The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1892-09-09
THE OTHER SIDE OF THEPlcru

We reprinted recently collection of
utterances as showing the sentiment
underlying the socalled peoples"
party movement. We print today
some expressions on the other side:
Sioux City Journal: Hon. Justus
Clark is one of Iowa's pioneer Demo-
Gratis. The Red Oak Express quotes
him as saying:
II have no patience with the calami-
ty-howling crowd who spend the great
ser part of the time they should be en-
gagged in earning a livelihood in fault
finding and casting odium on the land
that gives them their existence. Why,
they make more fuss about making
living than we in the early days did in
/ caring for ourselves individually and
making at the same time Of the state of
Iowa what she is today. These fellows
are reaping the rewards that we,
through years of labor and privation,
made possible for them, and vet they
can see nothing but wrongs to harp
against"
~
Volga, S. D., Tribune, Dem.: At
&the present time there is at work in this
campaign a vicious lot of tricksters
1 and demagogues who should receive
1.-The prompt condemnation OF all good
men of whatever party. We refer 10 a
class, who for their own agggrandizement
1 and elevation to official salaries, are en-
adeavoring to pit the farmers against
the workers and tradespeople OF the
cities and villages. According to their
{ tales there is no honesty, no industry
among those who do not till the soil;
4 they are lazy loungers and robbers who
live off what they can plunder from
their neighbors of the country.
n *x*
N. Y. Sun: Mr.. Charles T. Peck,
commissioner of labor statistics in the
sstate of New York, has published re.
sport which seems to be causing consid-
serable political disturbance. Accord
ing to Brother Peck, under the McKin-
ley tariff wages have increased,
strikes have been fewer, and prosperity
prevails more than ever among the
wage-earning people. The report
closes as follows: ''It has been my ex-
perience, as doubt not, it has been
that of every statistician more or less,
that one often finds himself tempted
,.unconsciously, perhaps-to pursue an
Investigation with q view to establish
3spreconceived theory. How often fail
aure and positive discontinue follow 1
can safely leave to those who have en-
gagged in the fascinating study OF statis-
tics. To the true statistlcian, however,
suninf1uenced by social or political con-
ssiderations, the profession is an envia-
8ble one, and carries with it duties and
responsibilities of the highest order.
m
out facts to support them they become
Facts and truth are what he seeks, and
places them, hard and cold as they
fled that he has done but his duty and
Thereby attained his highest ambition" {"
8 ~
}9 Huronite: A South Dakota ex-
change, the clipping from which has
been mislaid, notes by name a farmer
in it's neighborhood who has been so
Exceptionally unfortunate as to lose,
during the past three years, by hail,
wind, drouth and fire, at least $1,000.
8 And yet this poor unfortunate carries a
q cheerful countenance, and laughingly
declines sympathy. He says he came
i here seven or eight years ago with only
three dollars, which stake has grown to
more than net three thousand dollars.
He is rather attached to a country
where man beginning with nothing
can support and school his family, lose a
thousand dollars year, and still get
rich!
Huronite: 1t is going to take about
half million dollars to pay the thresh-
ing bill OF Beadle county this year.
Threshing is tax.
~
Sioux Falls Argus-Leader: w. j..
Jones Of Brandon township, formerly a
member of the board OF county commits
sioners, was in the city yesterday and
gave the Argus-Leader man an inter-
esting talk on farming and farmers.
Mr.. Jones works ITO acres of his quar-
ter section and last year he sold over
$1,000 fromit, and this year he expectsto
do even better. Mr.. Jones is not one of
the calamity howlers.
81 settled here where am with most
of my neighbors eighteen years ago."
said Mr.. Jones. "Myself and those
who live near me had nothing at that
time. Some of us had team of oxen,
others did not. One of my near neigh
bors when he got settled on his land in
a lOxl2 dugout had So in his pocket.
Today he is worth not one cent less
than $4,000 and rides to town in his
own private carriage. The rest of my
neighbors are all in the same boat
we'll fixed. At the same time most of
them belong to the calamity gang, and
are crying how hard up the poor far
mer is. They growl about the national
banks, railroads and corporations.
Where would we farmers be today if it
we're not for these same institutions.
*x* =.
In his recent letter to the press on the
Homestead calamity, 7. V. Powderly
dealt out some very pertinent advice to
the calamity editors. He says:
The Mckinley bill reduced the duty
on the articles manufactured at Home-
stead, and the Democratic papers in as
serting that the trouble at that point is
due to the Mckinley bill are condemn
ing the very thing thatthe themselves
advocate and on which they base their
claim to power "a reduction OF the
tariff. The Pinkertons existed before
opp