Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-24

Iron Works, sin ORDER" as j. P.
M. said, "to ameliorate the panic
of 1907" Result. P. M. gather
ed up the stocks and obligations
of the Tennessee Coal and Iron
Works to the amount approximate
ing S30,000,000 and turned them
into the United States Steel Trust,
thus destroying the only serious
competitor of the last named
trust. Not a dollar of this amount
went into circulation to relieve
the money stringency; but con-
gress got busy and enacted the
Emergency Currency Act, auth
orizing National Banks to issue
500,000,O00, "secured by U. s..
Bonds and other securities" The
lion-killer appended his official
prehensile to that act.
After he became Ex-President
he boasted that while President he
simply took the Panama Canal belt
from Colombia. He prevented
the Colombian army from doing
anything to quell the rebellion,
by sending down there two
American war ships, and by his
influence prevented the Isthmian
Railroad Co. from transporting
the Colombian forces to the field
of action. Result? No man is
able to say. Under the Arbitra-
ton Treaty between the United
States, England and France, re-
Gently passed by the Senate,
Colombia will place her claim for
damages and who is able to say
how many millions the European
lovers of our Republic (?) will
decide we ought to pay Colombia
for this "forcible entry and de-
tainer" our strenerous Colonel
has placed us in. That Arbitra-
ton Treaty, provided England
and France ratify, will prove, I
fear, one of the worst curses in
its line that ever was inflicted up
on our nation and brought about
by the immaculate Colonel. The
Senate paid no attention to Wash
ington's warning, as given in his
Farewell Address, where he eau
toned us ''not to enter into any
entangling alliances with any
foreign nation" All nations keep
on building war ships, making
new Notifications, and strengthen
ing old ones. Our Panama Ship
Canal "must be fortified" No
soul upon earth is more favorable
for peace between all nations than
yours truly; but | lack faith that
the present treaty will bring that
desired result.
Yet another shot at the Colonel.
He, as Ex. President, proclaimed
himself in favor of s'a more CEN
tralized form of government.
All true Americans are hostile to
any further Capitalization of our
government. There is too much of
that now. And yet another shot
at the lion-killer: he recently said
regarding the Recall, that he did
not favor the recall of judges, but
that, if they rendered decision
that the people deemed unjust,
they should have a right to recall
such decision. l say recall the
judge and thus prevent the re-
occurrence of another unjust de-
cision. Individually am opposed
to appointing any and all Judge
or judges and believe in electing
by the popular vote every officer
from President down, notwith-
standing Alex. Hamilton thought
the "common people were not to
be trusted with power" Iagree
with Mr.. Lincoln, when he said
that "God must have liked the
common people because He made
SO many Of them." am in favor
of the Initiative, Referendum and
Recall, and have advocated that
doctrine for moro than a quarter
of a century-have done so when
"offensive partisans" called me
crazy. Now it is becoming popu-
lar--even the astute Colonel thinks
"they are the words to conjure
with" He does not lack astute-
ness, but 1 fear his conjuring with
those talismanic words, If he is
unfortunately elected, will prove
no more effective than his trust-
busting. He is simply blood
thunder dutchman: ii you
furnish the blood he will do the
thundering.
/ To re-elect the present incum-
bent would only add insult to
Injury. The Sherman anti trust
law has been on the statute books
for almost a quarter Of century !;
and the Republican party has
been in power for almost double
that time. Why is there a soli-
tary depredating, piratical trust
left? Why return the Colonel to
the White House, thinking he
will "bust' any more trusts than
The did In his previous seven
years dynasty? One might as
well hope to be cured Of rattle
snake bite by having another rat
tier bite him, as to hope that the
lion-killer, If re-elected, would
kill any more trusts, than he did
while President. The chameleon