Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25
SHELDoN'S SPEECH!

The following is the comment of
the st. Lawrence s. ID. journal on
S~heldon's reference to Loucks in
his Mitchell address, which the
Independent press is now trying to
dIstort into b reflection on foreign
ers generally.
Loucks is insincere and therefore
a hypocrite or the most pronounced
order-invading American soil in
Il, quest of gullibles-under pay of
British free trade gold bugs, incul-
eating dogmatic demagogo where
his duty under the stars and stripes
should compel him to teach.
patriotism and love of country"
= industry-economy-and Faith
in God.
Because
Loucks disclosed his sole purpose
20 be to
GET A OFFICE
even before he was yet naturalized
a fact the State Journal has got she
documents to prove.
Because
Loucks lived, Toasted, fatted and
grew off the blood money he has
sucked like "a rcmorseless vampire
from the pockets of American far
mers, without one single instance
returning to them one dollar or
even one peuny's worth of return
IN any way, shape or manner.
Because
In order to do this Loucks first
insiduously ensnared and sedu-
cei those farmers into joining
under misleading inducements the
organization called the Alliance.
Because
Having thus gotten them into
his tolls by solemn obligations, re,
iuforced by secret incantations,
grips, signs and pass words, he then
proceeded to teach his victims that
their homes were living hells-that
they were all slaves. political Gu
nuchs and corporation serfs. That
he government was worse than
lligarchic and the American con-
stitutlon a fraud, delusion and a
mare, That ~plutocrats are as
thick in the United States as vipers
in the Jungle of HIndustan, and
twice as deadly to any of us OF the
common herd. That the govern.
nent should furnish a warehouse
to every raiser of sEeol and shite-
pokes to store his harvest in, and
then go into the brokerage business
by paying the owner 80 per cent Of
their cash value and stand all the
losses consequent upon the deprecl
ltion in value, fire and the wrath
# God. That government ought
10 buy up or c~onficate all the rail.
!, roads, and give to every man Il life
pass over the roads or at most.
charge a man no more for carrying
= him to Chicago or New York than
for carrying a hog the same dis
E ance. That every job printer o.
the county ought to print on.
money AID LIBITUM AID INFINITTM
That the banks of the country
<hould all be shut up and TIN
bankers made to carry "a hoo
: for a living. That silver, squashes
pewter or pumpkins only need
government stamp at the roots o
heir tail 10 make either of then
! .ood money Tn,hat all our debt
$ should be repuIa' ed and the hold
4 ers Of mortgages should be ~cruciiet
If they ever called around 10 Sc
now our babies are getting along
That 10 mar should have any NOR
money or property than another
nut if he should SO happen to hav
more he must whack mp, mot for
getting a cork leg for Loucks, AM
divide with all his brethren or b
. 5oiled in oil Il be refuse. That n
{ man should pay more than l pc
cent for money-and after he get
it never pay it back, but fay tn
: man alive with an old Jackie il h
. ores to collect it.
D Because
Loucks consorts with the Her
Mosts, Bob Haires, Bob Schillings
aud Lucy Parsonses of the center
Of vice of our country, at the sam
time giving the right hand of fel
! lowship to the rebel brIgadiers ant
knights of golden circle from th
Potomac to the Rio Grande.
Because
Loucks endeayors to convert tn
/ veteran soldier of America int
reasonable denunciation of tn
government for which they Tough
!, so calamity, aud attempts to Ell
yeigle them into Il m%organatic mar
riage with the red. handel devils