The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-01-01

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EpiToR PLAIN Dealer:
Our republican dtmagogues told
us In the last political campaign that
all we wanted TO revive business aud
work of our surplus products was
protective tariff and now Score
fary McCuIloch tells Us that the
ali-impOrtant question that presses
itself upon the public attention is
how shall the country be relieved
from the plethora OF manufacturers
goods, and how shall plethora here
after be prevented 1t is certain.
therefore, that unless markets row
practically closed against rs, are
opened. unless We can share i'm the
trade which is monopolize,l by
European nations, the depression
. now SO severely felt will continue.
and may become more disastrous"
This protective tariff cry, false as
IL il, serves well to humbug the pco-
pie with, and Mr.. McCulloch's policy,
which il i'm 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. Z. Green.
In Chicago sermon, tells us 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 wharves OF the city.
| Thousands are still at work on farms
in short distances FROM sh;ca.c. 4
few frost. and, like hoes III q r;.'c,
there will come. by !, sort 1Y instinct
for a city, thousands more TO join
/, this great army of the unemployed.
| And then what? In Il city OF oO0, 800
people $4,000 without wcrkw Just
, think Of it: $4,000 men in Chicago
| who, with their families, are depend
ibg on their labor for support and
winter upon them, and they uncm-
ployed. Aud Chicago Is not alone
in this state Of privation, but it ex-
tends throughout our land, and Mr..
i McCulloch IS looking for foreign
market for that employment which
our own people are suffering for but
which is placed out 81 their reach by
Il venal Legislative policy. Could Il
] more heartlcss and damnable policy
be devised---ore to rob millions OF
our people. the laborins class, those
that produce the very things that
they are suffering for, for the sole
purose or building up q moneycd
aristocracy in cur midst, end the
church, too, supporting i. by their
votes.
'.Give me the making Of the songs
OF a people and care not who makes
their laws" II the songs Of people
are right their laws will also be right
il the religion OF "a people is pure
their politics will also be pure, and
vice versa.
The devil cannot accomplish any
great purpose without some moral
aid. That cloven foot of his is too
conspicuous TO deceive even the
most stupid without some conceal
ment and it is to the church that his
Satanic majesty must look for n COW
ering for that foot. The church is a
power in the land for either good or
evil AS it may see tit to exert IFS in
flucncc. The church, by united
effort. could have, any day. wiped
negro slavery from our land. but in
stead of n united effort the church
south was united for the perpetual
ton OF that curse. It prayed for
slavery, preached for slavery. voted
for slavery and fought, BLEED and
some died for slavery; and as the
Chicago Express says, 1.-The late war
did not abolish slavery, it only
changed its form, extended its Dor.
dcrs and multiplied its victims
And rs slavery was extended its SUP.
port by the church was also extend
ed, and it has been by church aid b5
its praying, preaching and voting
for monopoly that the privation and
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 will
hold the church accountable for all
OF the "over production" Of want
suffering, crime and cussedness tina,
grow out Of this legislated priva.
ton.
Over production of the necessaries
and comforts OF life and the want oil
them in the same family or nation III
the same time is certainly very
curious incident, but it does exist
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 as last. But monopoly asks
what are you going to do about it 2.
If l were the general government
the first thing that would be done to
break the back bone Of monopoly
give our own people employment
and thereby supply their wants and
work off the over production, would
be, not to hunt for a foreign market
as our leading statesmen ~ are do
ing, but to commence ut once the
survey OF double track railroad
from New York city to the city OF
San Francisco, and as fast as the
track could be located and the right
Of way secured commence its con-
struction, and in IL short time all OF
the unemployed labor in this coun-
try would find employment, and that
too ut living wages. And US fast rs
needed buy the roads already built
! for feeders or build others for that
purpose, and when built do carrying
trade OF the country for I. little less
than the roads expense and that OF
the general government. and make
up the deficiency by Il tariff on few
manufactured imports. And then l
would pay the whole expense OF
constructing, equipping, &C., OF these
roads with full legal tender treasury
notes (which would always be at
par, for they would be par them
.clves."-[Eutler.
And then, to prevent imitation. I
would take all OF the surplus gold
and silver in tho treasury, As provid-
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