New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1862-11-28
THE SHINPLASTER PARTY.

+ tricate calculation by referring each ar
4 ticle he buys to common standard Of
value. He may sell his products to
the same merchant Of whom he buys
his goods, and not a cent Of money be
paid on either side but even in this
barter trade, money is the measure by
which the cxchangable value of all
the articles is estimated 1t measures
values, as the merchants pound weight
and yarl-stick measure quantities.
If the Republican party, which is
soliciting the sufragcs Of the people,
| had within the last ten months sent
its agents into every retail store in the
country if these agents had altered
every pound weight so that it contain-
ed only eleven ounces instead Of six
teen had shortened every yard stick so
that it was only twenty FIVE inches long
instead Of tlirty-six had diminished
every gallon mcasurs SO that it would
hold only five and a half pints instead
Of eight If the Republican admi,is-
tration, which is now soliciting the
votes of the Ia boring classes, had thus
diminished the weights and measures
used in converting their hard earnings
into meat, groceries, cloth, and fuel for
their families if this had been done
the laboring masses would, to man,
ireiuse their votes to 4 party who had
thus taken bread from their childrcn's
mouths, ard coal from the family fire.
But practically it makes no difference
wh:ther the republican party takes
ree-tenths from the measure of guam
titi,ics or from the measure Of values.
1.-THE paper dollar which the republic
can party compels him to receive in
payment Of his wages IS worth only
| three. scvenths as much as the gold
dollar Which was the old measure Of
values, it Is clear that he gets only
seven tenths as much beef. or flour, or
coffee for his days work as if five
dollar bill were converted at pleasure
into gold half eagle.
If the government shinplaster mill
continues to turn out it's sham money
and bloat the currency, the condition
of the laboring classes will grow con-
stantly worse and worse. It will be
the same as if the baker should go on
diminishing the size of his loaf, and the
butcher the piece of meat he sold fer a
pound, the nominal price Of these nee
essalies remaining the SINE. The
wages of labor do not rise, while the
prices of all commodities go higher.
The condition of the laborer's family
must consequently grow worse and
worse, just the same as if the butchers
and grocer's pound weight were daily
wasting away like lump of ice in the
sun. t-n
| There is no surer device for trans
ferring property from the pockets Of
one class to those Of another than an
Inflated paper currency. Its general
ana Irresistible tendency is to make
the rich richer and the poor poorer. It
is favorable to the class Of spectators
who live by their wits, but ruinous to
the honest artisan who lives by his
labor. While the anxious wife Of the
laboring man is unable to buy warm
stockings and comfortable winter cloth
ing for her children, because every
thing is so high, the Wall stceet sharp
ers have been daily making millions.
The food Of irredeemabla paper which
keeps speculation alert,is their harvest.
Men who were last year poor are to-
day worth hundreds of thousands, and
will next year inhabit palaces built by
laborers whose families are stinted in
the comnonest necessaries of ife
undcrpaid not because their nominal
wages are low, but because the sham
money in which the Republican party
compels them to be paid has only
feeble purchasing power.-New York
| World. l..s..u
Our readers would do we'll to read
the advertisement Of G. w. Goddard,