The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-08-03
From the National View. !

eufly uOTHiHSy uut ihtcI III IHe my ~
became tranquil and more interesting.
One Of the features Of the afternoon was
m assembling Of the towns people at
Oak Grove, where an Grafton was deliv-
cred by Z. M. Boynton. Upon being
introduced the orator was warmly well
coined, and when the applause had
subsidized he spoke somewhat as follows :
l. With thrice rs many churches,
schools and inventions rs any other
nation who dares to grasp our press,
our pulpit, our telegraphs, our railways,
our every avenue Of thought, commune
cation and taxation, and declare them
selves masters Of our glorious republic ?
The syndicates Of Europe and America,
who compelled reputation Of the ma
tion's money ut its own counter that they
might gather gold when men were
dying; who made $50, DOC, 900 in legal
tender greenbacks purchase 81 &c, 600 900
Of the same money with Reputation
written on its back, and have posed
ever since as the only honest men,
after plundering nation. In vain
did Judge Kelley, Thnddeus Stevens and
Abraham Lincoln plead for honest, full
legal.tender money like that Of Venice
and like that of France, and against re-
pndiation. In vain did they plead that
q nations money was like nation flag,
the token of it's law and sovereignty, and
that he who insults the one and discred-
its the nations money was guilty 81
treason unless screened by ignorance ;
that limited legal.tender money Of solv.
ent nations never failed; that specie
basis always fails, and rendered tbs con-
tinental currency worthless, and for fifty
years held us the money slaves OF Brit.
ain. It was all in vain. The syndicates
Of the Rothschilds, who, with swift, false
couriers, after Waterloo, told England
that her army was destroyed and her
bonds worthless, purchased with false.
hood financial supremacy. They were
aided by INSCRIPTIONS and ignorant
men. who, by speculation and fraud,
have obtained like dominion here. In
vain we point to France, expanding for
eighty years without panic, making
the demand for specie from 1870 to 1878
a crime, making $64O, 600, 900 legal ten.
der paper money received by Govern
mcnt equal 70 81, 500, 00O, 900 Of ours re-
pudiated by the Government for duties.
This crime is past; its results are rapid
" accommodating to destroy the republic,
or destroy the thieves who are now its
masters.
jay Gould and the New York Tribune
and the Republican party in one hand,
the New York World aud Democracy III
the other, drives his triumphal car
across the continent. aud over the neckt
Of the deluded victims he educates.
More honest than his confederates, who
have subverted in fifty States and Terri.
tories Government OF law, he admitted
before the Hepburn Committee, the
control Of the Legislature wherever hi.
road ran. His confederates have de.
feated consideration of the Reagan bill
prepared by the New York Bosrd 81
Trade aud Chamber Of Commerce, and
all regulation Of the traffic Of lou, 0OC
miles Of railway is left to the mercy ol
the robbers. On roads thrice built by
the nation. yet in the hands Of remorsc.
less greed, the freights Of towns and
cities interior are advanced fivefold,
while all competing lines to the sea
board are, by lower freights, destroyed
until absorbed. There is practically bu
one railway, costing 81, 900, 600, 900, con
trolled by four men but one bank, pos
sessing 81 ,0OO, 0OO. 900. obeying the bid
ding Of one man; but one telegraph,
controlling 100000 miles of waterel
stock, and with the Rothschild 81 n1i.
cate controlling the cable lines to til,
Indies. Every avenue Of public though,
or private information is at their mercy.
How have these things been brought
about In addition, the coal, the oil
and the land are largely absorbed.
Tho original force was the expanding
and contracting Of the currency, taking
the principal rs well rs the interest ol
the nations wealth with fluctuation oil
one.third Of one per cent. a day. A
year suflices to take all. Wonder not
with margins Oh stocks, they control thu
National Government, from men stub
born Ms Gen. Grant down to tho
humblest page that the attorney Of Jay
Gouldhas recently put upon the Snprem.
bench ut his request. Witness hls dis
patch to Senator Plumb, of Kansas
The indirect corruption OF this fiuctua
ton must cease. The money OF 1
country must be fixed per capita, anl
grow with the nations growth, instead
Of contracting, as ut present, with th,
nations growth, until panic super
venes. The issue Of postal and revenu.
stamps and money are vital functions d
nationality fixed by law, United to ths
needs and to exchanges Of real property
Our country, with its matchless re
sources and its little need Of i'm
portation, should continue the riches
and happiest in the world. With NOR.
corn and wheat than any Other
nation, furnishing the meat, III,
bread and the cotton for Europe; Will
more railways, tclegraphs, invention
than any other nation; with man.
intelligent power increased by $50,
600 patents, yielding ten.fold NOR,
production in mechanic arts, VIII,
are the producers of this wealth in bond
age and to-day in revolt against OPP
precision. It is not the men Of enter
prise nor the employer who are to blame
With ? per cent. margins ON shoes, text
lie fabrics and staple goods, their gain
are not excessive when the awful risk.
OF fiuctuati0n and syndicate robbery ar,
considered. Only one business man in
thirty succeeds. Not one manufacturer
IN ten survives. The solid values of the
nation are changed or absorbed each ten
years by expanding and contracting til
money. Panics must therefore be pre-
vented. This is the first great living
issue. Our last panic cost SO, 600, OOU,
600 by lost labor, and "stop produc
ton was the only remedy echoed by
press and pulpit, by the controllers Of
public opinion. who could not for theil
lives tell what money is or what it does
had no remedy except to stop produc
ton. They assured us that idlencss
would pay our debts; that to stop hal
the mills and two.thirds the furnaces
and FORCES would increase our wealth
that. instead Of increasing nationa
money the costless tickets for *
changing labor products = instead Of
permitting labor to produce and ex
change and bless mankind with increas.
ing civilization and the comforts that max,
and surround ahome, theyrecommende,l
barbarism. idleness and want rs a sound