The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-01-04

ians some unpleasant truths, ut which
they were much incensed. Demostlenes,
who was inclined to fatter the multi.
tude in his orations, said to Phocion,
1.-THE Athenians will get mad some day
and kill YOU" "Ye.," retorted Pho
cion, "when they are mad: and they
will kill you rs soon rs they get sane
again.
For years and years past the people
have been warned Of the dangerous ell
croacllments Of monopoly: but those
who were fearless enough to point ont
the danger were regarded rs fanatical
agitators, while "b!lnl leaders Of the
blind" fiattered the peoples prcju1ices
and led them astray after false issues
But the people are becoming sane now.
and the indications are that different
set Of men must pass under candemna-
ton IN the near future.
In the past, those who opposed the
national bank monopoly, t!iose who
sympatliized with the ant railroad
movement Of the Changers, those who,
IN season and ont OF season, pointed ont
the rapidly increasing abuse ~ .,aw. =
by centralized wealth and grasping cor.
porations, we're denounced rs "com-
munists.' To-day the people are no
longer deceived. Monopoly is real
communism using the word in its
worst sense-and the greedy, sucking
corporations, like SO many arms Of a
huge devil-fish, reach out in every di-
rection for the life-blood Of labor. that
the insatiate, ever-hungry body. the
Money Power, may be kept gorgel.
The banks bnlldoze Congress: the
railroad kings buy Legislatures; rings
corner the food of the country --corpora-
tions rule everywhere. Men Of ely
tongue and ready excuse all over the
land defend monopoly on the stump,
work for monopoly in official position,
legislate for monopoly in the capital. te-
fend it before the courts--the closer
friends of corporations are in power
everywhere. The outlook seems far
from encouraging, even to the most
sanguine.
II the people have been striking the
wrong man" in the past they will right
themselves just as soon as they can see
little more clearly. The logic Of
events is rapidly convincing the popular
mind. The agitator Of yesterday may
to-day be thought no more than reason
ably conservative; the populace hns
advanced to his heretofore solitary
station.
II the people have, insanely and
hastily, done some very unwise things
in the past, they have had a long
leisure in which to repent, and it is
not impossible that the undoing will
be much more sudden and brief than
the doing. The blow struck by the
Changers, who were not a political or
ganization at all in the ordinary sense,
shows what an amount OF latent power
the people possess, which needs only
the occasion to call it forth. The day
Of the flatterers of the people is past !;
the toilers are moving down, in irreg-
ular ranks it may be, upon their in
trenched foe, monopoly. The most
significant evidence of tho great
strength Of the anti-monopoly move
ment is the fact that prominent men
are getting anxious already to identify
themselves with il.
A great struggle will soon commence
- indeed. has already b gun. The
power which has SO long bought the
representatives Of the people affects to
despisc the verdict of the peopl s vote !;
but enough nitro glycerine will vet be
loaded into the ballot-box to cramble
the walls of purchased special legisla-
ton into fragments and Chicago
Express.