The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-05-02
Mr. sooaykoo,z, Expenses.
EDITOR OF THE GRAPuIc:-In a recent

paper you ask the following question:
Who's paying +. NJ. Goodykoontz's ex-
penses, anyhow! Not the Popuiists. for
he processes 10 deliver non-partisan
free silver talk. Not tile down trodden
farmers, for they have no organization
i'll the state. The willowy limb OF tile
law from the bani:s Of the jim lsnt Sleep
ing i'll strange bed every night and
travelling on freight trains for his health.
Can 1t be possible that there are folks
tucked away somewhere beside tic toll
! ing masses" who are particularly inter
ested In tln free coinage of silver?
1t is not often that grangers can en-
tighten the GRAPHIC, therefore we must
not let this opportunity slip. At meet.
ing of Popnlists in this county cartain
work was assigned to me. therefore
invited NJ. Goodykoontz TO this county,
and upon his acceptance. sent him
dates for meetings at Kimball and Cham
berlalu. asked Mr. limit to advertise
the kimball meeting and pay Mr. G0ody-
koOntz's expenses at kimhall which
suppose he did. paid them at Cham
berlain-GOt out OF my own pockets, for
| only had seventeen cents but got the
money from friends OF silver i'll and
around Chamberlain. The silver mine
owners have paid their share; tipy are
just as much interested MS tie wheat
field owners, the cattle owners, the sheep
owners ana the hog owners. We are all
OF ns with the working people in the
silver boat. The silver mine owners
must pony up their Share Of expenses;
the wlleat-field owners will get two
thirds of the benefit OF free silver, and
are willing TO pay their full share of Mr..
GoodYkoontz's expenses. A Democratic
congress and Democratic president
have betrayed silver; two Republican
congresses and two Republican presi-
dents have betrayed silver therefore every
intelligent and honest free silver man is
a populist. have known Mr.. Go0dY-
koontz twenty years; ! helped elect him
to the Iowa senate; he is known in Iowa
and Dakota as an honest mau; think l
have a right to count him Populist.
A. I. TRoTH
I'VE don't think We have been cnlight-
ened very much. If Alr. Troth thinks
that the farmers would receive two-thrds
of the benefit arising from the free coin
age of silver he should have paid two
thirds Of Mr.. GoodykoontZ's expenses.
That this was not done, nor expected,
upon MIR. Goodykoontz's recent visit to
this county no one knows better than
MIR. Troth. Mr.. Goodykoontz not only
paid his own railroad fare-as he is do
ing all the time-but in kimbal paid
his hotel bill. His hall was furnished
him, that was all. The fact of the mat
ter is, Mr.. Goodvkoonlz' is in the employ
OF the silver league, organized by and in
the interest of the silver mine owners.
with such incidental financial assistance
as may be offered on his travels through
the state; and we called attention to the
matter in the first place simply because
there IS always Il hue and cry raised
against the money power" the SHY
locks" and the "scions of corporate
greed the moment penny is expended
in the interest Of the almost universal
standard money Of the world. The whole
silver movement has its inception with
the silver mine owners in congress, and
so persistently have they poured out
their money, to the end that they may
receive dollar in gold for fifty cents
worth of silver, that it is not strange
that even well-informed Popullsts like
Mr.. Troth Lave lost sight of the fact that
tho money theories of the Populists and
these silver mine owners are diametri-
cally opposed to one another, and that
between the two the average farmer has
been nearly honeyfuggled out of his
latent common sense.-Ed.