The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1870-09-23

Farewell, dcar!'
Goodbye, sweet ~
"TM GLAD SHE'S GoNE!'
The ztA.iks--EF0sc tie .7Egf.s-
ses are Es05bed for tie Ees!
Ell: 0fthe Ke,c Ey Eastern
Radical YNieves in Com.
ga'ess 0nes theis. E;i,'t- Eat
isag .4fsies Of tie West.
1t is absolutely astonishing to wit
uess the amount of stolid ignorance
which prevails among the masses Of
citizens of the United States upon
tho tariff question. Almost every.
body one meets thinks he understands
all about the tariff, and is ready to
discuss it. But such persons rarely
open their mouths upon the question
withou: betraying total ignorance
Of the subject, truly astonishing
among people whose ordinary in:
telligence upon general subjects pre-
walls to so large an extent as in the
United States. Even among the
mercantile community, q class Of our
citizens whom it would be natural to
suppose ought to be posted upon the
question Of indirect taxation, are
nevertheless most lamentably ignor-
ant Of the practical operations OF
the tariff, while the great mass Of
the people grumblc and pay their
money, without even knowing into
whose pockets it goes.
They know that when they buy
anything, they have to pay for it
many times the price they had to pay
for the same articles before the radi-
cal party got into power, and in the
simplicity of their souls believe that
it is owing to the cost of the late
war, and that the enhanced price our
western people pay for everything
they eat, wear or handle, in some
way goes into the United States
Treasury to help to pay the war debt,
-good-natured, easy souls who never
for one moment suspect the real truth
that almost the whole amount goes
into the private pockets of Eastern
manufacturing thieves under the op-
Grafton of tariff laws gotten up in
Congress by the immediate represen-
totivee- -Lastern -manufa cturine
robbers and carried through that body
Of corruptionists by the votes of car.
pet-bag congressman from the South,
and meancr congressman from the
West, who help by their votes the
Eastern manufacturing robbers to
plunder the people by whose favor and
votes they occupy seats in the nation
al council.
The Democratic party in every
State in the Union oppose the system
adopted by the radical party of plum
dering the. great mass Of the people
for the benefit of the privileged East
ern manufacturers who become mil
lionaires off Of what they steal from
the millions Of working men and wo-
men in the agricultural West and
South.
But the Democracy has hitherto,
for years past, been unable to pre-
vent the robbery going on, owing to
the deceit and fraud practiced by
radical politicians upon the ignorant
masses Of their party. The plum
dering Of the masses under the oper-
alton of tariff laws enacted by Con-
gress, has become SO enormous as at
last to shock the moral scnsibility
of many of the most respected and
intelligent radical papers and politic-
ians, who are now uniting with the
democrats to expose the fraud, and
calling on honest members of their
party to rise above prejudice and
passion and help to drive radical
thieves out of Congress.
We republish from the Chicago
Tribune. the leading radical journal
in the West, tho following editorial
which appeared in that paper some
two months since. The reader will
observe that the Tribune quotes and
endorses the New York Evening Post
leading radical paper of the En-
pire State in its remarks about the
radical tariff thieves in Congress.
Every Representative in congress
from Iowa except Allison voted for
every tariff law that the Tribune de-
nounces as villainy. Everything
therefore that the Tribune or
Post says concerning the duty of the
people in voting for congressman this
fall applies to every republican nom
iaee Of this state. This is what the
Tribune and Post say, and every re-
publican in Iowa should read aud act
upon the advice they give
REVENUE REFORM.
The questions Of revenue reform
are of such vital Importance that
they cannot be ignored by the repub.
llcan party in the cleo tions which arc
to take place this year ond two years
hence. Those questions address
themselves directly to the personal
rights and pccuniary interest of eve
ry man, whether be be poor or rich,
laborer or capitalist. This country
has been enduring since 1862, bur