The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-19

limited capital and their wealth is now
computed at two hundred million dol
lars. This enormous sum is beyond
the comprehension Of the human mind
except by illustration It is said the
Lord placed Adam in the Garden of
Eden six thousand years ago. II at
that time Adam had been placed CT
salary of sixty dollars per day and his
life and his salary continued 10 the
present and he had boarded every cent
OF his income. the year 1891 would find
him sixty-eight million dollars poorer
than the Nanderbilts and he would
be compelled to hoard his salary three
thousand years more before ne could
equal their present great wealth. In
short poor Adam. after a struggle OF
nine thousand years on salary of $50
per day and without spending cent
could 20 into the railroad business with
the Vanderbilts on equal terms.
But the Vanderbilts are only few
stars in the diadem Of milliona:res
whose great fortunes have been filched
from the laborers and farmers of this
nation. Yet it is only three years ago
when the maximum freight and two
cent fare bills were pending before the
Iowa legislature that the railroad man
ayers and presidents with corps Of at
torneys thundered against the doors of
our capitol and sent mp wall of power
ty that brought Il flood of tears from
the hearts of the most hardened.
Railroading was declared to be un-
profitable in Iowa. The poorhouse
stared the stockholders in the face and
gaunt poverty haunted them in their
dreams. and they threatened to reduce
wages as a means Of influencing their
employees to petition the legislature for
mercy and charity for the roads. and
leading newspaper in this city desc
Grated the holy Sabbath in its haste to
print supplements for the country press
containing speeches of leading railroad
magnates declaring that railroading in
Iowa was Improbable. Hundreds and
thousands of those speeches were
scattered broadcast over our State. But
who cried slander then? Who had the
courage then to say it was defamatory
Of this great State to say that one Of
her greatest industries was being oper-
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railroad managers to destroy one-fourth
Of the surplus by fire as was recon-
mended for the relief of Iowa corn
growers? No one. All were as silent
as the tomb. Yet when the farmers of
Iowa report to the bureau of labor
statistics that it costs S1.a6 per acre
fertilize corn land ii is slander: 81. II pc
acre for blowing ground is slander: -
cents for planting an acre Of corn is
slander: II cents per acre for seed corn
is slander: Sill for cultivating an acre
| of corn three times is slander: Sl.a6 for
! huslxing and cribbing an acre Of corn is
slander. and all the other items of ex-
pense which swell the average cost of
producing an acre of corn in Iowa to
SO. q is slander. And when a thousand
reliable farmers say the general range
of farm products have sold below the
cost Of production since 1855. and that
there has been no profit on the labor Of
i hired men on the farm at $3.50 per
month, the average price paid. and a
governor has the courage to repeat it
| in the house of monopoly, the same
men who printed and circulated the pow
erty speeches of the railroads wiring
their hands and tear their hair in
spasms of anger at the insult and fairly
rend the air and make the earth quake
with declarations that the fair name of
this commonwealth has been slandcrcd.
In this recent cry Of slander am re-
minded Of the man who murdered his
mother and then asked the court to a.
quit him on the ground that a murder
| trial was slandcr on the community.
When the Wall street Shylocks want
more flesh and blood they cry poverty,
and Immediately the capitol at Wash
ington is in dclnge of tears, and the
nation is thrown into furor of excite
ment, and the secretary Of the treasury
rushes to New York with open arms to
give comfort and succor to our poor,
furnishing pets. The national treasury
is opened unto them and all the sub
treasures and mints are notified tC
transmit exchange on New York by
do homage to this modern moloch oi
greed. Twenty-six million dollars were
issued by the national government t.
relieve the poor national banks from
poverty during the panic of 1873 and
later their taxes were reduced to twelve
million dollars per annun. All in the
name Of poverty. But let it be sait
that agriculture is depressed and labor
in need of better conditions and it i!
met in anger and hate with charges O
vile and malicious slander.
These facts are sufficient to indicat.
the duty of this organization.
Let labor vote for labor and tyrant
will grow pale. Let labor carry it
cause to the ballot box and society viii
not squeeze the manhood out of 90
working people every year to maintain
, Jay Gould. The purchasing power o
money will not be further increased t,
further oppress the debtor class. On
half the people will not go begging 70
an opportunity to buy and the otne
half to sell. One-half will not max,
themselves miserable because the,
work too much and the other half mis-
cradle because they can find nothing I
: do. Private interests will not be tn
! motive for operating distributing agcn
cies. When labor votes for labor soc
) ETY. will increase the opportunities t
earn as inventive genius increases tn
wants and necessities of man. Distr
button will keep pace with production
The millions Of little children will b
taken from the dark and unwholesom
rooms Of the factories. The pla
grounds will resound with the merr
: frolics of childish innocence, and tn
graces Of refined society. the blessing
: of the school and the virtues of TIL
home will adorn the heart of the you'll
There will be eight hours for worl
! eight hours for sleep and eight hour
: for recreation and improvement, an
$ the man who earns or inherits dolla
shall be protected in its enjoyment. an
: the man who neither earns nor inheri,
his dollars shall never have dollar
enjoy. J. K. SOVEREIGN,
State Master Workman.
= 4 Long-H eaded hoy.
f ''Never throw stones at a carter whe
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