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

H0H 10 IbJ WIN TN tllS l"t 1ti't'
ana poor mems homestead covered
witt eut-fhr@Ht nrTte aIe.. ths-1~
tie mortgages holding III shefr -
,eltles. geas*P ...If gt@ F1@r n"@'@
teams on which alone they d"p1nd
for support, AM the poor woman >
sewing machines that are the only
means they have left to earn a sub
sistence for themselves and families.
Oh! it is worse than the mirage; it
is most dannable delusion.
Fellow farmers. how are you rep
resented ~ = Els 5n tHa r,ttig@ta
and legislative l.t.4 H." -tat@
Why. there il not Il corporai'a guard
to represent the toilers and wealth
producers Of the nation in congress.
How have the mighty fallen. Com
pare the men that composed our
first congress with those that fmis-)
represent us at present.
Take the following law as q fair
illustration Of the statutes by our
first congress. ANY person holding
any office or stock in any institution
In the nature of a bank for issuing
or discounting bills or notes payable
to bearer or order under the author
| ity of the United States, cannot be
| a member of either house whilst he
holds such Office or stock This
law has never been repealed, yet we
find that congress has ninety nine
bankers, two hundred tifty-three
lawyers. and the balance made up OF
those who have not single interest
in common with the classes they
represent.
Do you suppose for u single in
slant that any Of our first congress
composed mostly Of farmers and
workingmem would havessurrend
cred the dearest and most sacred
rights OF the citizen to foreign syn
dictates or domestic monopolies
Would such u body countenanced
the whisky bills presented to the ma.
tional treasury for Garfield's wake,
or the wholesale plundAing Of the
poor emancipated slaves by the
sharpers running the high sounding
Freedmen's Bureau Savings Bank?
| Oh! shame on such hypocrisy
30, years ago, the republican party
/
plank in its platform:
RESOLVED, That the public lands o.
the United States belong to the PEG
pie and should not be sold to indi
, viduals nor granted to corporations
but should be held as sacred trust
for the benefit Of the people, ant
should be granted i'm limited quaint
) free of cost to landless settlers.
: What sad contrast the presen
4 status of that party presents. Tbs
public lands all squandered away
, debts piled on all the diiferen
| classes Of the community till the in
r terest, in many eases exceed TIL
producing capacity of the classe
taxed. The taxes piled on to TIN
: farmers till they are the heavies
\ taxed class to be found in the civi
. ! lized world. The taxing prostitutes
! to build up and enrich monopolies
, Our courts turned into skinning -s
! tablishments,a few monopolizing a
J the wealth, while the classes tina
: produced the wealth are drifting in
Il to helpless poverty. Well might W
pause and ask "Whither are W
drifting?
7, Now, fellow farmers, the remed
is in our hands, by our ballots w
Il can save the republic. Another dc
: cade and it will be too late. TIL
t party of false pretenses must go, bt
: above all we must secure represer
6 tation. That is the foundation roe
y on which the republic rests. Wor
u for that end and all will be well.
Q Yours, for just taxation and hone;
5. representation, SAM'L SiSSErT.
y Museatine, Iowa.