Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-10-04

democrat and good citizen can ear
nestly support. The nominee for the
long term on the supreme bench,
Judge A. NJ. Woodson, has had an
honorable caree for many years on
the circuit bench at st, Joseph. II
elected, l believe he will be a credit
to his state and to his party.
1--WE have been told that unless Mis-
souri, sends republicans to congress
there will be no appropriation for the
Missouri river; that is, assuming. OF
course, that the republicans will con-
troll the house. which they may not
If any party cannot obtain votes on
principles it has no right to secure
votes with appropriations of the pub
lie money.
IF the federal funds are available
only to help the republican party, then
Missouri will improve her river
before she will change her faith. Turn
republicans and get an appropriation.
Be a republican and you can have a
privilege. Come, be one of us, and
help us out, and we will give you In
return a tariff so that you may have
a monopoly.
THAT is the great evil Of this ma
ton today-the special privileges Civ
en- away in exchange for political sup
port. They tell you that a tariff SO
high as to drive off competition and
give a monopoly to a favored few,
enabling them to extort more from
the public than enrichment of the
few at the expense of yourselves,
brings prosperity to you who have no
protection.
Let the crops of Missouri fail; let
our fertile fields and broad prairies
refuse to yield, and by and by hard
times comes a-knocking at the door,
no matter how high a tariff may be.
Then the more tariff, the louder the
knock of disaster and despair.
1.-THE tariff monopoly may bring
prosperity to those to whom it gives
a monopoly, but it no more gives pros
perity to the people who are without
protection than the visits of the tax
collector. Revise the tariff, which
in its last analysis is a graft given
to a few-that Is what the democracy
proposes to do.
THE democratic party cannot offer
any special privilege to a few of you
in exchange for support, but it does
offer a prize of greater value to you
and to all, for to you and to all II
would restore equal opportunity tc
live and labor upon the earth thai
God has given to all and to enjoy
untrammeled the fruits Of honest
toll"
Stone Speaks.
In conclusion, Gov. Folk introduced
Senator William J. Stone, who said
in part:
"You came, not to hear me tonight
but to hear the greatest living Ameri
can, who was cheated out of the pres
idency. My purpose is merely to fill
a few moments until the next presi
dent of the United States arrives, ant
in that time l want to say n or two
things.
Some republican papers, all o.
them, indeed, have been striving tt
create the false impression that there
were irreconcilable difficulties in the
democratic party. You have read il
your Kansas City papers that Gov
Folk and I were at swords points
that the st. Louis meeting was or
ganized and controlled by a faction
of the democratic party, and that an
other was sighted, and that the re
verse was to be exhibited here to
night. I came as Gov. Folk did, t.
join our united voices in endorsement
of democracy.
"The only rivalry which exists be
tween Gov. Folk and myself is to SCI
which of us can do the most to re
deem democracy. l want to join Gov
Folk in appealing to every democra
to vote the ticket straight in Novem
Der. l want to join him in asking yol
to elect William H. Wallace to con
gress. I want Missouri to help t
make the next congress democratic
because if you do you will have
Missourian for speaker-Cham.
Clark"