The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-04-09
1873. 1874.
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION IN
THE NORTHWEST.
THE INTER- R-0CEAN
FOR 1874.


Eetdblieneu less IMAM TWO years since as 4 repre-
tatVe Republican paper, pledged to maintain nd
defend the principles and organization of the
great National Republican party the IateS'- ocean
mas attained circulation and influence with the
masses OF ts voters everywhere TO cnttle it to ap
proach the commencement of q new calender year
and to prepare for the preliminary work of the
campaign, the shadow of which lie already casting
Itself upon the country, in the confident belief
that its friends will need no other specific pledge
for the future than has been given III its columns
from day 10 day during the past eighteen months.
since its first publication it has maintained the
position of
The Leading Republican Newspaper in
the Northwest,
to which IL was assigned by universal assent in
the excited canvass which resulted in the second
and triumphant election of President Grant.
The Enemies of the Country
ara vigIlantly at work. Despite the overwhelm-
ing rebuke administered 10 them in 1872 the
opposition are skiIlfully massing their forces for
more determined onslaught upon the Rcpubli-
can organization at the next State and National
elections. Encouraged by the apathy of Republi-
cars in the ,'of-year," seizing the unprecedented
financial stringency az pretext, and using a
hookWlnk the deep feeling among the agriCultur-
al classes for better and cheaper modes of trans
porlatlon than now exist,
The Democracy,
under as many names there are hungry Dema-
gogues eager for office, is getting itsefinto read
mess to become once more the Ruling Party of
the nation,
In The South
the old Democracy of Secession and ebellion is
being warmed into life by the apparent reverses
Republicanism has suffered in the north. The
election of Alen,i Ohio, TIE triumph ufTammany
in New York, and the few desultory successes
which have come to Anti Republican tickets in
various States of the west and northwest, have
inspired the rebels of 1861 with the hope thar the
day is drawing when the Lost Cause ls to be
voted into victory they failed to achieve by
means of the bullet and bayonet. Already r. NJ.
Il. Hunter, a former Senator from Virginia, and
member of the Cabinet of JEFF Davis has pub
li6hed ia Schemp q
Four Hundred Million of Dollars for the
Emancipated Slaves of the South.
The Richmond (Va.) Wig and Governor Gilbert
Walker are urging this plan with ali pertinacity
and there can be little doubt that large party OF
Southern Representatives in the Forty third Con-
gress will be prepared to advocate the payment OF
this money by the General Government. The past
history of the Democratic party gives no warrant
that 1t will oppose this infamous robbery of the
people of the north for the benefit of traitors
hut if the party is true TO itself and its instincts
the south will find it and its representatives a
subservient ally.
The Payment of the Rebel Debt
is another scheme that Is broadly limited at in
many parts of the south, and is, without doubt,
one of the projects to which the leading Demo
Gratis of that section would address themselves if
the time should ever come when majority of the
Northern States and the General Government
should be in the hands of the party which helped
the rebels in their work of destroying the Union.
These not fanciiul Issues. They real
dangers, either to be met face 10 face. else To
be squelched in thier inception by the continued
success of that organization which crushed the
rebellion gave freedom to the slaves, and destroy
ed the slave holdng Confederancy.
The Farmers
know that the Inter- ocean their earliest as II
has been their staun est and warmest friend Ii
is emphaticaly the organ of the people in the
best of that term, believing in the fullest
protection OF the rights of the maLy against the
encoachments of tn : few. Ii believes that all
chartered corporations should be held to be sub
servient to the power that created them. and
without an lniringements OF tn just rights o.
Others 1t insists and will continue To insist, that
all corporations enjoying special privileges voted
to them by the people shall serve the people fairly
aud Justly at a compensation allowing d reasona-
BILE profit pom the actual capital employed.
The Family.
The inter- ocean makes special efforts to render
itself acceptable TO the families of ts patrons To
this end everyth is vigorously excluded that
character il guarded with especial care, and itF
aim is Ito encourage the true, the beautiful, and
the good
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Is the paper for
The Republican,,
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The Merchant,
The professional Man,
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The Commercial Department
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: ible is done to make the market reports such as
the farmers and business men OF the northwest
can rely upon.
The Agricultural Department
is carefully edited by gentlemen of ability and
experience.
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