Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1890-12-25
over here to replace their help. The. re-
sl1lt of this system is To reduce the stand

suit of this system is to reduce the stand
ard of intelligence Of American labor. ii
And, in many instances, after these
greedy and unscrupulous manufacturers i
have succeeded through starvation in 4
compelling their American help to accept
the low standard of wages they have es-
tablished through this competition, let
the imported help go adrift to become
paupers aud vagabonds in the commun-
ity. Hence, we say that the welfare Of
the nation demands that laws shall be
enacted that will prohibit this heinous
competition. 4,
Let me read you Article XVII.
"That in connection with the postohice,
the government shall organize financial
exchanges, safe deposits and facilities for
deposit of the savings of the people in
in small sums.
Those eastern capitalists are very
shrewd and wise fellows. They are off 3
the same cut Of cloth as those 9sCredit
Mobilier'' fellows spoke about in the
fore part of my remarks: They build a
lot Of cotton and Woolen mills, and fill
them up with human bees; and set the
bees to gathering honey and they notice
that the bees have little surplus honey.
that they do not use to feed, clothe and
house them, and they say, '.We might
just as well have that-the bees don't
want it." How do you suppose they 60
to work to get hold Of that surplus honey
1
my friends? Let me tell you: They are
like those Credit Mobiliers that referred
to awhile ago. They organize wheel
within wheel. The directors in the
cotton and woolen mills become directors
in savings bank, and they say to the
bees, put your money in this savings
bank, and we will give you four per cent
per annum for it. Then the directors
send it out west and loan it TO the west
ern farmers at ten per cent. Then the
western farmer raises wheat, and just be-
fore he sells it he adds that ten cents to
his selling price. When he has sold it he
forwards that ten cents to the bank The
wheat is shipped east and the bees eat it,,
and when they have done SO they have
eaten their own four cents and the other
fellows six with it and are that much
worse off than when they started in at the
game. Then again, they place one of
their number to take care Of this money.
, They call him a cashier, :" and every
once in awhile we pick up our morning
paper-and find out that one Of these fell
!. lows has skipped over to Canada with
4 money in his pocket. Now what we
. want is, that the government should
take charge Of the savings Of the people
!, in small sums, and we think that it will
be an impossibility for the government to
!. get over to Canada between two days"
! without us knowing something about the
. moving when it is going on.
! have been travelling through the
: states Of Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa and
Kansas, and find level section Of coun-
q try. Still you have great many side
d hill farms. Perhaps you who live in this
q level country don't know what side
hill farm is. live in very hilly Sec
: ton Of country, will tell you what .
side hill farm is in my section. There
> was a wag in my town who was always
blowing about his fathers farm. He
2 said that his father had the most pro-
: ductive farm ther was in town. Another
= wag became tired of hearing Bill blow
- about his farther's farm, SO one day he
: said to him, "Bill, what is there about
= your fathers farm that makes it so pro-
ductive?" ''Well, . said Bill, s'it is side
hill farm 'sBut," said the other man,
= "there is not any thug peculiar about a
!, side hill farm in this section 'Well
!, there is about this one, replied Bill,
: .'How is that Bill ~ '.Well, you see we
) stand it up on its edge and plant both
Sides How is that, Bill? Is there
: not danger of the farm blowing over in a
good strong wind?" ooh no. said Bill.
: "But how is it, Bill?' .'Well' ..ex-
! planned Bill. II will tell you: It is
: propped mp with mortgages on both sides
so it can It fall" I opine there are lots Of
such side hill farms out here in the west.
The Bureau of Labor statistics of the
SV10C VI AAASAlSdA COu1pllcO bue 1uOTtSdS6
Indebtedness in ten counties in that state
in 1888, but the State officials stopped
him when he had gotten that far. But
placing the same ratio on the whole State
reveals the fact that there is S123, ,OOO, 600
of mortgages on the farms of the State
of Michigan. Take that open village and
city property, including bank documents,
and it is one hundred and twenty-eight
million more, making 1886, 100000 Of
debt on the State of Michigan. That is
one million people in Michigan. That
means 500 dollars in usury, annually, on
every man, woman and child in the State.
Michigan is a favored State. She has
not been subject to the high railroad
freights like Dakota, she has seven hun.
, dred miles Of natural water coarse to ship
her produce to market. Besides that she
has been drawing from the virgin forests
| the accumulation of thousand years
| O. I .