The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-10-11
Increas OF the Homeless,

country 10 the following figures. III
which they more than any class ar.
| interested.
From 1850 to 1860 was period ol
low tariff.
The families reported in the United
States in 1850 were......... 3.59s. al
The number in 1860 were. 5.o10,934
The seperate dwellings 1850 4.969. 81.
Homeless families $780,. PAL. "a.
Then came the time Of the present
high tariff which has continued from
1862.
Families without homes. shown BIZ
the census OF 1870, .....-......... $50, 51l
Families without homes as
shown by census 1880, ....... 800. 1Os
Thus in twenty years under higl
protective tariff which the republi
cans maintain as a panacea for the
poor man, the increase of the home
less poor was more than 200 per cent
with a strong probability that the
census of 1890 will disclose the fact
that nearly 2.OOO.O families i'm the
United States are homeless.
The policy which the republican
party has established in this country.
doubles the number of homeless fami
lies in the United States every ten
years This is the logical conclusion
of official figures. 1t is undeniably
true. that as millionaires multiply.
humble homes decrease in number.
The tariff policy Of the republican
party imposes the burden Of govern
ment expenditures almost exclusively
upon the laboring men of the coun-
try.
The men who own the government
bon.ls pay no part Of the taxes of the
government. state or national, the
bonds being exempt.
Thus the tariff taxes the poor man
out of his home 1t does more: ii
compels him TO pay tribute to veal.
thy and opulent manufacturers.
But the tariff is not alone RESPONSE
BILE for the increase of homeless fami
| lies in the United States.
At the close of the civil
war, the money OF the country in cir
culation was nearly $50 to each indi
vidual. Business was OH cash ba
sis and nearly all the people ownet
their homes. Had our volume o
money remained the same there
would have been a per capita con
traction from an increase in popula
ton that would have reduced th'
money in circulation to $50 each. Blu
more than 81 2OO. 900, OO9 were burned
up or exchanged for government
bonds by the legislation of the Re
publican party. The effect of thi
was to reduce prices and multipl,
mortgages means that help to make
families homeless.
The old centenarian, philosopher
statesman and patriot, Peter Cooper
said:
II have witnessed ten disastrous in
dustrial depressions, always from tn.
same cause; always and uniformly
from destruction, or suppression, oi
the money Of the country. And
British history informs that law fol
the suppression of the currency 81
that country was passed in 1920. AT
that time the country was prosper
Gus and the British people were EN-.
ployed and contented. Under the in.
tiuence of peel's contraction bill. foul
fifths Of all landholders of England,
through bankruptcy and forced sales.
lost their lands. The people were
without employment, and were suf.
fering everywhere for the common
necessities of life. The suffering
country was relieved by five money
bills introduced in single night by
Lord Castleraugh. and passed unde,
suspension Of the rules rs matters
of urgent necessity. Every bill wa,
designed to increase money facilities
The relief was sudden and effective.
Allison, the eminent English histor
ian gives similar testimony as to the
whitening influence Of contraction oa
the currency and the good results Of
an increase Of the circulation. that
laboring men should ponder well. He
said:
1.-The two great events III the his
tory of mankind have been brought
about by successive contraction
and expansion of the circulating me-
dunn of society. The fall Of the Ro-
man empire, SO long ascribed in it,
norance to slavery, to ieattenisin
and moral corruption, was, in reality,
brought about by decline in the sill
yer and gold mines of Spain and
Greece. And as if Providence III.
tended to reveal in the clearest man.
uer possible the influence of this
mighty agent in human sffairs, the
restoration of mankind from the ruin
this cause had produced was owing
to the directly opposite set of agene
cies being put in operation. Column
bus led the way in the career of rem
ovation; when he spread his sails to
cross the Atlantic, he bore inalkind
and its fortunes in his bark. The an
nual supply of the precious metals
Of money-for the Use of the globe
was trebled; before q century had
passed, the price of every species Of
produce was quadrupled. The
weight of debt and taxation insensi-
bly, wore of under the influence of
that prodigious increase; in the reno
walton of Industry, society was
changed, the weight of feudalism
cast off and the rights of man estab-
lished."
The important question for labor
ing men, farmers and mechanics to
decide is upon the advisability OF fs-
storing to place and power the party
sololv r.Snonsihla for this robhar leg.