Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1892-06-17

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bosses to ask themselves this question,
but believing they will not, the LEADER
will remind them of a few plain facts in
this connection. The people, as the APP
plication is used and meant, represent the
bone and sinew of the nation-the pro-
ducers, the artisans and mechanics, the
laboring masses as a whole. The old po-
litical parties never count this host Of
bread winners in their calculations when
counting on party success. The political
bosses say to themselves: Well run the
machine for profit and plumber, the peo-
will do the voting blindly, as heretofore,
under the party lash. No, the people
will not 60 it blind any longer. Some
will this year as Of old and continue to
wear the party collar around their neck,
but the day IS not far distant when the
toilers must band together for self preser-
vatlon or get ground under the spiked
heels of corruption athome and foreign
money influence in shaping congressional
legislation to rob and crush, the indepen.
dence of the people. The country is drift
| ing faster and faster under the vice-like
grasp Of the bloody lcechs of Wall street,
who care no more for the rights or well
fare of the people than they do for the
worm under their feet. The constitution
Of the United States is tramped under
| foot by our lawmakers in their greed for
money and public plunder, until corrup-
ton owns the simple clerks in the depart
ments who pay monthly blood money to
those over them, for the privilege Of
retaining their positions. This evidence
of beastiy corruption and the ruthless
ambition of men for public plumber, has
sapped the very foundation of the nation,
as represented by congress and the politi-
caaabosses. The affairs of the nation are
in a terribly. demoralized condition. Mon
ey is god with the. political bosses. Place
and plunder is the acme of ambition. De-
struction to the man who stands in the
way. President Harrison stood in the
narrow path Of honor. He must be
slaughtered by men who elected him.
Was there ever such moral depravity and
heartless plunderers as those who knitted
Harrison. So it has gone from year
to year and has now reached the danger
point. Where is the picket line TO stay
the march of this destroying evil? Where
is the old guard? Where are the veterans
to meet and crush this monster corrupt
ion? The people answer-here with
mighty shout. The hope Of the nation
now, As in 1861, lies in the people. They
are forming into grand army such as
the world has never seen. They are Or
ganizing and drilling and will soon find
Lincoln, Grants, Shermans, Sheridans,
Hancocks, and may even meet with q
Bull Run to start with, but the determi-
nation and courage of the people will find
an Appomattox for the nations plunder-
ers just as certain IS death. The people
are slow to move, but move with irresist-
ible force, and will face and force the
battle with the courage of Grants veter-
ans in the Wilderness. The people must
and shall rule The heroes Of Lexington
and Bunker Hill were mostly from the
farm and workshop, and so were the men
of 1S6l-4-men who knew their rights
and could fight for them. The west and
south must unite against the centralized
power of the east and bring the nation
back to the honest methods taught and
practiced by Mr.. Lincoln, a man of the
people and the greatest the nation has
ever produced. The people want honest
government and just laws. Should any
patriot oppose these demands? Take our
own state for an example. Look at the
dlsgraceful fight between Mellette and
Pettigrew as to who runs the state, but
if the people are true to themselves, and
stand firm, Pettigrew and Mellette will
hear from the men 'who are only fit to
raise hogs and pay taxes" as a prominent
republican said of the farmers. The men
who wear cowhide boots will tell the big
| bosses who will run the state after next
November.