The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-01-13

not only made gold the king Of values,
but il made the very bonds IL forced into
existence tho bnsis for . currency It
forced the Government TO issue for the
benefit Of the very capitalists WHO en-
shaved IL.
Capital knew the impudence Of It's
power. While il dill not and would not
give dollar to sustain tho credit Of the
nation, 1t loudly proclaimed that unless
il combined TO save the nation our libe'-
ties would he overthrown.
II was not satisfied with forcing Con-
gross to repudiate its own credit and pay
loo r,cr cent. share, but II must dictate
md force tho national -hnnk robbery
upon the people NJ condition Of con-
senting TO sllnre the nation to That ex.
tent, 80 TINT It should have tho control
of the very money it lent, and get bnck
80 for every 81 il advanced in the
guaranteed nntionAl-bank currency, lie.
side 81 for 81 IN the Understanding
bonds Of tho nation.
This outrageous swindlc called the
National Bank bill, in bUllness Of de-
sign, in wickedness Of purpose, and in
during usurpaii.m Of public rights, is
without parallel i'll political history.
With an investment measured by its
own standard Of ynl,lc of bnt 2lSc. 500.
OOD made from 1863 TO 1865, il Inns
paid to the national-bank stockholders
more than 81, 900, ONO, 900 in dividends,
while it has accumulated resources from
profits, nsury. exchange, and invest
ment Of s., QUO, 00O, 900 Of concentrated
capital. This capital has been combined
into associated power for political pur-
poses. II controlled the last election !;
it corrupted the ballot box in 1876; it
bcseiged it with money in 1880: il
bought and paid for majorities in Ohio
and III Indiana in October !; it brlbei
labor to enslave labor it purchased the
producer but to betray him, and to-day
it sings its hosannas Of victory to glorify
its triumph over the people. II hns e.
tablisllel its right, as il claims, Ivy the
popular vote to fund the public debt
into tifty.year patents Of nobility. That
10, to make the national debt an endless
boon to the rich, ind nm endless curse to
the poor. To make untaxed and un.
taxable bonds the legal right, and ut the
same time the fraudulent cover to
force the laborer and producer to pay
the taxes Of the purse-prond idler aud
the swindling national banker.
To fund the bonds is to prolong into
indefinite robbery that hugcst Of lin.
tional curses. the national banks bread
and water for the muses. usury, extor.
tioa. monopoly, profit, aristocncy, aud
power for the rich. The people have
voted themselves the dnpes, slaves, and
tools ii the Bank Association.
"The banker is king" Capital rules.
Money is the god. Man is the slave.
Harl money has again won. The
people have lost. The triumph is not
contine tothe popular approval Of fnpd-
ing the national debt into non-taxed
u nils, thus relieving the rich from all
taxation, and forcing the payment Of
principal and interest sol. ~ upon the
lahoring and producing classes, who are
not able to own bonds, hut 1t is a tri.
umph Of corporate power over State
power, Of corporate insolence over
national control.
Corporations have robbed the nation
81 more than 200, OOO, 600 Of mr. 81
it, public lands, Of more than 800, OnO..
OM. public moneys they have rubbed
it Of its highways and its public
thoroughfar, they have brib i its
legislative alton in Stat, Legislatures
| aud in Congress: they have corrupted
the judiciary they have secured con-
troll of the executive brenclles Of the
Government; they originated the Cretli,
Mobilier swindle aud they have placed
| its tool in the Presidential chair h COM
plete the tyranny Of their insolent de.
signs.
| In securing the triumph OF funding
| tho national debt into perpetual non-tax-
able bonds, immortality TO the swindling
rnscality Of national banks, immensely "a
cooperate thieves and corporate control
81 transportation, the highways Of the
continent. and all Legislative, judicial
aud executive Offices, which money can
corrupt or capit.llistic power can brighten
into snbserviencv. the bank. rs success
has also secured the triumphant monol,.
oly Of the public domain for slecnlating
knaves and land-monopolixing aristo
Gratis. For, while every Zoo. Of the pub
1 lie domain, swindled from the people to
an extent larger than the combined ter.
ritory covered by England. Ireland
Scotland and France since 1862, ha'
heen bestowed to promote few person.
a interests, it has been impossible fol
the people to secure the slightest MI
from Congress to enable lahoring men
mechanics and heals Of families, to avail
themselves Of the Homestead act.
This most incomparablv just and no
BILE means Of fairly dedicating the lands
OF the people for the use and benefit o
the whole people has been constantly
thwarted by every session OF Congress
since 1868. What, then, Is the duty o
the hour?
1t is to overwlclm by resistance tn
power to triumph over II victory won b,
fraud and purchased by bribery. Til
American people are not in favor q
funding the national debt into interest
bearing. non-taxed. perpetual bonds
Let the Dann'e resist it by all and ever,
combined action can control.
The American people are not in favo
of tlelegating the control Of the finance
Of the nation to the pampcred oligarch
of national bankers who haye alread
robbed the people of moro than thres
thousand millions Of money. grown OPP
ulent on national bondn. swindled iron
the Government ut half their value
paving donhly-componndcd interest il
coin. made the basis for perpetual in
vestment without taxation, and Il hank
ing without capital on the credit Of tn
nation. It is the duty Of the people I
resist its continuance. and they will d
it. !,
The American people are not in favc
Of corporate control of the highways I
the nation. II their transportation. Z
their labor, and Of their rights. and the
will oppose it to the bitter end.
The American people are not in fave
Of land mnnopolies, or Of selling tn
public domain 10 land.speculatsng shark
as the foundation Of a landed ar;sto.r,
~. and they will hattie every step leat
lug 10 such result with Ill the encrc
Of Liberty to secure the future, and wit
MI the desperation Of despair 10 pr.yel