Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1893-08-25
ron. SOUTH DAKOTA. FRIDAY AUGUST IS. 1893

I'LL GHe uulOuS, Aruler s Alliance, FaCrO0S
of Industry anG all the silver men-men
who favor the double standard of oul
Constitutional money, have rallied to the
Populist party, and the growth of that
party has so alarmed the gold men in
both old parties they have now fell upon
a plan to check or kill this Populist party
to save their own. Cleveland and Hoke
Smith have adopted a plan to rob the
Union soldiers, by taking their pensions
away and cutting down the poor soldier,
thinking this will drive them back into
the republican party, and to check the
falling off of the democratic party in the
South, until they get the people SO reduc-
ed in poverty that they will submit to
slavery without resistance. B. COLvIN,
ST. Charles, Mich, July "a, 1893.
The money power gave us the bloody
shirt to keep the north united and negro
supremacy and force bills to keep the
south united, when these began to wear
out, the money power found the tariff an
excellent thing to keep the people fight
ing over, but they never allowed their
hired organs TO speak of finance Com
rade Colvin is right. Cleveland and Hoke
Smith are now playing another political
game. The pension raid is to bloody
shirt" the north again with the hope that
one of the old parties may remain in
power. This bold and damnablc con-
spiracy is only another scheme of the
money power, but it will not succeed.
The peoples party must live, for through
1t and by it we must regain our liberties
and commercial freedom. Study this
pension raid and you will see clearly ex-
posed this new danger to a party Of the
people. The best brains of the nation is
purchased by British gold, but thank
God the great common people are on the
picket line once more. The old soldiers
in the peoples party will stand true to
their co'ors If u hundred paltry pensions
were at. state instead Of one. What
do the republican masses now think Of
their leaders when nearly all are active
in support of Cleveland and his methods?
If republican leaders were to demand OF
Cleveland restoration of pensions or
they would vote Tor free coinage, Mr..
Cleveland would order Hoke Smith to re-
store every mans pension instantly. The
republican leaders areNactually backing
Hoke Smiths pension raid because
through it they hope to :bloody shirt
the north again and by this means break
the ranks of the populists. 1t is des-
perate and damnable conspiracy, and ii
must be met by an American spirit Of no
surrender. Do we find any Of the great
republican papers threatening democracy
with a solid north? No. not yet, because
it might expose the conspiracy. Com
rades and republicans look this thing
square in the face and you will easily
discover why Cleveland is making raid
on the pensions. The gold bugs in the
democratic-republican party are not FOOLS
Cleveland knows rs certain as sunrise
that pension raid will do more to unite
the republicans Of the north than any
other political move that could be made.
Then why does he do IT? The object is
plain. The southern democrats are
breaking away from the old party and
joining the populists. Over a million
northern republicans have joined the
populist party and the populist armv is
growing as no party ever grew. The
success of the populist party means free
coinage, destruction to robber trusts and
combines, and regulation of transporta-
tion. British gold aided by American
traitors in high positions is pltted against
the army Of the people. II it cannot be
democratic supremacy, it must be re-
publican supremacy, because either will
preserve the supremacy of British gold
and British interests in u nation formed
through the heroic struggles Of Wash
ington's little army composed of men
who had to fight British gold and British
soldiers as we'll as hired mercenaries. A
British army is in possession Of New
York today tlanked by American tories.
A Benedict Arnold is in command of the
eastern defenses at Washington, but there
sia great patriot army closing in from
the west and south, and traitors must do
as Arnold did-cross the ocean, Let
every American, native or nnturalized.
throw party to the dogs and stand up
for his country, his liberties, and his own
EDITOR LEADER.