The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-01-01
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Our republican dsnagognes told
III ID the last political campaign that
all we wanted to revive business and
work OF our surplus products WIS
protective tariff and now 6scrc-
tary MccnIloch tells ~ that the
al'tmportanf question that presses
ifself upon the public attention Is
how shall the country be relieved
from the plethora 81 manufacturers
goods, and how shall plethora here
after be prevented 1t ~ certain.
therefore, that unless markets low
practically closed against ils, are
opened, unless ". can share in the
trade which Is monopoliznl by
European nations, the depression
now so severely felt will continue,
and may become more disastrous
This protective tariff cry. false IL
II II, serves well to Iumbug the pco-
pie with, and Mr.. McCuIloch's policy,
which Is in opposition to the former,
is equally false and impolitic. II
there Was no interest in this country
that was worth looking after but
manufacturing monopoly. railroad
monopoly and national bank moEop-
oily, Mr.. McCulloch would be ON the
right track. The Rev. T. i. Green.
In Il Chicago sermon, tells lis that
There are 10000 workmen In Chi
cago OFT OF work. 10000 men out Of
work, and still the open weather
gives employment. to thousands in
the brick yards, the lumber yards,
the docks and wharvcs OF the city.
Thousands are still at work on farms
in short distances from CLicag,. a
few flostr and, like hoes in q ra'r,
there will come. by Il sort Cl instinct
for city, thousands more to join
this great army Of the unemployed.
And then what? III IL city Of o0n. 900
people $4,000 without wcrkw Just
think Of IL; $4,000 men in Chicago
who, with their families, are depend
! ibg on their labor for support and
winter upon them, and they unem-
ployed. And Chicago is not alone
in this state OF privation, but 1t ex-
tends throughout our land, and Mr..
/ McCnllo.h II looking for foreign
market for that employment which
our own people are suffering for but
which is placed out OF their reach by
II vennl Legislative policy. Could u
more heartlcss and damnnble policy
/ be devised---ore to rob millions OF
our people, the laboring class, those
that produce the very things that
they are suffering for, for the sole
purose OF building up moneyed
aristocracy in cur midst, and the
church, too, supporting !. by their
votes.
"Give me the making OF the songs
Of a people and care not who makes
their laws" II the songs or people
IRE right their laws will also he right ;
il the religion OF Il people is pure
their politics will also be pure, and
vice versa.
The devil cannot accomplish any
great purpose without some moral
aid. That clovcn foot Of his is too
conspicuous to deceive even the
most stupid without some conceal
ment aud it is to the church that his
Satanic majesty must look fora COW
ering for that foot. The church is Il
power in the land for either good or
evil as it may see fit to exert IFS in
fluence. The church, by united
effort. could have, any day, wiped
negro slavery from our land, but in
stead OF a united effort the church
south was united for the pcrprtua-
ton OF that curse. 1t prayed for
slavery, preached for slavery. voted
for slavery and fought, bled and
some died for slavery; and rs the
Chicago Express says, 1.-The late wal
did not abolish slavery, it only
changed its form, extended its Dor.
dcrs and multiplied its victims.
And us slavery WAS extended IFS SUP.
port by the church was also extend
ed, and it has been by church aid LS
its praying, preaching and voting
for monopoly that the privation ant
suffering that now exists in Chicago
and throughout our land OF plenty
was made possible, and as sure a!
there is justice in heaven God vii
hold the church accountable for al
OF the "Ovcr production" of want
suffering, crime and cussedness tha,
grow out Of this legislated priva
ton.
! Over production of the necessarics
and comforts OF lie and the want o.
them in tho same family or nation ii
the same time is certainly very
Icnrious incident, but it does exis
and will exist in Il greater or less de
gree in this country until the back
bone OF monopoly is broken, and tho
people may just as well accept thai
fact first us last. But monopoly ask.
"what are you going to do about it,.
il / were the general government
the first thing that would be done K
break the back bone or monopoly
give our own people employment
and thereby supply their wants ant
work of the over production, would
be, not to hunt for foreign market
as our leading statesmen ~ are do,
ing, but IL commence at once thu
survey Of Il double track railroad
from New York city to the city Of
Sun Francisco, and as fast as the
track could be located and the right
of way secured commence its con,
struction, l nd in II short time all Oi
the unemployed labor In this coun.
try would find employment, and that
too at living wages. And us fast as
needed buy the roads already built
for feeders or build others for tina,
purpose, and when built do carrying
tla,lc of the country for 4 little less
than the roads expense and that oi
the general government. and make
mp the deficiency by II tariff on few
manufactured imports. And then
would pay the whole expense OF
constructing, equipping, &C., ofthesc
roads with full legal tender treasury
notes (which would always be At
par. FOR they would be par them
selves. Butler.
And then, to prevent imitation,
would take all Of the surplus gold
and silver in the treasury, rs provid-
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