The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-08-16
EO00g MeD..Thelf Duty In
Political LxCo.

4CuSn ID the time Tor growth, not
only physically, but in ideas. A new
idea is more readily grasped and &C.
oepted BY the young than by one who
has advance d to the age Of self-opinion-
ated obstinancy. Without the bite,
Lessons in the disappointmonts in life Of
their seniors, and with less knowledge
Of the conservatism of society, they are
more willingto attempt reforms. and
more Jealous in their endcavors.
Old men have the prejudices of q
life time added to their cup Of bitter
ness. Young men have younger preju-
dices that they more readily yield or
abandon altogether.
It is to the young men Of the country
that the county, the State, and the I'm
ion North and South must look for a
restoration of honesty, reform, and fra
ternal good will.
While those who have INDUCED in
the partizan and sectional strifes of .
lifetime, are expected to maintain
their prejudices, the young have no
traditional griefs to surrender, and
should be prompted to unite in the hap
py reunion Of their country, prompted
only by common sense and q common
interest in the public good.
The young men Of the South have
thrown overheard their old fre-eating
leaders, aud propose to act for them
solves and their country in the future.
Shall the young men Of the North meet
them in the spirit of an honorable
friendship and discard the ranting radi-
cal Bourbon?
Look about you and see if you can
not discern another motive than the one
they assign for their hostility to '.clasp-
Ing hands across the bloody chasm."
They are inside the political ring
aud manipulate its machinery; they
hold the county Offices, seap all the
profits Of the bootless war that is car
risd on among neighbors speculate on
your minortunes, reward their personal
friends 1t the expense Of every tax
payer and at the expense of the public
interests. Their own purposes. and
the means to their accomplishment, arc
tho reasons why they wish you to con-
tinue the hatred Of twenty-five years
that has given them their po-
sition, instead Of any merit, more than
that Of nine-tonths Of the young men
in the county, the state Or the repub-
lie.
The generation Of senators, congress
men and politicians now in Office in the
United States, in . few years stfarthest
ct. must make room for the young
men who want reconciliation and re-
construction upon basis of justice and
psaoe-to tho young men who will be
called upon to pay for the follies and to
suffer for the wrongs that the present
generation Of old bourbons are intent
upon INJECTING upon the country. Is
this day and this electisn too soon for
them 70 demand the reform and the
reconciliation that must eventually be
adopted
The Liberal movement il emphsti-
sally in the interests Of the young men
Of the ooantry-those that must be
responsible for the success or failure Of
our institutions. Il Is an effort to abandon
tho old issueS Of tho country. and sd-
opt The issues Of the present. with Wow
70 the future. and to eradicate the |
bitterness Of the past, now, rendered
nsaningless by the facts that have be-
como incorporated into the fundamental
lsw Of the land, and acquiesced in by
stl parties and sections.