The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-04-09
Strange Politics.

W H9siee LIfdt many persons are
ia.fidieusly averse 10 What they call
politics. Nine times out Of teb these
people are among the greatest parii-
san, III the community. Great par
tisan- are rarely good politicians
only in the senss that they are
some lines stlnri. sometime, ser
vile aud bad anu in that way are in
strumcntal in bringing about success,
TO their candidate who himself is Il
tool OF )nle ring.
They do not want 10 hear funda-
mental principles Discussed; they do
not want to hear criticisms on the
parry iii power, or party that is
willing to sell the birthright or men
to get in power.
We have got 30 much OF that sort
OF politics in the country that there
seems little room for any other. II
u man talks about the currency pol
icy adhered to by the prevailing
parties Us being dictated BY il ring
OF shrewd bankers and bond and
gold gamblers, he Is houted down
with all possible scorn. II lie urges
u policy to arrest the further whole
sale monopoly Of land and mines. he
is leered at as il he were danger
GUS subject that will bear watching
by tho elect.
Tie Is put down as a politician and
they all declare that they hate pol
itics and don't want to bother their
heads about it, while at the same
time they are wearing the collars Of
party masters as submissive as ours,
which have been buckled on by the
bosses who deal III politics as IL it
were Il commodity TO traffic in. This
is very poor politics for a republic
which is supposed to have been in
stituted for the purpose u securing
the liberty OF all people through an
honest government adapted to tina.
end, to be impartialIy administered
in all its details.
We need another sort Of politics,
inspired by patriotism AS true us
that whic. ever inspired hero. and
to positively get rid of the miserable,
mercenary speculative kind which
panders to the dangerous power OF
uniustly acquired wealth which,
when once enthroned, as has heen
the case i'm all ages, is cruel mas
ter, and government OF the people, by
the people and for the people ceases
to be, as surely rs night follows day.
It is sad thought but true that
the great wealth class which, in the
last % years has sprung into being
through an abnormal state OF affairs
aid ed by class laws, are struggling
for the ascendency against divided
resistance and aided by a stolid in
difference.
Why is not this fact apparent to
NIL? Simply because men had con-
clnded to accept the thinking or the
dicfum OF other men without testing
it by reason and the results OF his
tory.
That this state Of Affairs is what it
is IN this country is evidence that
the people have not thought, that
they have been ruled by seltishness
* aggeratcd and risen to power, and
the masses have too long been con-
tent to suppose that politics means
nothing but place and power and
the emOlument thereof.
Under such dispensation the
country, though grand in magnitude,
ceases to be glorious in liberty, pos
perity, intelligence, honesty aud
equality. Too much reliance has
been put upon The fact that America
is a glorious heritage and all we
have to do is tn eat, drink and be
merry.
1t is because the natural resources
Of the country are OF such mdgsi-
'nde that wicked and i'll designing
men have been able to rob it 50 l,ny
without running it. The day dream
Of eternal security, instead Of
eternal vigilance which is the price
OF liberty, has lulled and led too long.
But it is passing, it must end. Lib
crty under such u delusion is simply
interpreted. the right to steal from
the aggregate mass OF toilers under
the semblance OF law and custom.
Under this false dispensation the b;.-
sis Of production aud the means OF
exchanging products, are made the
instr ulments OF willy :yrants who
smile tie villain aud yet rob proIu-
GERS, gradually reproducing those
conditions which ultimately render
slavery inevitable. What ails us rs
workers and honest dealers is, We
have not had politics enough and
been content that others attend TO
that. livery American must be u
true politician, not wire pullers u
Office hunters but as men who love
themselves and their pos,erity and
who understand how the common
welfare can be best promoted by the
exercise OF government franchises
aud who must never consent to sec
them handed over to clilues.
Why trust to them? Take Oul
political dead beats who are set up
as political gods: do they toll; do
they spin; do they do anything
worthy OF comment other than con
demnation? They manage to &c,
into power and they abuse it in tn,
using Of it. They are the drones IL
the hives; the dodgers; the schem,
crs: the backbitcrs; the Hon. Bilks
vi whom it might BIZ said that il they
had been with the Egyptians whet
the passage of the Red Sea VI. ut
tempted, their drowning would have
been glorious.
The men who have cOnspiree
ayains, wealth producers and used
their positions to enable shylocks t
to rob honest toni, are called grea'
tinanciers. They have repudiate.
every honest obligation oiiginall,
binding on the people, to favor ane
enrich the capital kings OF the earth.
| II uan Ii not u lie this stupidit,
cannot always last. The time vii
come in this republic Cif such it Is
when just these Benedict Arnolds ",
have in view, will be knocked dowi
-politically-draggcd out aud cart
cd away from positions they are un
worthy to hold both as wielders o
power and in the estimation OF men
We will not give up but the goot
time will COME Buckeye Videt.e
Worse Than Firearms.