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

We are Americans, not Eng1ishmen. nor
Germans nor of any other nation. We
believe il distributing the burdens Of
taxation or the benefits of government
equally among the people as far as it is
possible to do so. In other words, we
believe in the people ruling in this
country.
When I left the Republican party l
left it for good. Like the man who was
seasick, Do you suppose am doing this
for fun? Some years ago came to the
conclusion that it was desirable that the
connection between the grand old party
and myself should be broken, but there
was no compulsion used except on my
part. For years had been a member
of that party, with all its grand memo
res, and it was a hard struggle for me
then, and now dislike to speak Of it in
harsh terms Of censure, but it seems to
me that that party with whom associ-
ated SO long has gradually departed from
its old principles of Justice to all.
We feel here in Kansas that we must
have a change. We cannot, get relief
from congress. We ask for relief and
they laugh at us. In New York city the
president and his secretary run over to
see what they can do, handling the peo-
ple's money in order to relieve the strin-
gency there, while we in this state, in
bright, beautiful, wonderful Kansas,
are famishing for money? We are op-
posed and against prosperity there while
there is a stringency in every family here.
We need a new party for this. We ask
for the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer. Then comes the Mckinley bill.
We ask for reduction of tariff duties
instead Of an increase, which that bill
has added to the taxes already heaped
high upon the people.
The great middle classes have no
thought of disappearing. They are now
asserting themselves. Next year QS92)
they will marshal a grand army Of peo-
pie and prepare to take possession Of the
government, and by the close of the
Nineteenth century these United States
will'be governed by the people that live
in them. g.
started out to assist in this farmers
movement, and thanks to the Master
first and the people of Kansas next we
have succeeded. Here is one of the
fruits of it.
Now, good friends, thanking you for
this distinguished mark Of your conf
dence, wishing you all manner of pros
;perity, promising here and now to conse-
crate my life, if necessary, to the work
with which you have intrusted me,
will drink to your good health and re.
tire.
Suiting the action to the word, the
/ new senator seized q goblet Of water
drank tie contents and gracefully stepped
down.
| Coz. Livingstone's Views.
| In recent interview Col. L. r. Liv.
.:;ngstone, president of the Georgia State
Alliance, said:
My conviction is that the crying need
of the farmers in America and the
masses generally is lack Of sufficient
money to do business on a cash basis
The men who buy on credit and conduct
all their trade on the future payment
plan are always at the mercy of a mon
cJeu I1uS.a 4u OGOISia Gue A1llGuCe HIS
already accomplished splendid results
and reduced the cost of necessities to its
thousands of members. We have state
exchange in Atlanta with $4,000 cash
on hand
When a farmer wants to buy barrel
Of pork or 100 pounds Of sugar he does
not close with the wholesale merchant
till he has visited the exchange Then
he goes back and gets bedrock prices, be-
cause the wholesaler knows that he must
fall to exchange figures The aggregate
of money our people have saved annual
ly in this way is enormous. But with
all this there is an imperative demand
for more money.
Of course we still favor the sub-treas
ury measure; adherence to that idea was
reaMrmed at the national convention.
We are not welded to that particular
plan, however, if better one on the
same lines can be formulated. We think
it thoroughly constitutional and right.