The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1890-09-19
LoUCKs AND zIpP.
The Apostles of the New Party
Speak at the Rink.

Speak at the Rink.
at 2 p. m. Tuesday about 100 farmers
and others marched from the Alex
Mitchell hotel to the rink where at the
beginning of the speeches there were
about 150 present, which was increas.
ed some as the meeting advanced.
John M. Pease called the meeting
to order and said the motives of
the leaders of the new party had been
questioned. Much had been said
about Mr.. Loucks and he hoped people
now would avail themselves of the
chance to hear him. He exhibited a
neatly made broom which was CAM
paign emblem, typical of the new par
ty which would sweep the state, when
MIR. Loucks was elected governor he
would sweep the political cobwebs
out. He then introduced Mr.. Zipp of
the Black Hills, the shoemaker. Mr..
Zipp said he felt like congratulating
himself for the honor Of addressing
such an assembly. He thought it
meant something for people to begin
to think and act on these economic
questions. 1t has always been through
the common people that reforms have
come. The great partisan press has
proposed no remedy for grievances of
the people. He came to point out con-
dititions and indicate plain remedy.
He spoke of the good old colonial
times when all people had ideas of
equality, and the government was of
and for the people. Then there were
no millionaires and no paupers. To
create millionaire meant the creation
of 10000 paupers; with our civilization
has come Capitalization of wealth. By
acts of recent legislation 100000
tramps were created; and he spoke of
the minor children shutu in factories,
and stated that somewhere around the
edges of plutocracy six million people
were slowly starving. "You have
allowed a class of poodle to govern
who are not of the people," Where
people do not own and control their
own labor it is slavery. He defined
labor as the force by which he COM
modities of the world were
worked out. Capital is the
profit on labor. God gave us all one
mouth and two hands. Had he ever
created one class to do all the eating
and none of the work he would have
created one with no hands and the
other with no mouth.
Records showed that so years ago
the farmers owned three-fourths of the
wealth of the country; 30 years ago
one-half the wealth, today less than
one-fourth of the same. Ten years
from now we would be nation of
renters. He voted for Lincoln in 1860,
and followed the republican party
through that struggle. He quoted
from Martin Luther, who in the fif-
teenth century said an usurer was a
double dyed thief and murderer.
Money at cost of Issue, say per cent,
was the plan, and to be issued to the
industries of the country on the good
security they had to offer.
MIR. LoUCKs. ~
Lack of time prevents us from CIV
ing more than a fragment of Mr.
Loucks' speech: He spoke on the fin
ancial problem mainly, saying we
would have no stringency in money
affairs If the treasury department
would issue sufficient volume to do
business with. Whenever an industry
pays more for money than 1T can get
out of it the money power is there to
take the advantage. One dol
lar from the time Columbus dis
covered America at 2 per cent. would
have produced more than the COM
bined product of all labor, mines, for
ests, etc., in that time. This z per
cent. is too high rate when it is a
more productive agency than labor.
The sub.treasury bill was deemed
unconstitutional, but when the nation
al banker, the distiller, etc, asked
similar fayors there was nobody
in congress to get up and
say it was unconstitutional, He
went on to tell what the purpose and
plan of the sub-treasury bill was.
When the farmer asks for measure
1t was declared unconstitutional. We
have been taught to believe we belong
to the clover classes" He then went
on to illustrate how France through
the agency of subtreasury bill was
enabled to pay an immense subsidy to
Germany which the latter exacted
after the Franco-P Prussian war. In
France this measure extended to all
industries and he was in favor of the
same here. A dollar based on value is
as good as dollar stamped on value
The Live Stock Business.
John Anderson. who buys and ships