North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-01
n Newspaper Changes.

NS" FsSPOH SAau8OS.
All changes favor the Democratic party.
The Fayette Observer sold out to Wood &
Lacy Of the Fayette Union. Rickle &
Judge McClintock will probably run the
Union, while Wood & Lacy will 60 to
Austin. Here is rub-out Of one Rad.
paper and the substitution of a democrat
ic one. Medary, of the Lansing Mirror,
has sold out to D. 7. Lindley. To show
Dawes democracy we clip the Introducto-
ry below. He knows how to 60 for them.
Our Position.
The Democrats Of Allamakee may be
surprised to see their old enemy, the Mir.
ror, come out Democratic, but we have
purchased the establishment and propose
from this on to use it in the interest
of that party to which this nation owes
all its gr reatness. These types have been
telling radical lies long time, but we are
going to convert them to use more DO.
tent for good.
In times like the present, when the en-
tire system of eur government is being
perverted to the interests Of the uncon-
stitutional and arbitrary rule-or-ruin poll
cy Of radical dotards, it may no. be out of
place for our readers to know where we
stand. To this end we invite especial at
tenton to the following:
l. We shall advocate amendment of
the laws to the end that our government
bonds can be paid in the same kind of
currency it took to buy them; the same
the farmer receives for Ills produce the
lah for foil nd tbo
ment pays to the widows and orphans Of
soldiers, and tn disabled soldiers, Us
pensions.
2. We shall advocate the doctrine of
reducing taxation by multiplying the tax
payers. A bondholder's dollar should
pay the same per centum of tax as the
dollar the poor man earns by the sweat of
his brow. A thousand dollar bond should
pay as much tax as thousand dollar
homestead.
3. We are in favor of equal rights and
privileges to all white men, and justice to
all races.
4. We are opposed to tho doctrine of
negro sutfarge on the ground that white
men should rule America.
S. We are opposed to any law embar-
RAISING social inclination such as oppres-
sive liquor laws and puritanical Sunday
laws. Let every man serve God according
to III. dictates Of his own conscience, and
make his own settlement Mt the day Of
judgment and let him eat and drink
what he pleases. taking his own risk Of
consequences. Prohibition begets desire.
6. While the radical party, armed with
military despotism and negro suffrage, des.
parately grasps at permanent lease OF
power by excluding from representation
the southern states, we hold it to be the du
ty Of people to rise in their might and
administer chastisement that will ever
stand as warning to ambitious and reck-
less proHigates.
7. While we despise any inclination to
pinching parsimony in the administration
of publ, affairs, we shall welcome the
day when radical lax ty is superes led by a
healthy democratic strlngency.
5. We shall in no case descend to the
miserable meanness of personal abuse in
order to carry political ends. If there is
any one thing more than another that
tends to the degradation Of public Journal
! ism it is that vile disposition on the part
of editors to create social hatred and excite
revengeful feelings between families and
neighbors by holding this or that man up
before community as a wretched miscrcant
simply because he disagrees with them.
There is no manliness in such conduct up
on the part Of an editor. 1t shall be our
aim to treat all men honorably and decent
ly, at the same time claiming the right to
score politicians at pleasure. A man who
puts himself before the public as politi-
clan has no right to complain OF just
criticism.
9. We shall endeavor to make the
Mirror a live paper one that will be
sought as reflector of truth and dis
seminator of sound political doctrines.
Particular attention will be given to local
affairs in Allamakee county, interspersed
with items Of general news and such mis-
cellany as may be deemed proper.
1t has been suggested by some thas the
name of the Mirror ought to be changed,
but believing with Shakespeare that g a
rose bv any other name would smell as
sweet" we have decided to retain the old
name.
All we ask of the Democracy is to give
us q living support and we will endeayor
to give them the worth of their money.
D. I. LlNDLEY.