The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-06-30
AN OLD SOL 01sR'S
VIEWS.
General SLOVENIAN On SccttOnalism and
The Necessity OF Curbing The Mo.

OF the POLITICIANS mas only just begun.
How long is this to last, and how
long arc n few men, from selfish
considerations, to postpone rec
OnciliatiOn between the late warning
sections? Is there to be no end to
strife? Is no mercy to be shown to
U brave, honorable, conquered and
rcpentant foe? Have we no tear OF
pity for the widow and the orphan
made 50 by the bullets Of the Union?
Would that the whole question could
be turned over for settlement to
those Of US who did the flghting!l
How soon We would. with one accord,
ground our arms, rally round 9 camp
fire, and over our pipes and tobacco
and mugs OF Overwhelmingly with
q little old commissary-send the
politicians 70 hell where they belong
and renew our allegiance to a com.
mon country and devotion to the old
aud common dag-a devotion more
beautiful to-day than twenty-five
years ago.
THE GREAT CONFLICT or THE PRESENT.
The great conflict OF the present
time now going on In these United
States Is the conflict between mo-
nopoly and antimonopoly; OF labor
with capital; between Mammon and
his cohorts on the one side aud the
toiling, struggling masses on the
other. Have you thought over this
matter. and arc you willing to see
republican institutions overthrow,
and on their ruins erected tyran-
meal plutocratic oligarchy? Is this
government to remain government
OF the people, or is it to become q
government OF the corporations, for
the corporations, and by the corpor- |
atoms? Was 1t for this we fought,
and was Il for this that our brothers
died? An organization for the pur-
poses OF attack always results In o
counter organization for the purpose
OF defense. Hence we see anti.mo-
nopoly leagues springing up and or
Iganizing oil over the land. Sooner
or later the monopoly and anti-mo-
nopoly forces will be brought face to
face, and II neither yields strife, and
perhaps bloody conflict will ensue,
in comparison to which the Pennsyl-
vania riots were as mole hills to the
mountain. The great combinations
Of wealth, having no backs to lash
and no souls to damn. are reckless.
INSCRIPTIONS and defiant. A period
, lis approaching when we must take
! into consideration the duties, and
: also the limits as well rs the
rights and privileges. OF property
and wealth. The wealth OF the
future is to become enor-
NOUS, due to the case with which
lit will be. acquired, and fortunes are
to be amassed OF fabulous extent,
7 and the continuation OF these for
tunes will become a power which 1t
is impos sible for us to sec or imag-
line. Under the name OF commerce,
vast forces are being reared, and
these forces are fast becoming pol
litical. Can these combinations be
!, prevented from welding all the pol.
litical power OF which they are capa-
: BILE? The possession OF the Federal
government, with it's vast patronage,
: becomes every year more an object,
: not alone OF ambition, but OF great
commercial Importance. II report
speaks true, the toga and crmine are
9 to- day being purchased with a price.
/ Legislatures are dcbauched, and
!. commissions bought, and ere long
VIC may expect to witness the White
House itself put up ut auction
and knocked down to the highest
bidder. As we look about us. We
cannot fail to see that the same
causes which destroyed the liberties
or Rome-thc cancer which ie eating
8 at the vitals OF the nations lifc-ars
: here to-day, and that the wealth 0l
tc the land is fast being controlled by
!. few men. who do not wish to Sc
!. maintained the simple and homes
], government Of our fathers. "Th'
~ price OF liberty is eternal vigilance,
D. and 1t would i'll become me, stand
ID ing rs I now do before you, not K
ri remind those of the old Army OF tn
Union who meet here to-day to d
y your duty TO those gone before us
II that your task Is not yet completed
IN that while yeu live you must watc
- the work that you have done
and see that these stay. at-hOmes nn'
Is the campfOllowers do not steal fror
you your birthright and your hard
earned honors.
do Facts are stubborn things, an
In ideas IRE eternal; and you carno
y alter n fact by a sneer or destroy q
~ idea by an epithet. Call it socialisl
NJ or communism, or what you will, til
~ fact is patent that so long MS thel
~ are monopolies there will be Cypress
ion, and so long as there are labol
he ing men and laboring women to
nj oppressed, there will be the working
- mems or anti-monopoly party. II
ho side that recognizes this fact an
~. adopts this idea is bound to becom
nc the party OF the future. This part
nj is not OF American origin, it origin,
,ts ted in Europe, and was brought in,
his existence by the expressions OF Il
he governments OF Europe, the gran'
~. est OF all monopolies-monopolizir
I I not only the results Of the labor
leo the body, but debating, as far as
mt them lies, the very thoughts tn
! ! shall control the actions OF me
~ This party has the vigor OF youth,
|ha seeks ends that ought to be game
/ ! it aims at wrongs that ought to
md retlrcssed, and appeals to the spmp
IN thies OF every lover Of mankind.
ess The Queen Of all.
fly Honor the dear old mother. TiI
hu. has scattered the snowy flakes
her brow, plowed deep burrows
lily her checks, but is she not sweet al
ny. beautiful now? The lips arc tn
nile and shrunkcn, but those are {
the lips that have kissed many q h
tear from the childish cheeks. u
they are the sweetest lips in I
world. Tho eye is dim, yet it glo
leat with the soft radiance OF holy 10
lid: which can never fade. All, yes, s
no is u dear old mother. The sands
. life are nearly run out, but feeble