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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
BUILDS up PRIVILEGED CLASS
Robber Tariff, Creating Artificial NO
nopoly, Is Leading to Establish
ment Of Ar~istocraey.

A veteran washington correspond
snt. summing up salient features Of
the change in White House admins
t~ration, says that the Taft regime win
be distinguished by a new era OF
bath tubs and good clothes"
The meaning behind this writer's
Righteousness is that class distinctions
are to be more sharply drawn. II
America lacks a real aristocracy now
II is to have a four-year privilege OF
trying earnestly to build one. And,
as every tyro knows, the only founda-
ton for a so-called ~aristocracy in a
republic like this is the possession Oh
wealth.
Trace history as far back as you
like and you will find the beginnings
of aristrocracy founded on property
holdings. 1t might be stolen land or
it might be money wrung from serfs-
no matter. Wealth created a priv
ileged class. And the privileged class
lorded it over the common people.
We Americans have always boosted
freedom from this sharply-drawn dis
tinction between the classes and the
masses. theoretically we are right.
Does not this glorious republic give
equality of opportunity? Do we not
guarantee freedom from aristocratic
tax g%atherersi
That is theory. In practice we are
building up a privileged class through
a robber tariff. We allow artificial
monopolies to close up normal chan
nels of production and thus destroy
opportunity. And we allow monop-
olists to not only kill competition but
to make pay outrageous
prices for life's necessities.
The result? A class of idle rich the
members of which fancy themselves
aristocrats. Money comes so easily
that new extravagances are invented
that are not only useless to society,
but harmful to individuals. The COM
munity's moral tone is distinctly low
cred by the idleness and frivolities Of
these social parasites. They neither
toll nor spin and they show a bad
example to the rising generation.
A robber tariff is directly response
BILE for most Of the prodigious accumu-
lations of wealth that are spawning
feeble imitators of an old world aris-
tocracy. With a tariff scientifically adj
justed to give protection only
where it is necessary, or with a tariff
for evenu simply, these swollen for
tunes would be much fewer. And those
that already exist would be whitfield
down by n generation of spend
thrifts.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
MAIL TRAINS ARE MOVED
GEORGIA RAILROAD STRIKE GIRL
SIS is AT HAND.
Terminal Company in Atlanta Now
Involved in Negro Employe
Argument.

Atlanta, Ga.-By order Of the
government authorities, trains car
rying the mails, were sent out over
the Georgia railroad. The personnel
of the crews, although of intense in
terest to. the people of the district
through which the trains will travel,
was not regarded as a matter of con-
sequence to the authorities in their
attempt to deliver the mails.
Whether negro firemen will be In
the majority is not known, as no in
formation on this subject has been
given out. 1t is believed, however,
that a great many blacks have been
engaged to stoke the engines, as it
has been almost impossible to procure
white men to take the place of the
strikers.
1t is hoped by the authorities that
mail trains will make their runs I'M
molested, but fears of complications
are held by many. United States
Commissioner of Labor Neill has noti-
fed the road that 1t must decide what
stand it will take on arbitration imme-
diately.
The switchmen of the Georgia Joint
Terminal company, which controls
the tracks on which the Georgia rail-
road enters Atlanta, have complicated
affairs by insisting that any agree
ment to arbitrate or any decision
reached as the result of arbitration
must include the Terminal company.
George e. Evans of the Louisville
& Nashville, is expected here to con-
fer with President Scott of the Geor-
gia railroad.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
DAMAGES ARE ASKED
LOST LIFE TO SAVE YOUTH
Fremont, Neb., Deputy Sheriff is Pull.
led Under Moving Train by
insane Charge.

Fremont, Neb.-Frank Kent, a FIRE.
mont youth, died at the hospital here
and Deputy Sheriff w. p. Condit is
dying in the same hospital, with his
left leg gone, as the result OF
a desperate struggle in which the
deputy tried to prevent Kent from
throwing himself under the wheels of
a moving train. Kent had been adj
judged insane and was being taken to
the state hospital at Lincoln. The two
we're at the depot when the insane
youth made a leap for the track on
which a Northwestern train was NOV
ing.
The officer pulled him back but in
the struggle both rolled under the
wheels. Kent was terribly crushed and
Condit's leg was severed at the ankle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
Revision "Bv It's Eriends.v

The tariff juggle which such stand
patters as Speaker Cannon and Sena-
tor Aldrich dignity with the name of
revision of the tariff by the friends
of the tariff is bad enough to anger
and disgust every Republican who has
believed it possible for his party to
amend the Dingley act in the interest
of the general public.
Laying the Payne bill side by side
with the senate amendments SO far as
they have been prepared, President
Taft reads a challenge which it will
be dangerous for him to take up and
yet which he cannot well afford to
leave unanswered.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
Fatal Elre on Coast Steamer.

Vancouver, B. Gone man is dead
and four perhaps fatally burned as
the result of a fire on board
the coasting freight steamer Coquitlam
on her way through the Gulf of
Georgia from this port. The fire started
when second Engineer Black and Fire
man Larson were alone in the engine
room, Larson was burned to death and
Black nearly lost his life trying to.
rescue him. Second Mate Watts was
also badly injured and two Japanese
firemen were burned.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
BLUSTER PUT AWAY
STATE DEPARTMENT RESTORES
NICARAGUA TO FAVOR.
Thoughtful Men Wonder II zeIaya Has
Paid Up or Is It the Work Of
Some Pet Of the Ad-
ministratIon.

One Of the inexplicable Interrupt
tons in the progress of national
events which from time to time be-
wilder the anxious observer has just
occurred In respect of the administra-
ton avalanche that only a few days
since was impending over Nicaragua.
AS lately as two or three weeks ago
the state department was grayely pom
dering extreme measures with Zela-
va, the cantankerous president, n
the newspapers according to their
various proclivities and abilities were
guessing at the form Zelaya's martyr
dom would take. Now the uproar has
suddenly ceased. Not a whisper OF
Nicaragua can be heard even by those
who listen at the keyhole.
1t will be recalled that Z~elaya's Of
fence consisted chiefly in his refusal
to pay the claim of an American"
company doing or pretending to do
business in Nicaragua-one of those
adventurous concerns, no doubt that
we hear of occasionally in the more
tempestuous Spanish-American states
as setting up claims where their ex-
pectations have been disappointed and
asking damages for a wonderful rain
bow. What Zelaya's contention was
we do not accurately know, nor is 1t
important. Perhaps he merely wanted
to govern his own people in his W
way; and that is a %pretension to which
we have become reconciled except in
| the cases of very feeble and distracted
powers indeed. So what would have
been accepted with complaisance at
the hands of Mexico or Brazil or Ar
gentina became a ranking injury at
the hands of Nicaragua, and straight
way began to bristle with gunboats
and hostile o%vertures and hints of red
mouthed ultimatums in the immediate
background. Now, however, after some
weeks of this dramatic clustering we
find ourselves in the midst of flowery
peace.
There must be an explanation, but
what is it? If Zelaya has paid up we
haven't heard of it. According to all
present appearances the American
concern is still pining for its compen'
sation, the truculent Zelaya still shows
his teeth at their more or less right
eous p~retensions, and yet the state de
partment's wrath has been in some
mysterious way a%ppeased, a broad and
beaming smile has supplanted the
quondam threatening frown and all is
sweetest harmony--or seems to be.
Thoughtful men are wondering
Everybody wants to know why, after
scowling at Nicaragua so long ant
procuring those fluent educational de
nunciations of Zelaya-by way of pre-
pairing public opinion for the impend
ing event-we have all of a sudden, 81
to speak, melted into sweetest indul
gence, released the once serried fur
rows on a stormy brow and general.
lent ourselves to melody.
There must be a solution. Perhaps
the stricken company has sold out
on the strength of the state depart
ment's buster; perhaps Nicaragua ha'
been suave and vigilant enough to EN-
ploy some administration pet to de
fend her at the seat of power; perhaps
something else-who knows? The fac
remains. What are we to take fo
its Interpretation?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
one Divorce 70 Four Weddings.

Los Angeles, Cal.-The first five
months of 1909 show a stratling
increase in the relative proportion of
divorces to marriages in Los Angeles
county, figures indicating that a d.
vorce had been granted since January
| for every four marriages. In 1908
the ratio was l to 6. In San Fran
cisco it was / to 7. In the United
States it was / to IL.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
ASKED ITO SOLVE MYSTERY
Residents of Panora, la, Receiving
Hundred Dollar Bills in Mails
Get Curious.

Des Moines, Ia.-U. s.. postofice
inspectors were asked to unravel the
mystery surrounding the receipt by a
number of residents of Panora, Ia, of
letters containing hundred dollar bills.
No signature is attached to the letter
sent though one of them bears the
postmark of Portland, Ore.
Five persons admit having received
money totalling SLIPS. Mrs. Viola
Lapegitt, a widow received $225 all in
ten dollar bills with a note signed
Your friend"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
KILLS WIFE BY MISTAKE
Indianapolis Man, Thinking Woman Is
Burglar, Fires on Her With
Fatal Results.

Indianapolis, notwithstanding her
for a burglar, George w. Thomp-
son shot and killed his wife. Ac-
cording to ~Thompson's story, he
had retired early, leaving his wife
downstairs sewing. Later, when she
entered their room, she did not turn
on the lights, but carried a lighted
match.
Thompson, he said, awoke with a
start. He thought the light was from
a burglars bull's-eye lanter, and, act
ing upon first impulse, pulled his re-
volver from under his pillow and fired
twice at the form which followed the
light.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
AIRSHIP COMPANY FORMED
Detroit Corporation Plans to Build
and Operate craft-Capitalized
at $4,000.

Detroit.-To build, operate, lease
machinery and other apparatus of air.
ships is the purpose of the Standard
Aviation Co., the Incorporation papers
of which were filed here.
1t is declared the incorporators in
tend to carry on a f%ull-fedged aerial
navigation business for any who can
afford it. The ~incoropfators are: Or
Vile w. Owen, Frederick w. Hemin-
ger, and J.. Howard Pray. The com
pany is capitalized at $20,0OO,s half
paid in.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
NEWsBOY STOPS KIDNAPER
Calls Police When Man Attempts to
Take Girl, 5, Away in
Taxicab.

New York City.-A small news
boy who saw a man rush UP to a taxi
cab with a 5-year-old girl, checked
what the police say was an attempted
kidnapping. He called a policeman and
the man, who gave the name of George
Douzio, was arrested.
The child proved to be Bertha
Schmitt, the daughter Of a Sixth ave
nue. baker. A crowd, threatening VIC
lence, followed the prisoner to a nea
by police station.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
Labor Leaders May Call Strike.

Baltimore, Md.-James W. O'Con-
nell, president of the International
M~achinists' association, and the pres
idents of several other allied as
sociations are considering plans to
call a strike in all the machine shops
of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
system, following the failure of efforts
to settle the controversy between the
men and the company over the intro
duction of the p%iece-work system.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03

The most peculiar phase of the pres
ent hat situation is that the majority
of women who wear the unsightly
things cordially detest them, but plead
that there are no others for sale, and
that to wear last years hat is to be
almost as freakish as to wear this
years. Right here is a chance for
women to demonstrate their ability to
take a part in the government-let
them regulate the styles instead of
being regulated by them.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
Civ KiIled by EXPLOSION.

Dowagiac, Mich.-Of the eight
men who were in the Geesey Hoop mill
when the mill boiler exploded, five
were instantly killed, one died Of his
injuries, one was severely hurt and
one escaped u%niniured. The dead:
Deforest Geesey, owner Of the mill;
Frank Geesey, brother Of the owner
and four employees.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
sugar trust Alone Profits.

Any attempt in the senate to In.
crease the sugar schedule should be
contested to the utmost. In New York
sugar sells for $4.96 per hundred
weight. In Hamburg and London the
anne grade can be bought for $2.70.
The tariff Of $1.95 per hundred
weight benefits the sugar trust and no
one else.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03

1t seems that in baking beans Bos.
ton turns 49,, 900, 600 quarts into $4,000
900 quarts, and the finished product is
still admirably filling. The genius
that can make two quarts of beans
materialize where there was but one
quart has mastered a great point in
dietary science and political economy.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
Booth Charged With EmbezzIement.

San Francisco, Cal.-David Booth,
under arrest here charged with
passing bogus checks in Elpaso, is
also wanted at Memphis, Tenn, where
he is accused Of %embezzling $1,000,
Booth was captured Tuesday night in
company with George w, Taylors
charged with negotiating bogus
checks in Los Angeles.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
<napp Likely e CO 10 Atlanta

Washington.-The Georgia railroad
strike situation was discussed at the
cabinet meeting Friday. AS a result,
Chairman Knapp of the interstate
commerce commission probably will
20 to Atlanta to Join NELL.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03

The best that can be said about the
American passion for ancestors is that
it provides a living for a number Of
professional genealogists, and that it
lis, in itself, comparatively harmless.
Every one is perhaps entitled to some
little form of vanity and self-indul-
gence. Ancestors cost no more than
poker, and the search for them unites
families in a common interest where
such vanities as drinking and gam
bling tend to separate them.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
Examination of the premises occ

Examination of the premises occu-
pied by a Los Angeles private bank,
lately closed for lack of funds, showed
that the supposed vault was a big door
without any opening behind it. The
door was Of steel, with plate glass
knobs, shiny combination dials and
all the features of an imposing safe
protecting quantities Of money. Just
how such a sham affair could be put
In without becoming a matter of com
ment is hard to see. Or do workmen
set such doors often enough not to be
surprised by them?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03

In the opinion Of certain statesmen
the United States Of America was es-
tablished solely for the benefit Of a
bunch Of New England manufacturers,
and any tariff law that interferes with
their profits is not only undesirable
but a sign Of disrespect for the patri.
OTIS who threw OF the CALLING yoke ir
revolutionary days,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03

President Gomez advocates liberaliz-
ing the laws of Venezuela and encour-
aging the free entry of foreigners, par
~ticularly those who will be likely to
aid in the development of that section.
Perhaps this will give Castro a chance.
He may become naturalized abroad
and then get into Venezuela as a for
pipnpr
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
1o5 Enalnes for Hartman.

Philadelphia, Pat was reported
that a contract for 105 locomotives
had been placed with the Baldwin Lo-
connective Works by the Hartman
lines.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
TWO Victims Of GAS.

Minneapolis, Minn.-Gust Hedlund,
2S years old, is dead and his
companion, Elias Bogren, is dying
in the city hospital, as the result Of
one of the men blowing out the gas in
their room in Lyman's hotel, He'd
lund came to the city from Grand
Forks, N. D. as
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
Forest Fire destroys VILLAGE.

Negaunee, Mich.-Forest fires start
ed by a spark from a railroad en-
CINE destroyed a large part Of the
Of Dalton, twenty-five miles
here together with the three mil
lion feet Of lumber and a big min.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03

A tendency o. the part Of France
to revise some Of the schedules down
ward seems to show that the tariff
over there is not in the hands Of as
resourceful friends as 1t is In this
country.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03

Nevada may come into renewed
prominence as a producer of precious
metals. During March two mining
camps in that state turned out $4,000
900 worth of gold, and quite a rush Of
prospectors is started for that locality.
The fresh discoveries of gold may also
have the effect of further weaving
away the Nevadans from their excess
sive devotion to silver.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
Millionaire Kills EmpIoye.

Lafayette, Ind.-Elias Ray, a mil
lionaire land owner, has confess
ed that he was the cause of the
death of Conrad Ortman, who died in
the hospital here. Ray said Artman
attacked him with a stick. He said
he picked up a longer stick and de-
Tended himself. He struck Ortman on
the side of the head.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
LEADING Questions.

There is no logical foundation for a
duty on hides; there is no justice in
a duty on hides.-Hon. Serene Elisha
Payne.
What have logic and justice got to
do with a tariff? Is a duty on lumber
just and logical?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
co,ch and Jenks to WrestIe.

Des Moines, Ia.-Articles of agree
ent were signed for a finish wrestling
ment were signed for a finish wrestling
Gotch and Tom jenkins, wrestling in
structor at West Point. The match will
take place at the stock pavilion, at
the fair grounds, Des Moines. June IL.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
switohman,s Leos cut OF.

st. Louis.--Charles McIyers, 1927
Old Manchester road, a switchman for
the Frisco, lost both legs which
switching in the yards at Kingshigh-
way Friday. He tried to board a nov
ing freight car.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03

Cleveland reports a man who wakes
his wife up in the middle Of the night
to tell her how his FIRST wife committed
suicide. 1t will be but a short while
until he will be able to tell his third
wife the same story about his second
wife. He is sure to drive the poor
woman to It by such tactics.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
Men Ready I'd strlke.

Philadelphia.-In a largely attend
cd mass meeting Of motormen and con-
ductors Of the philadelphia Transit
company, It was decided to strike at
any time the national organization
deems 1t advisable.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
80. 20 Mlssino Farmer Fount

Spokane, Wash.-The body Of
patrick Corrigan, a wealthy farmer
from Custer, Wis, was dragged from
The Spokane river here. His pockets
had been turned inside out, hts gold
watch, gold pin and cash had vanished,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
Accused of KILLING Man.

Cape Girardeau, Mo.--A farm
hand named Ben Degenhard, was
arrested at Wittenberg, north Of this
city, for killing his employer, Fritz
Zehrl, a farmer in Illinois. They had
an alteration concerning their work
and Zehrl was struck over the head
with a piece of plank.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03

An actress was arrested and put in
Jail for an hour at Cincinnati a few
evenings ago for stabbing two men
with her hatpln. A curious thing
about the case is that her press agent
isn't making much Of II.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03

The tariff is undergoing revision.
tenderly at the hands Of its friends.
The great body of Republican voters
who demand greater tenderness for
the people will never get it until they
help to elect a Democratic congress.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
aoatswain Loses Both Legs.

Seattle, Wash.-Boatswain Alexan-
der Hamilton Of the United States
cruiser pennsylvania, who was In
iured while the ship was dropping
anchor, suffered a%mputaticn Of both
legs and may not recover.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
nrIdeoroon CHARGED with Murder

Bay City, Mich.-Married Wednes-
day morning to Anna Kaiser, Ro-
land Rich, 20 years old, was in the
afternoon arraigned on the charge
of numbering his aged grandmother.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
baseball Wilson" Captured.

Seattle, Wash. 49, William Wilson,
known in many states as Baseball
Wilson," was arrested here, charged
with being a fugitive from justice.
He is wanted for the alleged robbery
of postoffice station 1928, Chicago, De-
cember 20, 1907.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03

Automobile drivers, it appears, are
afraid of trolleys. 1t is interesting and
encouraging to know that they are
afraid of anything. Perhaps in time
they will be afraid OF the law suff.
GENTLY to obey it,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03

Now if airships were in general op-
Grafton as they expect to be in a
year or 30, these winds would be driv-
ing the mfrom their routes, and the
aerial news would be of much inter
est
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
rmn conductors Drown h Lake.

Minneapolis, Mimi. William G..
Conley and George Gibbs, conductors
on the st. Paul road, were drowned in
Lake Chanhassen, III miles out Of
Minneapolis, by the capsizing Of their
boat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03

There is still some question, how.
ever, as to whether the present mill.
tary activity in Nicaragua will have
any a%ppreciable effect on the kind of
permanent peace we have always had
In Central America.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-03
Yoeman to Gather.

Rofla, Mo.-Rolla Homestead, Amer
lean Yoemen, are maKlng preparation
for the district meeting of the order
in Rolla, Friday and Saturday, August
10 and IA. One thousand yoemen will
be in attendance.