Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1894-03-30
The Farmers Leader
DANGER AHEAD.

ing harder Tor the producers OF all Glasses
of material wealth, until at this time we
are surrounded hy conditions that in any
other country would have long since pro-
duced revolution. 1t is a dangerous con-
dition, not theory, that now confronts.
not the present Administration, but the
American people. and it IS a matter that
calls for higher patriotism than can be
found among those partisan leaders who
hang about the bloated carcass that sits
in the seat of jackson and Lincoln; the
situation calls for patriotism as noble
and selfsacrificing us marked the trials
of Valley Forge, and unless the people can
change the conditions more rapidly than
they have ever been changed in human
history, a revolution is upon ms. We have
today probably 100000 Of idle men
who cannot feed themselves or their
families. This IS dangerous class. not
necessarily vicious, butdangerous because
large bot'ies of idle men, even if we'll fed,
are always an element of danger. as
industry and thrift are the elements Of
social safety and advancement.
This class IS dangerous because it can
he rapidly mobilized and in the hands of
Il skillful and ambitious leader, would
become u power not to be laughed down,
nor sneered down. Then we have ,OOO,-
600 families who are mortgaged TO the
extent Of 81, 600 or more with no hope of
meeting even the interest, owing TO the
fall in prices, caused by decentralization
of silver and contraction Of the currency;
this class of dlsheartened people will
readily side with any element that prom
ises relief, rather than surrender their
homes, and in case Of an outbreak would
furnish the necessary recruits 10 swell the
army of discon,en's. The above are but
a part Of the dangerous element that has
been produced by long years Of class leg
lsla,ion in the interests of the very veal
thy men of this country and Europe, and
for nearly twenty years The National
View, as we'll as others, has raised a
warning voice against the usurpations of
parties against The reign Of the people.
Men who have not studied the situation
tell US that. the picture is overdrawn, yet
in one court in New York, $50 families
were 1ispossessed this week. We are told
that these people have no leader; this is
true, yet neither the Democratic or
Republican party has a leader to-day
to whom the American people can turn
in confidence. But IL leader will come.
Napolian was Il product of the French
revolution and the future leader of the
American people. although perhaps un-
known to-day, will surely come. and he,
educated in the rugged school of the
past twenty years Of adversity, will un-
ierstantl the wants and conditions Of the
people and he will lead them.
The ignorance and Indifference of the
wealthy class. although often warned rs
to the condition Of the country, is likely
to prove their ruin unless they give 81 cedy
relief. We have no idea that they will
heed our warning Low any more than IN
the past. They are mad in their wealth
aud power and defy or ignore the CRY of
misery They should remember in Holy
Writ, that Abraham told Dives that:
"If his father heard not Moses Or the
prophets neither would he be persuaded
though one rose from the dead" The
prophets jeremiah and Ezekiel have
warned them us follows:
Thou hast taken usury and increase, and
thou hast groedily gained Of thy neighbors by
extortion and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord
God.
AS the partridge stitch on eggs and hatcheth
them not, so he that gctteth riches and not by
right shall leave them in the midst of his days
and ut his end shall be fool.
They shall cast their silver into the streets,
and their gold shall be removed; their silver
and their gold shall not be able to deliver them
in the day Of the wrath OF the Lord.
Gen Lloyd Brice in the North Amer
can Review. said u few years ago:
We are living inthe shadow Of an unbrided
caused. created and ccmented in no
slight degree by Legislative. aldermatic and
Congressional action plutocracy that is far
more wealthy than any arfstocracy that has
ever crossed the horizon Of the worlds history
and one that has been produced in D shorter
consecutive period the names Of whose men,
bcrs are cmblazaned not on the pages of their
nation s glory, but of its pecuaations; who rep
resent no struggle for their country's liberties
but for it's Doodle: no contests for Magma
Charia. but railroad charters and whose octo-
pus grip is extending over every branch of in
dustry:a plutocracy which controls tho price
of the bread that eat, the price OF the sugar
that sweetens our cup. the price Of the oil that
lights us on way, the price of the collins in
which we are finally buried.
Bishop Potter of New York, little
later at the celebration Of the Tooth ami
vcrsary Of ,Washingten's Inaugural ,ion
said:
When speak OF this era Of the piutocrats,
nobody can misuuderstan me. Everybody has
the rise OF the money power. IS