The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-08-14

people. You have placed your banner
in my hands; look only 10 one direc-
tion for it, at the front, in the thickest
Of the fight. 1t is \ struggle to save
the life of the nation and the liberties
Of the people. have consecratcd my
self to it.
Nearly all of the evils Of which we
complain can be traced back to our
selves, because we have SO far neglect
ed our duty as to vote carelessly, and
the men we have elected have betrayed
US.
There are in both houses OF congress
AT members. OF these, 200 are law
yers, and only thirteen OF them are
farmers, and these thirteen think got
there by accident.
! have no prejudice against the legal
profession, but it is not safe to run the
government on this one-sided plan. We
must change congress il we expect re-
lief. Republicans and Democrats have
got up sham battle to occupy the A.
tsntion Of the people while the poll
tirians and capitalists steal. The doc
trine of sectional hate is used both
north and south to keep northern and
southern farmers apart. The men who
indamed the south to war kept in
"bomb-proof' positions while the farm
crs and laboring classes did the fight
ing. They came out and got mad af-
ter the war was over. They were
invisible in war and invincible in peace.
But whenever have met an old soldier
have met friend and brother. We
rot some of the fire knocked out of US
in the war. Had the forms OF surren-
der at Appomattox been left to the rank
and file of both armies they would have
rushed into each others arms. fought
like man and surrendered like man.
There are thousands of southern SOL
diers who can say the same. have .
message to bear you from the old SOL
d;ers of the south: There will never be
a Mason & Dixon line across Alliance
territory in this country. / am an ex-
stakeholder: the war took them away
and made them free. l would fight
before they should again be put in
bondage. Thousands of young men
in the south would applaud that senti-
ment as loudly as you do. Let Sec
tional hate die and be buried with slav-
cry. Thank God the clouds are rolling
away. and peace and unity are about to
descend on the land.
The fight is not between Democrats
and Republicans. The greatest con-
flict Of revolutionary thought the world
has ever witnessed is now inaugurated
between the mass of the people on the
one side and plutocratic and corporate
power on the other.
Politicians object to the snb-treasury
bill. which grants to the farmers only
the same benefits now given to the
liquor distillcrics by the bonded ware
house law. They called the friends Of
the bill an inconvenient multitude Of
socialists. Whether we are socialists
or not, time will show where we are an
inconvenient multitude. II the govern
ment can issue certificates on deposit
on whisky, it can also do the same for
the farmer with his grain. The only
relief is to send to congress men of
nerve who cannot bo bought with Wall
street money. l want to know whether
the sovereign of this country is a dollar
or citizen. Above all things VIC need
most a higher type Of manhood in high
places. Let us have these and all other
things shall be added unto you. Help
to put the young men of the country
on higher plane of manhood. Tell
your boys there is no tyranny like leg
allied tyranny; no injustice behind the
forms of law. Let us elevate and dig.
Nifty labor by elevating and dignifying
ourselves.
After some further remarks on the
Alliance and its progress. the speaker
denied the report that he was aiming
to defeat Senator Ingalls,; and that
while it was untrue that he had ever
said that the Alliance was organized to
elect president in 1892. he hoped they
would be strong enough to do SO.
In conclusion he Hoped that wher
Mr.. War,lell could arrange to relieve
him of some of his duties ut Washing
ton. he could come back and shake
hands with all South Dakota. He ad
vised the Alliance to put down any o
its members who attempted to use tn,
organization to aggrandize themselves