Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-03-23
lg alla 9akptaiaa
striking Farmer.

ZOE tuiH CifcuiaE W LILO AhIucTh VI Nhls-
Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas,
Nebraska and Dakota. Gentle
men, read this. Ponder, and express
your opinions in private and public on
the ideas contained therein. As farmers
you are bread producers for all mankind.
As business men, rs o class, you have
less comforts, less leisure, less remnnera-
ton, less mind.pay, less independence,
and less Legislation than any other class
OF your fellpwmen. Your business bears
less per cent. OF profit on your invest
ment than any other business. Hence
you are unable to borrow money, to emf
large or carry on your business only at
vi innate loss and ruin. But you
do borrow money and at
such rates as to burden for years, if not
TO ultimately rob you OF your homes. If
you ask what becomes Of your years
toll, / answer, you have to sup
port the railroad systcm of the United
States, with its army Of employees; you
have to airport the money-kings OF the
east, who harvest coupons Off OF gov
eminent bonds and 'sfarm mortgages
~ioans," besides carrying your homo
bankers at d rate OF three per cent. per
month. You pay all the freight OF your
town and country merchants on the
goods they buy in the east; you have no
voice In fixing the prices OF those goods,
and when you go to market with farm
produce you are equally silent, as to
price. Your Labor and your taxes build
the bridges and the highways; your votes
Send men TO live in high life, who leg
islate IN the interests of the rich and the
corporations who are swallowing up
every thing from .Unols Sans" domain
to the bone and muscle" OF the masses.
The east is protected" why not the
west? Therefore, Us all trades and pro.
fessions have their unions" and their
sststrifes," can we farmers not do q turn
for ourselves by going on q .'strike? ?"
Let the tive states and one territory as
named above Immediately proclaim to
the world that during the season OF
1885 the pillow shall stand still within
their borders; the drag and the seeder
shall rest under the COW shed, except
only enough to grow food for their own
families and provender for their farm
animals.
Ifyou have debts let thcm go over until
another year: If you have interest to pay
20 to work by the month or the day to
pay II. You have as much right to do
this as the eastern nail manufacturers
have to shut up their nail mills when
mills get cheap, and open them when
nails get scarce.
Proclaim that no plows shall run in
those states for the public this summer,
and my word for it, you will find the
freight lines and eastern money kings
in your barn yards in less than six
weeks, hat Ia hand, asking, "What do
you want ?"
Then 1t will come to pass that you will
get the Legislative horse hooked up
right end to, SO far as farm legislation is
concerned, to wit: Farmers will draft
such bills As they want. and forward
them on to be signed by the president
and approved by the SENATE" Let the
watch-cry be: IF those ia the east want
meat aud bread from the west, they
must ON TO the western barn yard and
bny it. and pay the freight on it when
they get it h0faes
Put away the plows, boys. Yours for
justice. J.H. ALLEN.
Parker New Era: or the twelve Da.
kotg newspapers in existence when the
New ERA began it's career, but five are
now presided over by the men who filled
their editorial chairs at that time: Bro,
Mailman, Of the Elk Point Courier, and
Bro. Bowen, OF the Yankton Press and
Dakotaian, and Bro. Wetter, of the
Yankton Freie Presse, and Bro. Warner,
OF the Deadwood Times, and Bro. Nash,
OF the Canton News, are still in the
harness. Bud Taylor, who then
made the Yankton Herald's edi.
torial columns Hash democratic
lightning, is now surveyor
general Of Dakota; while Jim Taylor
whom we will always admire for biz
stearling qualities of head and heart
who used TO edit the local columns oil
that journal and rustic from early morn
till late at night to keep the aHhir
~atloat,R has gone to his rest in that
borne never to be disturbed by the yex.
atoms of newspaper life. In those days
hi. Burdick gave the Vermillion Re.
publican the logic OF his strong mind,
Col, Lonnsbury doomed Bismarck and
north Dakota sparsely settled through
the Tribune; Judge Carter plead with
the rest OF us for the discouraged settler
TO "hang on i for q brighter day.
But Bnrdick and Lounsbury and Oar
ter are out Of the atharnessn low, ngag-
cd IN more lucrative enterprises. Bro,
Chambers Of the Fargo Times of those
days is slesping.with his Times IN breath
less slumber. Msior Mcdonald Of The
Sioux Falls Independent saw his Jour-
nal laid to rest and then departed to
the westward, locating ut Wessing-
tor Springs whers he is now engaged in
the real estate business; Col. T.. ID. 2.
Poore, who then edited the Springfield
Times, is now practicing law at Yank.
ton. And the New Era-sho is still ION
deck, enjoying an occasional tnssle
with tho brethren-and booming along
ahead OF the country.
News About Town.
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