The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-12-29

We have now had Il year of boxer
rule IN Roberts county during which
time Their control has been absolute
They went INTO power With their
work all cut out tor them. and they
were pledged to bring about certain
reforms and give the people lower
taxes, but they have made a total
failure OF al r"torm ideas promised.
They clustered. threatened and
pleaded to get themselves in. They
made house to house canvas,
telling the people that the county
was going to the demnltlou bow
vows and that they, the boxers. We're
the only means Of saving grace. If
the visit of one boxer to a voter was
not sufficient to convince HIM,
another and still another was sent to
him by prearranged plan as if by
accident, to tell him the same story
until he began to think that what
they said must be so. And the
people listening to the canting.
hypocrltical rantlng of these pseudo
reformers and place seekers. became
enchanted by their sirlne songs and
elected them to office. only to ind
when it was too late, that they had
let down the bars to the county crit
and that hoard of hungry, starving
office seekers were in possession.
No sooner were these false returmerS
elected than they discovered
that it was not the peoples woes
that they had been bowling about
but theil own. They at once forgot
their promises to the people and
began eagerly tapping at the public
trough. the st dangerous thing
about t hem bt heir appetites aud
my What appcvltes they did have.
They proceeded to Knock all records
in the gorglng line galley west: some
of them even getting all four feet
into The trough at once. Gradually
the people came TO see the humbug
of 1T ali. They, the people, did only
the voting, but were not allowed to
share in the benefits of the political
banking syndicate.
While the SO called boxers have
been IN existence as a distinct party
only little over year the causes
which led to the inception aud
organization of e lnsuagenL
movement dates further back 10 Il
time when certain boxer bank was
organized iD This city, aud when nne
Of its promoters boldly auu"uuced
that they proposed to organize new
bank to control the cUuuLy money
and the politics OF THIS county.
This was the object aud purpose OF
this whole boxer refoIu, movement,
to make the promoters anu
benefclalS of this and L"o VI three
other banking institutions in the
county rich at the expense vi III,
people. How we'll they have
succeeded. we leave IT to the
intelligent reader to determine, after
reading the facts
When the taxpayer UNDERSTANDS
the immense financial gain that
accrues to this little bunch of
poll ical tiuanciers he Will not wonu,r
why they were so anxious to organ ~
political party to get control of The
county affairs.
OF course there are the offices with
all the emoluments of office but
this is in reality small thing.
Salaries 10 politics don't count much
as compared with soule other things.
There is the county money OF which
these banks have in the nelghbuI'
hood of $4,000 for wllcn they pay
the county 4percent. Now, MI.
Farmer, let us suppose that you fni
it necessary to go to THIS same bank
TO borrow su,ne money To help you
out in pinch. OF course you get
it at reasonable interest considering
that it is your money that The bank
is having the use Of for almost
nothing. OF course you ge*, nothing
OF the kind, the chances are that
you will pay ~ percent and then a
pretty stiff bonus to boot SO that
this money which the back gets for
a paltry percent nets them from
IL to II percept. How do you like