Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1868-04-23
i Radical Pen PIe-
ture.
Our Doctors nj w asiaiRs-
tom.
MAKE THEM TAKE THEIR
OWN MEDICINE.

We think about as good q plaI
IS can be devised to prevent impo-
sition upon yourselves when it i
within your power, Is 10 make youI
Doctor take hia own medicine now
and then, and give yQu an opp rtu
nifty TO witness the effect it viii bsvs
upon him. And this rule win hold
good in politics, when properly aR.
Piled. For instance, make Radi'
ealism swallow a dose of Radiea
official corruption and fraud, admin
istered by the hand of 3 Radica
physician-ons for instance of ths
Ben Wade School. Such = dose
has been prepared and administered
elsewhere by the editors, or Doc
tors, Of the Revolution, and We pro
pose to administer it in this quartel
to Radicals, asking DemocEatS 3
the same time, to quietly observt
its effects. The following is Doc
tor Revolutions prescription
"a SLAVE is ''a person whose bad
ily toll and the fruits of it are tbs
property of another 70 Slavery
abolished by Law in the Southern
States at q cost of four THOUSAND
millions of dollars and q million
lives of able bodied men, and We
slavery existing IN FACT IN every
State of the Union. Of how many
American citizens can it now bS
said that their ''bodily toll and tht
fruits Of it are the property Of anoth
er 90 Since the rebellion ended tn,
American people have begun to fee
the first twitches OF the iron grip o
want, and to suffer from the evils o
blighted industry, Their Hbodi
ly toll and the fruits of it'' have be
come the property Of thieves ; GOV
ernment thieves; Collectors of In
ternal Revenue thieves, robbing tht
people right and left; Collectors O
Customs, with their organized ring
of thieves for Matchmaking mer
chants; the whisky ring thieves, the
TOBACCO ring thieves; the Seward
ThurIow Weed gang of eontraof
thieves, and their organized SWIM
dies WITH the japanese government
steamers-their foreign land pur
chase swindles of Alaska, St, Thorn
as, Lower California, and any othel
spot on the face of the globe, thar
their genius can devise as an excuse
for handling the peoples money
Stanton Thurlow " eed, War De
partment, Contract thieves; the
Freedman's Bureau thieves the In
dian Bureau thieves; and the Chase
NJ Culloch- National Bank swindle
which ahsorbs the profits Of tbs
mercantile community into exhorbi
tant dividends of twenty to thirty
per cent. per annum. Tie Nationa
Bank men and government bond
holders control Legislation at Wash
ington, and they force the people
TO work for them and to make abou
S200, 900, 600 per annun, to support
them in luxury and idleness- These
are the Shareholders, numbering
about four hundred thousand, who
own ''the bodily toll and the fruits
thereof of the American people
These shareholders hold the purse
strings Of the nation and make
money scarce or plentiful at theiI
pleasure. This is the source o
their power. 1t must be taken from
them and given to the people. TIL,
National Banks must have the righ
of issuing notes taken from them
and the peoples money, greenbacks
must take their place. Government
bonds at low rate of currency in
terest must be issued and made con
vertible into greenbacks al par, q
the Measure Of the holder, SO tha
the people when they want none,
shall not be at the mercy of the Shy
IIlocks of the National Ranks AMI
usurers. | set money become demo
oratized, or so plentiful among th,
people that labor and enterpris,
shah never want for the tools 4
work with greenbaeks. Thi
I"democratizing money" is the sym
Dol and the key TO the highest civil
ization and happiness of which hu
EnaRity is espdble. This Is freedom
The reverse, or poverty, is slavery
It ls Tnockery to tell man that b,
u free 60 be happy and improv.
himself and his family both in bod,
and mind when the means to do al
this-money and credit--are de
MED TO him, aud are monopolizet
by the few Of the privileged elasl
-shylocks, WHO make the none,
markets. tight or easy, prices Low
or high, and business good or bat
10 suit the interest Of themselves
the Shylocks Of the noney bags. "
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