Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1891-01-01

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%, ,a, 1890.
Detaled EXPLANATION Of Some Of the
pdnctp ts Of the Knights Of Labor
& Organization.
.5 II g:s NUMBER VII. Il s. !.
Nov 6dies and gentlemen let me tell
you wha hfluence the whisky ring have
with yolS. national legislation. The
whisky fttg has q law passed that when
they mani facture barrel Of whisky they
oan toll, INTO : government warehouse
land theSGpvernment will house it for
them fd hree years before they will be
obliged bay the tax of ninety cents per
gallo At the end Of three years there
IhANS ba i've gallons Of that whisky
Eeva the government will pay the
distillers Aesired to sell that whisky at
the end III one or two years he can walk
|4ntoa n Tiers place and sell him the
whisky, nd then walk down to the build
ling and Ny the government 80 cents q
gallon fg stamps, stick them on the bar
! rel and Ike it out and deliver it. And
during tfe past winter congress passed a
law that when any of these distillers want
Ito expott any whisky they my do SO
withoA paying any tax on the same.
Now; letme tell you something that the
pol iticias si q sshs did not tell you in the last
presidential campaign. It is this, That
thesunpaid taxes on whisky in the bonded
warehouses of the United States, were it
collected tomorrow would increase the
surpIui in the treasury s6s, 900, 600. My
friends, think of a combination that is
Sabiest make you and as citizens Of this
4 lgdernment furnish them with sixty
eight millions of credit to do business
With, and then say that you would not
jdm the knights of Labor OF Farmers
Alliance to crush that out, because it
i sQeA yQN twenty cents per month in
dues. Amt you ashamed Of yourselves!
14-CENT CORN; S14 COAL. s
In the month Of December last was in
st. Louis, meeting with the delegates to
the farmers convention and they told that
they were paying per cent for money
borrowed on notes to raise the money to
buy seed with which to plant their farms,
and that they were now endeavoring Ia
meet these notes (and not with very great
success, either with money obtained by
selling corn at IA cents bushels deliver
ed on board the cars, Six days from
that timeI was at my home in the state
of New York. The first morning after !
got home my wife treated me to Jonny
cake, and / was congratulating myself on
her economical turn OF mind in feeding
me on food that only cost IA cents per
bushel All at once the idea occurred to
me to ask how much she paid for that
food Well, " she replied 'I bought a
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fresh twenty-five pound sack yesterday
and paidsthirty cents for it, Corn ID
cents bushel in Kansas had become 60
cents a bushel in corn meal in New York:
in six days am out here to see if L can
find that difference, or at least to find out
where it has gone.
Two weeks after that was in the coal
fields of LacAawanna and Wyoming and
they informed me that the miners had
only been working eight days per month
for the past Eve months. Here is the
situation: Corn Il cents per bushe1 in
Kansas; anthracite coal $14 a ton in Kan
sas; farmers burning corn in Kansas; and
miners in Pennsylvania working only
eight days per month and their families
going hungry for the want of corn. And
yet we have secretary of Agriculture
appointed by the present administration
and labelled a farmer after they got him
that has been telling you farmers that
the trouble is that you have an overpro-
duction of corn
GOVERNMENT RAILROADS.
.sThat the government shall obtain
possession, under the right of eminent
domain; of all telegraphs, telephones and
railroads, and that hereafter no charter
or license be issued to any corporation
for construction or operation of any
means Of transporting intelligence, pas
sengers and freight"
This article is number XVIII. We are
told hu o,,r 0o,, covx,o &;x,, f,:,r ~.