The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-08-02


game, denounce 1t rs an Internal
fraud Major FoAworth promptly
demanded to know on what ground
lie made the charge; Why replied
the Colonel, Bill Simpson has just
played a pair Of aces that he stole
out OF my sleeve"
Mulligan Blaine announces that
he il not candidate for president
IN 1884 that he Is out OF politics.
This, no doubt, Is another sun
stroke" dodge.
Even tho psalmist David wanted
to be delivered from oppression that
he might keep Gods commands.
Deliver me from the oppression OF
man; so will I keep thy preceptS."--
Psalms cxix-133, no nation keeps
the prccepts that allows the few to
oppress the many, OF the many the
few.
j. Fred Meyers the best republl-
can wire puller on the slope. Is dis
gusted with the prohibition phase OF
modern repuhlicanism. He says the
&. 0. p. has three distinct factions.
First, the pure water men: second,
the milk and water men; third, the
milk and water and rum branch.
This Is the best and most accurate
definition We have yet seen.
Mrs. Langtry's platform IL Beauty
for revenue only."-iCh Herald;
and Freddie Gebhard for protsc-
tion.s
Reformcrs exclaim against sine
cures-but the true pension-list Il
the rent-rou OF the landed proprie-
tors. Wealth Is . power usurped b.
the few to compel the many to labor
for their benefit. The few are Obliged
to purchase this pre-eminence by
the loss OF all real comfort Shell
ley.
We want some one to tell us what
the liquor traffic has done for the
human race. Has 1t ever founded a
,college?-[Atlantic Messenger.
Yes. Matthew yassar began life
as poor man without credit. He
was brewer, and from the profits Of
his business founded and endowed
Vassar College, an Institution that
has done more for women and the
home than all the prohibition news
papers in America.
Stephen Girard made the bulk OF
his fortune in West India rum, and
French wines and brandies. His
fortune sustains Girard College. It
is Il curious provision in his will that
no preacher shall enter the building.
Il State Press.
It Is not the nonopolista, but the
lawmakers who are to blame for
the condition Of things In this coun-
| try. For the most part the men who
are monopolizing the various
branches OF business are doing 80
under special enacinenrs or general
laws which permit them to do SO.
| Give vs. o change In the law making
power and the great problem Of how
to get rid OF oppressive monopolies
will be solved. To do this the old
j, parties must be hurled from power.
Nothing short OF this will DO.
Postal Card: The Howard County
Times says the Des Moines Register
us at the seat OF republican inteili-
gence.' Evident enough. It has
never been at the head since the
days OF Frank Palmer.
The government has discovered
the fraudulent entries Of $4,000 acres
OF rich public lands. snd cancelled
them. 1t Is unnecessary to say tina.
these do not include the lands given
to railroad companies which have
failed to carry out theU contracts
News.
New York World: Here IL O mod.
ern, genuine republican platform in
bries-twelye planks and twelve pill
lars: l. Protection; 2. Prohibition
3. Privileged classes: 4. Public plum.
der; 5. OIliceholders; 6. Monopolies
I. Mill,onaires: s. Cant: 3. Corrnp.
ton; 10. Corporations; Il. Fraud
IL. Fanasicism.
The republican party is smirchet
with the whisky ring swindles, ant
tho sta, route swindles, and tn,
architect swinales, and the salar,
grab, and the third term plot, and I
myriad other similar Jobs and theft:
and crimes No reform Is possibl.
until such party is turned out by I
reform party.-Harper's Weekly.
! Free Press: Atlantic, not to b,
outione by other republican elite.
in Iowa. in It's devotion to "statutor,
and constitutional prohibition" i:
building a $4,000 distillery. TIL,
next republican state conventio!
should meet at Atlantic.
The organ Of republican.sm g
McGregor says there is no rcpuhli
can party in the eth distric. Il tha
paper Is IN exponent Of the party !
ought to lie dead never to rise again
. Postal Card.
The money question holds tn
same relation to human Happiness