The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-04-22
JAY GOULD AND THE FARMER.

FTeH0Dt county (a3 def8ld:-Ine
LeMaTs Globe says that Jay Gould Is re-
ported to have said recently II can hire
one-half the farmers of the United
States to shoot the other half to DEATH
The above opinion Of the American
farmer by Jay Gould, the great railroad
magnate of the country. is too largely
true, and is too largely justified by the
experience Of Jay Gould. The schemes
he and his 'confederates have put for
ward and carried from time to time
through the politicians they have bought
offices for with money taken from the
farmers by other like schemes that have
proceeded them, have been such trans
parent schemes of robbery that we do not
wonder that Jay Gould has q supreme
contempt tor the American farmer, and
thinks him a creature that can be led up
to the support of any kind of measure or
scheme that the party bosses have the
audacity to place before them DIS party
measures. This man Gould has seen
the American farmer who did not own a
sheep On earth or have a dollars stock
in the manufacture thereof, with a wife
and several children to maintain, all
wearing on an average six and one-half
pounds OF WOODEN goods the year round,
clam0ring for q tax duty on such goods
of from seventy-tive cents to one dollar
and fifty cents, because the party bosses,
bought thereto by the mill owners, have
designated such a policy as n Of the
rules OF faith for their party, under the
high sounding name of protection to
American labor and American industry.
This man Gould has seen the American
farmer who did not own an ounce of ore
or stock in any furnace or smelter, and
who did not own q foot of forest trees or
have a dollars stock in any lumber mill,
ciamoring, on the same grounds as those
mentioned in case Of wool, for a tariff
tax duty of fifty to two hundred per
cent. on iron and lumber. Such farmers
are practically shooting IL another in
the interest OF the Carnegies and tho
Algers, and why should not Gould come
naturally to the opinion he is credited
with? This man Gould has seen the
agents of the money power in Europe
and this country, through stealtll and
fraud, strike The silver dollar, the peoples
money, from the money system of the
country, thus doubling the debt Of the
debtor class, the overwhelming majority,
in the interest Of the Shylocks and money
lenders. a contemplate minority in
point Of numbers; and when the friends
of the farmer and the great masses Of the
people have suggested redress of that
wrong and the restoration of that dollar,
this man Gould has seen the American
farmer coming to the rescue of Shylock
and the money lenders, and with the
fraudulent phrases Of the arch enemy OF
the farmer in their mouths, %denouncing
in hot words those who are trying to dc
them q favor. The advocates Of the
money power clamor about an "honest
dollar and weep at tho thought of the
fraud farmers and pensioners have tc
stand in payment for their produce and
their patriotism, and call it party poll
ties; and the American farmer forgets
that Shylcck and the money lenders
struck the silver dollar down by stealth
and fraud when it only contained 3711ll
grains, nearly Al grains less than thu
. present dishonest" silver dollar has, ant
and he forgats that Shvlock and the
money lenders would be opposing its
restoration if conditions had changed
, and its restoration was now a matter O
peril to the farmer, laborer and pension
! er. Jay Gould knows that the farmer, o.
any other man, who can be made to rol
himself and, in the interest of the rob
Der gang, strike down as foes the mel
who would suggest that the farmers ar
I being robbed, are in a high state Of dis
: cjpline and it is not strange at all, stand
ing where he does, on the inside of al
these ontragcs, where he knows thei.
real character. that he should come t,
the conclusion that he "can hire one hal
$ Of the farmers of the United States t
shoot the other half to DEATH" There i
, i'll this opinion of JAY Gould's rich foot
for farmers careful consideration.