Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-10-11

tnenl. ANA yet the President, through
his subordinateS, paid 81, 800, 900 for
these ships-ships that cost only S1,10O,-
600 when new, and threw away an op-
portunity to buy larger ships abroad for
little more than half the money.
There, gentlemen, is YOU iron man of
the White House. There is a sample of
his courage when put to the test. Extol,
delty, make of him a god If you will
but | know he is only common clay.
He is mighty in boasting, but weak In
performance. He thunders in the index,
but fizZles at the finish. And this is
the man, the totterlng, trust-ridden old
Republican party asks the American peo-
pie TO follow blindly, fatuously, confid-
inSly-and whose Endorsement they at
tempt to maxi a paramount campaign
issue. Let Republicans take that course
il they will. let them do as they please
but | marvel if in all Missouri there is
a single Democrat who would so debase
himself.
RoosEyELTS PERFORMANCES.
But we are asked to indorse not only
the Boss us a man, but also to indorse
ms performances. What are some of
These performances upon which we are
challenged to set the seal of our ap-
proVal? Among them is that ship trans
action to which l have referred. Do you
want to indorse that? But that was not
the whole story. Not only did the the
President back down from his proposal
10 BUY ships abroad unless air prices
were offered at home, but he backed
way also from his proposal to buy
materials abroad unless American man
utacturers would sell to the government
as cheaply as they sold in foreign
market A short time since, during the
last session of Congress, Secretary Taft,
whose department, under direction of the
President, has been put in charge of the
canal construction, reported to the Sem
ate on Appropriations that of
all the supplies so far purchased. amount
ing To millions in the aggregate, SO per
cent had been purchased in America.
These purchases We're not made at the
manufacturers export prices-that is, the
prices at which they sell abroad-but at
their domestic prices, or the prices at
which they sell for consumption within
our tar!I1 wall here at home. That
louFtl TO one-thlrd more for what it got
than the materials could have been OBJ
tanned for in foreign markets, and paid
that much more than the same manu-
tacturerS would have sold the same
materials for if they had been sold for
foreign. consumption. That is exactly
what the President blusteringly avowed
ne would never do, and could not do
WITHOUT d~lSregarding the public interests
and his official duty. OF course, no man
objects to buying at home; on the con-
BUY at home instead of buying abroad,
provided he can buy at home at a
teasonable price. But what 1 object to
IS and what the President at first OBJ
Wv ~ WIS., AAN NALoA llDIl HUH llB
government, that Is the people in their
public capacity, of millions above and
beyond what the manufacturing trusts
WOULD nave sold the same materials for
a pam, hlgh-handed plundering of the
pubic treasury. Do you want to in
dOrse that?
PAUL MORTON'S CASE.
Again, the Sante Fe Railroad Company
was charged with entering into crimina
compact with the Colorado Fuel anC
iron Company, under the terms OF whicl
the railroad company gave enormoul
secret rebates to the fuel company il
violation OF the interstate laV
The Honorable Paul Morton was Vice
president and General Manager of thu
railroad company, and was also largely
interested financially in the fuel com
pany. Because of these secret rebates
the fuel company was able to destro,
competition and establish a great AM
protltable monopoly. Complaint wa
mission by those whose interests wer
Imperfect, and that body made an in
~Nestlgation, uncovered the facts and re
ported their findings. The Presiden
ing of drums and blare of trumpets h
ordered the Attorney General to procee,
instantly, to break up the combinatio
ana punish the criminals; and that h
might Impress the country with tn
notion that he lived, moved and had hi
being in a special atmosphere of civi
virtue, he employed Ex-Attorney Genera
Harmon of Ohio and the Honorable Fred
erick n. Judson of st. Louis, two dis
tinguished Democratic lawyers, to ASST.
the Attorney General. These lawyer
probed into the case with an homes
soon discovered that the trail lea
directly to the door of the Honorabl
Paul Morton. He was caught in til
meshes. AS in duty bound, Messr
hudson and Harmon Tapnm nan1AI thc
the government should proceed not onl
against the corporation, but also AGAIN.
their lawless officials individually, ii
GLIDING MIR. Morton. But now, befol
this time. Morton had been made
was not only a member of the Pres
personal friend and confidant. And
the President stepped in and called
halt. Judson and Harmon were ii
formed that they might proceed again
the corporation, but not against Morto
AS they were honorable men and
earnest; as they did not propose to
moved as mere paWns on a chess-boal
or play a questionable part in "a polite
Then lhe Department of Justice sent o
one of its young assistants to prosecu
the santa re company as a corporatio
President stood by Morton, held i
hands over him, defended and ev,
sought to exonerate him. He public
declared that there was nothing to she
that Morton had any knowledge hat I
bates had been allowed by the railro
company. although at the time tn
We're allowed he was one of the hi
managing officials of the railroad col
pany and largely interested in the fl
company. 1t was said that only subor,
nate officials were to blame, and tn
the great managers and manipulators
the corporations We're innocent. The
bates allowed to the Iron and Fuel Coz
pany approximated a million dolla
and yet it was asserted that the ma
ayers of the railroad lived in bliss
Ignorance of 1t all. Only the staff
agents The division superintendents. a
Mr.. Morton even went so far as
say, and the President prated of 1t
proof of Morton's virtue, that he,
Vice-president of the railroad compai
to his subordinates against allowing
bates under any circumstances WI
do you think of that? Imagine
station agent granting a rebate, VIII
violation of law, but in defiance Of
orders of his superior. To believe Il
Is to have faith In Roosevelt and M
ton such as would move mountains
and Mr.. Morton assure us that that
just what happened, and that Mort
who was pocketing the profits, was ign
ant Of 1t all and as innocent as
case so aptly illustrating the old adag,
Where ignorance is bliss, It's folly
be WISE" Republicans may swallow I
dose without a grimace, and they "
no doubt, because 1t has over II
blessed Rooseveltian sugar-coat. Z
Democrats Of Missouri how is 1t "
you? Do you believe this story. {
do you want to indorse this performan
THE NORRIS CASE.
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