The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-05-21
HONEY Is KING!
The American People Have Grown Ul
Dragons That Devour Their Chill
dren- Soulless Corporations,
and Not tho People,
Rule tho Republic.
from the Chicago Express.l

In the eleventh century, William Duke
Of Normandy, o royal pirate and political
freebooter, organized corporation or
military brigands for the purpose OF concen-
trating and welding great power, and then
sailed forth in quest of prey and plumber.
They invaded the island Of Great Britain;
oyerpOwered the Saxons, and took possess
sion Of the territory. His object was two.
fold-political power and the accumulation
OF wealth ut the expense of the liberty,
happiness, and prosperity of his victims.
He seized their lands, which he divided be-
tween his bandit associates, according to
their grade. Having thus possessed them
selves of all the elements aud resources OF
life, liberty, and happiness, they set about
10 protect their stolen possessions, and 70
Sorfify their power, as we'll as to perpetnate
the same against the opposition and indig-
nation of the people they had robbed and
despoiled.
10 accomplish this they must have a
government based upon certain funda-
mental rules of political economy, which
government must remain III the hands and
under tho control Of themselves. their
heirs and assigns forever. They established
the law Of primoeeniture, SO that the land
they had stolen and appropriated should
forever remain in the hands Of the eldest
son for all generations to come, while the
governing power should forever rest in the
fayorite sons who might be born to inherit
the fathers estates aud titles. No chance
was left for their posterity to be voted out
Of Office. Their tenure began before birth
and continued after death. Their cleo
ton was sealed and nailed before birth, and
the nail clinched by the hammer Of Magma
ChArta.
The British Government was organized
for the purpose Of robbery and protection
TO the robbers. The highest motives which
inspired its founders we're power and plum
der. They held to the idea that the leading
object Of government was to provide the
most effective methods of accommodating vast
wealth. not SO much for the sake of wealth
% the power which it furnished. Hallam,
the Middle Age historian, says:
The exclusion Of the English people
from political privileges was accompanied
with such q cOnfscation Of their property
Is never. perhaps, proceeded from anygov-
eminent.
The whole soil was divided among the
invaders, the heirs Of whom now constitute
the English nobility"
These lands were then leased or rented
to their former owners, and, according to
the historian referred to, the robber MOBILES
took care to let them at the highest rate
TINT could be paid, little caring how much
the cultivators were ncked. Not content
with robbing the farmers of their products,
the noble governing pirates laid tribute
upon everything they did not produce.
Monopolies were created by granting tc
themselves special and exclusive privilege
to manufacture and deal in the necessaries
Of life. Those that accumulated vast fort
unes Of money became, Tor the first time
in the history of the world, legalized usur.
ers. In fact, all the popular and now es'
tablished systems Of legalized plumber had
their origin in this cabal Of royal robbers.
Land monopoly. money monopoly, usury
| the debt and credit system for the sake o.
usury, specie basis to make money scare,
| that debt might be necessity, the bankin:
system to give one class Of the mobiles
| the power to toll the exchanges Of com
merce and the employment of labor, an.
the perpetuation Of these powers, rights
| and privileges constitute the fould stiol
| and pillars upon which the commerce ant
| industries Of civilization now exist. Gu
| fathers broke away from these accurset
| robber institutions and resolving to be fire.
and to secure to their posterity the bless
ings Of liberty, established the Repnbli
| founded upon human rights and the polit
ical equality Of human beings.
But alas! posterity has permitted tn
yoke which it, fathers threw OF to be re
| placed upon the hecks Of the people.
j few hundred men ana corporations Law
gobbled up and now hold uEde. patents Ian
enough to make two empires ms large q
Great Britain. We have a money monopo
", or money power greater than Enrop
| Nnu 1naEf IF
We have the most stupendons transpol
tation monopoly in the world. The ours
or usury " more intensely terrible in th
country than in any other. for the law Al
lows higher rates. willis the scarclty {
money in proportion to its need. creates
demand moro pressing. We have the del
and credit system, which il deronriag II
substance Of the people faster than the IN
crease.
The debts Of States, counties, cities. an
towns and corporations, every dollar !
which, with interest, is debt against Il
people, IRE piling up SO rapidly that thu
already absorb the surplus products OF II
dustry. These debts arc SO many NOR
cages upon the productive resources Of 4
country, which labor alone has to bear.
We also have system of primogenitur
by which the great estates and blocks
capital, with noble titles attached. arc pc
petnated as etfectually as nobility was il
heritsd and perpetnated under the fend
systems of Europe. The King of L!
gland, the Prince Of Wales, and the Dol
or Edinburgh live forever. So do 4
princes OF the great corporations. The
coendure with tho empire and the corpof
Gons. II the incumbent dies to-day 1t
George III. Albert Edward, or Aifr.
Ernest. but another king, another prime
/ or another duke stand ready to GIL Il
shoes VI his predecessor. Tho title liv
andits rule is immortal. So if railroa
tsleoaph. or bank president dies--it mi
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