The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1870-09-09

by pledginy themselves to repeal Of
this most oppressive and hateful law
we trus, certain Republican Senator!
and Representatives are prepared t.
face the responsibility.
The N. Y. Eveniny Post says
Is it not little imprulcnt for tho
Republicans to 60 into the fall cleo
tiOns with the income tax unnccessa.
ri'y retained? Ina free government
when the party in power ceases to Dc
the Will of the people, they put an.
other in power. That is the un,,lcas
ant way in which reforms arc carried
when there is no other way for tho
people to carry.
The New York Sun says ::
Congress and the Administrative
are making up record which will en-
sure surccss TO the Democrats in th.
contcs for he next House, provide,
the latter exhibit good sense in then
como urt of the campaign. The Dem.
ocrats can present before the peopl,
o fearfully long Indictment aeains
the Republicans for their sins ot
omission and commission since Gen
Grant took the oath Of office. Fol
emaplc, the Republicans as parry,
have refused TO abolish the odious in
come tax, and boast Of their skill IN
finance because, by keeping up war
taxes in times of peace, they arc
able to bull the stock market and bu.
iive-twentics at premium.
The St Louis Dem mocyot in shor,
reply to the Albany Evening journal
says
The Republican party was form zee
for another purpose than the cstab
lishment and maintenance of pro-
tective duties, and those who sacri
Zee every other purpose to that, and
force the party TOT use foreign to its
compact, are themselves false to the
agreement, and are wholly rcsponsi,
ble if their behavior separates them
from others. We are Republicans,
and have done some fighting for tina,
party in days when it needed aid in
this quarter. But we are not de-
Tenders of monopoly, and will not be
used by any set of men on earth.-
Those who think they can give to the
party new platform, whip US all in.
to the traces, and harness us in tt
pull through an old Wing monopoly
tariff by calling it Republican. had
better count noses before they begin
Now what does the Albany Jonrna.
propose
The leading organ of the Hcpubli,
can party in New Hampshire-the
Concord Monitor-edited by Hon.
George Fogg, who was Llncoln's
minister to Switzerland, pours this
cruel Droadside into Grant
But it is useless. 20 disguise the
fact that thus far in his administra
ton there is room for Improvement
The people expected much in the way
of economy and reform in the public
expenditures; and they expected the
gallant leader Of our armies to take
the lead in pressing those reforms up
on Congress. and illustrating theil
necessity and practlcabillty by his
own example. They expected to sec
him set his face sternly against al
the schemes for squandering the pub
lie lands. and, il necessary, to throt.
tie bim with his veto. But, instead
Of this, they have seen the plumber.
ers more bold and grasping than ever;
and they have not heard the presi.
dent utter one word against THEN
operations, but have seen his name
and approval appended, with appar
ent alacrity, to every plundcr bill
which a hungry and insolent lobby
have been able to bribe and log-rol
through Congress.
We might fili dozen columns from
leading radical journals, which ar,
like the above. The people are "dis
loyal. - there is no mistake about it.
and unless the king takes possession
of the ballot boxes this fall, the peo
pie will speak out in tones that vii
make the men now in power quake
with fear. ".rcason will be made
odious,' and these traitors will b'
buried so deep that there will be n
resurrection for them. There will ht
a political earthquake in the west