The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-04-07

Fair play is a jewel We should all seek
for. Truth, dictated by common sense,
entertained by frecmen, is more service
ahle to the republic than all the syren
songs Of lecturers like Henry Ward
Becchcr and Robert Ingcrsoll.
Persons who sell cunning services for
base coin are expected to swceten the
words. making up those sentences. with
such sorlid interest a will please the
eager ears of covctons nahobs who are
plnndering the populace. Such persons
have always sided with those who pay
them, and we must expect the same to
,lay. The poor have not the whercwith
10 pay sinister lecturers for their covet
GUS thoughts; hence such lecturers cater
fcr the applause If fashion, founded mp
on fraudulent gains and political trick
cry.
II is no wonder that We sec such men
arraycd against the poor, one of the
Shylock lecturers having some time
SINCE turned his clerical back upon the
principles taught by Christ on the
Mount u friend Of the roor), and the
other lecturer having no God to be re-
kponsiblc to except the stomach made
proud by gains.
The twin, Janus-fAced, rhetorical
hotch .potch Of all and no religion are
hunting down public opinion by claim
ing gold NJ "honest money" Is there
in this broad land q man, = woman or
youth that has knowledge Of the his
toly of American events that does not
know that gold has proved itself on all
trying occasions the most "dishonest"
mud cowarily money We have had in our
business affsnrsa
Whenever w have got into trouble
through war or short crops, gold has al-
ways cowar,lly hid its head, banished it.
self, assisted by the very men who called
it .honest money!" while paper money
has boldly and bravely come to the
front, buying food and clothing to sup.
,,art ernies and Aavies to save the ma
ton. 1t was SO in colonial days. and in
the whole progress If the republic from
| its infancy until to-day. Gold has been
to the American household like sheep
stealing dog-it never being ut home
when wanted, but ever sneaking of t.
| the halyitation Of those who are silly
enough to pet the yellow sneak-an IN
worthy and overrated pup Of civilization,
| Il curse to every people who have relied
upon il in the hour Of need.
When tho tornado Of financial mlstort-
unes have come. gold has buried itsell
in the vaults Of the banks. hiding away
until the storm is over, and paper money
| has reconstructed the financial edihce,
sown the soil and opened the mines, the
highways teeming with prosperity; tiler
gold lifts its cowar,lly head above tbs
selfish ramparts OF sordid coyetousness
aud, with the blatant tongue OF false
hood vibrating ont of the mouths o.
bankers and lecturers, 81 am hones
money!" then short-sighted Congress
men, sinister lecturers, covetous bankers
urge specie payments to knock dowr
| prices, when this honest" money goe.
out t. bid oif the mortgages for propert,
at killing rates, takes the surplus pro
/ ducts into its embrace as often rs til,
banks desire TO contract after imitation
their privileged circulation Of indiyidua
paper promises. Gold is then used nn
der the g,lise of specie payments, like
guerrilla in war, in the commercial field
unit. another financial tornado mp
proaches, then hides its unworthy heat
until the storm il over.
There is not selfish Shylock in tn
land but what knows that gold currenc..
Il insufficient in volume to carry on on
growing business, and they substantial
this fact when they ask the privilege Q
issuing paper promises founded upol
bonds.
ti,ld can never become "hones
money" when hidden out Of sight by tn
co,etous fingers OF bankers, bankin,
lawmakers and bondholiers, under hyp
ocfitical promises to pay, which Ar
broken ~ SOON - cloud arises In tls
financial sky, The war now inAsxars