Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-14

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A Correction.
Editor HERALD,
Dear Sir:-The following commun-
lcatlon was sent to the Sieve for publi-
cation, last week, and as the manager
did not publish the correction, nor even
mention it, ask your indulgence for
space in the HERALD this week.
L. l.. BLANK.
10 the Jerauld County Publishing
Company.
Gents:-did clip the following from
your issue OF the Sieve of July Both (?
We clip the following from article in
Stewartville (Minn) Star. paper
published by our former townsman,
Mr.. L. L. Blank:
The Mckinley law taxes (robs) all
the citizens of the United States, and
then turns the money over to the su-
gar manufactures at the rate of two
cents a pound for what sugar they
mako. The Mckinley robbers try to
justify the robbery by saying "that it
makes sugar cheap"
/ am surprised at the stupidity or
the willful Misrepresentation of the
management in quoting the above
from the Star as if it were our indivi-
dual opinions. In the first place the
pretended quotations is a gabbled |
sentence and even that which IS quot
ed is so changed as not to express the
true meaning, and in the second place |
the article was clipped from and cred
tied too The Waseca (Milnesota) Her
aid, and published entire in the Star.
Had we willed to misrepresent the
subject, which is that of the Peoples
Party. we would have done as the
management of the Publishing Com
pany did last week, and have publish
ed such expressions as these.
"Mr. Donnelly in his Cincinnati
platform say that the general govern
men shall tax all the people for the
accumulation of a large fund which
shall be loaned to farmers at two per-
cent per annum on land and grain
mortgages
'''rKH,slate" published in st. Paul,
in the interests of the ''Party' says:
1t my. neighbor who own a farm,
worked by hired labor may use the
government as money lender why may
not who am, say, a brewer or dis
tiller."
Would it be Just to the working
man or woman whose capital is
their strengthen body and mind, who
are compelled to pay taxes on every
manufactured thing they use to make
up this fund to he loaned to some
shiftless farmer, while they would
not borrow any OF this money them
selves
The fact is the whole scheme is a
fraud concocted by dishonest or ig-
norant demagogues to deceive and
mislead ignorant people. No honest
man OF intelligence believes or teach
es any such schemes for robbing the
industrial people of the United States.
The would be Donnelly robber tries
to Justify their proposed robbery Of
the masses by saying 1T will make
money cheap
Cheap is no name for these and
all similar robberies instigatea by a
set OF cheap demagogues who hope to
ride ito power thereby.
* Reform party should be party
with equal privileges and taxation for
all-SpeClaI laNois iol iioiio'
The coming new party OF this coun-
try must be founded upon the princi-
pies Of exact Justice and equal rights
for all mankind. ''No other need ap-
ply"
These expressions come nearer ex-
pressing the sentiment of the article
as published in the Waseca Herald
and copied in the Star, than that pub
lishea IN the Selve of last week.
T.. LINUS BLANK.
mulM