Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1892-09-23


Orator.
She Defeated Senator Ingalls, for Re-elec-
tion and Is Now an Advocate for the Peo-
ple's Party. ..
Standing on the threshold of a century
tiown-a century freighted with hopes
and fears, struggles and triumphs-and
looking through the opened portal of the
century to come, we realize that the same
influences that blotted from among the
powers Of the earth the old nations Of the
earth-Persia, Greece and Rome-and
sent them down to national decay, are at
work on this continent undermining the
foundations of our Republic, centralizlng
all wealth in the hands of a few, and rap
idly reducing the la5oring classes to
condition of pitiable serfdom.
We see the national highway on which
we have been travelling for a century
marked by blighted hopes blasted for
tunes, broken hearts. ruined homes and
fallen virtue-marked by an army of
mlserably because of unrequited toll or
toll denied.
We see law-favored few sitting in
judgment on the life of the people,
intrenched ON the thrones of justice,
their tongues clothed with sophistry and
falsehood. They degrade and pollute the
pew and pulpit extol Mammon, and pro-
nounce as a virtue that which the Son of
Man declared co-equal with murder and
idolatry. They send the starvation driven
wretch and the thoughtess boy to The
penilentlary for peculation and exalt to
the higest position in State and Nation
gamblers, thieves and moral wreckers of
society. The men whom the old prophets
sent to He'll are sent by bribery and Doodle
to Congress to make laws for the people.
Society rotten, the foundation and
superstructure of our social makeup is
honey -combed with fraud and hypocrisy.
Churches are SO rotten that were the Son
of Man--the tramp Christie seek ad-
mission to their portals for himself or his
Galilean followers they would be arrested
and punished as vagrants. So-cal'ed
ministers of Christ uphold false political
doctrine and join with the oppressors
against the oppressed instead of preach
ing the word of God.
At last has come the awakening! A
true monopoly of land, transportation
and money is jeopardizing the blood
bought liberties of the people. Some
thing must be done. Awakened by op-
preston, stern and relentless as destiny,
men seek wisdom in council, strength in
unity and harmony IN organization. 'We,'
they say, ''can get along without pluto
Gratis and their knaves, but they cannot
get along without us to aid them in their
schemes of robbery
And So, all over this broad land, cor
ganization" has become the keynote Of
mighty movement among the masses-a
movement that is the beginning of a revo-
lution-not, l trust. revolution of blood
and bullets, but a revolution of brains
and ballots, that will shake this conti
nent move the world, emancipate the
toilers and bring redemption, not only to
the American people, but to all the world.
The united and embattled hosts of or
ganized labor will rescue the perishing
and send forth the sanitary angel of JUS
tice with the flaming sword of liberty to
drive from our land the miasma Of pow
erty and sin, for they are analogous terms.
A rise in breadstuffs means fall in
virtue and morality; an increase in the
cost of living means an increase in the
sum total of vice and crime.
1t is folly to talk of morality and tenn
perance to hungry stomach. Gods
PHYSICAL laws demand food, raiment and
shelter, and we would decrease poverty,
vice and crime by tending to the physical
necessities and obeyng natures irrevo-
cable laws College-bred fools tell us
that pc eriodical famines, with their atten-
dants, vice and poverty, are due to the in
flexible laws of supply and demand,