The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-08-28
Newspaper Comments.

Tn Iowa the prohibitionists stand
between st. John and the big still
ut Des Moincs.
Democratic Platform. Honest mon.
ey-currency convertible into coin
without loss.
Give us Butler, and we will give
you another emancipation Peo-
pies Advocate.
Broad is the road that leadeth into
Canada, and many there be that find
it.-Jersey City Argns.
This Is indeed the year OF reform.
Blaine and Cleveland now go to
church every Sunday.
The prohibitisnists have one big
advantage over the other parties.
They utilize Sunday for mass meet
ings and political speechcs.-[Bee.
And they are vain enough to Gull
1t Gods service.
The Peoples Party is the only
party under whose banner can be
successfully fought the great battle
of human equality by the people
against monopoly.-lEssex County,
lMass.) Statesman.
Somebody calls st. Johns cam
paign "a still hunt" Perhaps 1t is;
but OF course he will destroy the
"still' when he finds it.-[Norristown
Herald.
Mr.. Jefferson once declared: Il
have sworn upon the altar Of God
eternal hostility to every form Of
tyranny over the mind OF man."
The news come from Saratoga
that that there Is to be magnificent
opening OF barrels about October,
Mr.. Blaine, we are assured, Is to be
elected no matter what 1t costs.
A long pull, a strong pull, and u
pull altogether OF tho workingmen
next November would go far toward
breaking the letters Of the monopo.
lies that are now crushing them.
"OfIicial dishonesty" says candi-
date Logan should be promptly
and lelentlessly punished Can 1t
be possible that Mr.. Logan has been
reading Mr.. Blaine's letters to Mr..
Fisher.
Republican Plauorm.--Thc best
money in the world. The people Of
this country not having sense
enough to settle the question we re-
fer it to the crowned heads OF Eu-
rope to settle for US.
Very few men are going to vote
for Blaine or Cleveland, but n great
many will vote against one or the
other. Why not vote against both
OF them and thus support u good
maL?-[The Record.
General Butler suggested at Bos-
ton that it might be good thing to
send genuine American Minister to
London for once. There will be some
millions of voters Of the same way
OF thinkingthis morning.
How many Harvard LII. DIS could
write a letter like that which comes
from the little pen Of Gen. Benjamin
Franklin Butler in other columns?
How many Of them, in fact, will ever
be asked to write one?
Next to the Declaration OF indie
pendence General Buffers letter
and analysis OF the political and So
cial situation is, perhaps. the most
important document ever addressed
to the American people.
The Republican party. says Gen
eral Butler, when it started out, was
emphatically the party OF the people.
1t had in it substantially neither a
monopolist nor capitalist" What
splendid use it has made OF it's time.
"Unless we are mistaken. says the
Boston Globe, 'the events OF the
next few weeks will either cause Mr.
Blaine withdraw or to make him wish
that h had never accepted the nom
nation" What in the world is COM
ing?
Nearly MI the great papers admit
that Butler is dangerous element
in the political field this year. They
have at times all defended Butler
and now they hardly know how to
say anything against him. Butler
needs no defense; he is for the peo-
pie.
The Central Labor Union resolv-
ed to invite General Butler to review
the parade of the Workingmen oil
New York city. General Butler was
not invited on account OF being a
Presidential candidate, but because
Of his past record in the cause of In
Dor. The compliment to him comes
at proper time and is well deserv.
ed.
Any man who wants to get posses.
sion OF wealth which he has no,
produced by honest industry Indus.
OF hand or brain, OF action OF
wants to rob his neighbor.
Rob is short word, but 1t is Il plair
word, and it expresses exactly wha
We mean Christian Union.
It's very good scheme. II 1t works, MrGould
| To have President. Judges, and Congressmel
To hay. all the laws made and everything
/ ruled
For the millionaire few while the people are
Oh: It's Yer. good scheme, If II works.
| IN. Y. Justice
The fact that Scion Chase is going
to support Blaine signifies nothing
He was steering that way four year:
ago and has been going in that di
rection ever since. His press wa.
bought with Republican money il
the interest Of straight(for the Re
publican party)ticket, and as sool
as it Is accomplished its purpose thu
Republicans let the paper go down
1.-THE Record.
A contingent OF political jobbsr.
and land giabbers, against whom
the Government has suits involving
millions OF acres Of land in Colorad,
and New Mexico, and to secure tn,
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