North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-02-03


sor, Of July 4, 1868, granting general
pardon and amnesty to persons engaged
in the late rebellion, with exceptions and
reservations. .;.,...--... ... ....-...,
"where the Money Goes.'
..rr Communication.
IIenceforth, every man in our noble
Iowa, can vote. Ere long, every woman
can exert her refining influence at the
polls. Human beings are never more to
be seld in our nation. Yet slavery lives,
and steals throughout our land-a "Wan-
dering Jew''-never sleeping, never firing
"a never ceasing thief and robbcr. His
name is Interest. Moses AID the Prophets
called him UsURY. (Lev. XIV. 35-s;
Ex. XIII. %; Deut. XIII. l9, 20;
Neh. v. Z, 10; Psa. Nv. 5, &c. Prov.
XVIII. s; Eze. XVIII. s, l3, II, and
XXI. l2.) He is the offspring of that
Covetousness which the workingmen of
Judea, declased to be Idolatry. Ephe-;
SLAMS, V. 81 He was exccrated by every
nation during the first Is centuries of tho
Christian Era and is doomed to incur
the wrath of God, at the hands of an
indignant people, for the license with
which he has robbed Christ through his
poor. {Matthew, XIV. 3l-45,) for the
last $50 years. lie steals from the sick
and the poor, and from the toiling pro-
ducers of all wealth. He stands by and
robs every man, woman, and child who
purchases the needs Of life. No constable,
no sheriff, no policeman, no marshal, can
arrest him. At the ballot box, alone, can
his career be ended. TIe-the Robber,
Mterest-operates thus:
The manufacturer of the raw material
gets from to 10 per cent. on his capital
invested. He sends his manufactured
goods to the wholesale dealer who charges
another 10 per cent. when he sells to the
retailer, or some sub,jobber. The express,
railroad, or transportation companies
want their interest on capital invested,
also, as well as pay for labor of employees.
So in the transfer Of the raw material
from the producer to the manufacturer,
the various parties charge their interest on
capital employed.
Now when the retailer sells to the
consumer, he charges his own interest on
capital, a. the interest on the capital of
the transportation company which con-
veys the goods from the jobber, (2.) the
jobber's interest on capital, (3,) the.
interest on the capital Of the company
transporting the same from the manufac-
turer to thejebber, a. the manufacturers
interest money, (5,) and the interest on
the capital of 5 or 4 more dealers and
transportation companies who handle the
raw material between its producer and
manufacturer making 8 or times we
pay interest every time we make pur-
chase for our own consumption. "That's
where the money goes" That is the way
Interest robs us.
Then, by that kindred system, the
accurscd internal revenue scheme, we pay
a government tax for those capitalists, as
we'll as their interest money, when we
buy what we need. Now, how much out
of every dollar that we spend, goes to pay
interest on capital? How much goes to
pay indirectly, as we pay the interest,)
taxes that men of wealth ought to pay?
After paying taxes and interest, how much
over 25 cents worth of goods does our
dollar buy? Nay, how much less than 20
cents worth does it buy? -
Workingmen of every kind /; how long
will you be the slaves Of political parties
in the interests of the money power the
Robber, Interest," How long will you let
the theiving system Of USURY iye?-
How long will you thus be the slaves Of
the money power? Shall your children
after you be its slaves? No not longs
if you have manhood worthy of Freedom!
Join the National Labor Party, and you
and your children shall be free, and your
country live. Remain in the National
Bank Party, or the cid fogy Hard Money
Party, and you and your children will be
slaves, and your country sink in despot-
ism.
Perhaps you receive interest or rent
money; but it adds nothing to your prop
erty, unless you tons get more than you
buy.
Interest alone at 3 per cent per annum,
accumulates so much faster than national
wealth, that every few years all business
goes down in bankruptcy by law as
inevitable as gravitation. And, conse-
quently, continuation Of the present rate
of interest on the national debt viii
compel its reputation.
GEORGE PRINDLE.
MeGregor, Jan. 3Oth, 1869.
BuppuIsr TRIcxERY.-Mr Blodget wrote
from Pekin Passing down the street.
few days since saw Buddhist priest sit
ting BY the wayside ''in confinement y
He was inclosed by little house, made of
small square strips of wood, latticed, and
of course open on every side, covered bya