Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1900-03-09
!. CORRUPTION IN HIGH PLACES.

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~!Knent the probable unseating of
Senator Carter of Montana, Alfred
Henry Lewis is his Verdict. the great:
est of all papers, says:
And talking of corruption and red
faced excitement about huckstered
toga-a garment, after all, of not much
power, and therefore no vast threat
what should one call it when Presi-
dent gives member an Office and the
member gives the President his vote in
the House or Senate? Is that bribery
Is it corruption? That barter goes on
every day. It went forward with
Cleveland; it goes forward with Nc
Kinley. Office isn't money, true! But
what is the public differance whether
vote is detected from lines Of honesty
and congressional expression subverted
b by a bribe of Office or bribe of gold?
It'e all one to the people. Corruption,
phi fhee! The woods of the last three
sjears have been fair full of it. The
forests Of the coming five will be
fuller still, if voting folks do not arouse
themselves to see to it that both reg
istration and ballot be this year honest,
and Mckinley beaten down Corrup'
tion! There's been nothing but cor
ruption since Hanna, with Mckinley
as mask and money as a jimmy, broke
into general control What is the
Dingley tariff but corruption? What
was the twenty million to Cuba?
What were boats purchased like the
Merrimac or that of Hanna's yatch,
the Comanche2 What were the en-
balmed beef contracts that dismissed
Egan and Alger? What were the pest
camps located to breed returns to
railroads and which killed ten soldiers
for every one who fell in action, until
5000 were stricken down? What is
our attitude towards Porto Rico?-our
position towards Cuba? What is our fake
wseh the Philippines. to cost 200 mill
i1 1Na year? What are shipbuilding
contracts to Cramp, and the double
prices to Carnegie for armor plates?
What is Cages gift of the New York
Customs House property to the Stand.
ard Oil bank? What is Gage deposit
of public millions, without interest,
law or reason, save the 6 per cent, the
bank its self could make with that
same Standard Oil institution? What is
Hannas proposed ship subsidy?
What is the proposed currency scheme?
Pruriency in vile-smelling, unending
procession!F it is all, all corruption!
And Miles is disgraced because he said
''embalmed beef" Ard Dewey is dis
graced because he is supected Of hank
ering for a Presidency. And Schley is
disgraced because he is democrat,
and in the way of that capper, tout and
agent for Carnegie's armor plates,
Sampson. And Hobson is sent to
Manila lest he say that the Merrimac
-was sunk to hide the evidences of her
sw ealing purchase. And Abner Nc
KiG Hey is worth many millions of dol
lai1. Corruption! Why, masters! the
whole nations is sold body, soul, and
self-respect to England in the Canal
Treaty by our poppinjay Secretary of
State.
One should not maltreat our wren
headed little Hay however. He is of
about the Importance of caramel, and
belongs to the school of cigarette state
manship. Hanna, with Mckinley in
his pocket, is The man. Didn't he re-
turn to US from England with the bluff
announcement that the British form
of Government was as good as the Amer
lean, and Monarchy match for re-
public? Of course, he did! 1t voiced
the present Republican appre-
citation of Bunker Hill; and was
the natural sentiment of congenital
vulgarian who would have been a
butler if he hadn't been millionaire.
Certainly, Hanna loves the English
who fattered and who feasted him last
summer; and certainly, he caused Hay
who is but Hanna Cuckoo, when
all Is said and done-to concede in
treaty. every adject canal thing that
Enlf1Ad asked. What would you
hayeS Hanna's age is the sequel to
Hanna's youth. 1t is the Grocer in
office He never reads the history, of
this country-Never read its Constitu-
ton or it's laws. He knows nothing of
the theory Of liberty, or the reason of
q republic. All Governments look
alike to Hanna; as, doubtless, all banks
look alike to buglar. What would
you have? It is the Grocer in the saddle
Of control; who, capable only of barter
and sale, knows no political or senti-
mental differance between the Monroe
Doctrine and box of prunes, and
deals in state policies with the same
spirit and by the same rules where
with he formely dealt in salt pork.
Yes in good sooth! in any scale of civic
importance or worth Hanna would
place John Rockefeller far above
George Washington, and if suddenly
called on to pronounce the health of some !