Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1893-10-20
42 CENT WHEAT INOCTOBER.
Why Do the People Hesitate to Vote
for Relief and Better Times?
A Prosperous Nation Sinking Uunder
the Iron Heel Of Monopoly.
The People Have a Remedy for This
Infamous Robbery. .,
Party Politics Has Ruined the Nation.
Party Politics Has Ruined the Nation.
Vote for Yourself.

Forty-tw0 cent wheat in October with
a known shortage Of nearly two hundred
million bushels in wheat using countries,
is the sad and unexplained mystery which
stands before the husbandman like a
blight upon his crop. Where is the rem
edy? The answer is most difficult, but
there is remedy and in time the remedy
will be applied if the great masses of the
people will stop voting power into the
hands Of men who in turn sell their power
to the money and corruption classes.
The Chicago stock board-that notorious
gambling hell-where the price of your
products is fixed before harvest is one Of
the Infamous institutions that congress
refused to abolish. Then comes the
European money power operating through
American agents. This power controls
the stock boards and they control the
prices, and in this manner they are de-
termined to make the farmer sell his
products at their prices. These infam-
GUS agencies fix a price on what you sell
and what you buy, and will continue to
do so Just so long as the people will keep
either Of the old parties in power, because
the power through which these human
hycnas rob and despoil is given and main
tained by the corrupt old party bosses
for the money Furnished for their CAM
which of the Old parties rule so long as
the leaders are purchasable.
There are twenty-three millions of
people represented by the producing
classes, and this vast army is being rob
bed and plundered through class. legis-
lation. Millions do not get enough to
eat, while the granares OF the west and
south overflow with abundance, yet
prices are SO low that there is no profit
for labor The money power has forced
prices below the cost of production.
submit to this infamous robbery? How
long can they submit and exist as free
holders and free men?
"A politica! revolution is before us.
Join the army and march TO peace and
prosperity, or you will have to join
another kind of an army that travels III
blood, for SO sure us there is IL just God
so sure will, come relief come how it
may There is no longer any sense in
expecting relief at the hands of srium-
phant plutocracy.
Cut loose from the power Of party
bosses and with voice and ballot speak
for liberty, justice and equality.
A prominent Boston republican recently
said there was not the slightest excuse
for the recent panic, only for the re-
adjustment of prices for labor and pro-
ducts. ~. ..:.-
The howl about tariff is a fraud.
The howl about the Sherman law is a
fraud.
The country was never more pros
porous, yet look at the conditions which
the people have to meet. Prices for labor
and products are down. Gold goes up.
1t takes two bushels and half OF wheat
to buy dollar where but a few years
ago one bushel Of wheat would buy a
dollar. This Infamous wrong has been
brought upon you by the betrayal of the
people.
Why delay longer! The fight mus,
come Let the good people OF South
Dakota join the little army Of liberation.
Conditions must change.
There is not reading and thinking
man in South Dakota today but knows
that radical change in our political
management must take place. There is
no hope for relief from the party in
power. No party has ever or will ever
reform itself. This is as true as Holy
Writ. Not only must the infamous de-
fciency tax be wiped out but all other
taxes must be reduced.
One half of the state today is hardly
able to pay the regular tax levy let alone
a robber deficiency tax.
If the present supreme court is re-
elected it will hold the deficiency tax
legal. If the peoples party candidates
for supreme Judges are elected they will
respect the Constitution, which has now
been set aside.
The people must protect their rights
under the aw.