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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-17
EIGHT YEARS OF AGITATION.

For ten years after the close of the war,
the two old parties did nothing but quar-
rel over the cause. conduct and result Of
the war-exccpt when they We're mutually
engaged in some scheme of public plumber.
Discomfort arose among the masses. and
as result. the Independent party was
formed, ut indianapolis. in 1876. That
party in time became known as the Green
hack party. II has kept up its work OF ag-
itation and education ever since.
What. il is asked, has the Independent
party Accomplishment
In point of office-holders elected, it has
accomplished comparatively little. but in
rcvo 'utionizing the sentiment Of the coun.
try, il has accomplished more than has
ever been accomplished by any political
party in the United States-with perhaps
the single exception of the abolition of
slavery by the old Abolition party.
In 1876 the country was suffering the
agonies Of hard times; IN army of namps
was wandering up and down the land. the
workshops were closed. the sheriff was
busy Sellin. out homesteads: men, women
and children were starving for bread in Il
land blessed with bounteous harvests.
The policy of the government a, that
time was To destroy the grcenbacks, per
| pet,ra,e the bonded debt and the national
bank system.
Silver had been demonetized and gold
was the measure of values
The bank and treasury vaults We're KEEP
full OF money. although commerce was
languishing for its presence in the chan
nels If trade. The wise iinancicrs said
There il just rs much money in III,
country ms there ever was"-yct their aul
wits failed 10 comprehend the fact tina
boarded money was Of no benefit to com
merce.
The Independent tGreenback) party de
mandcd the preservation OF the greenbacl
currency. and its receipt for custom duties
the reconciliation of silver, the extin
-uishment of the bonded debt, the repca
of the resumption act, the suppression o
the bank currency. an initiation of the vol
ume Of money and the recognition Of tn
rights Of labor.
Because il demanded the preservation o
the greenback. il was called the ..ra:
baby party.
Because they demanded "A volume o
money equal Ia the wants Of trade. the,
were denounced as "inflationists
i Because they demanded the payment o
the bonds in lawful money (Which inelnd
"a greenbacks) they were hooted AT as re
pudia,ionists
i Because they demanded the remonetizs
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-17
A TWO-BILLION PET.

Here are the figures: $2,Oe5. OOO. 900 in
twenty years.
II only takes ten figures to express the
amount, but ii il were put in the shape of
the actual products of labor il would be
absolutely startling.
There lies before us piece Of paper up
on which are imprinted these words: The
Union National Bunk Of Chicago mill pay
tie bearer on demand Fire Dollars
II is ours We exchanged the products
Of our labor for IT,
Now then, we want to know if the Union
National Bank of Chicago does not owe us
the sum of five dollarsg
This piece of paper is promise 10 pay
tie bearer, five dollars, hence its very words
imply that it is indebted to lis. the present
bearer of it. in that sum.
Three months ago business man bor-
rowed this piece Of paper Of the Union
National Bank, agreeing to give for the use
thereof the rate of eight per cent interest.
Tomorrow, after getting it Of us again
in exchange for the products of his labor.
the same business man who borrowed it re-
turns it 10 the Union National Bank with
ten cents in addition for the use Of it,
Now then. that ten cents is exactly what
the Union National Bank has drawn in in
terest money upon-what?
Upon .fse dollars rlich it has actually been
o,cing for tie last three months
This piece of paper, commonly called a
national bank note, isnot the only one which
the Union National Bank of Chicago has
loaned out during the last three months.
II has probably loaned out nearer quarter
of million dollars of them. upon which
ii hasslrawn eight per cent interest-eigh,
per cent interest upon two hundred and
! fifty thousand dollars of its own indebted
ness
In short, the Union National Bank is an
association of individuals who are living
upon the interest on what they owe!
The two thousand and more national
banks in the United States are SO many
associations Of individuals who are drawing
interest, at various rates, ranging all thu
way up to rs high as % per cent per an
mum, upon what they owe.
These two thousand national banks have
out upwards of $3.50 OOO. 900 of these prom
Uses to pay. In other words they owe tn,
i great multitude Of holders of these notes
upwards Of $3.50, 600, 900, upon all of which
they are drawing interest!
The total interest which they draw would
at an average rate Of ten per cent simple in
terest, amount to $50. OOO, 900. per year.
They have annually drawn thirty-fiv'
millions upon what they owe!
They live in reality as the worthless vaga
bond affects TO live when he in careless
rollicking mood tells you that he is (" Twin,
upon the interest of what he owes
In twenty years they have drawn from
the people in the shape Of interest none,
upon what they owed The enormous sum
$7OO. 900, 900.
Not only have they drawn this amour
upon what they owed, but they have been
. during all this time. drawing interest iron
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-17

One currency for the government and
the people, the laborer and the office hold
crs. the pcnsioner and the soldier, the
producer and the bondhol,ler = Democratic
National Platform, 1868
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-17
and favor the election Of civil officers by
direct vote, and removal from Office for
cause by two-thirds vote Of the electors.

Money is il creation Of law. -Aiaohe.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-17

We believe that the issue of the currency
should be commensurate with the indus
trial and commercial interests Of the PEG
Pile Ohio Republican Platform. 1865
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-17
q Gums of the Great
kpaign Are Already
Booming.
yIVke (ireenback Party Is Show.
ing More Life and Energy
Than Ever.
You will Hear from the Rag
lSaby" Next November.
/ National Convention Called
alld the Workers Wheel
!. ing Into Line.
tthitago SENTINEL

I0HtHgH SVIIIHtIJ
the Grccnlnekcrs during the
have not been rs active as
Turing the whitehead Of the
BIZ 1880, there are many people
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-17
THE FIRES KEI.l0HTEn.

deter In Newayse Mich. TribuneA
The fire is rclighted in Van Buren, coun-
": In fact has never gone ont, only smold-
cred tor time, and soon its light and heat
will be felt. The outlook Is suspicious.
The clans are gathering. and from every
portion of the state hear the notes Of
preparation.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-23
gne aumrna1 and Gumrier.
Wednesday, July 23, 1884.
NOMINATIONS
FOR PRESIDENT, JAMES G. BLAINE, of Maine. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, JOHN A. LOGAN, of Illinois.
WHY MIR. CAPEN DOES NOT BOL1

WHY MK&s CAPEN DOES NOT BOLTs The Rev. E. H. Capen, president of Tufts college near Boston, has been accused of be- ing 'Fbolter'' and a participator in a meet ing of Independents. But Mir. Capen is un- willing to rest under such an accusation. He has never for 8 moment sympathized with the Independent movement. He believes that the only possible outcome of it in the present contest is the election of the Demo cratic candidates, and he is unwilling to lend his influence to that result.
 What MT. Capen has to say about the two parties is well worth the attention of all and especially of young voters. He thus con trasts them: I cannot forget, do not wish to forget, that the Democratic party which now seeks the suffrages of the people is the same party which in it's struggle to perpetu- ate slavery not only plunged the nation into civil strife, but by the hindrances which it interposed to the vigorous prosecution of the war prolonged it. Billions of the public debt and the headstones which mark the resting place of hundreds of thousands of our bravest sons are per petual witness of the recreancy and shame of the Democratic party. The Republican party is that under whose standard the na- tion was saved. It is the party that has steadfastly demanded justice and education for the freedmen. It is the party which conquered it's animosities, and not only for gave but rehabilitated rebels and welcomed them again to full share in the counsels of the government they sought to destroy. It is the party under whose administration business has been revived and the pledges of the government have been redeemed, so that dollar in paper is worth a dollar in gold in every part of the national domain. It is the party which has inaugurated civil ser vice reform, and which if allowed will carry it forward to perfection.
 These are few of the reasons why Mir. Capen is Republican and not "kieker." :" These reasons are very strong ones, and their force is felt by many Republicans who, like MT. Capen, would have preferred some other candidates. It is sad thing for Re publican to desert his party, and bad thing to help the Democratic party by such desertion.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-23

BUTTER IS HIGHES,
 We have received 40 tubs of the choicest Cream. cry Butter we have had this season. Although But is higher shall sell it at 25c ID, A lbs for $1. Full cream Cheese only 12c lb. Good Cheese 6c pound.
 Long Island Potatoes t35c peck S1.35 per bushel. Fresh Champion Peas at 40c peck
 We shall receive fresh lot of Blackberries and Currants Friday and Saturday morning. Wait for them. If you want to can make jelly it will pay you.
 Fresh native Beets every morning, 4c bunch-2 punches for 7c. Native String and Butter Beans fresh this evening. Butter Beans 40c peck. String Beans 4oc peck Ripe Tomatoes at 10cquart. Pure Lard il lbs for $d.
 Pure Mixed Candy only 12c pound.
 Look at the Feather Weight Baking Powder. A cup and saucer hand-painted plate given away with every box.
 Everybody wants the Momaja Coffee because it is the best Coffee ever sold in New Haven for the money If you have not tried it. do so.
 Remember sell the Shredded Oats at 15 cents package-2 for 25c. The best article ever sold. Try a sample package.
 Washburn 6 Pillsbury's Patent Flour at lower prices than can be bought elsewhere in this city If you not believe it, come and be convinced.
 say@ good Black Mare for sale cheap D. M. WEIGH & SON, Nos. 2s and 30 Congress Avenue. The Largest Cash Grocers tn the State.
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the scanty allowance of 100 cubic feet of ai1 to each child 800 cubic feet being the small est quantity compatible with safely. In the Taunton workhouse at the same period there were 276 inmates with sixty eight cubic feet of air for each. Cholera killed sixty in less than week. In the county jail of Taunton, where the criminals were allowed from S19 to 935 cubic feet of air to breathe, ninety seven were struck down by cholera; while in the same village, another employer who had provided proper accommodation for his work people did not lose one by the epidemic.
 The announcement that committee of the English House of Commons has decided to recommend an appropriation of $40, 900, 900 for making extensions of the present rail roads in India has made good deal of talk about the increased competition to which this would subject the wheat growers of this country. But the truth appears to be that American wheat growers will not have to go into bankruptcy for some time yet, even if the proposed new railroads are built in India. The grain fields of India produce only about eight bushels to the acre, or one-haf the amount raised per acre in this country. La bor in India is much cheaper than in this country, and of course all the machinery for reaping and threshing, as well as sowing, can be sent to India The long thoughts in India come into consideration Frequently only half crop is produced, and there is no grain for export. Occasionally a famine comes-the crops are destroyed, and then India needs grain to save her millions from starvation. England may do her best and she cannot complete the railways and neces- sary improvements in five years, and these can touch only 3O,00O,000 acres of wheat growing lands, for that is about all they have fit for grain culture It will cost England 25 per cent more to get wheat from India than from the United States, and the Indian wheat is of an inferior quality. Therefore the American wheat grower need not hasten to commit suicide
Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-23
The Coal MonopoIY.


 Here in the heart of the anthracite coal basin of Pennsylvania, in the center of the l Philadelphia and Readings great coal posses sions, supposed to be worth $100,00 ,000 1 the question is frequently asked, 'Why was I it necessary for the Reading to pass into the hands of receivers?"
 After reasoning that would fill columns ir the Sun the ultimate answer would be, Be cause the Reading is a slave to giant coal pool, and in it's efforts to bull the market by conspiracy to compel consumers to pay double prices for coal it has broken it's owr neck"
 The colliery from which I write is a mag nifieent property. It heads the list in pro duction of all the 80 col1ieries belonging to or controlled by the Philadelphia and Read ing corporation. This one colliery alone last year produced 352, 461 tons of coal, and in 1879 its production was run up as high as 402, ,207 tons. Yesterday I visited the Elan gowan colliery, whose output last year was 204 ,257 tons. The operations of all these collieries are gigantic. The outside world
 knows very little about it. These coal prop critics sent out last year 20, 150 tons of coal for every working day in the year, worth not less than $S0,000 per day to the company. They could do this and more too this year, but they are bound in the shackles of giant coal conspiracy are unable to mine and ship their coal and instead of sending what they own to market and selling it, they beg gars in the financial world, and to all intents and purposes bankrupt.
 During the month of October, 1883, Super intendent Whiting says the Philadelphia and
 Reading company shipped from it's mines 535, ,841 tons of coal, equal to 21 900 tons for each full day worked. That months ship ments brought to the company's treasury at least So, OO0, ,000 And yet we are now wit messing the 1amentable spectacle of no coal shipped at all during long periods of idleness; not dollar received from these vast posses sions when the company so much needed money to pay it's interest, all because the pool, or conspiracy, had agreed that no coal should be mined or shipped What is the coal pool? Five of the leading coal-producing corpora tions agree to keep coal out of the market; to drain it dry; to compel consumers to pay a certain price for it, and by not gfutHng the market, to force buyers to continue paying exorbitant rates. Coal-yard men are driven to buy at the advanced rates, and the poor consumer, the retail purchaser, the manu- facturer, and the wholesale consumer, pay the piper.
 The Philadelphia and Reading corporation
 belong to this coal pool. Its hands are tied Its great mines are idle half the time. It owns millions of tons of coal unmined, yet it
 defaults it's interest. Thousands of miners
 are on the verge of suffering, because they are not allowed to work; thousands of cars are idle; hundreds of locomotives are cold;
 thousands of employees are either out of work or laboring at starvation wages, all because the great pool must be kept up, the coal con spiracy to hold the market must not go down.
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MOItke the Silent.
 TRIackwood,S Mapazina l

Moltke the Silent-der Schweiger-as he is called, is generally considered the greatest, and is certainly the most successful of living soldiers. His achievements at Koniggratz Sedan and Paris have never been surpassed, military critics. Silent quiet, cold, the very incarnation of concentrated thought, just as you see him walking in the streets or moving in drawing room, when everybody stands respectfully aside to let him pass-so he stood on the battle field, his cold clear eye passing slowly from one point to the other, and his cold clear mind weighing the chances of victo- " and defeat with the intensity and serenity of a mathematician pondering over the solu-
 tion of some grave problem. No one, it is
 said, has ever seen Count Moltlle excited not even at Sedan, where the greatest victory of modern times decided the fortunes of the two most powerful empires of the continent. His calmness seems mysterious, almost awful, and there is something strangely sad about that silent, lonely old man. His wife died some years ago; he never had child; his nearest relations, with the exception of nephew and niece, seem to be kept at distance by him. Who are his companions and his friends7 To
 whom does he ever talk in friendly, familiar
 way2 Nobody has ever been able to tell me,
 though have often inquired. An old man
 of 84, he still appears without fail wherever
 duty calls him. He is to be seen at almost
 all the Emperor's receptions, the most striking
 parsonage near the throne. But how does
 the old Field Marshal do at work? Nobody
 pretends to know. Either nobody penetrates
 into his intimacy, or else those who approach
 him intimately do not speak about it. When
 the weather is fine you may very tall,
 thin man, with very light yellowish hair and
 sallow, beardless, wrinkled face, out of
 which shine a pair of stony gray eyes,
 wrapped in a long, dark military coat, cap
 on his small head, faultlessly dressed in a
 generals uniform-a gentleman born in every
 inch of his aristocratic, slender figure, his
 body still erect, but his head as in deep
 thought slightly bent forward-such man, say, you may see coming out of the great red building which stands on the Koenigs-
 Platz, at the corner of ''Moltke' and "Bis- marclk" streets, and which bears the name of
 "General Stab" The solitary old man, un- attended by 8 servant, walks slowly, noise lessly. Every one who meets him looks at him attentively; if the passer-by is soldier he stands on one side and salutes. The old general returns the salute slowly and deliber- ately, but apparently without seeing to whom
 Every time see him the thought occurs to me that in such guise Dante must have passed through the streets of Florence. That is General Field Marshal Count Hellmuth von Moltke, one of the strangest characters the world has ever produced. It is well worth going to Berlin to see that great historical perSOnape
Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-23
D. M. WEIGH & SON,
BROADWAY CASH STORE.

Nice Cucumbers % each. Cuba and Bermuda Onions 4Oc peck. Tomatoes 6c quart Round Steak 18c ID. Top Round Steak 18c a lb; Tender loin Steak PC a ID. Porterhouse Steak 22c @ lb. Best Rib Roast 18c a ID. Chuck Roast Beef 4c a lb. Soup Meat 5c lb We are selling Spring Lamb and Prime Veal very low. Corned Beef from 5 to 12c ID. Sugar Cured Hams 1515c, also Sugar Cured Shoulders only lie lb. Fresh Bologna 16c a lb Cooked Corned Beef 16c a ID for Saturday. Nice Fowls for roasting Pic ID, all full dressed Also Spring Chickens Qarge broiling) only 2Sc lb and many other bargains at
Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-23
POISONED BY AN INSECT.
Strange Incident Recalled by the Death
 of Snowman Reilly.

From the New York Times.l
 The death of Snowman James Reilly last Monday from a rattlesnakes bite has brought out many interesting and curious stories ot the effects of poisonous bites and stings q remember something of the sort which hap pened in my own family said young man to Times reporter yesterday. "I was living five years ago this summer with my parents in little village in western New York, on Lake Erie. My mother and is a stout and reasonably healthy woman She was then about 50 years old She is very fond of flowers, and has great many house plants. One morning with her sleeves pushed back to her elbows, she happened to notice that calla lily needed some water. The lily was in an earthen jar, and picking it up in her hands, she walked through the house and out at the back door. As she passed in- to the open air an insect which she took to be large fly of some kind, lighted on her left arm, half way between the wrist and elbow. She felt slight stinging sensation, and as soon as she could set the jar down she brushed the insect off Almost instantly she felt 8 curious pricking all over her body. Her sight grew dim, and she began to grow faint.
 "The pantry was perhaps 9 feet from where she stood. She groped her way through the intervening rooms into that and drank at least pint of milk. The tingling sensation continued, and as she passed out into an outer room she sat down, and drawing her slipper and stocking off, found that her feet, like her hands and arms, had turned to 6 rosy red. The soles of her feet itched as though she had stepped on nettles. A moment later she had fit of retching, and directly after she felt better. I was away from the house, and it was half an hour after she was stung before my younger brother found me. When reached the house and saw her was terribly alarmed, although she was much better, and was able to walk. Her face was deep, lvld red except for white spot on each cheek. Her eyes were swollen and bloodshot, and she was shivering as though cold. Her skin at the same time was dry and hot. When she le tried to speak her voice was choked, and 1t was with difficulty that she could speak at all. This occurred in the morning. Be- fore night her skin had regained it's normal color. and she was very much better. Her arm was swollen and throbbed with pain, and continued so for several days. She has never entirely recovered from the effects of the
Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-23
w. R. TREWHEEEA:

MANUFACTURER OF MATTRESSES.
 Hair, Cotton, Husk Excelsior; also Feather Beds, Pillows, Bolsters, etc. Renovating Mattresses a Speciality Will call and deliver at residence in city. Prices the Lowest 81 EAST WATER STREET,
 a1Td6m New Haven. Conn.
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BURDOCK BITTERS ! The Talk of the People Who Use It.

"A good medicine Never had anything act pleasantly on the bowels
 s'One dose cured an after-dinner headache" ''One bottle did my dyspepsia more good than all tho medicine ever used.
 Never saw anything quickly cure bilious at tack =
 "A wonderful Blood Purifier
 "A perfect cure for all scrofuious taint."
 From Mir. William W Jones, of Cardona, Clay County, Ind.-For the last two years have been seriously unwell It would be difficult to describe all the little ailments that have united to render my existence miserable in the extreme. Pains in the breast-1a heavy, dull sensation in my head-fa1nt- ness at the stomach-weakness in the legs-kidneys badly deranged-restless sleep-complexion sallow strength all gone Rendered desperate. went to the northern part of Michigan, hoping that change of climate would do me good go, no benefit; Last Spring went to the city Of Terre Haute and resorted to the artesan baths there for five weeks One day, glancing through the papers, noticed an advertisement of Burdock Blood Bitters. June commenced taking this medicine though. must admit with little or no expectation of relief. The result was however, marvellous and gratifying oe- yond measure. Since using these BitteTs have not lost days work They take right hold and the effects are always pleasing. lysl odlW
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Boston Courier does not hesitate to call that noble institution, the Concord School of Philosophy, the Unconquered School of Verbosity.