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Show LETTER FK0M IOWA. Cllmateric and Political What the Contest Portends. Correspondence of tho Hebai.i.. Council Bluffs, October 7th, 1S74. Tho wild geese have taken up the line of marcti, slightly, which is to me a reminder that I too hud better seek a more mild and congenial climate cli-mate ere the winter months approach. What ia called Indian summer does not seem to have had iU reign, but still it may come, though to-day appearances ap-pearances are favurable for ff storm. I see from Sunday's Herald that you have had thunder, lightning and rain recently, and suppose that about these days you also will be in receipt ot the "beautiful snow." Well, after all I do not know but your mountain country suits me better than the plains, and hence you may probably nnd me with you again. When I left your city some weeks ago, you anuouueed that I would "probably locate lo-cate permanently" iu Nebraska, and that I would "take an active part in the political campaign this lall." True, I did have in view to "pitch in" and take a hand in the political fight now going on there, but when I came to the country, and obtained a clear view of the several platforms of the parties, I could not conscientiously conscientious-ly take oil my coat and go to work for any of them; therefore I decided to let the fight go on without anv inter-' inter-' ference on my part. I have 'been a well-organized partizan, when parties have been at issue joined, but feel no interest in a scramble for office merely, where principles are ignored, and foreign issues;iugged in for effect. Next week will decide the matter as to who shall win in Iowa and Nebraska, but I will hazard no opinion opin-ion as to the result. In Iowa, as your readers are aware, the fight is only between Republicans and anti-Mono-polisu; the latter will probably succeed suc-ceed in electing a portion of the Con-gressmen.and Con-gressmen.and probably other officers, and, in my opinion, unless the organized capital engaged in banking and laiiroad enterprises lets go its grip upon the labor of the State, the latter element will ere lone assert it-selt it-selt and drive from power the shoddv pohticians who have for many years controlled the legislation of the State in the interest of money. And this remark will apply equally to all the States in the Union. It has often been said that history is always repeating itself. By this I suppose it is meant toconvev the idea that what has heretofore occurred in governments, may occur again under similar circumstances, which perhaps is true. It has also been said, that power is always stealing graduallv from the many to the fiic. To a certain cer-tain extent this also mav be true, but the history of tho world teaches us inaieven thougu this process mav have gone on in a state until alt the political power has been confined to f few, yet when that power was used I to crush the ma,,,,, thev alwavs resume re-sume the power when oppression can no longer be borne. I I presume thai the history of the' whole world will not point "to any country where the putcer baa stolen so rapidly from the many to the few as in the United States. N0 other country has produced as many rich men who from mere nothing' have become millionaires, in an hundred years, as havo the United States inline last ten. With tho! vast amount of wealth iu the hands' of a few in a country like ours, where 1 votes in Congress are bought, and, where eoats in the Senate are pur-i chased with a price, it is not unrea- i sonable to suppose -hat the legislation j of the country will be in favor of tho ! money power, and to a certain ex-' tent such has been the case. Let the money power therefore be careful how it continues to oppress labor. io not put upon its shoulders burdens bur-dens too grievous to be borne. II. D. J. |