The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1868-02-28

a resolution submitted by Mr.. Banks
in the lower house of Congress.
But instead of rising to the dignity
Of statesman-like view of tie
questions involved in the arrest and
Imprisonment of American citizens,
by foreign governments, for suppos-
ed sympathy with Fenianism in
America, it sinks, to the brutality
Of barbarous nations. In short it
is measure of retaliation. This
resolution notifies foreign govern
mcnts that for every naturalized
citizen arrested and imprisoned by
foreign governments, like arrest
and Imprisonment shall be visited
upon citizens of that country found
within the United States. Thus if
Great Britain should arrest and
imprison naturalized Irishman for
supposed Fenianism in the United
States, then the United States will
arrest and imprison an unnatural
izcd Irishman in the United States,
waiting the period when he may be-
come a citizen, under our naturali-
cations laws. And this is the bait
with which the republicans hope to
buy foreign votes.
The question Of reputation seems
to assume every variety Of form, and
in some localities it is endorsed sole
ly by republicans, while in other
localities it is endorsed by major
ity of Democrats as we'll as Repub-
licans, The question here has many
republican precedents. In New York
Ohio, Pcnns ylvania, and all the New
England states in'is64, their leg
islatures respectively found it nee
essary to repudiate the payment of
interest on the state bonds in gold.
Yet these bonds were bought with
gold at par in nearly every instance,
the law by virtue of which they were
issued providing that they should be
paid, principal aud interest in gold.
All this was work of Republican leg
islaturcs, and bad tho approval of
executives Of that party. Not only
this but Congress in making Legal
Tender notes good tender in pay
mcnt of all debts public and private,
except customs. and interest on the
public debt have stultificl them
selves and are estopped by their own
precedents. i'm .s .g ..f...
The truth is the Masses every
where. are demanding that the gov
ernmcnt train must be stopped, and
the deadheads thrown off. The army
of unnecessary government officers,
civil and military, bankers, stock
holders, Peter Funk detectives, and
untaxel bondholders are dead
heads riding on tho car of freedom
at the expense ofshonest Industry
Fhe people are beginning to ciamor
that they be put off the train or
compelled to pay their fare. -
The people are justly beginning to
assert the right to tax all kinds of
property for the support of the gov
ernment. Not only the principle
but the practice is as old las any
government on the face Of the earth.
All nations, in all times, have re-
sorted to the principle, as means
Of reducing the rate of interest on
money borrowed at extravagant
rates in times of war. This history
will be again reproduced. What one
Congress did in an evil hour, another
will most assuredly undo. The
Republic, if it has a right to live,
cannot do SO without taxation; nor
can it continue to exist with unjust
taxation without revolution. If there
should be any Sovereign in Repub-
lie. exempt from taxation. it should
be LABOR, not pampered wealth. Z
Labor must not, nor will she long.
pay taxes on every child it clothes,
or for every horse it shoes. A crown
Of thorns must not be put upon the
head Of every mechanic in the Re-
public; wormwood and gall must
not be put into the mouth Of every
poor man in the land; nails. must
not be driven though the hands and
feet Of every prodacer of wealth in
the West to benefit untaxed bonds.
organised villainy and incorporated
rascality. Nor can any party long
have the confidence Of the people.
and continue to endorse su,h schemes
of unadulterated per6dy to their
raal intarasts