The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-26

claimed to have been included in the original
grant. and the last act simply gave definite
construction to the terms Of the former one.
THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF IOWA.
The first sentence of an address by the
Chairman of the late Democratic State Cen
trail Committee il a. follows: Year after year
the treasury Of Iowa is plundered, and the
States honor defiled by the party in power"
Let us measure this assertion by the figures.
In 1870 Iowa stood eleventh in the Union in
point of population New York. Pennsylvania,
Ohio. Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Massachu-
sets, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia
being the only States outstripping her in the
number of their people. In assessed value OF
real estate Iowa stood thirteenth; being ex-
ceeded by the aforementioned States except
ing Tennessee, while New Jersey Maryland,
and Wisconsin are included with the others.
In assessed value OF personal property Iowa
was seventeenth, those exceeding her being
States already named, to which We may add
Connecticut Rhode Island, California, and
Georgia In point of true valuation Iowa
is estimated to be eleventh, the States exceed
ing her being New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Massachusetts,, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana.
New Jersey, Connecticut, and Michigan. Only
thirteen States had smaller State taxation
than Iowa, viz: Delaware, Oregon. Florida,
Nebraska. Nevada. New Jersey, Michigan,
Rhode Island Minnesota, Vermont, Texas,
West Virginia and Kansas. Our per capita
tax is the smallest except New Jersey al
cents). and Delaware (67 cents). Ours is III
cents You will mark all the way along that
in all these items OF taxation Iowa has uni
formly been exceeded by those States which
in 1870 were Democratic; especially by New
York, California, Missouri Virginia, and Mary
land. And all this, too, while the State of
Iowa has been engaged In building new
capital, new insane hospital, deaf and
dumb institution, an enlargement Of institu-
ton for the blind, and a new reform school,
and making large appropriations TO the Or
phans' Homes and and the State University
! improvements and expenditures. The State
of Iowa, may add, owes the smallest debt in
the Union except Delaware and Nebraska, and
| except the former which has no debt Iowa's
per capita of State Indebtedness is smaller
than that of any other State, being only As
| cents. This shows how much truth there is
in the first sentence of that address, and the
remainder is from the same source.
So much for Iowa.
The Governor then made brief state
ment of the financial operations of the
National Administration, which have
been so often alluded to-the payment
of the public debt, the reduction of
taxation, and the lessening of tariff du-
ties. He referred to the cry of the
anti-monopoly party against the tariff
but showed that some tariff is necessary
to produce the money to meet the ma
tional expenditures, and that if the
tariff was swept away, direct taxation
would be the result, under which, Iowa
would pay as much taxation as Massa-
chusetts. He favored system of free
banking, but in the examination Of the
State charges of the oppression" UNI
der which the people were laboring, he
directed attention to the great prosperi-
ty of the country, and of the people,
and measuring the values of property
by the premium on gold, proved that
the values of all kinds had remnined
perfectly stationary for the past four
years.
Referring to the farmers oranges,
the Governor said nothing was more
praiseworthy than the full organiza-
ton of the agricultural classes in their
social and class relations, but he warned
them against the scheming politicians
who were ready to strap the Patrons
pouches to their waists in order to use
them in carrying their political grists
to MILL" He illustrated his meaning by
the following paragraph:
CYRUS IL. MCCORMICK AS A GRANGER.
Most members of the grange will remember
that some time last winter Patron of Hus-
bandry wrote Cyrus H. Mccormick the reap
err man. and Democrat Of the strictest sort.
politely asking if he had thought of selling his
mowers and reapers through grange agencies.
saying that in the event he did so, he would
be pleased to obtain an agency for his neigh
borhood. And you will remember that Nc
Cormick replied in bitter, sarcastic strain,
suggesting that he asked no advice from any
association as to how, or to whom, or at what
price he should sell his reapers-a reply
which was intended as a studied insult to the
whole grange organization. And now would
you believe that this same Mccormick is adj
vising the Democracy of Illinois to form
political alliance with these oranges? Could
anything more clearly show the anmus OF
this Democratic party?
Gov. Carpenter concluded as follows:
THE "ANrI-MoNoPoLY" HUMBUG.
Whence comes this anti-monopoly abortion
A few men assembled at Des Moines, the lead
ing spirit being frisky Democrat from Jeffer
son county; and, though there were some sin
cere men in the movement, it was controlled
by politicians who hoped to make it step
ping-stone to Office One of them made
speech before the convention affirming that
the Democratic party had outlived its useful
ness. You would have supposed from this
speech that the party intended to retire from
the activities of the world, take the vail, and
spend the next few years in doing penance for
the past But no sooner had the Democrats
got home than in every county where there
was prospect of straight Democratic victo-
ry steps were taken to put a straight Demo-
cratic ticket III the field. Even in the very
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speech the anti-monopoly movement is locally
ignored. Do you require any clearer illustra-
ton of the shameless dishonesty of this move
ment?
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY GOOD ENOUGH.
My fellow-citiZens, what better ant-mo-
nopoly party do You need than the Republican
party! 1t lis so consciously strong in its honesty
and i'll the sympathies of the people that it
voluntarily knocks down its own idols when
they prove false. and exposes its own villains
wherever villainies are suspected. SO con-
sciously right is this party that it goes before
the people declaring by resolution, if bad men
are nominated, "scrdtch" them. Do you be-
lieve that party which went down to the
gates where men died to destroy one Of the
most powerful monopolies the world ever saw,
and there trod out a vintage which could only
dow from the noblest hearts in America, in
order to lift up and dignity human labor every
where, and to protect the interests of four
millions of black laborers, whom the Democ-
racy told us were wrapped in such dark and
dreary ignorance as to be incapable of emo
tons of gratitude or hatred. could. when it
had done all this, for these people, forget and
ignore the rights of millions of intelligent and
noble White laborers men, i'll fact. of whom
the bulk of the Republican marty il consti-