Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1894-07-13
The Farmers Leader
The Cause Of the Trouble.
A Brief Review Of the Struggle
Between Capital and Labor.

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Between Capital and Labor.
The destruction Of every ancient re-
public was brought about by concentra'
tion OF capital in the hands Of the few,
and the despotic sway of aristocracy and
plutocracy.
The laws Of God and man were laughed
at.
Virtue was on a scale with the brutal
passions which ruled under Belshazza1
and Nero. Human life was sacrificed
IN contests with hungry and maddened
beasts that plutocrats might laugh al
human agony.
The dark ages followed and humanity
became as savages. then the fierce light
Of the reformation followed and the
world grew better. The great American
republic was discovered and it was bap'
tised in blood that it might remain
home for the free and the brave.
The nation grew and prospered under
the god-giyen privileges of equality anc
Justice, because the soul-destroying pow
er Of money greed had not yet crossec
the Atlantic, and there were very few
mlllionaires in the United States wher
the slave power forced war upon the peo
pie to maintain and strengthen the!l
crime against moral and divine law.
The war freed the black slave anc
through the mighty struggle came the
money sharks of the old world to faster
their claws upon an unsuspecting people,
whose rights and liberties were sacrificed
by traitors in congress.
The European Rothschllds through the
John Shermans, after the war was over,
proceeded TO fasten their blighIing grasp
upon the finances of the young republic,
and billion dollars in greenbacks were
destroyed and gold interest-bearing bonds
were issued in their place.
Thus began system of financial and
commercial ruin which has brought the
country down to a condition Of revolution
The money power Of Europe not being
satisfied with the dctation of our financi-
al system, bargained for and secured
through John Sherman, the demonetiz-
alton Of silver, and from that time in 1913
down to the present, mlllionaires have
been growing more numerous and the
people poorer. Mllionalres on one side,
poverty on the other.
Glass legislation did it.
Decentralization of silver and the for
nation of gigantic trusts and monopolies
under system of high protection foster
ed by government, which is and was
plutecratic and monarchal in sympathies,
has brought the nation face to face with
revolution.
If one man steals million dollars OF il
railroad, he is wined and dined at Wash
ington as great political leader; if
another man steals sack of flour for his
family. he is sent to the peniten-
tiary, as was man recently in the Black
Hills
No nation on Gods green earth can
long exist under these conditions.
Yet these conditions exist today all
over the United States.
The demonetizatien of silver and the
European dctation Of our financial sys-
tenn has robbed the wealth producers of
This country out of not only millions but
billions Of money in the destruction of
values, and no sane we'll posted man will
deny this horrible truth. Yet the people
are asked to suffer and suffer and are de-
nounced for complaining Of the crime
that is making paupers and millionaires
1T the same time.
The very life of the nation is in danger.
Plutecracy has grown powerful, AFRO
CANT, beastful and despotic
A plutocratic government stands solid
IN the side of infamous trusts and COM
ones.
The great railroad monopolies demand
government protection and it is given.
The great railroad monopolles combine
% crush labor organizations and the gov
backs them.
The great trusts demand Infamous
artf legislation and the purchased and
corrupt attorneys III the United States
enate grants it.
The republican and democratic leaders
lie to the people to secure power and then !
surn around and carry out their corrupt
|eals with the miniOns Of hell
Republican leaders, like the Pullmans,
Jarnagies, Dcpews, Vanderbilts, Goulds,
,hermans, and democratic leaders like
Cleveland the Hills, voorhees,, Gormons
nd Crockers, are the true representatives
If the corrupt power which has brought
,ur glorious republic down to condition
n the brief space of 27 years which chal-
enges a parallel in history.
Infamous legislation is responsible.
Who will be servile enough to defend it?
The demo netizalicn of silver. and the
'epeal of the Sherman law, and the utter i
allure of congress to restore silver, closed
lp the mines Of the west, destroyed busi- !!