Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1893-09-15
The Leader.

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| Plutocrats Need Abating.
| WoRTHING, Sept. II, 189S.-ED LEADER. The
Sioux Valley News Of the Sth inst. we notice
the following "There is shrewed suspicion
| about that most Of the people in congress and
| throughout the United States know by this
| time. down in the deepest recess Of their think
| ers, why so many plaques have fallen on this
country, but too many Of them are like Phoraoh
unwilling to acknowledge it. They howl
against the Sherman law. Well, they roar
about the plutocrats, and really the plutocrats
need abaiting.' Right you are friend Nash.
| I also believe the majority in congress know all
! ! about the difficulty with the country. They
| know they represent the eastern gold owners.
They know that contraction of the currency
will make their gold dollars more valuable.
They know that the bulk OF their crops con-
sist of dividends on railroad stocks, state and
municipal bonds and farm loans. bank stocks
and bank dividends. They we'll know that the
destruction.of silver means the enhancement OF
the purchasing power OF their product. These
same men well know that there is no time in
the history OF any nation when their gold is so
valuable as In an unsettled condition OF the
country. They well know that contraction OF
the currency means reduction Of value OF all
kinds OF food and clothing products. That they
need these to eat and wear and If their pro-
duct, the dollars, will purchase more Of these
it is to their interest.
They bought the wheat crop of 1899 at so
cents per bushel and If they can secure con-
wheat and all other products will be bought
1,,;tJ n
These same men well know that q country can
not be contented and happy when nine tenths
OF all its wealth has been gathered in by less
than one per cent OF its people, They well
know that the masses Of the people are viewing
with amazement and terror the growing power
| of the plutocrats, and If present currents of
wealth still continue to flow toward the east it
will be only few years until all the wealth of
the people and of this great nation is possessed
| by one man out Of every one hundred and then
! ''the home of the free and the land OF the
brave'' will be in the same condition as mon
| archal Europe-a land OF landlords and tenants,
masters and servants-where the one will
gather all the income of althe resources Of soil,
| mine, art and genius that ninty-nine will spend
all their lives trying to NEARLY exist. They well
know that If they should be frank with the peo-
pie ana tell them just what is the matter with
! the country then the people would rise up in
their might and hurl the whole majority out of
their seats in congress and fill them with men
who look with some favor on the interests OF
the industsial and producing classes, and well
they know II this was done the chances OF en-.
shaving the great plain people of this nation
would be forever lost. Well they have studied
the fight which 1.-The grand old man of England
is making for human freedom; they see the
great plain people Of the United Kingdom
standing up for "the grand old man. and the
Home Rule bill passed the Commons; but the
House Of Lords, the plutocracy Of the nation
and owners Of its wealth and sovereignty, voted
against it. Sovereignty IN the industrial and
productive people is death to plutocracy.
The great Lords Of the eastern states stand
shoulder to shoulder and vote to destroy silver
and by so doing destroy one half Of the wealth
OF the country. The one half destroyed is the
property of the producer Food and clothing
products and the products OF the mines de-
preciate, and the gold dollar appreciates, oil in
the interest Of the great lords Of finance. These
eastern men know their business and when
that interest is involved they know no party
lines. All together they stand up and shoulder
to shoulder they aline themselves against sill
yer. r.-.0
Inc I1EHeCS VI tuc WcSI, Cuo IL OOiC1S " CAo
east, the planters Of the south and the miners
Of the far west all send up petitions asking for
free and unlimited coinage Of silver On the
other side the boards OF trade, the clearing
houses and the stock exchanges and the clubs
Of the -four hundred in the great cities, send
up their resolutions that the business interests
Of tie country is injured by the products Of the
mines being coined in silver. Whose interest
is being injured? The petitioners, Of course.
The lords of the east like the lords of England
are attending to their business interest. Well
may my friend Nash say there will be u large
populist vote this fall. That the people feel
that somebody needs licking" You are
right again old man, someone does need u lick
ing. The farmer finds that he has been hit
hard, hard times has stirred up his ire That
wheat under proper conditions should be worth
q dollar per bushel, and the lick it has got has
downed it to forty cents. cotton to six and wool
to twelve and oil other products in proportion.
The fellows who struck such blow at produc-
tion needs licking surely, and if the producer
and laborer fails to hit these fellows u hard
lick, the producers and laborers need the. lick
ing they have got. Well these lords Of finance
know that il the plain hard working, honest
people start in on the licking business they are
experts. They licked England ana Mexico and
subdued the rebellion and the wilds of nature in
this fair land and have made it blossom as the
rose and when ther turn their attention to the
lords OF finance, these same lords will be only
too willing to do ut least justice.
Yes, there is danger Of u large populist vote
this fall The producers of South Dakota are
awaking up to the fact that they need to attend
to their own business interests for while.
They have been looking over their interest and
have taken an invoice Of its condition and what
do they find as the result OF republican rule in
this state: They find that no laws have been
enacted in any manner limiting the greed and
tyranny Of railroads. telegraph and express
companies. That such y thing as corporate
control in q republican legislature could not be
mentioned without being hissed to scorn-until
the chairman Of the railroad committee pub
licly declared there was no hope for the people
of this state while the repuhlican marty was in |