Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-11-02

animals. He is q farmer; he has
learned the laws of seed time and har-
vest. He is a sailor he knows the
might and mystery of the deep. He Is
a chemist he knows the story of atoms.
He is a geologist; he has learned to
read the rocky pages of the earth. He
is a scientist; he knows the typical
forms of creation. He is an inventor;
he has unraveled the secrets Of iron,
wood and light. He Is an astronomer;
he has traced the burning wheel-tracks
of the stars upon the everlasting hills.
He is an artist; he has made the glory
Of God to shine Upon a canvas. He is
a musician; he has seized a handful of
sounds and made them interpret a
message of love. He Is a poet he has
become spokesman for the flower, the
babe, the slave. He is a statesman !;
he knows the trend Of events. He Is a
prophet; he has learned wisdom in the
realm Of the soul. The question of the
ages has ever been, Can the perfect
citizen appear, combining the strong
arm, the clear brain, the deep hearth"
1t was tried in Greece. Greek civiliza-
ton stood for the rounded Individual,
and it resulted in anarchy. 1t was tried
in Rome. Rome stood for the all-con-
quering state. and despotism was the
outcome. France tried it and bloodshed
and revolution ensued.
Listen to the voices Of the hour in
our W land. The moral wreckage Of
great cities; slums in which children
are born handicapped, babes dying for
want of sunshine and fresh air, drunk
| enness and crime filling our prisons.
tides of degeneracy rising higher and
higher. I have seen on the grating over
the boiler room n tangle Of arms and
legs, like a can full of angle worms.
newsboys huddled together to keep
warm doomed, all but damned. The
wonder is not that so many go wrong,
but that any should go right. l have
seen girls at work in an overall fac
tory. making three blouses n day,
earning forty-fve cents. There are 800
| girls in that Internal factory. | see the
| oppressor coming calamity into cash.
to whom children are cheaper than dol
lars. he is so anxious to get on. I read
1 VI DhIIh Co III i hIioN tiht lbCN
are not due to monetary conditions, out
because men have forgotten the com
maudment that says, Thou shalt not
steal" I see great trust funds squan-
dered, not because the directors are not
capable. but because they are not salts
fed with having voted themselves an
nual salaries of 100000: they have be.
trayed the trust committed unto them.
I am not of those who would malign
my country or traduce my c~ountrymen.
1 know we are rich. l know that in
wealth and enterprise my country leads
the world, and | an glad of 1t. Popu-
lous cities and fertile prairies are good.
but men and women Of moral fiber are
better. 1t was the moral fiber of our
fathers tina gave to the world Il coun-
try without a king and a LAM without
a slave.
No nation of the earth can greatly
injure US; the enemies of our republic
are not without they CONF not with
fife and drum. Our enemies are with
In. In a low-grade citizenship that
seeks to pollute, debauch and traffic in
the rights of the people. All there Is
in freedom. all that we hold sacred and
worth saving in the republic. is here
at stake. Our sacred possessions are