The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-10-18

half mortgages on their farms. and
that don't count the chattel mortgages
filed with town clerks on farm ma
chinery. stock, wagons. and even
crops. by gosh that amt two inches
high under the snow. That's what the
prospects Is for farms now. The gov.
eminent Is rich, but the men that
made 1t. the men that fought perairie
1res and perairie wolves and Injuns
and potato. bugs and billiards. and mas
paid the war debt and pensions and
everything else. and hollered for the
union and republican party and high
tariff and anything else that they was
told TO, ID left high aid dry this cold
winter with . mortgage Of d, 500 600, :
OOo on the farms they nave earned and
saved thousand times over.'
Yes !; but look Ut the glory Of send.
ing from the farm the future presi-
dent, the future senator, and the fu.
ture member Of congress.
THAT looks well on paper. but what
does 1t really amount tor Soon % Z
farmer.boy gets In place like that he
forgets the soil that produced
him and holds his head 40 high
as 4 hollyhock. He bellors for pro.
lection to everybody but the farmer,
and while he sails round In . highly.
tightly room with firU In 1t night and
day. his father on the farm has c
kindle his own fire In the morning
with elm alivers and has to wear his
sons lawn tennis suit next 70 him OF
freeze to death, and he has TO milk IN
an old gray shawl that has held that
momhor ~ NOmwroaa Snhoo - -. !.
baby, BY CORY and tho old lady has
to s0journ through the winter In the
flannels that Silas wore atthe regatter
before he went to congress-"
So l say, and I think that congress
agrees with me, damn . farmer, any
howl
will not claim much Of your time
In discussing state matters. You had
the republican candidate for congress
last night, I did not hear him, but
understand that generally he Is posing
as an anti-monOp0list, / know his
political record well; with his charact-
eristics ~ private citizen have moth
Ing to say except that have learned to
respect him very much as . pleasant
gentleman In the private walks OF
life: bis record as . politician Is public
property, that record l hate, but be-
cause / do so, is no reason why /
should hate the man. / have always
tried to keep the distinction clearly In
view between the man and bis prin.
ciples, aud the older become the
more I try to cultivate and strengthen
that sentiment. l hate that religion
that impels the poor east India
mother to sacrifice her infant in the
turbid waters Of the Ganges, but do
not hate the mother, she acts from the
best light she has, and IS conscientious.
and while hate Col. Sweney's pollti-
cal principles, and will ever pray that
my capacity for hate may be augment
ed that may hate them more, still
wish 1t distinctly understood that do
not hate the man. / would prefer the
view that he has acted poll
tically from the best light he had.
l am acquainted with his record
as an anti-monopolist, and will
dissect 1t. In 1885 he introduced the
famous sweeney bill In the senate of
10 "a. A. that time the farmers and
people of Iowa, generally. were very
anxious for some legislation calculated
to give them cheaper transportation
on the railways, and Mr.. sweeney vol.
unteered to be their Moses 10 lead them
out Of the wilderness. and the bill was
introduced and the attention OF the
people was directed from cheap trans
portation to Mr.. Sweney's wild attack
upon the constitution Of the United
States. He seemed entirely oblivious
to the fact that the state had been for
% years inviting by its legislation the
Of railways across the
state, though owned by foreign rail-
way corporations Of other states, with.
out asking of them any waiver oftheir
rights as foreign citizens under the
and laws of the United
States. He was oblivious to the fact
that congress had declared all such
Interstate railways to be government
post routes, and he seemed totally OBJ
livious to the fact that logically his
bill asserted the power Of i state to
prev ent the construction OF IN inter-
state road In the state, and thereby
defeat interstate commerce.
The bill. 80 far as 1t related to rail-
ways, was the laughing stock of all
lawyers who gave It attention, and II
could not have passed into = law II It's
opponents had not chosen to waste no
labor In defeating . measure so clearly
unconstitutional aud worthless. /
think 1t plain that II the people Of this
district desire any cancellations Of the
inter- state law they had better send
Prof. Rogue to congress, for | pledge
my word that he knows more Of rail-
ways and constitutional laws than
Col. sweeney.
But to his record little further.
He and his party have always re, or
lized alchohOl Ia its various forms as
yet we find him advocating
md voting for law last winter, for
bidding the sale Of such medicines to
my citizens of Iowa who are In the
,atit of using them a. beverages, thus
to more than one-half Of the
people Of Iowa the privilege of buy
my medicine in the state and at the
Iame time denying to the citizen the
light to give medicine to another.
This week arespectable physician Of
his county. prescribed small amount
If aich0h0lic liquor for very old and
'eeble lady living near McGreRor No
druggist Of McGreg0r dare I'LL the pre-
Icripti0n; luckily good samaritan OF
McGreg0r procured boat and In the
hight went to the free state Of Wisc0n-
lin aud procured the desired medicine.
l am told. another lady who lives in
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