The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-24
Don't I'nch0in the Tiger.

"Don't unchain the tiger!" was the
trumpet blast that terrified triflers at .
perilous period Of the late war. It was
the title of q fly sheet of warning which
was not UNDECIDED in those days.
The warning has again been heard.
Don't unchain the tiger!
A warning to the fools Of fortune,
sluatted on their golden piles amid the
surging hordes of starvelings. Don't
nnchain the tiger!
A warning to the ruck of millionaires
whose millions have been racked out
of the mon by whose muscle the; were
tcreated. Don't unchain the tiger!
A warning to the huge, grinding,
swinlling corporations, which disrc-
gard all right and every mans rights
in their vampirlsh lust. Don't unchain
the tiger:
A warning to the leech- blooded gam
blers in mems food, mems toll, mems
land, and mems lives, who grind the
forces Of the people that fall in their
tracks. Don't unchain the tiger!
A warning to such jackals as Gould,
Stanford, Sage, Field, Huntington,
Sharon, Vanderbilt, Willard, ct oil.
Don't unchain the tiger!
A warning to the buccaneers of the
banks who have organized financial pill.
lage rs wholesale business, and play
into the hands Of spectators at the
peoples expense. Don't unchain the
tiger
A warning to the land-grabbers who
have their grip on the common domain,
and are forever grasping more of it.
Don't unchain the tiger!
A warning to oil Who live by the or
ganized brlgandage of the times. Don't
unchain the tiger!
A warning to the peanut-headed daw-
dlers fashion and frivolity, to the
loafers, to the soft-solder clergy, to the
legal harpies of Satanic practice, and to
all and sundry who live by the Drawn
of their defrauded fellow-men. Don't
unchain the tiger!
The tiger is gannt and hungry, as lie
restlcssly trails the chain.
The tiger got loose for moment in
New York, in the summer of 1861, and
VIC WIZ IclHtlHDtI luc WEN Vi Vic uIdlt-
riots are not likely to ever forget it.
The tiger got loose again in the sum.
mer Of 1S77-the year Of the continent
tai railroad strickland it took q
hundred thousand armed men to scare
him back to lis lair in the Jungle.
Don't unchain the tiger!
The tiger is not mankind, though Inc
may Turk in the heart Of the s,mmun.
ity. He is bred there by wrong; raise
to life by it, and stirred TO action; he
| would have no being but for it.
The right thing to say to the wrong
doors now under warning is not "Doni
unchain the tiger" but Don't breed the
tiger; don't raise him to life; don't stil
the hotbed out of which he grows
don't let us have tiger among us that
needs to be chained; let us have
neither tiger or chains: away with the
wrongs by which he is generated. Sure
as d. atl, in the long run, he will be
here il they arc not put away.
But what of the men who, in the in
tercst Of mankind, ought to put them
away? Congress looks like drunk: tho
Legislatures are gambling houses; and
both are full OF schemers who reck not
of aught but their own ends, and thinl
of nanght but the bribe-glvlng corpo.
rations upon which they fatten.
The people themselves must take
things in hand. Chain up wrong, and
chain it strong, before it breeds thu
tiger.-JOhn SaUintOn's Paper.