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

ductiye forces OF the country and in the other
the machinery OF exchange.
The banking, railroad, telegraph, oil. coal
and land monopolies having united their forces
III an alliance, offensive aud defensive, 70 seize
and control the Government as bnlwark be-
hind which to carry on their system Of plnnder.
lug the productive interests OF the nation, and
OF depriying freemen OF the rights OF citizen
ship, the Executive Committee OF the National
party have resolved to broaden the field of its
active operations, and extend its lines entirely
around the consolidated enemy.
THE PEOPLE DEMAND.
/. The bonds paid and not refunded.
2. Bank issue suppressed and the issue re-
| stored to the Government, to whom It properly
belongs
3. All the money, whether metal or paper, to
be issued by the Government and made full
legal tender in payment OF all deDts, public
aud private.
4. The uaiinited coinage Of gold and silver
to be established by law, at the same weight
and fineness OF each AZ are now fixed by law.
and without expense to the Government.
5. The corporations shall have no greater
privileges than other persons. The high seas,
the lakes. the navigable rivers, canals and rail-
roads are all public highways.
6. That frclghtage, transportation, the car
rying trade, being part OF commerce., shall
be regulated by Congress ~ the constitution
directs.
Z. That the public lands shall be kept FOR
homes for the people; and. in all those cases
where railroads or other corporations have
failed to comply with the terms Of their grant,
that the lands shall revert to the Government
for the benefit OF the people.
3. That taxation shall be equal. and no class
Of persons or property shall be exempt from its
legitimate burden Of taxation.
As the Republican party recruited its elective
forces in the rural towns and school districts
n, ~, ,Sgo
through the aid Of its Union League, 80 should
the people. when monopoly combines and unites
its powers for evil. and thus becomes the most
dangerous foe that threatens the public veal,
recruit for defense under a system Of anti
monopoly organizations III each aud every
school district throughout the whole nation.
The name is significant. 1t expresses without
1t will draw the true line between honesty and
dishonesty, purity and corruption, independ-
ence and partisan slavery, for he who is not .
monopolist dare proclaim himself an anti
nopolist.
70 this end the committee have prepared .
plan Of local organization to which they invite
the serious attention and the hearty co-opera-
ton of every lover Of his country, his race and
the free institutions under which he was
reared also. every phase OF organization that
has for its objects the amelioratlon Of human
conditions. whether they are freenback clubs,
Trades and Labor Unions. Oranges, Farmers
Alliances, Laad Leagues or any organic effort
against any form Of monopoly. We appeal to
all such to unite with liz in uniform, SYSTEM
attic. cooperative effort through the agency Of
schOul-district anti-nOnopOly clubs.
Let the hideous form and deadly designs of
the monster monopoly be exposed. II required
a union Of all the States to secure the freedom
Of one. So it will require the union Of all the
oppressed to emallcipate any one industry from
the chains Of monopoly. Therefore, knowing
no North, no South, no East, or West. and
aholishing all lines of separation and all names
and titles denoting faction, let lis rally to the
defense Of labor. liberty and higher civiiza-
| ton by overthrowing and destroying these
powers Of hell combined for the purpose oi
absorbing the resources Of life, liberty and the
pursui. Of happiness.