The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-10-21

TX. The few lawscxtorted from treach
,rous politicians ostensibly designed
10 amelioratc the hardships OF the
people, like the silver coinage act,
Or the proffered Gullom railroad
bill, are OF such =
negative nature that they defeat
their pretended purpose, and lie
sead On the statute books and are
swept under by the sway OF power
ful monopoly rule.
How are
1.-THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY
to be transmitted to posterity when
the very opportunities for their en-
joyment are being absorbed under
our very eyes, placing the entire
people under bonds to dishonesty
self constituted aristocracy OF
wealth?
THE Public DOMAIN,
where is it? Hundreds OF millions
OF acres Of it donated to swindling
railroad corporations, as much
more seized by foreign alien lords
and syndicatcs for trifling sum,
while all our vast mineral and luM.-
Der resources are controlled by
combined capital.
At the same time. more than one
half the improved farms Of the
country are struggling under mort
Cages; our great cities are owned by
the very few who Put cHtorprise and
labor under rack-rent, grinding
them harder and harder every year.
The interest burden Of the coun-
try, individual, corporation, county,
stata. and national has grown SO
vast that it exceeds the increase
Of wealth by s35O,OOO. 900 annually
The financial machine is so adjusted
by the bankers as to make every
dollar harder to get, increasing the
power and volume Of debt, to the
interest Of capital and to the injury
OF labor.
In a decade, more, If these unjust
laws remain in force, what will the
mass Of people have to transmit to
posterity but a legacy Of wrong and
injustice? These wrongs have been
inflicted upon the country by the
apparent sanction OF the people.
because they for a time sanctioned
it by support of the party under
whose reign this era Of the most gi-
gantic wrong and injustice was in
angurated and established.
BY their legislation that party
has destroyed the hopes and blasted
the prospects OF future generations,
and that the voters may not undo
their foul work, in states where they
have control as in Iowa, they gerry
wandered the congressional di stricts
SO as to thwart the popular will
and to perpetuate the reign Of the
evils, their legislation has showered
upon the American people.
TO SOLVE THE LABOR PROBLEM,
4 Adjust the lever power of legisla-
ton in association so as to preserve
the industrial freedom and indepen.
dence Of the mass. This can be
done by curbing the power OF the
ambitious and the INSCRIPTIONS, by
refusing to grant privileges or pow.
ers to any in the exercise OF public
franchises, for personal or corporate
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, which are not poe.
sessed equally by all others.
The power to create, to issue an
control the money o. the country is
one wholly retained by the people
to be used and exercised for them
by the government, in its sovereign
capacity. 1t is a franchise which
belongs to the whole, to be exer
cised for the good Of the whole, anc
il correctly used, universal benefits
naturally result.
LANDS. RAILROADS AND TELEGRAPHs
The power to provide a publ,
highway is also collective on,
regardless OF what its character ma,
he. The same is true OF public ia
cilities for the Transmission of intel
ligence. The land is public propert.
and the transfer OF titles to IL mus
be so guarded as to inhibit larg'
acquisitions by individuals, and nj
transfer OF titles to corporation
allowed to exercise . public fran
chlse in any sense, can be safel,
granted, except in the nature OF til,
right Of way for a public highway
where the management Of publ.
highways by charter is tolerated.
All industrial and commercial in
terests should be totally divorce.
from such public institutions. Thos,
entrusted with their management
should treat all alike and have M
speculative interest in mining D
other productive enterprises. to ta,
end that the public franchises can
not, as now, be diverted from Their
legitimate office to Cypress one In
terest, and to unduly serve another
! Railroading, banking aud tele
graphing have no more 'egi;imat.
connection with any industrial OF
commercial interest than our pos
tai system. 1t has been by the dele
cation by these great sovereign gov
ornamental functions to corporation.
and to their illegitlmate use, tina,
the masses have been robbed