Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-09-11

OF gems, but our p. NJ. says there's
nothing higher, nobler, finer or purer
than the Ruby.-Alpena Journal.
Among those from the Springs at |
the harvest home picnic" at l,odee's
grove last Saturday were noticed, w. |
l.. Arnold, Messrs e. W., w. N, and
Henry Hill. Mrs. w. N. Hill, Mrs. DR.. !
n. Y. Hall and TRUE Mrs. Cummings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Miles, Mr.. and Mrs. Totlle-
mlre. They all report a good time.
or the picnic the Sioux City Journal
says:
Alta well advertised independent.
rally at liodee's Grove, in this county,
last Saturday, United States Senator
Kyle and II. l.. Loucks, president of
the Farmers state alliance, addressed
ooO people, many Of whom came TWEEN
ty-iive or thirty miles. Senator Kyle
said he was formerly a strong repub-
llcan. but has got the scales off his
ey e., ut last and now holds the repub-
llcan party responsible for the present
ills, because it has been in power the
last thirty years. lie eulogizsd the
Old soldiers and indorsed the Ocala
and Cincinnati platforms, and among
other things SAID: 1--WE come to es-
tabllsh the principles which Underlie
a modified socialism that wax un-
known hundred years ago" He
thought the plan of issuing bonds to
pay the War debt vas wrong; that at
tho end OF each year the government
should have issued legal tender paper
money to represent the difference be-
tween the expenses and the income
and used that money to square up
He claimed that by issuing coin bonds
and paying interest thereon the war
has been made to cost $4,000, 100000
more than it should cost. The clrcu-
lation OF the country thirty years ago,
he says, was $50 per capita, and 1T has:
been steadily reduced until now it is
only So per capita. lie advocated free
coinage OF silver and scorned the idea
that cheap silver will eXpel the gold
from the country; that when gold and
silver are us Is to here and Is to
abroad gold will not leave usany more
than water will run up hill In advo-
eating government railroads he said
the producers and the consumers are
both poor because the railroads and
the spectators get all the profit OF
the crop, and added that the farmers
of the northwest are not getting more
than one fifth OF the actual value OF
their products. In conclusion he
| urged his hearers to stand firm and
assured them that when the shoe
pinches little harder and people" get
Il little more hungry they Will rally
around the Independent standard.
Mr.. Loucks said the indepenpents
are opposed to all class legislation;
that all interest is a tax upon labor
and ought to be abolished; that no.
body advocates an irredeemable cur
rency; that all money should be either
stamped on value or based on value;
that gold dollar represents 100 cents
worth of gold, a silver dollar80 cents
worth OF silver, a greenback 33 cents
worth of gold, a national bank dollar
10 cents of debt, and dollar based
OH wheat would he better than any of
them, because it would represent 125
cents worth of wheat. He says any
man can take 80 cents worth OF sill
yer bullion to our mints now and ex-
change 1T for dollar certificate; that
we should not attempt to make money
for the world but for this country
alone, and that no danger or injury
will result from an "overllow of mon
ey." He favored government eleva-
tors, said $5O,OOOOOO would build them
and said we can save money enough
to do it by stopping the vase Of mon
ey on the navy that will be rotting in
orr h harhOrS IN a few vears.' that with