Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1899-06-02

OtdleO &0uoId1Ay III d SAuSA0 o0Ao0A.So
these principles may be condensed as
follows: Equal rights for all: special
privileges for none;" or in still briefer
form: "More money and less taxes
To be more specific: In 1900, we will
express "the unyielding principles of
in this wise:
Fi,st-We will not only reaffirm, but
readopt the Chicago platform of 1896,
word for word. syllable by syallable,
abating neither jot nor title of that
second Declaration of Independence
Second-We will put into our plat
form as strong antitrust plank as the
American language can make-the
American language, mark you, not the
English which will restore to every
citizen of this republic the inalienable
right to earn his bread in the sweat of
his face, which will guarantee to every
laborer the enjoyment of all his wages,
and which will once more make poss-
ible that competition which was sup
posed to be the life Of trade until the
Republican party created countless
blood of trusts which are sucking the
life-blood of the great body of the peo-
pie. In my Judgment, the best way for
congress to smash the trusts is to place
upon the free list all things used or
made or sold by the trusts. Then let
both congress and state legislatures
make it penitentiary offense to form,
conduct or to be interested in a trust.
and these cancerous excrescences will
be Topped from the body polite.
Third-We will declare empatically
and unequivocally in favor of the pres
ervation of the Monroe doctrine in all
its vigor and against the criminal idiocy
of corrupting and destroying our in
situations by making American citizens
out of 10, ,OO0,O heather Malays under
the equator.
Fourth-We will declare in unmis-
taxable language that we will put a
sudden stop to the wicked and wanton
waste of the peoples money-which, as
evidenced by the recklessness of the
Fifty fifth congress-, amounts to pract-
ical confiscation.
Fifth-We will proclaim our ever
lasting hostility to government by i'll
junction, both of which are being foist-
ed upon the country for the benefit and
ot t11o 1Ah o$ 70 i0hhpTS
of every degree.
In the impending campaign, he that
is not for us is againt us. There can be
no shutting, no double-dealing. no rid
ing of two horses, going in opposite di-
rections, no foraging between lines.
The American people deserve to be
treated honestly, fairly, candidly and
courageously. They demand and are
entitled to have declaration of politi-
cal faith, about which there is no dou-
BILE meaning, no paltering in double
sense, no equivocation, no good Lord,
good devil, claptrap-a declaration so
plain that even the dullest may COM
prehend it and so thoroughly democratic
that all honest men can stand upon it.
They want no victories that are not
triumphs of principle, and they do not
propose that the fruits of another vic
tory shall turn to ashes upon there lips.
Above all, they don't want any more
presidential pigs in pokes. They will
get what they want. The platform
that have outlined will give lovers of
freedom and good government every
where hearts of oak.
Upon that platform we will place q
man who is platform within himself
whose name I am happy to state is ex-
ecrated by every monopolist in Ameri-
can and loved by every patriot betwixt