The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-09-30

MALCoM, Iowa, Sept. 2f.-Malcom last
night enjoyed a treat not yet offered any
town in the State.
Hon. Shepherd Letter, Democratic can:
! didate for Governor, and Hon. James
! Wilson, member Of Congress from the
| Fifth District, were sent here by theiE
respective Committees to address the
| people: LETTER at 2 p. NJ, Wilson at y p.
m. LctHer failed to draw a crowd, and
! Wilson courteously offered to divide his
time with Letter and give the people the
benefit of a joint discussion. The offer
was accepted and the prelimiuaries ar
ranged by the respective local committees
Wilson's opening was a comprehensive
showing of the condition Of the industries
! of the Northwest and the attitude Of the
parties on the situation; the abandonment
by the Democratic party of the industrial
interests by refusing TO assist in ieSIsia-
ton on Interstate in Congress,
and by entirely ignoring the subject in
their State platforms.
LcIQcf answered. IldI "Hal lONa Sooio
not regulate and control had better get
out of the State; which, of course, would
include everything Federal, such as Fed
craI Courts, Post Offices, Internal Reve-
nue. officers and all commerce on inter
state railroads. Mr.. Letter then went
on to give his party ideas on the whisky
question. He wanted a license law be-
cause prohibition is . failure in some Of
our large cities, placed the amonnt of the
liquor traffic at $4,000, 900 annually,
wanted liquor sold by respectable men,
and inspected to insure its purity.
He ramblcd through the U. s. Treasury
and among the National Banks for about
an hour, and finally found q solution to
our difficulties by paying off the bonds OF
the National Banks in g~reenbacks, and
preparing the way for resumption by
boarding The amount of interest now paid
on the bonds. He wanted to reduce Con
g~rcssmen's salaries to the old figures Of
50 per day and mileage.
Wilson replied 10 Letters whisky prop
osition by estimating the amount Of ter
ritoTy occupied by large towns where the
p~rohibitoIy law is not enforced, and com
pairing it with the infinitely larger terri
tory where it is. He pictured the effects
of placing the traffic in the hands of re-
spectacle vendors where no one need be
ashamed to use it as a beverage, and il
Illustrated the practice under the license
law that would place The intoxicating cup
in reach of every young person in Iowa.
He classed the traffic with the crimes pro-
hibited by Iowa law that can only be
eradicated finally by the growth of pub
&c morals. In reply to Letters financial
hescsies Wilson cited our financial histo-
ry statistically; showed the need of the
Government for the money received for
tie bonds during the war; stated the cost
of the war, the debt due at home and
abroad; explained the impossibility of
paying off any part of it in greenbacks
without regulations; showed that in con-
sequence of reduced taxation we are not
nov prepared to pay of the bonds honest
Iy; and left Letters theory of resumption
without any bottom except the quagmire
of Reputation.
On the salary question Wilson showed
from the books of the United States
Treasury that LETTERS mileage in gold
was equal to his own salary paid him in
grecnbacks. The total demolition of
Letters fragile fabric OF resumption and
the home thrusts at his license theory
did great credit to the member from the
Fifth District and elected frequent and
rounds of applause.-State Regis