The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-08-07
CLAIMING THE MORTGAGE.

A ReuuiDiican Psper ielis How the w0Ol.
Gr"wers Are Demanding the Pound Of
Flesh.
The opponents Of our present tariff
SYSTEM often assert that the various
protected industries OF the country hold
. mortgage.upon the Republican party,
and that in its present effort to put on
new and enormously increased duties.
the party is mply paying of that
mortgage. The h gh tariff leaders in
d,gnantly deny this and denounce it as
. wicked free-trade slander.
Now Is it not positively refreshing to
sec one Of the most prominent OF those
protected Industries frankly take the
same view Of the matter: and is 1t not
st II more refreshing to see . leading
protectionist paper publish the fact to
the worlI?
A STAFF correspondent OF that sturdy
protectionist organ, the Philadelphia
Press, writes to that paper from Wash
ington to say:
.rhe proposition In Secretary Biain.'s
letter to the Pres d..nt on the subject OF
recipr.c ty W tn south Amer ca. W ich in :.
wolves the free admission Of outh American
W ois, has ause som thing like y >ensx-
on among the West I'm wo l-grOwerA
Charm IN Mckinlev. OF tho Honse Committee
Cn Ways and cans and kenat Shcr na:l
and other m mbeis OF tho Senate Q mmittee
ceived large num per OF .elegram.s se>-
aerday and to.iay iron wo / grs wers, who
are alarmed the proposition. and who lie.
clare hat any such legislation would be a
b. each OF q cd faith toward them for the
part they to, in the National election
against the free. wool policy Of the Demo.
CT Is.
It is perfectly delicious to see the
wool-growers pleading for the pound Of
flesh just as it was nominated in the
bond" and when the staff correspondent
of one Of the foremost Republican pa
pers Of the land tells us all about it, we
may look upon the matter as settled.
But even without this papers avowal
Of the party's obligat ons to the WOOL
growers, does not every intelligent man
know that the Republican party de-
pends for its majoritiesS upon the pecu-
mary profits which 1t votes out of the
peoples pocket. to the enrichment of
projected industries? (and d Republi-
cans themselves must admit that their
party could not hold together single
year but for the financial support of
the men who are benefited by its policy.
Is it not shameful and corrupting
thing that great political party should
prostitute the law-making power of the
Nation in such way as to br.be any
class of citizens to support it?
But is it not a melancholy spectacle?
Here is Mr.. Blaine recommending q
policy which would greatly enlarge the
fore gn market for our farm products
and thereby 90 far in relieving our agri-
cultural depression. and recommending
that we admit South American sugar
and wool free Of duty in return; but at
this po nt--and here is the melancholy
spectacle-a little knot of noisy wool
growers lump from out the bush" and
shake their mortgage IN B.aine's face
saying: mo you don't! We helped to
carry the last election n-we voted down
free wnol-that was tho issue; and you
would break faith with us SO soon? You
are pledged to pay us for our support;
II You turn your back upon US the wool
States will 60 Democratic at the next
election. We demand the pound Of
fiesh!'
And 1t has come to this-a party that
used to boast of be ng the party OF great
moral ideas bullied and threatened by
the very men whose alleg ance it has
purchased with the peoples money! A
great party. that has had and still has
its state men, dictated to by those who
have dollars at stake! great party be-
come slave to the protected int rests
that bought it and now seek by threats
to shape its policy.
The throne of Rome sold at auction!
There was where great emp re touched
the low water mark-touched mud! Has
not the Republican party touched mud
also?