explaining a cruel joke 10 a wit
less mind. The avidity with which
it has been approved in certain south
ern quarters is inspired in part by g
proper sympathy with faithful and in
firm negroes who are past the age. Of
active labor and in part by a selfish
desire to see the pension money dis
tributed in this section to somewhat
equalize that distributed to civil war
pensioners throughout the north, says
the Houston Post.
The merits of the proposal need not
be considered at this time, for no such
bill will ever pass. There may come
a time when INDECENT and helpless ne
groes will be supported by the federal
government as they are now supported
by the charity of the several southern
states, but it will be in no such whole
sale fashion as that suggested by the
Hanna bill. And if such time should
come, we imagine that the measure
will be so amended as to include the
WORKOUT of other races. The socialis-
tic drift is quite perceptible.
The purpose of the Hanna bill is too
palpable to be misunderstood by any
intelligent person. 1t is designed to
divert the negroes attention and admi-
ration from President Roosevelt whom
Mr.. Hanna and many other republican
leaders heartily oppose as a candidate
for the next nomination. The negroes
will control the republican political
delegations from several southern
states and constitute no small factor
in several northern states. By his re-
cent exploits Mr.. Roosevelt seems to
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-26

may, in the course of time, pass new
legislation to curb trusts;
If. then, the attorney general is so
inclined, and if he has time, he may
apply the new legislation to the Of
Tending trusts;
If, then the evidence is sufficient,
the courts may, in the years to come,
decide that the new legislation is con
stitutional and that some particular
trust has been guilty of illegal prac-
tees;
If, then, the trust has not already
changed its form or ceased to exist,
it may pay a nominal fine, and, in the
course Of eight or ten years-as did
the Standard Oil trust-slightly change
it's name and location and continue it's
business of plundering the people, as
will also the hundreds of other trusts
against which suits will not be
brought.
With such a programme of "ifs" in
front of him is it surprising that Mr..
John D. Rockefeller got frightened,
became hysterical and telegraphed all
the senators whose names he could re-
member, not to pass such drastic legis-
lation?
Besides this internal, there is ample
external, evidence to condemn this new
legislation.
1t apparently has not occurred to
our republican trust-busting legisla-
tors that we have had four years. ex-
perience with a republican institution
having all and greater powers than
the new department will have. The
industrial commission was created in
1902. 1t investigated, or pretended to
investigate. numerous trusts and made
10 volumes of reports, averaging near
ly 1000 pages each. 1t made some
milk-and-water recommendations, all
of which have been ignored by the re-
publican body which created it. If
this great commission, composed of
senators, representatives and indus
trial experts, and having full power
to inquire into all corporations-in-
Guiding railroads, which are debarred
in the new OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
nothing, after four years of arduous
effort and with high salaries, what
may we expect of this new department,
with limited powers to investigate and
publish facts? Nothing, surely, ex-
cept that it will satisfy the president
and may prevent effective antitrust
Legislation, and thus gain time for
the trusts-every such years time be-
ing worth hundreds Of millions to the
trusts. If so, it will have accomplished
its sinister object.
More external evidence is the fact
that all the so-called Antitrust"
legislation that has passed this year
has passed while the senate was dead.
locked by the statehood bill, with Sen
ator Quay in charge. One word from
Quay would have prevented this bill.
II the trusts had asked it, Senator
Quay would have said that word, for
he is, par excellence, the representa-
tive of the trusts.
BYRON ". HOLT.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-26
A PROGRAMME OF "IFS."
Meaningless Republican Provision
for the Abatement of the
Trust Evil.

The republicans in congress have just
passed, with a great display of
strenuosity and a great show of
opposition on the part of the
trusts-all the while keeping their
faces straight before the public
and looking as serious and deter
mined as possible-a law, giving the
new department of commerce and la
Dor the power to investigate and gath
er information about certain great
corporations, or trusts, and to report
such data to the president. That this
law is meaningless and harmless, SO
far as the trusts are concerned, no one
with a thimbleful of brains and an
ounce of political experience, can
doubt. There is a preponderance of
evidence against it, both internal and
external. In the first place, observe
the 'ifs" in the law itself:
If the secretary of this new depart
ment is so inclined, he may fish for
facts in regard to trusts;
If the chief of the bureau of cor
porations in this new department is
not owned by the trusts, and if he is
capable, and if he has competent and
honest assistants, and if they fish in
the right place, they may obtain valu-
able facts;
If, when valuable data is obtained,
the president wishes, he may ecure it;
If, then, the president has time to
read it and lees fit to do SO, he may
make public some or all of this data;
or,
If he thinks best, he may simply
make Recommendations to congress
for legislation" to regulate trusts;
If, then, congress is not controlled
by the allied trusts and railroads, it
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-26
WIND-WHEEL LIGHTS TRAIN.
Rotary Far on n Locomotive Pro-
duces Electricity Sufficient
for the Purpose.

A novel idea in lighting trains by
electricity is the "Gullott' system
which has been experimental with
successfully on a small scale on an
important road and is now to be ap-
piled to an express train. AS in the
case of the "axle light" the motion of
the train is used to generate the cleo
tricity. Instead, however, of taking
this power from the car axle, it is fur
nished by a rotary fan attached to the
front end of the locomotive, says the
Engineering Review.
The fan is located close to the boiler
head and presents a moving and cut
ting surface to the air pressure, caus-
ing the air to travel to the outer end
of the fans blades until discharged.
No air pressure is massed on the fiat
surface of the boiler head, but the
curved surfaces of the fan utilize the
travelling air and thereby generating
power. The fan cutting through the
air %revolves swiftly and does not add
to the resistance of the air nor retard
the speed of the train. No gale OF
wind is required to cause the fan to
operate; the ordinary pressure of the
train move it sufficiently to generate
the electrical energy required to light
any train and leave a large surplus for
%ventilating fans and other purposes.
The apparatus SO located does not OBJ.
struct the view of the engineer nor
offer any Objectionable complica-
tons.
The dynamo is located either on or
under the pilot and is direct-connected
to the fam by a special device. A stor-
ege battery is located on the tender or
underneath each car, and so equipped
automatically with cut-outs as to
properly govern the flow of current
from dynamo to battery. 1t is evi.
dent that the cost of illumination will
be only the expense of installing and
maintaining this apparatus.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-26

have completely captured this impor-
tant element, and the most obvious
of defeating him is by a flank
movement upon this part of his fol
lowing.
Mr.. Hanna leads the flank movement
by outbidding the president for negro
favor. His bill is introduced at the
close of the session when there is no
likelihood of a discussion to reveal its
utter impossibiIity. By the next ses-
sion he will have developed whether
there is any nibbling at the bait. and
if he can cast it in again in time to
stir the waters of the precinct conven-
tions which will be held along in the
spring and summer.
The practical effect of the scheme
will be to encourage a lot of sharks,
who have been lately enticing unwary
negroes into contributing to a fund
for promoting such legislation. It
is said that more than $25O,O00 was
collected in this way upon the strength
of a like bill introduced by Senator
Mason. A bill by Senator Hanna car
ries much greater prestige and the
pluckings will be correspondingly
larger.
Real friends of the negro will be
untrue if they do not raise a warning
cry against such outrage. Let them
know that the scheme is deceitful or
visionary, and if it should perchance
be effected no lobby and no funds will
be required.
If the public were no SO accustomed
to political chicanery, the wickedness
of this artifce would drive its author
into disgraceful retirement.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-26
PITH AND POINT.

A bad promise is like a good cake
better broken than kept.-Chicago
Daily News.
If pride did not soar so high it would
not have so far to fall.-United Pres
byterian.
The trouble is, you can't pick out a
fool until he has cost you a great deal
of money or trouble.-Atchison
Globe.
When a nan has not a good rea-
son for doing a thing, he has n good
reason for letting it alone.-Sir Walter
Scott.
81 hear they are trying to form an
automobile trust" THAT so? Well,
/ wouldn't trust mine if it were put
under bonds to keep the peace
Town Topics.
When a girl giggles over a letter
and says: "How silly!' be sure that
the writer has paid her a compliment
and she is tickled to death over it,
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Tess-"Now, here's a secret. 1 was
married last week to Dick Gaylark."
Jess-"Oh, my! / thought you'd be
the last person in the world to marry
him" Tess-"Well, I hope [ am."-
Philadelphia Press.
His Ideal.-Aunt Anne-"Why do
you want to grow up big and strong,
Tommy" Tommy-"Well, I heard
pop tell mamma this morning that he
was too strong to work, and | want
to be like pop."-Detroit Free Press.
Not the End.-"Is this the end, doc
tor?" asked one of the anxious watch
ers. 81 fear it is" replied the physi-
clan. sob, l guess not" chuckled the
patient, who was leaving a large for
tune and had II avaricious relatives.
"Just wait until they try to probate
my will and you'll find that this is only
the beginning."-Chicag Post.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-26
WOULD NEVER GIVE UP.
He Hadn't Caught a Fish in Nineteen
Years, But Would Keep
H On Trying.

Queer, isn't it?" remarked a Wood
bridge street commission man, as a
friend dropped in on him the other
day and found him overhauling a box
of fish-hooks and lines, relates the De-
troit Free Press.
"What is queer?" was asked.
why, this fishing business. I am
already preparing for my annual fish
ing excursion, which takes place each
year from July l to the 10Th. It's
my first overhaul of the box, and
from now on it will be a regular week
ly occurrence. In another month 1
shall begin to dream abouthauling out
tep-pounders."
do you make a regular yearly bust
ness of this fishing matter?"
II do. Next year will be my nine
teenth annual excursion, and I shall
keep it up as long as 1 have my full
powers. There's nothing to beat it,"
you must have great luck to be so
enthusiastic"
II have never had any. If 1 could
have gone out during these 10 years
and caught three or four fish I should
have been perfectly satisfied to quit,
but luck was always against me. I've
been down to Lake Erie, but the fish
were always away that day. I've been
up to Lake Huron, but they didn't like
my bait. I've been to inland lakes
and sought out a score of rivers, but
there was always something wrong.
Last year I went down to the sea shore
on purpose to fish. I tished from
wharves, and I went out in boats. I
fished for founders, and I fished for
shark, but l never even got a nibble."
"Do you mean to say that you never
caught a fish in your life?" asked the
caller.
"Never a n I have tried to-
heaven knows how hard I have tried,
but they have not been for me. Nine
teen years and never a fish w never
even a bite. Hundreds of dollars and
weeks of time wasted, and only rusted
hooks and broken lines to show for it,"
"But you will keep on?"
II will. There shall be no surrender.
Four or five months hence l shall
start out on my twentieth annual tour.
/ shall be provided with tackle and
bait and money and patience and de-
termination, and if there is a sunfsh
left alive between the Atlantic and
Pacific I will seek him out and lure
him to his death and shout victory
over his remains"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-26
AT H SUMMIT.

He started when the days were fair
n all the slopes were glad and green.
all the world was free from care
And peace spread over every scene,
To reach a goal that Hope had set ,
Far, far ahead upon a height,
And, Drawing all the foes he met,
Kept on the way with all his might.
He found a thousand cares that he
Was forced to bear along the way,
Sui Love smiled on him joyously
And journeyed with him day by day:
New hopes succeeded those tina died,
And little triumphs made him glad,
And men who fell behind him sighed
To have such blessings as he had.
At last, one day he reached the goal,
So high, so distant at the start,
But joy came not to fill his soul,
Nay there was sorrow in his heart:
The place was high that he had won,
And still a splendid place and fair
But after all his work was done,
He turned to find his rival there.
S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-He rald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-26
The Real Biscuit China.

One stormy day a vessel was load.
ing potatoes. A cart from the coun.
try came alongside, and the driver
proceeded to empty his load.
When he had finished he was in.
vited by the mate to warm and dry
himself by the galley fire, and to eat
a piece of pork and a ships biscuit
the latter as hard as iron. The driv.
er ate the pork without touching the
biscuit. When he had finished he
handed back the biscuit to the mate
with the remark:
MANY thanks, sailor man; there's
your plate."-Cleveland Leader.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-26
enjoyed Himself.

"What kind Of q time did you have
at the party?" asked the old friend.
First rate" answered Mr.. Cum
rox. "You see, it was a masquerade
party, and mother and the girls
couldn't identify me and criticise my
grammar and deportment."-Wash'
ington Star.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-26
Narrow ESCAPE.

Something went wrong with Alice
the other day and she raised hel
hand as if to strike her mother.
"Why, Alice!" her mother .ex,
claimed. "You weren't going to
strike me, were you?
"Well," returned Alice, ''before /
thought who you were, I was."-.
Somerville journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-26

Ella-Have you found your ideal?
Stella-I've given up looking for him.
I'll be satisfied with any man that is
willing to give the minister five dollars
for me.--Brooklyn Life.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-26

Colored sweets Of British manufac-
ture may now be imported into Tur-
key. 1t has taken nearly two years
to persuade the Turkish authorities
that such sweets contain nothing in
.iurious.-N. Y. Sun,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-26

Mr.. Standardization was coming
to call, but l told him you would be
engaged this evening
Miss Olemade (rapturously)-O,
Wiiliam!-Princeton Tiger
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-26

Some folks are SO homely that you
really feel sort of comfortable and
good looking by the side of them
Washington (Ia.) Democrat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-26

Texas declared her Independence of Mexico on December 20, 1885. Soon
after this Santa Ana,then president of Mexico, set out with an army of 1900
to recover the lost province. With some 1000 of this number he invested
the Alamo, a fortified post of the Texans near San Antonio, garrisoned by
ITO men under command of Capt. w. B. Travis. For eleven DAYS the little
garrison held out against the bombardment of the Mexican artillery, and
then the place ws carried by storm, and, by order of Santa Ana, the entire
garrison as massacred, only n woman, a child and a servant being
saved. This massacr occurred on March {, 1886. The Mexicans lost in the
attack 1000 in killed and wounded.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-11

Oriental, but with what we call fall
ing in love.
When we bring this general biologi-
cal law to apply to human beings, we
find that there certainly is something
which parents and guardians can not
regulate. 1t is impossible for us to
fall in love with everybody. Any one
not absolutely sensual and clodlike
knows that there is such a thing as
| attraction and repulsion. Some peo-
| pie repel us and we can not tell why
or at least we never know why. 1t is
a feeling of dislike that we do not
| choose to put in words. because we
| have a conviction that it is unreason-
able. We do not know why a certain
person is distasteful to US. On the
other hand ii is probable that not
once in a thousand times can failing
in love be explained. The lover knows
that he loves or likes certain person.
1t seems to others unreasonable, or
even impossible. Is ii Shakespeare
who says that ii is lucky arrange
ment of nature that we do not all fall
In love with the same person? This
goes so far that in some cases we are
disturbed and even pained by the pres
ence of some person in the room with
US. Is it hypnotism? We have not
tried to explain falling in love on that
learn to connect the two ideas. Hyp-
notism is a universal fact. in a mild
or a strenuous degree. Can we not
say that every one hypnotiZes who at
all agrees with us, or possibly who
distresses US?
This brings us, in compulsory way.
to consider the danger of falling in love
to the persons concerned. Whoever has
read I3aileys Festus has in mind a
superb Illustration of what we mean
a brilliant mind that sees something
most attractive and irresistible in "A
half-doZen young women at the same
time. However strongly we may adj
vocate the advisabiIity of letting alone
the falling in love, we can not but see
that 1t is dangerous freedom to high
poetic minds. How is 1t possible for
poetic being to differentiate the bean
tiful. the sweet, the attractive; to pull
1t In pieces, SO to say, and select one
person out of many, each with certain
splendid and attractive qualities, and
content himself with one lump?
/ think we shall have to yield the
point that marriages are made in heav-
en-; that only one real match is pos
sible-the one made by nature for us.
This is pretty theory, with a twang
Of wild piety. If Providence has done
this prevenient mating or matchmak-
ing, it certainly is frequently headed
off bv fate or some other potency. 1t
is only in a very small fraction of the
globe that falling in love has any
chance to fulfill these DEGREES of Prov
idence. Most of the world is given up
to the mercenary arrangements of
papas and mammas. agree with
Grant Allen, however. that as the
world goes on, a deeper sense of moral
responsibility in the matter of mar
riage will grow up among us. Mar
riage for money may go, and marriage
for rank may go, and marriage for po-
sition may go. before a profound con-
viction that marriage should invariably
be based upon desire to ennoble self
character and create an honorable
home.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-11
The Mother.

Great passions 1 awake that must
Bow any woman to the dust
With fear lest she should fail to rise
AS high as those enamoured eyes.
Now for these flying days and sweet
l sit in Beauty's Mercy Seat.
My smiles, my faVors, / award,
Since 1 am beautiful, adored.
They praise my cheeks, my lips, my
eyes.
With Loves most exquisite batteries,
Covet my hands that they may kiss
And to their ardent bosoms press.
My foot upon the nursery stair
Makes them a music rich and rare;
My skirt that rustles as l come
For very rapture strikes them dumb.
What jealousies of word and glance!
The light of my poor countenance
Lights up their world that else were
drear.
But you are lovely. mother dear!"
l go not to my grave, but !
Know Beauty's full supremacy;
Like Cleopatra's self / prove
The very nights and depths of Love.
So to be loved. so to be wooed.
Oh! more than mortal woman should!
What If she fail or fall behind!
Lord make me worthy, keep them
blind!
*. T. H., in the Mexican Herald.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-11
Too Many Classics.

I'm a barbarous person, I freely con-
fess,
Although the admission occasions dis
tress.
When l go to a gloomy and somnolent
play,
If 1 yawn friends are sure to look
sternly and say:
IT'S a classic"
If 1 go to a concert and patiently hear
A succession of sounds which my SEN
sitive ear
Resents, allude with respect to the
same,
For someone that's cultured is sure to
eXclaim:
IT'S a classic"
When a statue I see with impossible
pose,
And, to my way of thinking, deficient
i'll clothes,
To express my opinion l never should
dare,
For someone I know will look panied
and declare:
ITS a classic"
And so I'll go plodding my work-a day
way,
If such is my fate, why, I shall not
say nay.
AS rule shall take it with senti-
ments bland
Whene'er 1 see something can't I'M
derstand-
tits a classic"
Washington Star.