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

their people were not 30 ignorant az
they had supposed them to be, they
now admit that the plan Is not free
trade. but say that il tends TO free
trade. There Is no more sense in the
latter claim than In the former.
There would be as much sense IN
saying that when man takes off bis
overcoat because 1t il too warm to
wear 1t, he IL tending to nakedness.
Those leaders have been 70 long fed
and led By their masters, the protected
class, that they have come to regard
the word free as hateful and despised
word In our language. They profess
to love the doctrine of free men. free
soil, free institutions; but freedom In
commerce they seem TO hate rs the
devil does holy water.
.The old bell wether cries bah. bah. then all
the throng, ewes, lambs, rams, bsllowtng roll
along"
As soon as Mr.. Cleveland's great
message was telegraphod across the
ocean. Blaine lost no time In bowling
free trade and in demanding the total
exemption Of tobacco from taxation,
and liquors In part. and thereupOn the
governor Of Iowa, who hates tobacco
and liquors - the cat hates hot soup,
FASTENED to telegraph his cOngratula-
lions, notwithstanding short time be-
fore he had issued his magisterial
order fOrbidding the use Of tObaccos IN
the capitol Of the state.
These same republicans profess to
love free trade between our states
though they know that aggregations Of
capital and concentrations Of railway
facilities, together with powerful
trusts formed FOR the express purpose
Of preventing competition, make It i'm
possible In most Of the states to prose-
cute industrial enterprises therein, and
TO make all classes outside Of them
selves. hewers Of wood and draw.
err Of water to them, and the great
hell wether now throws on the ma6k
and boldly avOws that these internal
trusts which have been always crimi-
nal. wherever the English common
law has existed, are largely priyate
matters with which neither Mr.. Cleve-
land or any private citizen has a fight
to interfere, and .! he loves the
American lab0rer.
Four years ago this great leader of
high protection managed to get pos.
session Of some figures OF the census
Vi 10CUs AL 6Ov6uCC Vi l-S PUBLICATION
by the government. and he paraded
with great flourish of trumpets the
great gain of the country in wealth be-
tween 1850 and 1880. Ii Is true that
the gain was large during that period,
but he was careful not to say that the
percentage of gain during that time
was less than between 1850 and 1861, a
period Of very low tariff.
He failed to state what classes had
acquired the great increase In wealth
and he failed also to state the fact that
it was not the farmers or laborers even
In the manufacturing states who gain
ed anything. He knew or ought to
have known that the census Of 1880
showed that the assessed valuation Of
all the personal property In the United
States was about 100 and SO millions
less In 1880 than In 1850. and that the
assessed valuation of all the personal
property of the country was less by
about 400 millions in 1880 than in 1870.
See table 3, vol. Z. page 9of the United
States census for 1850. He knew or
ought to have known that between
1870 and 1880 the same census shows
that the entire wealth of the farmers
in the nine manufacturing states, was
over $50 millions less in 1880 than In
1870. ss appears from the following
table: