Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1891-02-19

turned to Pennsylvania for wife, and
settled on farm near Charlottesville,
Ind. Here he lost the money he had
made in California, and once more re-
moved, this time to southwest ern Mis-.
souri,. When the war broke out Mr..
PETER enlisted in the Eighty-t bird Hi,
nois volunteers, and served ulatil June.
26, 1866.
After the war closed Mr.. Pef er settled
at Clarksville, Tenn. and havin g studied
law while in tho army began its practice
In 1870 he removed to Wilson county,
Kan, where he took up acclaim and tried.
farming again. Two years later he
changed his residence to Fredo: ala, Kan,
where he established the we skly Fre-
donia journal. Moving again, he set up,
The Coffeyville Journal, and lived in
Coffeyville until 1880, serving meantime
one term in the state senate as {! Repub
ican.
In 1881 he removed to Topek and
took charge of The Kansas Fa rmer, Of
which ,he afterward became the pro-
prietor. When the Alliance movement
began he went into it heartily, and his
paper was very influential in bringing
about the success Of the peoples party
last November.
He has published great many arti-
cles and pamphlets that have had wide
circulation, discussing various economic
questions from tho farmers point Of
view, and his article in The Forum Of
December, 1889, on ''The Farmers De
fensive Movement" attracted general
attention.
When notified of his election Senator
PETER responded to the call Of the house
and expressed himself substantially as
follows: .
see before me the representatives 0.
Kansas commissioned to do the will OF
the people. am here as one Of the peo.
pie to say that we people have com
menced the building of new and dis
tinct and independent political party, .
party which is based upon principles
broad and deep as humanity itself. Land
is the common heritage of man, labor is
the common lot of mortals, Transports
ton is the life or death of commercial
industry. Money is the oil which lubri-
Gates the machinery of civilization.
Upon these four fundamental ideas we
propose to build the grandest political
structure ever erected by mankind.
Upon these fundamental ideas we have
formulated creed which is in accord
with the spirit, the needs, the demands
of the present time.
We are opposed to the government
issuing money to banking corporations:
we are opposed to the peoples money
getting to them freighted down with in
terest charges: we believe in the people
making their own money; we are op-
posed to national banking institutions .
for the reason that they aid combines
against the interest of the masses; we
believe in the government, which is sim
ply the agent of the people, issuing their
money directly to them without going
around Robin Hoods barn to find them;
we believe in equal and just taxation:
we are opposed to the taxing of one in
dustry for the support of another; we
are opposed to high tariff dues upon any
article of common use, no matter what.
We believe that free trade, absolute
in many articles, is ofttimes the very
best form of protection. We believe in
raising revenue to defray the expenses
OF the government, and after that in the
adjustment of duties. Let US get out of
the adjustment all the good that we can
for our own people, remembering that