Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-10-19


les at this time unless conditions
should arise showing imperative ne
cessity for such a change.
Code Revision and New Constitution.
We are told that our legal code is
archaic and out Of date. This is a
matter in which the State Bar Asso-
citation should assume the leadership.
! should be governed by their guild
ance and that Of the lawyer members
of the legislature, and give my full
support to any measure looking to a
more speedy and adequate admins
tration of justice. The Democratic
platform provides that the people
must decide by ballot as to whether a
constitutional convention is 4 to be
called.
Appointive offices.
l believe the time is now upon Us
when even our busiest citizens may
no longer shirk their part of the re-
probabilities of government. Many
Of US have been loud in cur criticisms
Of others, yet refusing to serve u
fellow men when called upon. II l am
elected Governor | shall appoint to
office the highest type Of men and
oudll luSloI lhdl fAlVy oVA w tfCh
where it will be a personal sacrifice
for them to do so. | shall see that
our boards, other than professional,
are made up of u people from all
walks of life. Efficiency shall be my
chief aim in selecting men for office.
q Capital and Labor.
Missouri is fortunate in that as q
rule employer and employee live in
harmony and mutual esteem. Capital
and labor are seeking a basis that is
fair to both and cooperation seems to
be the keynote that is guiding them
in working out the difficult problems
which have arisen. l believe the state
should enact a modern workmen's
compensation act that is just and sat
isfactory 70 all. The law should pro-
tect a man who is engaged in any
hazardous work, against the day when
by accident he may be thrown out Of
employment, helpless and penniless.
Peace.
The national campaign has opened,
and the Republican candidate for
President has now completed his
swing around the circle. He has har-
rangued the people about our foreign
policy with all the adroitness of the
trained jurist that he is, but he has
failed to suggest a program, or to
state what he wonld have done had
he been President during the last four
years. His campaign Is purely de-
~structive criticism. He has failed to
offer a single constructive suggestion.
He has derided our foreign policy, but
Loa 9oj1ad IN. rhpu uyhorn tho hOnnr ~
the nation would have been better
conserved by pursuing any other pol
icy. His chief criticism Of the Mexi.
can policy is In the failure Of Presi-
dent Wilson to recognize Huerta- To
my mind the action of the President
of the United States in this matter
marked a new era in international re-
lations. The nations of the world have
been recognizing rulers regardless of
the manner of method through which
they have attained ascendance, but
when President Wilson realized that
Huerta had gotten into control OF the
affairs of Mexico through the assassi-
nation Of Madero he, In effect, an
nounced to the world that the United
States would not recognize the ruler
Of any nation on earth who attained
his position by assassinating his pre-
decessor.
President Wilson's management Of
the European situation will go down
!, in history as the greatest diplomatic
achievement in American annals. The
honor of America is untarnished to-
+ day because he has preserved peace
= instead of achieving personal glory
and renown by involving US In war.
When we read in the newspapers to-
! day Of the awful calamity that is lit
orally destroying Europe, and In addi-
! ton to the death, devastation and
+ waste of the present, Is heaping an In
: tolerable burden of debt upon the fu-
ture generations, l maintain that it is
an achievement that will adorn the
, pages of history that the President OF
a the United States has preserved peace
y and brought prosperity to the hun
: bred millions of people who are look
! ing to him for guidance and protec-
, ton.
s Prosperity.
e The Republican party has often pro
claimed that the Democratic party Is
e opposed to business. P~resent-day con
ditions so utterly contradict those
g charges that 1t will not require a Ions
n argument to meet them. Every mil
in this land is now working night ant
y day. Every dinner pail is full. Every
man who seeks work is able to find Il
at higher wages than ever before
Bark clearings are the largest in the
= history Of the country. Railroad earn
ings are three and one-half millior
dollars, exceeding by far any in his
J.. tory. Farm products are at top prices
Is there a man in any walk Of life
y who will say that his vocation is les.
profitable than 1t was under Repub
y lican rule? And yet a great part o
! the commercial world is involved IL
war.
| believe that the American people
want peace, prosperity and prepared
ness. l believe that the people of thu
state of Missouri will support the DO
litical party that has preserved peace
and prosperity in these p~erilous times
y We believe that the greatest happi
l. ness comes in contented homes-tht
family fireside where father, mothe
and children may gather at least one,
II a day. The home promotes highe
ideals than ~battlefields, where happi
ness is replaced by the heartaches o
Is widows and the suffering of orphans
e For my part, l am willing to go be
e fore the people Of the country and Of
e fer peace as preferable to war; pros
N perity as preferable to panics; I'm.
versal business activity, where ever