The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-07-23
Neither License or Prohibition the
Only Issue?

The condition Of the country and
the common sense OF the people de-
clares scores OF issues.
There are issues enough without
tile one that demagogues are trying
to present to divert attention from
he real evils under which the coun-
try Suffers.
No sue but prohibition or IL
Gems,
Tn rpheaval OF industry and So
cicty .nder the swell OF machinery
and capital, Is an issue.
The million of men who are com.
PEELED to strike against starvation
wages, Is an issue.
The women and children fighting
the tigers OF the factories, are IN
issue.
The robbsrics Ut the miners Of
coal, through IN unjust system Of
screening, is an issue.
The demand for better pay and
less hours OF labor in all the protect
ed mines and their products, are an
issue.
The half million idle factory hands,
is an issue.
The rocking, rotten, unstable tcne-
mcnt houses, TINT arrogant capital
provides for unprotected laborers
all over the country, is an issue.
Shall James F. Wilson, the credit
mobilier and bribe-takcr be re-
turned to the Senate? is IN issue,
and Il very important one.
A million and half Of idle men
vainly hunting for work, is an issue.
The devouring millionaires. arc
IN issue.
The thousands OF paupers neces-
sary that a millionaire may exist, are
an issue.
The infamous financial system u
Hugh McCulloch, and John Sher-
man, Is an issue.
The system OF taxation which OK
empts accumulated capital, and
taxes productive industry, is an
issue.
Wall Street and its influences and
qualifications, with its grasping
greed, are issues.
The malefactors OF monopoly,
banking, transportation, and intel
ligence, are an issue.
The land grabbers and the grain
gamblers, are an issue.
The devcltries Of the Des Moines
Regency, are IN issue.
The forfeiture OF all uncarncd land
grants is an issue, that the Election
of a United States Senator by the
legislature next chosen calls into
notice.
The preservation Of the public DO
main for actual settlers, is an issue
that the senatorial question calls
up.
The absolute prohibition by pro.
tectcd manufacturers from importing
pauper labor, under contract is
another issue Of that election.
Tire maintenance and enforce
ment OF the Thurman net respecting
the Pacific Railroads.&c. another issue
The dispossession Of all syndicate I
and land grabbers, who have secured
vast tracts OF the public territory b,
fraud or force, is an issne to be- dc.
cided in the senatorial question.
An important issue is the election
OF legislature which will send III
honest man to the United States
senate, to succeed Jas. +. Wilson.
Another issue Is to supcrcrde Du,
rem r. Sherman with = governor who
will not appoint the candidates q
the railroads as railway commission
ers.
Another issue is to get rid Of thu
railway commissioner system.
Another issue is for the farmer.
and laborers OF the state to Obtain
| for their own families the comfort.
which they now earn but turn oveI
to usurers.
These are a few Of the issues O
life or death for the people OF Iowa
that will be brought up in this cam
paign.
The thousands OF the young an,
enterprising men OF our state, witt
more than half its area untitled, sen
to the territories, because Of the rob
berry Of usury through an inadequate
supply OF money for the demand,
OF business and the payment o
mortgages, is an issue.
The wiping out the European sys
tenn OF bonded debt. is IN issue.
Every dollar Of currency put il
circulation through national banks,i j.
brought out by usurious notes a
rates which will speedily consume
the principal. This is Ill issue.
Contraction or expansion OF tht
currency, IS ut the bankers option
They are governed by their own In
terestS. and by making money dcal
or cheap. they control and legulat,
the price 81 all commodities. Thi.
is al Issue.
The right Of two thousand nution,,
bankers to usurp, exercise and con
troll a sovereign prerogative oi
the government, that Of issuing
and providing the people with Al
adequate supply OF money, is an ID