The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-07-21

millions year and not feeling It. Tho
people are getting ont Of debt Why
drive them out Of work? Why fill tho
land with tramps? There was purpose
dark and infamous. Those who con-
tracted the currency understood what
they were about. Had we gone on
with that volume Of currency, creating
wealth, we would have paid every dollar
Of our Indebtedness and stopped interest
In order to fasten ON us this mortgage
to which I have referred, they crushed
our business. They brought on us all
the miseries Of TINT paralysis for this pur-
pose, and they were successful. Now,
how was it? In 1866 every business
man was pushed out, spread out wide.
He had made his plans with reference to
prices as they then were. He expected re-
turns on that plan to his enterprises and
made all his arrangements accordingly.
l address business men; that was the case
with you. Il was the case with every
energetic business man over the whole
land-never in the history OF our nation
was every man SO pushed out. Contract
ing the currency brought down the
prices, and the first year men did not re-
ceive the returns they had expected and
could not square accounts but they
thought there would he change, and
they made up the difference between the
prices received and the prices looked for
in accounts, let their accounts accumu-
late, then settled their accounts with
notes, then with mortgages, and the
matter kept going down, steadily down,
and deeper md their mortgages reaching
ont until their 20 billions of indebtedness
was fastened upon lis. / want you to
study that conspiracy. It was designed.
Far reaching minds devised it The
banking institutions Of the East COM
bined with the banking power Of Europe
to fasten OH us this interest bearing debt,
and then to put the volume Of currency
down to point where with such debt
on us We never could pay the principal !;
where we can simply pay the interest
The purpose is never to allow this debt to
be lessened, and il it would lessen, prices
rise and people be pushed out again, then
again to hold the power, keep our curren-
cy based on specie, and when the people
get pushed out again, crush it down and
gather in the results. The settled pur-
pose Of the Republican party and the
Democratic leaders is to destroy what
greenbacks remain, to stop the coinage
Of silver, to keep our currency down to a
gold basis-to have gold as the basis and
national bank notes as the currency and
with that completed they have us in their
hands-we are serfs. They have now
reached point where they have money
enough to control; enough, they think,
to hold us. Jay Gould's paper has said
that the monied houses with this ire
mendous power are SO thoroughly organ
lied that they can act at moments
notice and counteract tho effect of any
law Of Congress. Other papers have said,
American laborers must content them.
selves not to be any better off than Eu.
ropean laborcrs. And here we are in
J their hands and they sneer ut the people.
Up in Maine they said-the people, these
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES they are the majority
. in Maine-are the lowest stratum 81
} society. At first / demurred 10 that
| then again, after reflection, referring Il
! geological studies, said, stAll right w
will accept that and glory in it" &c
, ology teaches us that the lowest stratum
is the solid granite on which the whole
> stuff that you must dump off when you
> have anything to build.
Then they said, "You have not 60,
leadership; we have the leaders; we have
! the great bosses; we have control because
|. we have the leadership" Well, that il
! so. They have got the leaders. Now,
do not know anything about it, but YOU
:; do. There is q little clique that runs thu
! Republican party in this city laughter
and you can name them. There are no
! more than two or three. They manag,
the whole thing, and the party votes
Mr.. Conkling is q grand man. He cal
{ strike an attitude such as no other maj
. in the nation can, and raise his hands Il
Q the gallery more gracefully than any othe
Q man IN the nation. He leads New York
= that is evident at present. / need no
Q dwell upon it. When you think Of the Re
9 publican party Of Maine, Of whom do 20,
9 think? Who is its embodiment? Who eau
{ ries it's vote in his pants pocket? VIII
Y makes it sneeze from one end Of the Stat
Q to the other when he takes snuff? JiI
n Blaine, OF course. do not shy anything
d about those men. It takes grand man I
! lead. But now think-how much do th
1uUcl1l8cut Illnesses COutEU1s All tIley u
+ is to vote. This money power control
their leaders and thereby controls then
u That kind Of leadership saw illustrate
! crossing the plains. am too tired to te
Ii It very graphically. I was coming in frol
If Denver. The train was laundering owe
le those solid roads. We saw herd Of bn
r falo feeding ahead. As the train cam
) snear, they started up and looked for
+ moment, and then the leader started I
!? run. They always have leader, Just q
n these parties have, and they Lwa,
t follow him implicitly. If he goes over
1t precipice, they will all tumble over aft.
.. him. The leader put his nose within tw
t inches Of the ground and commenced a
re ungainly canter, running away from til,
1t train, and every buffalo fell into line, pm
= ting his nose to the ground is the leatls
/ did, and cantered right after him. TIL
. train came mp abreast Of the group an
1t suddenly stopped. The leader stoppet
! Every buffalo stopped the same instan
ii He threw MP his head, his eyes flashin