The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-09-24

ways extorting from the people. Mr..
Bellangee like all other intelligent
men fully understands this and he
presses the point home to the repub-
acknowledgements organ:
You do not claim that the repub IL
can party il an anti-monopoly party.
Since the election OF Allison no one
can claim it. The convention at Ce-
dar Rapids made no pretense of that
kind. In its platform it condemns
none Of the existing wrongs, protests
against nothing but the success of
the democracy and the election Of
Horace Boies. 1t is not an honest
and frank expression Of principles,
bnta nervous and grotesque exhibition
of hate and fear. Still you propose
to accept this party as the one worthy
of Your support. You overlook all of
its sins of omission and commission,
count rs courage the bray and blust-
ter of its platform and accept as gem
uine its grandiloquent profession OF
Opposition to the behests Of the sa-
loon" in which there is no word of
promise, not one pledge Of future
performance. You cannot fail to see
the irresistible trend of public opinion
is in the line of anti-monopoly. but
you would now arrest that mo vement.
The prohibition republicans lose
sight of everything but prohibition.
They entirely overlooked the fact
that other very grave questions are
pressing for solution. The demo-
cratic state platform is one of the
strongest anti-lnonopoly documents
ever penned and still its every de-
mand il reasonable and in strict har-
mony with the true functions of gov
eminent. Although an earnest pro-
hibitionist, Mr.. b., is not SO blinded
with the prohibition fad that he can
not seethe great dangers that threat
en- this country from other sources
than that of intemperance:
The evils of monopoly are insiduous
in their grasp irresistible in their
power and fall alike upon the wise
and the foolish, the just and the un-
just. By it law becomes the char
ter Of privilege and courts of JUS
tice the defenders Of iniquity.
Through its subsidized organs pub.
lie opinion becomes debauched and
the ambitions Of youth fired with un-
holy ideals. by the artificial condit-
ions that it creates the nOblest
powers Of man become perverted and
the brutal instinct of self preserya-
ton calls forth the highest expression
of their energies. Business becomes
the organized efforts with which
Dives secures his sumptuOus fare,
while charity, sweet charity, with its
belittling condecensiOn, becomes
scarcely more than the gracious dog
that ticks the sores of Lazarus.
From this hell of iniquity, this
naelstrom of organized plumber there
is to be no effort at escape until the
temperance question is settled.
The following is strong but righ-
teous arraignment of party that
has Systematically aided monopoly in
every form by class legislation
The republican party save prohibit
tiOng 1t cannot save itself: how can
it save prohibition! The republican
party is doomed, but it is not because
it has too faithfully served the people,
bot because like the hypocritical Saul
Of old when sent against the enemies
Of Israel it has spared the king Of the
Amalekites and brought back the
spoils Of their tiocks.
A careful reading of the democratic
platform should convince every far
mer. laborer and every voter who
recognizes the dangers that threaten
through the encroachments of mon-
opoly, that in voting the republican
ticket he is voting the perpetuation
of monopolistic dictation and rule,
and that in voting the peoples ticket
he is simply throwing his vote away,
put that in voting the democratic
ticket he is supporting party that
is sacrealy pledged to the uprooting
Of unjust privilege. -Des Moines
| Leader.