Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-07-17

IL ORoDh L, d JILL IL
nassau its membership as well as
thos8 outside have been deceived.
Capt. Blain said in his speech be-
fore the Working Mems Convention
in February:
Wowill rise in our might, and it
will be better for the man who OPP
poses ms if a milestone were hanged
abouthis neck.
NoG nobody wishes to oppose the
Grange, as Grange, in its legitimate
sphere, working by wise and honor
able beans for the principles which
it rs authoritatively declared
throj h its State and National Coun-
ellis. ut when the Grange forms a
a lin6for battle as political party,
it challenges opposition, and must
expd6 to find it, in spite of its "mill-
stuu1n ~ either real or imaginary;
especially if it takes one of the old
POLITICAL parties as an ally. There is
no glfat principle, we'll defined and
acknowledged, as q plank in the
Grai1$e platform, which is not held
as co1hmon property by the Republi-
can Arty. Then upon what ground
or fdwhat reason should a Rebuilt
can isown and desert his party to
joinM crusade against it under its
ownbanner?
We shall have no quarrel with
tlluse of our Republican friends who
nav be unable to see these things as
we 90, or who may prefer other COM
panYs hut until we see better cause
thannow, we shall stand by our col
ors. True they have been disgraced
by dishonest bearers, they We're de-
serted by many last fall who are now
with the enemy; they may be de-
serted by more this fall but still
theyshaIl be held aloft over n plat
form that is good enough for us.
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"'rhe Antt-MOnOpOiy Party
The phrase we have placed at the
head OF this article is coming into
freqBent use in certain quarters; but
if such phrase is intended TO apply IN
anyEbroad or general sense to a point
icals0rganization numerically great,
arrayed in hostility to a monopoly
parg, also numerically great, then
the Expression has no practical mean
ingMhatever. No such division OF
the people does or could exist in our
atmosphere of unrestricted thought.
IT would be impossible to dram to-
getker any considerable number or
our citizens whose sense of self-re-
spect is so low, whose perceptions OF
Justice are so blunted, and whose
dread of popular scorn Is SO scanty,
that they would stand shoulder TO
shaulder in a brazen. .fronted advoca-
cy Of monopoly. 80 soon as any Sc
Actual .attelnpt shall he
made to separate the voting masses
into two political organizations,
one favoring, the other opposing,
monopoly, it will be found that a(f
marty banners are blazoned with the
same inscriptions. There will be no
difference Of opinion among honest
people about SO plain an issue. only
one party would be the result instead
of two; and two are indispensable to
free institutions like ours. 1rrecon-
cilable antngOnism Of views alone
makes parties practicable: hence IL
would be the acme OF folly to serious
ly inaugurate a movement Tor the
formation Of new party, based on
tendency to universal concurrence III
convictions. We therefore put
from us "the anti-monopoly party !"
AZ a sort of Jonah's gourd party--Or
as a party which may be differently
symbolized as hobby horse, which
the professional politicians expect 10
ride few steps in safety on their
hopeful Journey of return to power.
,ast year the Democratic party
was almost formally disbanded, and
it hes ceased to exist. lis former
leaders, discontented, ambitious,
scheming, have no l0uger following
and they find, like Cthello, that heir
occupation is gone. Entrance into
the Republican party--the only COM
pact, disciplined, homogeneous, Wig
orously alive organization which re-
maiDs--can be obtained only by
taking back seats; and that would
never suit your thOrough-paced0 0lhce
hunter. So these leaders without
followers have been looking about
for opportunities to improve Their
fortunes. The direction of their IN
tense solicitude has been, no VIII
show US a new party, that We may
become its head men?" Consequent
Iy when the farmers Of the West rose
en- piasse in indignant protest against
unjust determinations in ireighis
and fares, and against the Whole list
of rail way extortions, the profession
al politicians rushed in To transform
movement for redress of grievances
into movement for the formation OF
new political party. A tfiumvirate
of usefnlness-the Chicago Ifi1une,
the Chicago Times, and the New
York Wortd-begged leave to ingralt
free trade on the farmers movement.
Others brought their offerings in the
shape OF Il crusade against the nation
al banks as bloated monOpolists. a
third set Of worthless presented as
their cure-all repeal OF our naviga-
ton laws, SO far as relates to lake