North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-30

| For the TINES.
A gentleman who appreciates good
thing sends us the following speech of a
"Plowholder'' of Giard Township, Clay.
ton County, Iowa. We commend it as a
pain statement of matters now before the
country. The orator ''pretends to NO
such learning as the lawyers of McGre-
gor, Decorah, West Union, Elhkder or
Dubuque" but he seems we'll versed in
Scripture and in the past and present poll
teal situations. We publish the
SPEECH OF WIN. H. HARDING.
Fellow CITIZENS:
Tis with pleasure arise to address you
this evening. There is but one thing tha,
I regret, and that is my inability to dc
justic, to the case now before US; still
am willing in my awkward way to pro-
ceed. Again, l bethought myself how
you had continued in the faith, adhering
70 sound doctrine, maintaining the ancient
creed taught by your fathers, enduring all
things and suffering all things for truth
sake that ye might not become a casta-
way, areprobate and reproach to the ''house
of Israel" And then l was strengthened,
my faith becoming most powerful, and
says to myself, there is certainly lang
uaae that can be made use of to COPY
the back-slidden of the laboring men,
whatsoever the big ones may do with there
usual ability. Still, times are changed.
Capital is King, and the humble votaries
of"Loyal Unionism' are already beginning
to sing peans of eternal damnation to the
policy that fosters, protects and cxempts
capital at the expense of the aches, groans
and sighs OF the moaning masses of this
country. Toll on poor white slayes! You
made yourselves such you needed not the
teachings of the Constitution of your coun-
try; you laughed to scorn the wise and
patriotic lessons taught you by Washing
ton, Jefferson, jackson, Webster, Clay and
others. Ye had become followers of the
Nations destroyer; you were willing to dis
grace the flag of your country; trample
the Constitution under foot; break up the
Federal Government; take away the rights
of the states establish military despot-
ism csnsign your own children to abject
poverty and become slaves yourselves, if
you could only be "loyal union'' man
and the negro could he free! You voted
for "Abraham Lincoln; y this made you
''loyal;' you freed the negro you put
down that awful curse "negro slavery"
and fastened eternal white slavery upon
yourselves and children by lowering and
knuckling to the most absolute, despotic
and exacting, intruding slave driver, that
ever marked the poor mans path-the
Giant God Of Moloch-the monied monpo-
lies of the country. Good bye laboring
man! The bondocracy Of New England
have fixed your status. Capital must be
protected. United States bonds must be
exempt from taxation. The eastern man
uiacturers and other monied nabobs riN
hare SPECIAL LEGISLATION. CAPITAL is
KING! And you white laborers, children
Of noble acknowledgements sons Of
noble sires" through whose veins course
anglo-saxon blood! You, say, must pay
tribute to this monster CAPITAL, upon
every thing you wear, eat or drink. Yes,
you must pay tribute! He steps into your
family circle. He sets himself upon your
threshold. He says, "Sir, your children
are baretooted, your family, one and all
are about naked, hungry and starving,
you have nothing wherewith to clothe or
feed them and l here throttle you! Now
sir, you must, says the new master-this
Bondocracy, you must have shoes and
clothing or the pinching frost and bitter,
biting blasts of the storm King Of coming
winter, will freeze your wife and little
ones. You must have food for those pale,
sick, halfstarvcd children or they will
perish; here sir is leather for shoes and
garments for your family! Take them
and pay the New England manufacturers
200 per cent. profit, the government its de-
mauds-and 10, behold here small