Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-04-01
IRONTON. THURSDAY. APRIL L.


steel industries and other allied in
terests were allowed to extort mill
lions upon millions of money from
the American people, under a sys-
tenn known as High Protection, but
which in plain language should be
called the policy of Federal Favor
itism. The terms Of this agree
ment we're brief but comprehen-
sive. "Give us leave to plumber
the people," said the high protec-
tionists, sand we'll see that the tin
pail in which you carry your cam
paign funds shall never be empty"
sits a bargain, !" said Mark Hanna
of blessed memory. SEQ in and
gouge them deep and we'l pull the
wool over the eyes of the stupid
voters by calling robbery and ex-
tortion, "Protection." So, while
steel rails could be sold abroad at
profit at S18 a. ton, the Steel
Trust sold them to the railroads in
this country at S28 ton; the rail-
roads added this extra $40 to their
charges on freight and passenger
traffic and the readers of the REGIS
TER helped to swell the mountain
of money which Mr.. Carnegie
rolled up as result of his partner
ship, and which he is now trying
to get rid of.
Now, do the people of this great
State and the State University
which they founded aad literally
sustained, believe that the high
protective system under the cover
Of which Carnegie made his mill
lions was a just and equitable
measure, founded on economic
truths which they accept and de-
sire to have taught to their child
rem, or not? If they believe it,
well and good. If they do not be-
lieve it, but believe on the contrary
that it is an unrighteous compact
founded on injustice and admins
tered for the benefit of few and to
the disadvantage of the many-if
they thus believe how can they sit
still and see their State dishonored
and disgraced by placing the teach
ers in the State University on the
list of the Carnegie foundation as
potential paupers?
If Mr.. Carnegie felt generous and
disposed to do good to his fellow
men with the proceeds of his in
dustry fostered by Federal Favor
itism falsely known as the protec-
tive tariff, why did he not establish
pension list for miners and their
widows and orphans, poorly paid
class whose labor in the dark in
terror of the earth is hard and dan
gerous? Or for the lower classes
of labor in his steel mills whose
daily wages barely suffice for the
daily needs of the family, allow
ling them to lay up nothing against
the rainy day, sickness, old age,
and the certain ills of life? Why,
of all classes, select college and
university professors for his PEN
sion list-a class whose work is not
dangerous, whose position is secure
and whose compensation is usual
| ly adequate for present needs, and
with something over for the time
of old age? Was it because in our
colleges and universities are found
those who draw lessons of wisdom
from the teachings of history, and
those who lay down fundamental
truths in the tentative science ot
political economy, and whom Mr.
Carnegie wished to attach to his
belt by the golden cord-of gener
GUS pension? If this was what hi
, had in mind it is creditable to hi!
Judgment that he struck at the cen
ter, like Rockefeller when he set ou
to pauperize the churches by dona
tions to foreign missions.
t Set up a professor in our Stat
University to lecture class on tn
tariff while he has one eye fixet
on his syllabus or textbook anf
I, the other squirting in the direction
5 of Carnegie's pension, and I woul'
not give rotten apple for what h
might say; his heart would be di
vided between the truth and tn
: pension, and he who is to unfold tn
truth on any subject should spea
7 from no divided heart or sense G
q duty.
8 now raise the question whethe
d the State of Missouri is paying it
8 professors in the State Universit
: adequate salaries for the work the
d perform, which, used with pru
. dence and good judgment, provid
n comfortable living for them
y selves and families, and still leav
" surplus for investment or futu1
d use? If it is doing so, why offt
= it's professors to Mr.. Carnegie q
n fit subjects for his pauper list?
! it is not paying them decent sala
le les why is it not doing so? Is
s, not able? Then cut down the nun
10 ber and raise the salaries of thos
that remain. But If it is both abl
re and willing to pay the professol
at of the State University decent an
g, respectable salaries, then let tt
people of this State rise, up and n
W pudiate the act of the legislatul
It, in placing the University on th
l. list of the Carnegie foundation
" We may get less money by it, b
1r we will have more self-respect.
ie r. f. CHEW, Kirkwood, Mo.