The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-09-25

plausc. "A IL IL, they see no indications
that the major proposes to let go his hold, at
any time In the future.
sISBAD's OLD MAN or THE MOUNTAIN
One Is reminded Of the old man whom
Sinbad, the sailor, In the Arabian
tale, met on the desert island,
on which he was shipwrecked. lie asked
Sinbad TO carry him across . brook; the
obliging Arabian took him on his shoulders,
he wound his legs around his neck and ut
tcrly refused, ever after, TO leave bis perch;
forcing the poor fellow, by whippings and
kickings, TO carry him whittier he would, and
feed him on the best fruits OF his industry.
The story goes that sinbad got clear Of him
at last by brewing some wine OF wild grapes,
making him drunk, and then masking his
head with a rock.
THE REPUBLICAN srSBAD.
Little did the Republicans OF the Third
congressional district think, In 1879, when
they first shouldered the major to carry him
across one nomination, that his legs would
be dangling around their necks in 1884.
Laughter and npp.ause.l The boys aud
girls who were children at school then are
latiSiS uud "DtItlS uoWy Dut tuC tiaJ't 10
stll on deck; and, II he can have his way,
he will ride the nccks Of their great grand
children, --grizzlcd and gaunt, 1t may be,
but as hungry as kicking his heels In
their reluctant ribs, aud whoopcd on by
troop of oflice-holdars, the grand sons, rroba-
bly,, OF the present incumbents. tGrcat
laughter aud applause.
The afflicted people can not even have re-
course to Sinbad's expedient, for the major
Is too well seasoned for anything OF that
kind. Laughter.
There Is but one way to end him, viz. -
to beat his brains out In the presidential
year.
RESISTANCE TO MoNopoLiEs.
The second issue upon which you arc all
agreed Is resistance to the unjust claims Of
monopolies.
The old questions arising out of slavery
and the civil war are all settled. Upon these
issues there Is not hairs brcadth Of differ
ence to-day between the platforms Of the two
great parties; there Is In fact nothing for
them to differ about.
All men In the United States are now
agreed that slavery was great wrong; that
1t has been abolished; that 1t never can be
re-established.
All are agreed that the black man has as
many rights as the white man, and no man
proposes to rctrench them IN single par
| ticular.
All are agreed that the war Is over and re-
construction tinished.
NEW SET OF QUESTIONS.
A new set of questions is coming to the
front, but these are yet in chaotic state,
and upon them the lines Of demarcation are
rather geographical than political.
In the older settled parts OF the country
where great wealth has been developed, dur
ing several generations of laborers, society
| Is divided into two well defined classes
those who have much and those who have
little. The arst are grayitating away from
| republican institutions towards aristocratic
ideas, aud u stronger form OF government,
| the caste of their thought Is decidedly Euro
pean. The other class, without hope OF
wealth, seeing before them only lives of work,
interspersed with periods Of enforced idle.
ness and semi-starvation, are drifting tow
ards communism and anarchy. In the west,
| on the other hand, society is In more prim-
| tive condition, and more nearly represents
the social conditions out of which the repub.
| lie arose.
THE REAL QUESTION At ISSUE.
| The real question that will underlio oul
| politics for the next fifty years Is the posi-
oility Of preserving republican institutions
IL the nation Is governed in the interest o!
capital, 1t can only be- SD at the expense oi
the many; and the gulf viii annually widen
between the multitude aud tho
few, spanncd only by totterins
bridge of Evolutionary love OF freedom
and in the first great convulsion this will 81
down. One has only to remember the power
Of money in our politics; the great swarm,n.
masses VI uadcr-paid, and often undcr-fe,
workmen: the great riots which have shaker
with earthquake throes the cities Of Pittshur.
and Cincinnati, aud he cannot but trembl,
for the future Of his country.
WHAT'S LtpEarYl
We have mighty stake In the preserva-
ton Of the republic. Liberty Is not merely
name; the flag Is not simply an ornament
The destruction Of our beautiful, peaceful,
equal form Of government means the re
storation of old-world conditions. A "stron,
government" is but another name for DIES
potism; an aristoeracy Of money is but al
untitled nobility. Continue the evolution
which we have witnessed In our eastern
states for fifty years longer, and the worl
will behold ruling class US despotie, u
arrogant, as selfish, aud as powerful as an
in Europe, anda working and farming elias
as wretehed aud paverty-strieken, aud a
desperate as the poorest peasantry Of Irelan
aud Russia.
WHAT Is NEEDED.
What Is needed to arrest this development
4 great political sentiment, representing a
Intelligent public opinion, thoroughly dc
voted to liberty and justice, conscious tina
when justice dies liberty sickens); watchfu
for every Invasion Of popular rights; ready I
resist every aggression OF that blind Saml
son, Monopoly, who, unrestrained, woul
soon pull down the pillars of the temple an
bury himself in the ruins. Applause.
JEFFERsoN's DOCTRINE.
we need statesmen who above everything
else will love liberty, because they love til,
human family; who will resist wrong be
cause it means wreichedness TO mankind
We need people high enough above prcju
dice Ia cordially and unitedly support sue
men. And We need q powerful political or
ganization, Tiled with the spirit oi that mag
nincent utterance of Thomas jefferson: -
have sworn undying hostility, on the altar @
my God, To every form OF oppression of til
bodies or the souls Of men. lGrea, ap
plause.
| POLITICAL CHAOS.
Our politics to-day Is In chaotic state
but it is the chaos that preeedes creation
out of il the voice Of God will yet be hear
crying, LET there be light" aud We shal
see clearly arrayed against each other tw
well-dehned parties, facing each other lik
warning lions. The one party representa-
wealth as against manhood, the old idea
against the new, the old world against til
new, representing sordid greed, graspiug in
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