The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-09-10
SCRAPS OF OPINION.

A good beating might knock some
sense into the too pig headed major
ity in IOwa.-BOston Evening Re.
cord.
II this thing keeps on the 2 cents
found in a crevice in the Treasury
vaults won't be enough TO pay the
losses.-Harrisbnrg Patriot.
The Republicans are quite anxi.
Gus for business to revive, but the,
wish it would wait till after Novem.
ber.-Philadelphia Times.
The evidence goes to show tina,
It Is the Democrats who 60 to the
temperance meetings In Maine thi;
year,~-Watvrhury American.
The Iowa Republicans have no,
been far behind Senator Sherman il
heaving dead cat on Genera
Grants grave.-Philadelphia Re-
cord.
John Sherman IS as big q political
rascal US there is in this land, and
Eliza Pinkston is one OF the wires
es that could swear to it II she were
still alive.-Lincoln (Neb) Demo
crat,
The difference between the ole
parties is chiefly that betwixt tive
edledum and tweedledee. Each ha.
its Clevelands, each its Blaines, ane
each its Hendrickses.-Boston Her.
aid.
Cleveland's Is probably the last
Cabinet that will be formed with but
one Western representative.-Ci
cinnati Commercial Gazette.
Railroad men oppose the Granger
It is D. prerogative OF corpora
tons to act together. In farmers
it is a shame and an outrage that
must be put Observation-Disclosures Farm
and Fireside.
Some day in the future the I'M.
poverished millions will ask by wha,
process the millionaircs, the hun
dred millionaires, and possibly, the
billiOnaires, have been made.-AIil-
ton tnl3 Beacon.
OF what avail is good form oil
government how ever wisely conceiv.
ed, with corrupt men to administer
1t or rascally officials to overtake
and defeat its proyisions4-Colum
bia IS. 81 Register.
Years OF invalu able experience
under the most adverse and humili.
ing conditions have proven the
grcenback the best money that the
world has ever seen.".Grand Rapids
Mich Leader.
We have looked in vain among the
newspapers that say the standard
silver dollar is worth only IS cents
for the advertisement Of the banker
or broker who has some to sell al
that price.-Troy IN. " Standard.
The Republican party can recover
power, and recover it only, by be.
coming what it was from the begin
ming, the party OF progress, and TAX
ing the leadership in new ideas that
interest the people.-Hartford
Comm Courant.
The Declaration Of independence
was siHncd by fifty-six farmers
aud mechanics. The signature OF nc
banker, railroad king, millionaire
monopolist, or even lawyer disgrace.
es that sacred document.-Enter.
prise (Kaa.l Anti-Monopolist.
There is no conflict between CAPT.
al and labor: the conflict is between
the intelligence and ignorance of the
parties concerned. When the labor
ers become the intelligent class the,
will be the capitalists-not before
Alpena (Mich.) Labor Journal.
Is or is not the system wrong tha
gives one married pair SO inmens
u superfluity Of luxurious home, ant
shuts out millions of others from
any home whatever? One day O
another we will be compelled to fac,
this Observation-Disclosures Haw
thOrne.
At this day and age we need NOR
carpenter schoolmasters, less O
technology. A knowledge of me
| chanics and mechanical movement
is of more use as we'll as ornamen
in u business training than an MT
mate knowledge of the definite arti
Gle or the Greek verb.-Souther
Trade Gazette.
1t Is highly creditable to intellie
cnt labor that in u time OF sore nee,
when the pangs Of hunger almos
tempt the workingmen to ignore til
dictates Of reason, there should /
special efforts in that quarter I
show an honest, manly sympath
with law and order and Il spirit {
contempt for the enemies of ever,
body's rights.-Philadelphia Times
Indignation is hard pressed to iii
words appropriate to utter when y
hear OF employers, possessed
ample wealth, higgling with po
hirt- makers, not about Il siSpenc
, forsnoth, but about taree cents! Az
you may do good by amending b,
laws and enacting good ones, b
yon cannot stem the tide OF discou
ent SO long as men are guilty OF nc
I which make true the saying: .'Tl
rich are growing richer, the pc
poorer. Rev. DIR. Costa.
The public servant who uses
!. free pass knows that it is sent
I him because he is a public serva,
; aud he knows that transportatie
: costs the company that issues
: money day by day. Either he
4 mean enough to take something
) nothing, or else he is intentional
4 dishonest. and accepts the pass
the implied understanding that
his official capacity he will DO, or
I frain from doing something that y
: be fair exchange Tor the pass
Louisville (Ky) Democrat.