The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-10-08
Financial arrangement aud MOnOp.
oily Precipitate Strikes. MObs
and Revolution.

4 lIIG ANOl III AsSvA~Vs
"How to Qnell Mobs" which dc.
monstrates that military educa-
ton in his ease has not had a ten
dency to open up to him the
beauties Of republic whose civil
administration aims at the highest
perfection Of reason, of right, and
Of Justice. lie says THE most
fertile cause Of all riots, is the per-
sistent discomfort Of wage workers
Perhaps the man who uttcrs these
words against the toilers who have
been driven to scenes of riot
through the inhnmanity and rob
berry perpetratcd BY corporate mo-
nopoly combinations to deprive
him and those dependent upon his
earnings for the means Of snbsist
cnce and support, mingling as he
does exclusively with the monopo-
listic classes is ignorant Of the real
condition Of labor.
Giant corporations are permit
ted to monopolize land, food, light,
fuel, transportation, the very
means Of existence, usnrping the
very functions Of government and
prostituting the bounties Of nature
and the products Of civilization
industry and skill to the personal
ends of the corporations. That
they may extort exorbitant prices
for consumers, laborers are reduced
to half time, their families de-
|prived of most Of the common
necessities Of life, business paral-
lied and humanity outraged.
Half time means 1864 days labor
in year; most Of the mines where
the riots occur pay less than 800
per day. The incorporators own
the iron and coal, and oil which
should belong to the government
and be held in trust for the people.
BY their unjust monopoly of these
treasures they make every days
labor worth to them more than
five times its cost. The causes Of
strikes and mobs and their results
in France are thus graphically set
out by better student of history
than Fitz John Porter:
The immediate rropelling cause
OF the French Revolution in 1883
(says Shobel, translator OF Theirs
edition, l842) twas no doubt finan-
cial." "The nation consisted OF the
privileged and the unprivileged; the
latter constituting the great mass OF
the community. On them fell the
chief burdens OF the State, for the
nOblesse were to great degree ex-
empt from imposts and the clergy
(whO owned immense estates) had .
convenient privilege OF taxing them
selves. The noblesse, in conjunction
with the clergy, possessed two thirds
OF the whole estates OF the kingdom,
mostly non-residents, OF their pro-
perty. Mignot, au authority as a
historian OF that eventful era, rival
ing Theirs in philosophic insight,
declares 1.-THE people borne down by
the court and harassed by the
nobility, was itself separated by cor
porations which rctaliated on each
other(as do our banks to-day the
evils they suffered from their super
iors. They possessed scarce a third
OF the soil, upon which they were
compelled to pay feudal services to
their lords, tithes to their priests, and
imposts to the king J. traveller at
that period (Mr. Young says: "The
condition OF the peasantsv Was
wretched and INDECENT; houses
comfortless, dress miserable, their
food the coarsest fare" NO Won
der" SAYS Shobel, when the revo-
luton began, these slaves OF ages
broke out enthusiastically at the
first summons of the anarchists.
The grand and final shocks, how
ever, was the disarrangement OF the
national finances, whose annual
deficit alone was seven millions
sterling, which compelled sum-
mons OF the States General and a
sanction to Innovations On its
assemblage, the deputies of the no.
bility and clergy. consisting OF only
one-half the body, made overtures
to the deputies OF the tiers etat, or
the people, to share an equal portion
or the burdens Of State. The con-
cession was TOO late. On August 4.
1889, the National Assembly decreed
sthe declaration Of the rights OF
man and the citizen; the spontan-
eous abolition the feudal system and
all privileges in France lin Novem-
Der, declared ecclesiastical property
national property, and in 1871, Sc
questered and appropriated the
property of the noblesse emigrants
to defray the expenses OF the war
made on France by allied aud at
frighted Europe.
Although those sangn!nary events
will forever ling down the centuries.
it ultimnted in REIMBURSEMENT OF
landed property, that secured indie
pendent homes for FIVE million peas
ant families; the very foundation
fin addition to an adequate curren-
cyl OF present French prosperity
and happiness, which is the envy OF
mankind.
France is subdivided into small
agricultural holdings or 100000
properties Of six acres; each capable
OF supporting a small family; and it
was from this independent peasan-
try NJ. Theirs borrowed the means
to pay off the indemnity levied by
Germany.
Wrongs in the form Of the exac-
tons of monopoly or power, with
ever-recurring and inevitable peri
odicity continue to wreck thrones.
desOlate homes and shatter the
most elaborate structures OF society
and government-as theyhav with
out intermission In the past.
The utmost tension Of endurance
having been reached. il revolt Of
society like that OF 1889 startles the