Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1894-03-23

Money vs.. Principle.

IHcr0 IS YET llkellnQOQ LnaG OreLnefn
may dwell in unity together, rs Bro. Nash
quotes Bro. Linn on the tariff question
last week, and as he makes no comment
on the quotation, it is presumed that he
endorses it. 1t is well-let us lay aside
the personal animosities and together
work for the good of the community, and
the welfare OF our pocketbooks.-Canton
Advocate.
The editor of the LEADER has labored
faithfully for the best interests Of the
people OF Dakota as territory and as a
state for nearly twenty-five years, and he
hopes to continue to do so until he
answers the final roll call. We have
had few offers where money could have
been made easy at the sacrifice Of princi-
pie, but they were in early days when
the writer was running the only republi-
can paper Of the territory, and the offers
of profit came from republican leaders.
We like money as we'll as any ordinary
mortal, but not we'll enough to sell
principle or privilege to be free. 1t is
this debasing hunt of the local republi-
can press of the state that makes them
dishwashers for the bosses, silent tools
Of corruption, towards in principle,
false beacons in the ocean of progress
and prosperity, and small increase in
their political crumbs will buy their sill
ence and their hearty endorsement of
any thing from deficiency tax steal down
-, -, <>f IN 6-
ings on the Sisscton reservation, or the
hiding of school funds by Tom Ruth, or
the fraud practiced by Joe Frudenfeld
on the state funds, or the nasty dirty
nest of corruptionists who have wrecked
the Brookings college, or that the next
general election means six years hence,
or anything else that the corrupt bosses
desire. Thousands Of good honest re-
publicans all over the state are far from
being satisfied with the cowardly course
pursued by the republican press, and we
shall miss our guess il results next fall
do not prove it. No, Mr.. Advocate, you
and the sealing wax leech can fight for
plunder and sell your mouths. but the
LEADER wants nothing but fair open
field and its merits will gain for it all it
deserves. Nash has received over Sd, 900
out Of the county as pay for work and
mouth plasters, and as his mouth is get
ting dry he will soon be calling on can.
didates for friendship in his business,
and from the outlook we very much fear
the Advocate will be pegging along at
the tail end of the procession with a ban
ner inscribed: Il do the squealing and
Nash gets the swill'' No, Mr.. Advocate,
the Header wants no plunder divide.
1t iabors for the people and their pros
perity, it will fight trusts, combines,
monopoly, political boss;sm, and fraud
in any shape. The editor did 50 as q
republican. and he will continue the
same honorable course rs an independent,
populist or peoples party man, for in
his present struggle for human aiberty,
Justice and equality before the Jaw, he
believes he is better republican, as re-
pu5licanism WAS represented by Mr..
LiGcoln, than airy man who wtsoops it
up Cor the old party and votes her blind.
Repr blicanism Of today and the repub-
lcxnsm of Mr.. Linooln, whom voted
for when carrying a musket down in old
Virginia, is 50 much changed from the
original that there is no comparison.
The Independents of 1894 represent the
spirit and purpose Of the boys who
volunteered in 1861, when southern Plu.
tocracy fired on Sampler. Northern
plutocracy is in the saddle now, aod the
fate Of the nation depends on the spirit
Of Independence like anto that which split
the o:d bell at Philadelphia. Keep right
on Mr. Advocate, the LEADER waats no
hand ia the ring deals. 1t enjoys the
confidence of the business men and farm
ers of I.iacoln county, and cares little
who gets the corruption funds Of sGate
and county. The LEADER is a news
paper and prospers on its merits.