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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-03
(sreenbacks Forever.

The Supreme Court, with but o dis
senting vote, has decided that Congress
has power to authorize the issue of
legal-tender paper money; that the
law-making power is the sole Judge of
when this authority shall be exercised,
and that the Supreme Court has no
power to review the action of Congress
upon this subject. The Greenback
party has Won many notable victorit q
during the brief period of its career,
out this is the greatest and grandest of
all. 1t stopped the destruction Of
greenbacks and compelled the old par
ties to enact the law of ISIS to reissue
these notes as fast as they were re-
deemed; it thundered upon the hastings
until silver was remonetized; a little
handful Of Greenback members in Con-
gress preventing the refunding of the
national debt into forty year 1 ner cent.
bonds; it has educated the public mind
upon economic ques ions by its persist
ent and plucky campaigns and aggres-
sive press, and now, thank God, it has,
under the leadership and shrewdness
of Gen. Butler, scored lasting victory
as sweeping as Waterloo, by securing
in the greatest court on earth de-
cision that the greenback is the child
of the Constitution, and that this ma
ton is sovereign, despite the national
banker, the usurer and the bondholder.
This is the death-knell of the blood
sucking national-bank oligarchv. i is
a sweeping supplemental proclamation
of emancipation. Let the people now
enter into their inheritance. The ma
tional bank is now wholly superhuous
aud must go.-IO,ca Tribune.
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Let the World Rejoice.

Could the Greenback party elect its
own candidate for President this very
year it would not be half as big vic
tory for Greenbackism as the decision
of the Supreme Court.
Shylockism, in which we embrace
oney-mongers, bondholders, mort
gage-holders, and fund-holders, has
never received such q black eye since
Christ kicked the mouey-changers out
OF the temple in old Jerusalem.
It is blow which breaks the living
present from the dead past.
It puts commercial enterprise and
enlightened civilization forward Q hun
bred years at one single step.
For ages the world has been bound
hand and foot by the barbaric idea of
"intrinsic-value" money-and this de.
cision sewers the chain.
Since the ancient Lydian exchanged
the products of his labor through the
medium of coin money up to about the
beginning of the present century, little
or no progress in financial science has
been made. The New World ideas,
however. included in its reforms the
substitution of paper money for coin.
The contest tor supremacy has been
q tedious one. The high-priests of the
money power in both hemispheres have
been loud, persistent, and bitter in their
denunciation of paper money. The
Shylocks have contested every inch of
the ground.
The war, however, gave the Republic
an opportunity to put to practical test
the theories of the paper-money advo-
cates--and that practical test demon
strated the wisdom and merits of credit
money as against intrinsic-yalue money.
Not only was the test made in this
country, but in France after the Franco
German war. The test then was even
more successful there than in the
United States.
The Shylocks still refused to give up
the field. They employed every agent
within their power, from subsidized
press to the leaders Of the two dominant
political parties, to crush out the idea
of paper money.
They counted confidently upon a
favorable decision Of the Supreme
Court, as is evidenced by the eagerness
with which they have urged the case on
to trial. But to their surprise, instead
of getting fleece, they themselves get
sheared!
The decision is full, clear, pointed
and exhaustive. 1t distinctly declares
point blank in favor of "fst money!
The logical result of the decision is
more than declaring in favor Of fiat
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-03
FOREIGN.

Gen. Graham advanced to Tama-
nicb on the 9th OF March, and after brief
battle the Arabs fed when the village was
burned to the ground. Graham has been
ordered to return with his troops to Suakim.
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany,
the youngest son of Queen Victoria, died
suddenly mt Cannes, in the south OF France.
Leopold was great favorite not only with
the Queen but also with the English people,
by reason of his scholarship and intellectual
attainlnents. He was close student, pol
ished speaker, an enthusiastic patron OF
sculpture, painting, and music and wrote
frequently and we'll for the magazines, and
especially for the press, to which he was an
enthusiastic though anonymous contributor.
Over two hundred persons taken from
an nlmshouse at swincford, in the County OF
Mayo. Ireland, have been shipped from Glas
gov, Scotland. for Boston. The United States
authorities will probably refuse them land.
ing.
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POLITICAL.

To reporter at ST. Louis. Gen.
Sherman said that he was not b candidate for
the Presidency.
Inquiries made by the Middleton
Herald rs to the Presidential preferences Of
Connecticut Republicans indicate that Scna-
tor Hawlcw is the fayorite. that Edmunds
comes next, and that Arthur Is third choice.
A compilation of interviews with
Texas Democratic County Judges by COM
m.ssoncrs of the Houston Rs shows the fol-
lowing result; For President, Thurman, 6s;
Tilden, So; Mcdonald, %; undecided, n.
These opinions may be regarded as represent.
ing three-fourths of the Democratic voting
population.
All the Northeastern Pennsylvania
ega'es to the Chicago Convention, with Ed
munds for second choice.
The Massachusetts, House rejected the
bin providing that wifc-bcaters be publicly
whipped.
Bills favoring woman suffrage were
rejected by the Iowa and Connecticut Legis-
latures.
John NJ. Hamilton, Governor of Illi-
nois, has written a letter declining TO CON-
pete further for a denomination.
Mr.. Morrison and his friends claim
that of the ffty-sevcn men who voted against
the resolutions in caucus ut least thirty will
vote for the Morrison bill.
A bill prohibiting the buying or sell
ing of grain or other produce on fictitious
contracts or margins has passed the Iowa
Legislature.
The House River and Harbor Com
mittee intends to recommend an appropria-
ton Of s5,ooo,000 for the Mississippi and its
tributaries, and will limit the remaining
items TO s6,oOo,o0o.
The Minnesota State Republican
Convention viii be held MayI.
The Iowa editors, on their excursion
TO New Orleans, took ballot for President,
with the following result: Blaine, %; Ar
thur, s; Sherman, 5; Logan. 3; Edmunds, 3;
Tilden, 5; Butler. 6; Flower,2 One each for
Harrison, Mcdonald, Hendricks, Morrison,
and Conkling. For Vice PRESIDENT, Lincoln,
Al; Hendricks. s; Matt Parrat, g. One each
for Carlisle, Thurman, aud Weaver.
At the Trade and Labor Convention
of Illinois, held in Chicago last week, the
practice of employers in importing laborers
and mechanics under contract was cmphati-
caly condemned, and a resolution in favor
Of the George naturalization scheme was
vigorously sat down on. The next conyen.
ton will meet ct Springfield.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-03
SOUTHERN.

The Hon. J. Floyd King, member of
Congress from Louisiana, has received the
following telegram ut Washington:
RODNEY, Miss. March 2i.-kemp Levce gave
way at 12:i5. This makes the disaster complete
ana the Mississippi Valley one vast inland sea.
This will make the loss beyond calculation,
to say nothing Of the loss Of life and suffer-
fcring Of the people. Congress must
come to our relief and feed the people a. one,
The lofts of our gin-hons.s and floating RATS
will be the only place OF abode. ! believe the
best mode OF distribution of supplies is through
the Engineer Department in cha re of the river
Improvement They have every appliance
necessary. and less waste and imposition would
attend their efforts Z. L. WHITNEY.
A negro named Bill johnson was
hanged by mob at Gonzales, Tex, for
brutaly assaulting respectable white
woman.
Fuller and more accurate details OF the
cyclone which recently swept through North
Carolina make the disaster greater than first
reports indicated. Eight counties were laid
waste, nearly twenty people killed and wound
ed, and the damage to proper will amount
TO hundreds of thousands Of dollars. In Cat
awba County alone the loss is over 500, Oo0
Some of the farmers in that county lost whole
herds of cattle by the destructive elements
Some Of these were blown hundred yards
away. and buried among the debris of the
wreck. Over 100 houses were blown down in
CatawhA County. Eight or ten
of the persons wounded will
die. Hundreds of women md children
escaped by crawling into caves in the mount
aims, cellars, and underground places. Sew
eral women climbed up into the trcc-tops,
where they renamed in their night-clothes
throughout the fearful storm. and were
found by their friends next morning and re-
moved
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WASHINGTON.

Hon. David J. Brewer. of Kansas,
has been appointed Judge of the Eighth Cir
cult. to succeed Judge McCrary. Judge
Brewer was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor,
June 20, 1887. His father, the Rev. Josiah
Brewer, was a missionary to the Greeks In
Turkey. His mothers maiden name was
Emeia Field. she being sister OF David
Dudley and Cyrus w. Field. Judge Brewer
commenced his studies at Wesleyan
University in Middleton, Conn, but re-
moved to New Haven and graduated at
Yale College in 1866. He has been
a resident OF Kansas for twenty-six years.
The appointment Of Brewer is a surprise to
the friends Of the candidates from the other
States They say generally that they doubt
very much whether Brewer had any sup
porters outside of Kansas, and they do not
understand the political meaning of the ap-
pointment. The Iowa men are especially
disappointed. They had hopes that McCoid
would be appointed.
Ex-senator Sargent has been trans
ferred from the mission toBerin to the Russian
mission. He was confirmed by the Senate
without the formality of reference. This
is usual in the case OF the nomination of cx-
Senator's, but Mr.. Sargent was confirmed
with more than the usual cordiality on ac-
count of the sympathy which the Senators
have had for him by reason of the insolent
treatment Of the Berlin Government.
The friends of the Hennepin Canal
bill have decided to include that measure in
the river and harbor bill. believing that in
this way they will be more certain to secure
an appropriation, and that the President will
not veto the larger bill this year.
Another adverse report on the Nc
Garrahan claim was made by the House Ju-
dietary Committee. But McGafrahan is not
wholly discouraged yet
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-03
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The fact that the ex-Secretary OF
State and the Senator from Illinois were as
signed the places of honor at recent dinner
given by William Walter Phelps, Blaine's ps,-
sonal friend. is mentioned as showing that a
warm friendship exists between them, and
that Blaine will not stand in the way of
Logan.
The nitro-glycerine house of the Ra-
pauno chemical works. located opposite Ches.
ter, Pa, exploded from heat generated by nj
trio acid. Six persons were instantly killed.
Many houses across tho river were badly
shaken by the explosion.
Military operations in the Soudan
will remain suspended until October on ac-
count OF the heat. The Egyptian treas lry
sent 100000 to Capt. Chermside for dstribu.
tion among the friendly tribes scattered from
Suakim to Gerber. Nothing can be learned
Us to the fate of Gen. Gordon at khartoum.
Congressman Guenther, of Wiscon-
sin, expresses considerable indignation over
the attempt of Secretary Frclinghuysen to
transfer Minister Sargent from Berlin to St.
Petersburg. The act. he says, was unworthy
of the Government of great nation. Ger
man-Americans are particularly annoyed.
Ex-senator Dorsey, in a letter to
Congressman Springer, gives the names of
prominent persons, heretofore not men
toned, as being connected with the Star
Route frauds. Springer refuses to give the
names now, preferring to let them be made
public through Dorsey's testimony when he
appears before his committee.
Minister Sargent sent to Secretary
Frelinghuysen a cablegram expressing his
gratitude for substantial Endorsement, but
declining to accept transfer to st. Peters
burg. In reply to a second communication
from Washington, Mr. Sargent stated that III
health caused him to take a leave of absence,
after which he would formally announce to
the German Government his resignation.
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Peru, before the late disastrous war
with Chill. guaranteed her debts with her
ruano resources. The treaty or peace s.ipu-
la;es TINT Chill will pay Peruvian bondholdcrs
one-half the proceeds OF the guano exports
and tho representatives of Ave European
powers have made a formal protest against
the adoption Of the proposition.
Michigan capitalists have perfected
arrangements to erect at Caicra, Ala, an iron
furnace and agricultural implement manu-
factory, the investment to cost 81. 100000.
Barnum's white elephant reached
New York on the steamship Lydian Monarch
last week.
Five men were hanged at Tomb
stone, Arizona, for the murder of four per-
sons at Bisbcc last December. Francisco Pc.
res and William II. Mcdonald were swung or
Mt different points III California, and Joseph
Howard at Sumter. s. c.
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Near Port Richmond, Pa, Hugh
Mcconnell and John Mccormick fought thir-
ty-n.ne rounds in two hours and ten minutes,
for $500 side, Mcconnell winning the money
Both men were badly punished.
A falling tree at Catawissa, Pa,
killed three men.
An exhibition was made at Salem,
Mass. tho other day, OF the "paraffne soap"
bleaching process. which takes but few
hours, and it is thought will revolutionize the
bleaching business of the world.
Carl Schurz, in letter expressing
his gratitude, declines to accept the purse of
100000 which was being made up by his
friends In New York, and requests that all
contributions be returned.
The Bell Telephone Company, at
Boston, In experimenting with No. l2 wire
and an ordinary instrument, could hear the
faintest whisper In an attempted converse
ton with New York.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-03
The Supreme Court and t;reenbaeks.

A decision has just been rendered by
the Supreme Court affirming the power
of Congress to issue legal tender notes
without limit in time OF peace. This is
o final settlement of question that has
been holly discussed for over twenty
years. The national bankers and Their
friends commended that Congress had no
power under the Constitution to make
paper money legal tender. The green
back, they said, was born of the neces-
stiles Of the war, and they maintained
that it was only in such grave crisis
that the Government would be justified
in making paper issued by it legal ten
der.
The reason why the national bankers
were opposed to the doctrine that the
Constitution empowered Congress to
supply the people with suitable cur
rency is plain enough.
With the greenback out Of the way,
and gold the only legalized medium of
exchange, there would be better
chance Of controlling the volume of cur
rency.
Now every one who has given any
thought to the financial question knows
that any class who controls the cur
rency of country virtually controls
the wealth of that country. Such a
class, when it SO chooses, can regulate
the price of labor. 1t can also fix tie
standard of price for the products Of
labor.
The country is to be congratulated
on the final settlement of O question
upon which so much depended. The
agitation begun by the Greenback
party OH the money question undoubt-
eddy saved the greenback from destruc-
ton. If it had not been for that agita-
ton the national bankers would have in
all probability carried out their nefari-
GUS scheme Of making gold the only
legal tender. If they had succeeded in
doing that they would have had the
country at their mercy, Us they would
have been able ut any time they pleased
to contract the volume of currency and
so bring on q financial panic. Now,
however, that the highest judicial
tribunal has declared that Congress can
at any time supply the country with the
amount of currency it needs, the ma
tional bankers will find it more difficult
to corner the money of the people.
The next step that ought to be taken
is to do away with national bank notes
and make greenbacks the only paper
currency. This, besides saving the
country millions of dollars every year,
would strike fatal blow at the power
of q class who have on more than one
occasion shown themselves to be the
enemies of all that is worth preserving
in our republican inst.tutlons.-Irish
HOrId
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Lolita and the School Children.

A pretty anecdote is told of Lolita
during her sojourn in Paris. She went
one evening with her mother to the
opera, and between the acts they went
out to take look at the world-re-
nowned foyer. While admiring the
paintings and the gllded ornaments and
the fine proportions of the room. Lolita
became aware of the presence of a
group of schoolgirls, evidently Ameri-
cans, under the charge of a governess,
who were regarding her with admiring
eyes and exchanging audible whispers
OF "That is Lotta," us that Lolita ?"
"How should like to speak to her. +"
"Oh, my, We must not" etc., etc. FL
nally Lolita smilingly advanced and
said: young ladies, am Lolita, and,
if you would like to make my acquaint-
ance, I am sure should be charmed to
make yours. Instantly she was sur.
rounded by her blooming, laughing, de-
lighted young countrywomen, and re-
ceived such an ovation as outweighed,
am sure, in her opinion, dozen Of her
triumphs upon the stage.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-03
Rough on the Insects.

A gentleman of refinement and cul-
ture, probably All editor, put up at a
San Antonio hotel. After he had been
there day or SO the landlord asked
him how he liked the place.
"Ilike the town and the PEOPLE very
much indeed, but I am troubled with
insomnia"
"You don't look like drinking man,
responded the landlord, incredulously.
II mean that / can't sleep"
well, I know what viii cure that,
too-some chloral will put you to
sleep"
1--WE got q better plan than that"
"What is it?"
"Give the choral to the insects in
your beds. They have insomnia worse
than have. l caught it from them -
Tecds SJtings.
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A TERRIBLE VOYAGE.
Frightfnl Experiences Of the Passengers
and Crew of the Steamer Chateau Mar

Frightful Experiences Of the Passengers
and Crew of the Steamer Chateau Mar
Gaux.
Toronto telegram
The log Of the disabled steamer Chateau
Margaux, which was towcd into Halifax by
the steamer Caledonia yesterday, gives the de-
tails of terrible voyage. The Margaux left
Bordeaux with provisions for only twenty
days. but meeting the Norseman she secured
some provisions, but could get no other help.
The 18th inst the wind blew Il terrible gale,
and immense waves swept continually over
the vessel, carrying of everything above decks
ard damaging portion of the bulwarks.
The gale lasted three days. Several vessels
were sighted, but were unable to help the
Margaux on account of the high seas and her
own ruddcrlcss condition. All these, how
ever. gave all possible encouragement and
attempted TO render assistance. The steamer
Oregon the 18th took OIL three cabin and
forty-five steeraHe passengers, who returned
to England. The evening Of the 18th another
heavy Northwestern raised the waves TO
mountainous heisht, rolled and pitched the
vessel. and threatened to swamp her. There
was great terror on board, and at times the
steamers boilers shook In their stands, and
il seemed certain that they would break
loose. Saturday last, when about go miles
from Halifax, the steamer Caledonia, after
some demurring, took her in tow and brought
her safely to port. The Margaux IL mag
nifcenty equipped boat and il intended for
the direct New York trade.
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The Rosebud Garden OF Girls.

The young ladies were looking at a
fine bouquet, and they began to choose
which they would rather be.
"A rose is my choice" said queenly
girl, for I'd like to be elegantly beau
full like a rose"
I'D rather be lily" said o gentle
girl, "for of all flowers the lily is the
fairest and purest.
"Oh, pshaw," said the firt, "I'd rather
be tuberose, for the gentlemen all
love to wear them near their hearts,"
I'D be pink remarked . meek
girl, because pinks are SO sweet and
modest"
"Shoot it," finally sung out the gay
est one in the crowd, knocking her hat
down over her eye saucily; you can be
anything you please, but I'm daisy. I
am, and don't you forget it. "-Mer.
chant TrdUeler.
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WESTERN,

The special commissioner sent out
West by the Chicago Tribune to investigate
the gold region OF the Cnur d Alene Mount
aims, reports that there is no doubt of the ex.
istence OF gold deposits along the banks of
Eag'e Cl eek. On bar-claim forty feet above
the water he himself washed out Is or 20
cents worth Of gold from a handful of dirt,
and another Chicagoan secnrci be.
tween IS and 80 cents worth In the
same way. But he does not undertake to
say from this that there is gold in
sufficient amount to pay. Claims are not be-
ing worked at the present time. owing to the
deep snow, nor arc they likely to be worked
for six weeks TO come. 1t is believed there
will be trouble in the district on account of
opposing claims when the mining season
opens. All persons are warned against at
tempting to enter thu region for the next six
weeks, as during the spring breakiny-up
travel will be far more difficult than Ii was
during even the severest portion of the win.
ter.
A gale Of sixty miles an hour struck
Ienvcr, unroofng the City Hall and two of
tho finest blocks. A hurricane at Kansas
City unroofed three dwellings and tore up
the sidewalk for distance of two blocks.
The first through train from the City
Of Mexico reached Chicago on the asth ult.
The Legislature of New Mexico has
passed bill fixing the capital at Santa Fo,
and appropriating 100000 for building,
Notwithstanding determined opposition from
Las Vegas and Albuquerque.
The Illino State Labor Association,
In session At Chicago, adopted a platform de-
handing the abolition of the contract system
for convicts, the establishment of boards of
arbitration, and the enactment OF an eight.
hour law except for farm hands.
At Cincinnati. the other day, one
William Berner, the author OF most diaboli-
cal murder, was sent, n ed TO twenty years
in the penitentiary. and hustled OF to Column
bus by the first train. Ten thousand citizens
gathered 1t the Cincinnati Music Hall to ex-
press their indignato on ut the escape from
the gallows OF the murderer. On the ad-
journment Of the meeting rush was made
for the jail, where a vast assamblage at once
attacked the doors. having supplied them
selves with tools from blacksmith's shop.
The militia was called out, and several shots
were fred. Four persons were struck by
bullets, and two Of them fatally injured.
Gae mob, trenzied beyond all reason Ct the
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paper money: it irrgsistibly leads to the
ultimate demonstration and consequent
disuse of gold and silver money!
People will now ask, and with good
reason, why should we be burdened
with the cumbersome silver dollar, or
why should banks have the privilege of
issuing currency ii the Government has
the right to issue legal-tender paper
money?
In conclusion, we say, let not alone
the Greenback party but every man,
woman and child in the whole civilized
world rejoice in the decision Of the
Supreme Court. -LhicdlO Sentinel.