The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-08-20
Voices in the Air.

Let the greatest good to the
greatest number be the principle
upon which our laws are made
and enforced, and the highest oh.
icct OF or legislation will always be
attained OsceoIa (Neb.) Advocate.
1t Is becoming very grave
question whether any person has 4
right to occupy more land than he
can cultivate, and keep others from
cultivating and making homes upon
it. Manquoeta Ga) Record.
The treasury is fountain which
spouts gold and is rcplcnished from
q reservoir OF silver. 1t can only be
q question Of time when the gold is
exhausted, and then the fountain
must spout silver.-N. Y. Herald
When will the world discern that
there is no power SO great as truth,
no policy that can prevail at last
over immurable principles, and that
justice Is the final measure Of man
and all his works?--[N. O. Picayune.
Every man who works for living
on a farm, on q railaoad or else
where, is equality interested in pro-
curing such legislation as will guar
antee justice between railroad COR
porations and their patrons. West
ern Rural.
The average homestead or pre-
emption settler in a contest with a
railroad company, in the absence OF
protection from the State, is, as
every one knows, rs helpless as a
child among ravenous wolves
kansas Land Agent Crawford's Re-
port.
When the people who suffer ac-
quirc common sense enough to en-
able them to select their friends
from their enemies in the choice OF
law. makers, then the beginning Of
the end OF their troubles will be in
sight.-[Ncw Haven Comm Exam.
liner,
William H. Vanderbilt's income is
in the neighborhood Of $4,000 per
day. We don't think he earns the
money, and We are very certain that
thousands Of men are being robbed
daily to keep his income up to its
average Buffalo IN. W Truth.
The worst injury that can be lone
the safety and peace OF society Is
to let it be known that there is one
law for the rich and another for the
poor: the prison doors are open for
the poor offender, but closed for the
weakly criminal.-IN.Y. World
The poor fool people flatter them.
selves that the bonded debt has been
reduced, but if they will measure it
in wheat, corn or other staple prod
uct Of labor, they will find out that
it has increased instead Of being re-
duced.-Has.ings (Mich.) Journal.
Whenever Shylock demands that
the silver dollar be enlarged, the
farmer should demand that the
bushel be ensmalled. and labor
should demand that days work
should consist Of fewer hours. It is
poor rule that works but one way.
Chicago Express.
We want white and black alike to
turn their faces to the fields and fol-
low the pillow instead OF the artful
politician. Let us endeavor to
bring all our effective labor into ac-
tual productiveness and we will all
SO that there are millions in it,
Columbia Is. Co. Register.
The interminable postponements
rehearings, appeals and new trials
provided for the benefit OF the legal
profession in all criminal cases by
our lawyer-made statutes certainly
do insure a prisoner against punish
ment as long as his money will hold
out.-St, Louis Post Dispatch.
It is wrong in principle and dam
gerous in practice for the supply OF
money-the life blood OF the cOun-
try's industries-to be depende mt up
on and subject to the caprices OF
speculation in bonds, as it is and
must continue to be under our ma
tional bank Of issue system.-New
American.
The man who sells his bilthright
for mess of pottage is always des-
pissed by others and will, in the end
come to cordially hate himself. But
what must be his feelings when, af.
ter bargaining away what little
there is OF him, lie finds himself
cheated out OF the pottage?-Win-
choc (vo aala,
Possession Of land implies the du-
ty Of living on it, and by it, if there
is enough to live on, then, having
got ones life from it by ones own
labor, or wise superintendent OF
labor. il there is more land than is
enough forone's self, the daty Of
making it fruitful and beautiful for
as many more as can live on it.
Ruskin.
A great many people have been
surprised to learn that recretary
Whitney is business man and a
hustler. Because he wore eye glass
cs they thought he was dude
This mistake is getting quite COM
mon.
It has been decided in Ohio that
the husband is the legal owner OF
the wife's clothes. This is danger
Gus decision, as the Ohio man is
mean enough to demand all his
rights in the hour OF divorce.
Pay the debts, and stock ex-
changes vanish. Pay tho debts, and
Christian civilization will take a
step forward, where it has never
been before. Pay the debts, and
you open the door for the admission
Of Him, whose apostle said: "Owe
no man anything"-wider than ii
has been since the full OF man
Atlantic Ia) Advocate.
There is no law requiring any par
of the national debt to be paid il
gold exclusively. All the law re-
quires is that the debt should be
paid in "coin." II the Secretary o.