Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-07-31
Names and Principles.

| c1cl1 trouble Is the wbai-you-may-
call.'ems are having for a name .
some want to call the new party"
the anti-monopoiy party, and some
| want to call Il the economy party,
| while one faitering and hes;tating
patriot, who has peen on both sides
| az every question. probably for many
| wears. wants 10 call il the Democrat
| r. Republican party. But the troub-
lie il not with the name alone. In
deed, .hgt IL The least oft. There IS
10 be war about the principles. The
Dubuque 7eItgroph. which leads the
movement in that part Of Iowa. hes
,, .aade platform. and that platform
| is lust now bone Of contention.
Here are few of the planks: Il.
free currency; 2, free banking; y,
one uniform currency issued by the
nation: 1. the payment Of the ma
tional debt at par In currency; 8, the
rights Of labor to share In the profits
Of labor and capital; 6, retrenchment
and economy In general expendi-
lures. and correspondingly low taxa
ton 7, opposition to the creation OF
corporate monopoiies, and to monop-
olies now ruling or expressing the
people"
There are certainly enough planks
to this platform, and the good and
bad are jumbled together in about
the order that might be expected.
For the purpose Of a start however,
this platform should be accepted, and
thankfully, too, by the unfortunate
men who are roaming about wild for
the want OF principle; but it Is not
so; no sooner does the Telegraph
come out and announce its position
and begin receiving the congratula-
lions Of those who agree with il, than
the faithful of other places turn up
their noses and revile 1t. st will
not do at ALL" sit Is the baldest kind
Of nonsense !" and one Of the Chicago
organs Of new party calls IL an
"unmitigated hnmbug," 'pestilent
delusion," and insultingly spits up
on the political structure erected
at 80 much intellectual cost and
trouble.
This is not encouraging by any
means; but IL illustrates the impos-
sibiIity of organizing party based
alone upon opposition to monopoly.
There are q hundred other questions
Of importance TO be considered, and
upon which a great party needs some
settled policy. Whenever party
based upon opposition to railways
alone, for instance, attempts to con-
slider other questions, the members
divide and shatter their organiza-
ton and IL they refuse to consider
these questions they do notrneet the
popular demand and die Of inaction.
by the Inter- Ocenn must be adopted
by all, viz: Parties are composed Of
the people, and the people are OPP
posed TO monopolies. This much il
settled. Whatever the views Of a
candidate on the tariff, on foreign af-
fairs, on the currency, or any other
question may be, he can represent no
party unless he opposes the aggres-
sion OF m0nopOlies. There was an
anti-slavery party because there was
n party that favored human bondage;
there can be no anti-mOnopoly party
because there Is no party in favor Of
monopolies. AS well organize an an
ti-swindlers party rs a party vaguely
denominated anti-m0nopoly. We
judge the future good deal by the
past; and when we find men who all
their lives have been In favor Of OPP
preston and iniquity coming out
suddenly as the champion Of an OPP
pressed class, we are apt to look upon
their miraculous conversion with
suspicion, and ask that mt least they
be accepted for while on probation.
A party composed of the right mate
rial Is not opposed to one wrong
merely, but all wrongs, and needs no
high-sounding name TO commend it
to favor.
There's little In Il name any way.
One Of the biggest rascals ever adj
mitted TO the pcnitentiary Of a
neighborina State sailed under the
pious title Of Righteous Jones. Call
\ party anti-savery, and put old
Democratic leaders at the head Of Il,
and you will have, in spite of the
name, n party of the meanest oppres.
sion. Call 1t anti-monopoly, and
place the same men--men who ack-
nowledge that they have for years
been acting tho part of demagogues
and hypocrites--in the front ranks.
and the organization will take as
naturally to corruption as q duck
does to water. --lnter- Ocean.