Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1868-11-12
vynonu HATH II Beneaatteas
Radieaiisn has tglunphsd' ne

gro suffrage, by tfse votes on sne tsssss
nIe of Iowa, has, 30 far as this state
i concerned, become . hxed lacts
and Mongrelisln IL invited to = place
in our goveguHent. ALI TanneF-dom
re,oIced and RadicAi leaders grinned
broadly. But In the same hour that
rroclaims their victory. their degre
dation is also proclaimed, and the
terrible startling news to labor. -
well as capital, comes with lightning
speed over the wires announcing a
snanciaa panicin Wall street. Stocks
and Government bonds are tam-
bling. The brokers and gamblers in
those commodities, have played their
hands to the BEST advantage, but
there has been cheating at the beard
and it is about to prove terribly dis
sstrous to somebody, Trade Is Of q
stand still, and the financial cloud
aarkens. The storm that swept over
the land In 1857 is about To be re-
nroducsd only in o more terrible
form. And this is the result of the
contest of Tuesday last. Whom
hath it benefited
Let the farmer, mechanic, work
man, aye, and the merchant, too, as
well us all others, who voted for
Grant and the Radical policy on
Tuesday, contemplate, now that the
smoke of the contest is clearing away,
the result of their own action, when
they walked up to the polls in eritt-
tqtioa aud deposited their ballots in
favor of men and measures against
whom and which they had been so
often and solemnly warned by the
Democracy, and by the history OF
the rise and fall of nations for thou
sand years past. The financial storm
seems to be already upon Us, and ii
we may augur from the threatening
signs, it bids fair to be the most ter
rible that has ever swept over the
land
Radiealissn, Mongrelism, Finan-
cial ruin, and despotism, is the pic
ture you are now called to look up
on-not very pleasant for calm, de-
hberate contemplation, we know
but however horrible it may be in
its outlines, you men who east your
votes on Tuesday last f,r Grant
with no policy" and the bond
holder and shoddy aristocrat with
their policy, have yourselves produc-
ed the result you are now forced to
contemplate with fear and trembling
The true Democracy have no lot or
pari iu producing the dire caiamitieS
which now seem so inevitable. Con-
template the result OF your action
and answer: Whom hath it benefit.
ted
Laboring man, and you, too, me-
chanic and farmer, you who casi
your ballots to secure the result,
what do you see in the future foI
yourselves and your families? Upon
you sooner and more crushingly
will the portending financial storm
come than upon any other class
Have you stopped a moment to
think of this? We are not now on
the eve of political contest. The
battle has been waged lost and
won. Who are the iosers-who
are the victors? Whom hath it ben
Gifted
We are told that the financial
storm is gathering fast-that it has
already burSt with terrible effect up
on Wall street-that the signs of the
portending storm are more fearful
than the storm of 1857, when the
great Northwest was bankrupted.
Winter is close at hand. Winter,
with its biting frosts, piercing winds,
and but little or no work. Winter,
that season Of the year that taxes
more than any other the energy and
endurance OF the laboring man, me-
ehanie and farmer, TO weary through
and make both ends meet even
when the financial skies are bright,
The season when the wolf is at the
door of the poor mans dwelling,
and want within, the loved ones
hoVering over few burning embers,
are crying for food and raiment
while the father Is yet hoarse from
the effects OF his shouts for Grant
and victory and the bondhoIder's
policy, the causes which have pro
duced the dire results-the financial
crash, and the want and misery in
the poor mans home.
Whom hath it benefited ? Have
you paused for moment to think oi
this, ye plow-holders, ye piane-hold-
ers, We aFtlzans at loom ana aasil,
ye men who yield the pick and
spade =? Have We paused for mo
ment to think OF the warnings We
uttered and ye heeded not 2 And
have ye nov discovered that ys
have brought these dire calamities
upon yourselves, and that ttoo late,
too late" f" toayeTt the impending evil
is now constantly ringing Ia yous
, ears? All, experience h a dear
school," yet there are those who in
sist on being educated therein regard
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