The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-07-07

ruction Of our money, until our heroic
,eople everywhere cried out in very
lgony. u not every count In this To-
lictment, In this long List Of outrsges
rue u there . member here who
IN deny . single ono Of themf There
1as been one constant accreation Of
power In behalf Of these corporations
md the moneyed classes, from the
breaking out Of the civil war down 70
he present day.
Why, Dir, each act which / have nam
cd was separate, cruel,
coLD-BLooDKD VICTORY FOR AvARICE.
They al united TO gil our youthful |
country on the one hand with wrecked |
fortunes, suicides, helpless poverty, and
broken hearts, and on the other with
exceptional individual fortunes, some
Of them 20 monstrous in magnitude ~
to b quite beyond the grasp Of tho
human intellect. Take ope instance
from among many. Mr.. Vanderbilt,
1t his death, which occurred : few
weeks ago, left an estate valued ct
500, OOO, 900. Il u hard to compre-
bend such . vast fortune - this. It
can be better understood by compari-
son than in any other way. There are
two Egyptian mummles down here
& the National Museum-venerabIe-
looking old fellows. They we're prob
ably laboring men in their day. They
are esti nated to be three thousand
years old each. Now, il they had
worked hard, pooled their earnings,
lived TO the present day, and laid up
over and shove their expenses 81 each
for every day, IN these three thousand
years, their joint accumulations would
only amount TO two millions one hum
dred and ninety thousand dollars.
II one Of these prehistoric gentle
men, about whom our scientific men
know little or nothing, had been born
exempt from mortality COG, 600 years
B. v. before Wonderfully, and had
made IN average saving Of 81 per day
turing al Of that period, Mr.. Wander
bit the day before his death could
ave b. uxht him out and then had
l$i,COO,OOO left to invest in the Nickel
Plate Railway. These figures will not
lie, and you can make the calculation
for yourselves.
Mr.. Vanderbilts executor, II it were
in accordance with the terms Of the
will, could give two hundred men en-
| ployment ct 81 . day each-Sundaya
and a'l-fnr three thousand year,, and
, then have one million left. Estimat.
, ING the total wealth Of this country q
$66. coz, 600 900, you can only give six
, thousand six hundred persons SIC, OOO,.
] coo each, il you divide the whole coun.
: try equally between them. II you
we're TO divide the estimated wealth 81
this nation ($66, OOO, coz, O0O) equal,
between three hundred men-twenty
J I've less than belong IN this House
giving each an amount equal to Van
derbilt's wealth-there would not be 8
! farthiDg left for the rest Of mankind
Fortunes like this, cir, are the legiti
} mate outgrowth Of this conspiracy ant
!. OF the pernicious system Of monopoliel
/ which it has fastened upon Us. It i
, not necessary for me to describe her,
: the wonderful growth Of monopolie'
1 during this period Of national banl
. rule, nor need / stop to show that the!
D now rule with an iron rod I'll the lead
: ing branches of business within the
Republic. Every man who has givel
{ the matter even . glanoing look know
/ these things to be true. must nov
D pass on TO
], THE REACTION.
0 The history Of this struggle between
!. the people and the confederated mo
: nop0lies, like every other similar strug
. Gle through which we have been csllet
{ to. pass, proves that the confidence re
! posed in the people by the trainers Q
D our government was not misplaced
= The reaction against the monstrou
( and tyrannical acts which l have enun1
+ Grated first began among the peopl
{ themselves. The waves first arose, y
/ to speak, on this vast ocean Of humal
!: sufferers, and God IL still lashing
, into fury for the purpose OF purifying
. the waters. The year 1876 Witnesses
q the organization OF . small body Q
9 earnest and patriotic men under til
!. leadership Of the venerable Pete
!. Cooper.
OIL without attempting to follow th
( progress Of that political reformation
or TO trace its salutary iaauence With
other policsl organizations, it is III
ficient to state that the Forty-6ft
Congress called . halt, ut.faced, IN
entered upon the difficult task Of y
resting aud undoing this baleful tel
dency in our civilization. The Blan
act was first
4 BLOOD FOR THE PEOPLE.
J, I shall not stop to show that which
9 we'll understood by the whole countr,
L namely, that this class legislation,
/. addition to its other criminal feature
mad gone 60 far % to wreet from Il
people the control Of al the great i,
>trumens Of commerce, nor shall
!. stop here to animadvert upon that oil
3 or coyrelative but sad truth, that, q
!. though this reaction began ten yea
i ago. the people have not as yet r
|. gained full control over single one
: tness agencies 90 indispensable to the
: welfare.
81 The iirst act, as I have stated, ".
4 that Of February %. 1878, known 1
9 the Bland oct, to reopen the mints
!, the coinage Il standard silver dollar
: This was followed by the act Of Ma
! 50. 1873, to stop further destruction ,
4 the greenbacks. This in turn was 70
q lowed by the passage Of what 81
q known q the Stanley Matthews RESI-
J. lut.ons. in the second session Of th
, Forty-6fth Congress. These resol,
/. tions, following the spirit Of the Blau
act, declared il to be the right Of Ii
: government to pay oil government Of
: legations in standard silver dollars.
d wish now to call attention to the sim
/ larity in the fate Of the Bland bill Wit
. that Of the legal-tender oct sixtee
4 wears before. When this bene6cel
measure passed the House it provide
Tor unrestricted coinage on private q.
count. But here again the
HAND OF E6AU
I was held out to deceive blind an
Z suffering people, and the Bland bill Va
J. accordingly 80 amended-in the Ser
: ate, mark you-as to practically restrit
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