The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-07-21
DANGERS WHICH THREATEN US
Speech Of Mr.. r. 8. Heath on accpting the
Chair,aanship Of the Pennsylvania Stale Con-
reation Of the National party.

Speech Of Mr.. r. 8. Heath on acapting n.
Chairradaship Of the Pennsylvania Stale Con
uention Of the National party.
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTIONS: appreci-
ate the high honor you have conferred ON me
by calling me to preside temporarily over youl
proceedings. Al 1t was entirely unexpected, the
honor conferred but binds upon me the greater
obligation to you.
Our cause il fast winning its way to the hearts
will continue to do 20. The men who voted f0l
Gen. James B. Weaver last fall are true; each
one II tried, and every one IN apostle OF liberty
to those that surround him. Tricksters, knaves
and wro-pullers in politics fail in their methods
only when they fail TO manage orcontrol voters
and sixty thousand men who stood out against
them, with Ill their power and allurements, more
than many times that number which they sc
easily manage with the appliances 90 well
known, for well they know that il the terrible
ordeal through which We passed last fall failed
to capture aud control tho men, they never can
be captured.
bring you greetings from the Northwest
Az never before We are organized; our battle
for the right IL being felt; the justice OF 0ul
cause is being acknowledged by men OF IL
shades Of opinion, and when the returns come
in next fall they will tell OF great addition d
win come, to stand firm against al kinds 81
iniquity in any and every party.
We arc marching forward with the resistless
tide Of events, and II We are equal to the Oppor.
tunities open TO us, We will grasp them and turn
them to our advantage for the future.
We Are confronted by an organized combina-
nation, with the headquarters Of its piracy in
New York. whence It issues its stal
chamber edicts, which make or unmake
the prosperity Of the nation by il
monopoly OF money, the lifc-blood OF com.
merce. It behooves US to declare against any
such power being able 1t its will to crush The
business Of this people, by sending secret com
that simultaneously, they may fall upon and
devour our substance, ~ was 40 nearly accom-.
plished by the late action OF the banks in sud,
denly retiring their currency. But were We fre<
OF dlctation from any power which would arbi
trarily disturb our monetary affairs, were we u
liberty to buy in one section Of our land fol
the purpose OF distributing to other portions
another great power has planted itself acros,
the track Of commerce. and bids. ~ arbitrarily
~ ever did hrigand OF old, to '.stand aud do
liver" The right to locomotion by land and
water il GIFT OF God to every individual, and
has been recognized in all ages; but now cor
porations have combined, and by means Of in
opolizod this right, NJ well ~ the means oi
the distribution Of the products Of toll. Al
well might they put toll-gAtes across the street.
OF our cities, and war ships at tho mouths Ol
| our rivers. to compel all that passed to pay
whatever they were pleased to extort, u e
heap up fares and freight charges above tn
point which will pay for the means of transpor
acter or kind BY which commerce il carried on
| or man il conveyed from place to place, should
be free to all the race, subject only to the COs
| and maintenance thereof.