The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-08-16

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Slavery il likely TO be abolished
/ by the war power ami chaffel slavery
he DESTROYED. This and my Euro
pean friends are in favor of. for slave
~ il but the owning Of labor. AMI
carries with it the care for the labor
or. while the European plan. lei 81
hy England il capital control Of IN
bor. by contr ,liing wages. This raiI
be done by controlling til" money.
The great debt that capitalists will
see to ii il made CIT Of this War must
be used as n measure To cont.o, tie
volume of money. To accomplish
this the bonds must be used ~ u
banking basis. We are now waiting
to get the Secretary Of the Trea~iir.
to make this recommendation TO Con-
yress. Ii will not do to allow the
yreerback. as il is called. 10 circulate
a. money any length Of time. Tor We
can not control them. But we can
control the bonds, and through them
the bank issue.
The American bankers readily per-
ceived the wisdom Of the plan outlined
to accomplish the process of skinning
the people and Immediately sent out
to the bankers throughout the coun-
try the following
NATIONAL BANK Circular
DEAR SIR-It is advisable to do
all i'm Your power to sustain such dali
" and prominent weekly newspapers
especially the agricultural and reiig-
ious press. n will oppose the issuing
/ of greenback paper money. and that
You also withhold patronage or ia
yors from all applicants who are not
| willing to oppose the government is
sue Of money. Let the government
issue the coin. AMI the banks issue
the paper money OF the country. for
then we can better protect each 9TH
er. To repeal the law creating na-
tional bank notes or TO restore to cir
cHlatiOn the government issue Of
money. viii! be to provide the people
with money. and vii! therefore seri-
ously effect your individual profits a.
bankers and lenders. See your mem
ber Of congress at once and engage
him to support our interests that We
may control legislation
| Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, at q
recent speech at his home in TER,
Haute. justly arraigned the party fol
its crimes against the people IN its tar
iff and financial policies. He said:
Il propose to show that tile histor,
OF the republican party OH the sub
ject Of taxation III the history of pre-
. lneditated crime against the laborin,
people of the United States Ever,
movement IN the machinery of gov
eminent set i'm motion by republican
leaders and managers has been /,
: swell and bloat the gains of the ricl
!, and to increase the burdens OF til
poor, to deprive labor of its homes
reward. and 70 reduce the industria
: classes on the farms, in the work
: shop. and in the mines TO the estat
} and conditions OF serfs paying trii
ute to their rapacious masters. I'll
republican conspiracy to farian til
: lfangs of the money power in til
!. 1struggling body Of American labo
; and to enable gigantic usury and Ii
4 galized robbery to suck the blood {
\ every American industry took its frs
, great step when. in authorizing le.a
! tender currency in 1862. the greer
back. the mortal and glorious green
back. was Disseminated against an
degraded i'll the money markets O
the world by being made non-receiy
able for duties Oh Imports and for III
terest on the bonded debt of the Uni,
ed States. In all the annals of ia
: lions no financial measure was eve
more willfully wicked in conception
and design nor more far reaching
: oppressive. ard destructive to TIL
rights of labor in its results than this
The laboring people have been TOT
patient, too forbearing. | do not be
lieve any other people Oh the glob,
would have submitted, unless IT
strained by force. to the monstrou
act Of congress of March. 1869 Ii,
one dishonest stroke Of dishones
pen. guided and held by the dishon
est leaders Of great party, the deb
which labor has to pay was swollel
g per cent. The great bulk of on
bonds. the five-twenties. were paya
bic in greenbacks. and the authors 0
the act of March 1869. knew it WA
false when they declared they wer,
payable in coin.
Why should not the creenback
with its glorious history and with Ill
the crimes committed and atrempre,
against il by the leaders Of the re
i publican party. come to the front q
this time and at all times, when til
interests Of rhe laboring classes ar
under consideration. Branded ut i,
birth with the bar sinister as IA bast
/ ard in the field of currency. persist
emily stigmatiZed and characterize,
as a rag baby, born in q foundlin
hospital without known parenrage
: for years denounced as dishones
I money. fraud upon the business un
: colnercial world. yet ii stands to-da
! in every state in the Union with ii
! head a. high and its purchasing pow
! er az great as the brightest gold tina
! ever flashed from the depth of In
earth. 1t is true the republican car
: didate for president suggested in 49,
. that an idiot asylum ought to b
erected for believers III the greenback
!. for you. my old greenback friend.
!. and for me. | believed in greenback
: then and do now. and take my plac
alongside Of you under General Hal
: sison's sweeping. intolerant. brute
criticism and denunciation. did )
ten years ago when he poured GU
: his scornfuI wrath upon lis. and wa
D well content with the result. II
canvassed the state in 1878 as til
: candidate for his party for the senate
: as did as the candidate Of mine. an
Q the people of Indiana decided b
] more than 80, 900 najority on the POI
I u!ar vote for members of the lagisl;
ture that he was nearer IL tinanci;
idiot than | was and that | should Z
E back to Washington and leave hin
[ at home.