Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1894-03-23
The Farmers Leader
Political Toadyists.

| Brer Linn is forceful writer, but he
lacks some Of the fire and abandon of
the Arbeiter Zeitung, Freiheit and other
| anarchlstic papers. He should send and
get copies of those publications at the
time Of the Chicago executions.
The above squib is from the Sioux
Falls Argus-Leader, in reply to our
modest exposure of it's plutocratic views
on the rights of labor and of the rights
Of the great common people as compared
with organized monopoly rs represented
on the bench.
The editor of the Canton LEADER DIFF.
fers in his make up materially from the
editor of the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader.
The Canton LEADER has no use for
sycophants, and men who blow hot or
blow cold to suit time or place. 1t has
no use for any man. be he native or
natu ralized who is not first an Ameri-
can citizen and next defender Of every
true principle of a republican form Of
government. 1t believes that General
Master Workman Sovereign of the
Knights of Labor, is doing right in his
manly defense of labor, and that his
radical course is justified by the pressing
tyranny of corrupt and corporate owned
Judges. The monopoly, corporate and
money power of the nation are banded
together a hundred times stronger than
anv or all labor organizations in the
country. They are banded together to
disrupt and destroy labor organizations
everywhere, and are putting forth feelers
through courts organized in their inter.
ests. The railroad orders Of Judge Jen-
kins and Judge Dundy were arbitrary,
tyrannical, despotic and in violation OF
the fundamental principles of the Federal
Constitution as well as the constitution
that is planted in every liberty-loving
heart in the land. It is only through
such sycophantic toadyism as that pur-
sued by the Argus-Leader that corrupt
power grows, and corruption flourishes.
Witness its janus-faced straddle during
the last legislature. 1t dare not report
republican corruption, yet its familiarity
with ring methods at Pierre is we'll
known. The position occupied by the
Argus-Leader would be disgusting to
any man who had an honest editorial
opinion, and wanted to express it, 1t
stands by Cleveland and john Sherman
on finance and backs up corporate
monopoly with the voice of good lord or
good devil, and IS not fully aware
whether it is democratic or only Petit
grew in politics.
The writer had hoped to see the Argus
Leader take u bold stand for law, justice.
liberty and honest government. But II
seems to be dove-tailed into \ rut where
it lacks ambition to rise above a base and
cowartlly jackdaw. 1t bites and purs,
suueas and shouts, and all the time
trying to ride Il hobby that will draw
applause for its policy OF ''Didn't ! tell
YOU So" TIE day ana use for syco.
phants has passed, and the mission Of
the Argus-IIeader is failure if 1t is only
able TO float along in the scum. No man
can tell whether it is democratic or
Pettigrew in politics, whether it favsrs
anything that is not favored by its
prompters, whether it dare take Il de-
cided stand for anything bey"hdl pack
ed democratic committee IN the interest
of the republican bosses, or whether it is
only used as tail ender to keep demo-
Gratis in line for republican delivery.
The editor Of the Canton LEADER be-
lieves IN honest men. honest methods,
law, order and peace, and if necessary
the bayonet TO preserve these patriotic
principles; he believes in destroy;ng the
political prostitutes that are everywhere
destroying the nation, he believes in
equal rights to all, he believes in the
primo: pies for which he carried a mus
ket three years, and those principles are
not represented by the eastern wing of
either of the old parties, he believes in
exposing fraud and corruption wherever
found; a principle unknown to the sane
tum of the Argus-Leader: he believes ia
a man being mouse or a long-tailed rat
if he can't be a man, and he believes the
Argus-L Leader has il little Of the mouse,
too much of the rat and not enough of
either to make Il distinction.
1t was just such class of papers and
such class of editors as the Argus-Lead-
er outfit that made anarchy bold and
defiant aud aggressive in Chicago, and it
is such Il class today that encourages
true anarchy as represented on the bench,
as represented by the crushing power of
capital combined to rule or ruin, and it
is such Il class the devil loves and honest
manhood spurns.
NOTICE.