The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-11-02

assume that the better class of news
paper correspondents could be thus
tampered with by anybody.
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Inc moment that the present tariff
became operative against German made
sugar, the olfactory sense and micro
copes OF Emperor Williams domain
were trained upon American meats.
lhe result is that the latter are exclud-
ed, on the alleged grounds of our cattle
and hogs being diseased. A free entry
OF German sugar, however, would
render the mixture of American meats
with saur kraut wholly unobjection-
able. Reciprocity possesses the ad-
vantage of conforming to human nature
to large degree.
The Populist organs, especially those
which are grey boards" at the bust
ness, having ventilated the wool ques-
ton, should now proceed to regulate
the sugar market. Their formula, for
campaign purposes, is as follows: Free
wool Increases competition and raises
the price; a high tariff on sugar re-
strlcts competition and lowers the
price. In the first instance, protection
is fraud: in the second it is reform.
But these who have sold wool and
bought sugar find that Populist econ
omics and business experience consti-
tute an inverse ratio.
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The Populists and Democrats can
"analyze" the statements of Auditor
Nipple all they please, but they cannot
and do not show that they are incorrect.
Anybody can make charges and insinu-
ations, but no reasonable voter will
doubt the truthfulness of the official
statement of the state auditor, whose
figures are verified by the state records.
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All voters should ponder over the
significant fact that, the country over,
the business men are standing almost
solid against the election of Populist
lawmakers and Populist officials. They
do this irrespective of political belief,
simply because Populism, as they hear
it and read it from that partys speak
ers and organs, carries with it threat
against business prosperity. Business
men do not always object 10 the per-
sonnel of the Populist ticket, so much
as they do to the unsafe and extreme
ideas which the party stands for. When
farmers come to ponder the matter
over, they will find that their interests
and those of the business men in town
and village are identical upon the gen
eral proposition. And how can the
laborer figure out any profits to him
self in arraying himself on the side
which is antagonistic to the interests
of business and enterprise? We appeal
to the self-interest and reason OF the
voter not to his prejudice nor his sus-
picions.
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Evidently the Populist papers are
under good discipline. 1t has not been
long since the majority of them were
publishing that portion of the Omaha
platform preamble, which set forth
that, while virtue, temperance, educa-
tion ETC., were desirable, they we're
secondary" to the economic doctrines
of the Populist party. But since Judge
Palmer has shown up the danger which
would naturally result from such a
teaching, we are unable to find the
noted preamble in any Populist praper
in the state. 1t has been called Off.
If we mistake not the voters will call
off the whole platform.
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Editor Loucks of the Ruralist is now
president of the "South Dakota Mutual
Investment Saving and Sinking Asso-
ciation." as ner interpretations recently
Ii d. Probably llle fnputist farmers
are expected to do the saving and in
vesting and Loucks the sinking.
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1t is announced that E. j. Dean, Pop
ulist candidate for state senator in
Jerauld county, some time in the past
married an Oregon lady with million
dollars While he does not claim to
have any OF the money left, he claims
to be the most intellectual man before
the people in the state. A correspond
ent in that county suggests that he is
too intellectual to run we'll.