The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1868-08-28
Irou the Metropolitan Record.
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pie OF CMS country STe ulV1ulu& 1ntS
two great parties. These parties
are: - .'' !" u,
First The Bondholders. .-- Ut
Second-The Bondmen. 'E "%'
Or, to put in another shape: u 'o
The Rag Barons' Party, and
The Party Of Rags. 800:
Or, to simplify it still more:
Masters,
Slaves. ''',* .''.. -
I Now, this beartless, naughty ani
all dcvouring party Bondholders,
Rag Barons and white workingmen'
masters, is, in the main, made up o.
Army and Navy Contractors.
Shoddy and National Banks.
High Tariff Sharks. .' N.."
Big Bounty Swindlers. ''. go .'
Advocates of Oppressive Taxation
Congressional Lobby Thieves.
Whiskey Thieves.
Wall street Jobbers. ...
Specializing Treasury Agents
Gold Gamblers.
The ill-gotten gains Of these har-
pies are all represented in the Ma.
tional Debt. The burthen of that
debt is borne, and must be borne by
The honest farmer. t@sa~- ~.
The hard working day laborer.
The down trodden mechanic. III"
The starving artizan. a5 'ia''
The ill-paid clerk.
The dwcilers in tenement houses.
We say tho load which these
classcs, the BONE and SINEw Of the
land. have had placed upon their
backs must be borne; but We use
tho expression only in qualified
sense 1t need not be borne unless
the people themselves SO will It.
What, then, are the ways and
means of cmancipating ourselves
from she load! What is the nearest
and surest cut to the W orkingman' S
asscrtion-we nct merely say to his
right of self-owncrship, but even to
his right to live? '@a' .~@@
We, unhesitatingly answer:
To s,teep from existence at the
approaching November election. the
thieves and plundercrs' party which
is running Grant for President. The
thing can be done. we are firmly per-
suadcd. if the peoplc-thc whole peo-
ple-will but half try The time
for making the trial, remember, is
now. The people must open their
eyes to that helpless and hopeless
slavery which is inevitably in store
for them if these soulless Rag Bar
ons and their confederate swindlers
and thieves manage to obtain an
other four years control Of the pub
lie cxchequer.
It is one Of the tricks Of the
Bondholders to represent that the
the Democratic party is party Of
rcpudiators; but the trick is one too
transparent to deceive. The De-
mocracy purpose to repudiatc MOTH
ing but what is dishonest and fraud
ulent on its face. It is fraud upon
the Constitution. to be having two
differents kinds Of moncy-gold for
the government swindlers. and rags,
notking but rags, for the sons of
poverty and toll. The Democracy
propose to do away with that unjust
discrimination. to serve the govern
ment creditors all alike, and to pay
back the bondholders in the same
kind of money the government was
obliged to receive from them. When
the Black Republican orators. edit
ors and whippers-in declare that
that is dishonest. or that that is re-
pudiation. tell them they lie.
The laboring man to-day is paying
as exorbitant prices for everything
he consumes as be did the first year
Of the war, and as long as the thieves
and plunderers' party, now represent
ed by Grant and Colfax. are in power,
he may rely upon it things will be
no better.
just see how it works. even under
our eyes and nose, right here on
Manhattan Island sf4
Brown stone fronts and marble
palaces multiplying on one line, and
nothing but beastly, ten story ten.
story tenement houses on the other!
Where are the substantial middle
class, 80 to spcak-that is. the men
Of moderate means, who in good old
Democratic gold and silver days
used to live in comfortable dwell
ings of their own? Gone! Literally
crushed out Swallowed up by RAG
RARoNs' PARTY. or drawn into the
embraces Of the Party Of Rags! Gc
whithersoever you will, up town,
down town, across town-it is al
the same. On either hand. the
Palace or the Hovel-the Very Ricf
and the Miserably Poor-nothinl
besides!
Now, in monarohical countries,
where 1.-THE divine righs of kings t.
govern wrong is the rule. the peo
pie havo 70 bow their Aecks to thu
rule Of the tyrant and the oppressor
They cannot help themselves. But
here the people, if they choose, pp'
the tyrant and the oppressor under
their heel. The time is at hant
| when it rests with them to say
whether they are prepared TO exer'
else that viii, or have ignobly mad.
nm Hho;. m;nAs IN EvA ~ n and