Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-09

Democratic party and OF raising the dead
to life among Republican rank and file. !
They have given US at last real issue
instead of sham one, and though their
remedy may seem inadequate to progress
slve thinkers, it is in the right direction
and in accordance with the peoples will
During the last few years we have been
rapidly developing slave element IN our
populations propertyless class. entirely
dependent upon the sale of their labor.
No longer does Jack hobnob with his
master The rich and poor do not live in
the same quarter of the city. A second
secession has split our society into two
hostile elements, and it is childish to
howl Anarchist at the patriot who
proclalms the unwelcome fact and seeks
to weld the nation into unity again by
repeating the laws that caused it to split
asunder.
America is the workingman's Paradise
Lost" and it can never be regained BY
passive obedience to the serpent.
Our carpenters build magnificent man
sions and live in rented tenements them
selves. Our mechanics construct electric
lights and use kerosene at home; they
manufacture pianos and do not own tin
whistle; they build carriages and 60
afoot. Our miners dig gold and die poor:
they delve in dangerous coal mines and
lack fuel in the winter. Our farmers
raise grain and want for food, export
cotton and wool and lack clothing, sell
cattle and are without meat. .. L..
Our marvellous inventions have been
monopolized so that, in spite Of the daily
miracles of. our machinery the hungry
still lack food and the homeless wander
through the streets. Step by step the
moneyless man is losing his right to exist.
Every recent change in legislation has
been made to protect property ana to dis
franchise men, Armories are erected and
school houses forgotten. Immense grants
Of land are bestowed upon railroads, but
the settlers upon those grants are evicted.
Trades union leaders are imprisoned for
having contempt for a contemplate
Judge, while monopolists are aided bv
lnjunctions and Federal troops.
Today Shakespeare has been revised
and Shylock is the hero of the play.
Portals plea for mercy is called revolu.
tionary and 3assanio is branded as a
repudlator. 5. ....
There is hardly a trust or syndicate
that has lnaugurated this campaign of
threats and ridicule and object.lessons
that dare open up its own business career
to the public. .a 49,.
One of these defenders of law and
national honor, the Standard Oil Com
pany, has illegally increased freig ht rates,
closed rivers and canals, destroyed inven.
tions, bought up inspectors and put its
stamp upon explosive oil, attacked the
property Of competitors and blown up
rival refineries. The trusts are religious
at one end and murderous at the other.
This law-breaking, aggressive spirit Of
monopoly has found perfect embodi-
ment of the person of Mark Hanna.
He today towers above Mckinley and
above the Repu blican party, the Amerl-
can Bluebeard, who Stays his workers
instead Of his wiyes.
The skeletons of the Seamen's Union,
the Miners Union and the Street Car
Mems Union hang bleeding in his closet!
When Mckinley was Governor Of Ohio,
Hanna was his guardian. Therefore, in
criticising Bryan's opponent. we look not
at the servant, but at the master-not at
Mckinley, the most pitiable figurehead
IN public life today. bu, at Hanna, his
owner and tyrant.
mans character can be described by
his private relations with his family. He
may be, like the Czar of Russia. a "good
husband and father" but so is every tiger
and wild beast. -... ..'.
Before granting any man the diploma
of morality we ask what the influence of
his career has been upon his fellow-men.
If he has gone through life as an elephant
goes through fores:, crashing and
breaking n pathway for himself alone, or
as devilflsh crawls through the sea.
grasping and sucking the life blood from
every living thing in reach, how can we
intrust such man with the responsibility
and authority Of public Office?
Give Hanna four years OF power and he
will paint the White House black.
He will utterly destroy every vistxge Of