Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1898-09-09

to the support Of the government by
way Of an income tax; that the govern
ment should issue all the money and in
sufficient quantity to maintain a just
standard of prices; that it was imma-
terial Of what substance the money was
made, so long as il bore the sovereign
stamp Of the government and was en-
dowed with full legal tender quality;
that there was no objection to metallic
money, providing one kind was not
made redeemable in the other, and
each had full legal tender quality
We favored the free and unlimited
coinage Of silver at the ratio Of 16 to 1
for the reason that it would throw the
products Of the silver mines Of the
world into the monetary circulation
and it was metal peculiarly adapted
to monetary use and the people had
been accustomed to it since the dawnof
civilization. We favored the restric-
ton Of the ownership Of land to he who
used it for the purposes Of production
and as home, and were opposed to it's
being monopolized for speculative pur-
poses. We agreed that plutocracy had
secured controlled Of both the old par
ties aud dominated every legislature in
the land and administered them, and
also the executive and judicial de-
partments of the government; that
this control and domination was so
fixed and absolute that it was impos-
sible to rescue either Of the old parties
from plutocratic domination, and
that the only hope for the masses of
the people was in new party based
on the principles and policies on which
we agreed. 81
Through great labor, expenditure
and sacrifice, byyourself and other re-
formers throughout the land, a. new
party was organized by the people at
Omaha and rapidly forged to the front.
It was called the Peoples party and it's
platform declared for every principle
and policy on which we agreed and for
which we contended. These principles
and policies were reafirmed at st.
Louis. You were in both these great
national conventions, presided over the
first and was on the platform commit
tee in the latter and together you and !
advocated these principles on the
stump throughout the state I believ-
cd you to be the most able, earnest and
self-sacrifcing Of all the pa triots who
Joined this new party for equal rights.
We were together at the state conven.
tions at Huron, Mitchell and Huron
again, but you failed at Aberdeen, and
in your letter to the Mitchell conven-
tion you gave as a reason, not that you
had changed your convictions nor that
the party or party men had been false
to the platform declarations or princi-
pies, but that an advance had been made
towards Democracy and you could not
take the step.
The inquiry is. how could you take
the step to the Repu bllcan party? The
domination and control of this party
had in no manner been rescued from
plutocracy. 1t had thrown off the
mask of being in favor Of silver as
money and declared for the single gold
standard, the policy of pluJocracy in
the world. It had declared against the
issue of money by the government and
in favor of interest bearing bonds. The
men dominating and controlling it were
the same men who dominate and
control the banks, trusts, combines, and
transportation corporations. This
party was opposed to- every principle
and policy of the Peoples party plat
form which You claimed to believe in.
You asked the Mitchell convention to
declare for the initiative and referen-
dunn and imperative mandate. They
refused to do so. You stated that
the Democratic party had adopted .
tariff bill affording greater protection
to American industries than the fam