The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-04-21
the OPPORTUNITY.

the OPPORTUNITY.
no End The Highway Isobberics That
Are Dcspoining the Republic.
AT no time since the 0reenback- Labor
party organized itself into existence has
its opportunity been % great or its duty
SO plain ~ at this opening Of the cam.
paign for Congressional representation
in 1882, and for the Presidency in 1884.
The victorious party is now in the full
tide Of It's thoroughly organized power.
Il has daringly gifted President. an
unscrupulously audacious Senate, ma
iority in the House Of Representatives
and all the combined oligarchies Of capi-
tai, from the three-ball skin-flint tribe who
take cent. per cent. on tho relics Of cring-
ing misfortune 70 the princely plunderers
who make up that devil-fish combine
tion known a. the national banks. It
has every monopoly which curses the
nation BY privileged power, from the
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corporations governed by the kings Of the
rail. It has the press organized into syc-
ophantic worship Of the god money, with
its million tongued echoes to uphold what
ever wealth demands, corporate power
dictates, and political supremacy re-
quires. It has telegraphic and electric
means reaching our continents, under
seas, from pole to pole, into every hab-
itation Of civilization, and is finally SO
intrenched in it's drunken power as TO
have declared that gold and silver can
alone be made money. That Jefferson,
Franklin, Calhoun, Clay, and al on
whose wisdom they acted, from Plato
and Aristotle TO Colbert in France, Pitt
in England, had no comprehension Of
the sovereignty Of power over money,
and that Lincoln and Chase, in creating
the greenback as . national legal-tender
money, based upon the entire resources
Of the nation, supported BY the combined
legal power Of the people, made popular
by universal convenience, . ,fety and uni
formity, andanswering all the demands Of
purchase, payment and exchange, were
not only guilty Of forcing ! fraud upon
q cheated people, but Of violating the
constitution they were sworn to sustain.
Such is the declaration with which the
President inaugurates his accession to
political power, while in the same breath
he pledges the whole influence Of his
position to the sustaining Of the national
banks, whose currency is alone redeem
able in grcenbacks, which he boldly a.
serts "are not money"
The national banks originated in rob.
berry. Transferring from the pockets Of
. war-drained and war-besieged people
42l8, ,000, 900 Of public plunder in the
shape Of Q share TO their safes before ore
dollar had been issued commencing
and living on pampered privileges which
have given them from SIS, 600, 900 to
sc, ,OOO, 600 annually as nm absolute
bounty which labor in its privations has
had to pay TO idlencss living in riotous
aristocracy, making an aggregate Of at
least $500, O0O, 900 forced from over
taxed industry to swell the pomp and
increase the riches Of An untaxed nObili-
ty, while their whole history from the
hour when they were sharp enough to
withhold all support from the Govern
ment, struggling for means to sustain
its existence, until Congress accepted
their terms, submitted to the swintiling
share they imposed AZ . condition, md
gave them every privilege to plundef .he
public and every exemption from taxa
tion, either to support the Government
or pay the bonds on whose share, inter-
est and exemptions, even to this hour.
every year has but added force to their
infamous power, accessi0ns to their enOr-
NOUS combinations and dictatorial i'm
pudence to their nefarious political in
iiuence. And President Garfield openly
acknowledges that he is their champion,
their defender. their support!
The national banks are tho financial
curse Of the nation. They arc the foster
nurses Of every monopoly which r0bs.
dominates and subingates the people.
There is but one way to deal with them
Put them down. Crush them out.
Annihilate the first, last and only vest
ige Of their power. They live on priv
ilege. Privilege is nobility. Nobility
and liberty are sntagonistic elements.
The old Bank Of the United States was
single headed devil-tish, which had but
twenty 81 its outstretching suckers e
drain the life- -blot.l of labor, and through
il TO gain strencth 10 dictate Congres,
sional action. create corporate insolence
l;ctafe Preeidents. Senators. Governors
and Jndces.- ma vet the United State.
Hank anna Omitted in lts maaaremcnt
and thna circumscribed IN its element.
of nower ~,;th Ia. camtal than The ~,
,,la e the limited SAafca have heen fnroet
tn In nav ~ annmallv n ah.nlnte honnty b
the hstion.l banks. no intrenched itself ii
nolitical rover a "a defy the people
and nothinr bnt TIA yicor and heroi,
will q Anarav Iackson vho swore Is,
the Eternal to nnroot ia oorrnptions. ans
drive eits money chanrers from the templ
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