Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-09-06
The Assault OF The Interests.


In verifying the fulfillment of its
own dire prediction of year ago, j
Pierpont Morgan's newspaper, the
New York Sun, paints gloomy pic
ture of decayed Industries that have
been sent to the scrap heap by the pre-
sident of the United States. II
knows OF mines and smelters that
have closed down and of locomotive
and car building and repairing estab
lishments that are deserted and silent
1t says that "when the millions in
the savings banks are being drawn
down 10 take the place of vanished
wages a new menace will be added to
an already deplorable situation"
1t Is well enough, once in a while, to
abandon prophecy for actuality, else
the prophet will be without honor in
any country. Having prophesied, The
Sun assumes an actuality that does
not exist for the industrial world is
so busy that men enough cannot be
found to perform it's wonders.
Once it was that the popuIists were
the calamity howlers." Now it is
the interests-the Morgans-in the
presence of the enforcement Of popu-
istic doctrine. The elements of
society have changed places. But if
there must be "howl" it is more
satisfactory to the public to have it
come from the few than from the
many, indicating as it does that sea
lamity" is less widely diffused than it
was when the interests were govern
ing the country.
That The Sun is much more radi-
cal in it's vindictive expressions than
ever were the bewhiskered reformers
is proven by the following paragraph
from it's editorial columns:
We have seen how Mr.. Roosevelt's s
obsession against the railroads has
been skilfully communicated to the
people, until they have become like
the Russian peasants who last year
burned the ripening crops, thereby
assuring their own early starvation.
There is no fate too bad to be visited
on the railroads, and the people
would burn them up were they in
f1ammable as Russian wheat and rye.
The Sun undoubtedly has more con-
fidence in the wisdom of the people
than it's expression declares, yet it is
something to deplore that a great
newspaper will permit it's unreason-
ing anger to pronounce so virulent a
scandal upon the people of nation Of
the highest intelligence and the most
honorable intentions.
! 1t is the safeguard of the country
that all of it's Inhabitants do not live
in the pestilential shadow of the in
fiuences that breed such monstrouS
ISLANDERS. ...o.
That some of the people are intlu-
enced by the extravagant reasoning
of The Sun, the interests and Wall
street is not to be doubted and they
are effective through their great tinan-
cial capacity, for money is more
potent than the dollariess wisdom Of
the masses of the self-governing popu-
lation that upholds the integrity Of
the nation.
In his Provincetown speech, the
other day, President Roosevelt admit
ted the power of this misdirected in
fuence, saying:
"That they have misled many good
people into believing that there
should be such reversal Of policy is
possible. If so, am sorry, but it
will not alter my attitude. Once for
all, let me say that, as far as / am
concerned, and for the eighteen
months of my administration that re-
main, there will be no change in the
policy we have steadily pursued, nor
let up in the effort to secure the
honest observance of the law, for l re-
gard this contest as one to determine
who shall rule this government-the
people, through their governmental
agents, or few ruthless and deter
mined men, whose wealth makes them
particularly formidable because they
are behind the breast-works of corpor-
ate organization"
The Sun is no bolder in advocacy Of
a wrong than the president is in de-
claring purpose to resist the further
encroachment of that wrong. In his
Provincetown address. the president
stated that the kind of men that rep
resent the influence Of The Sun had
combined to bring about as much
financial distress as they possibly
could sin order to discredit the policy
of the government and thereby secure
a reversal of that policy SO that they
may enjoy the fruits of their own
evil doing"
The New York Sun is factor in
the combination and is doing all it
can to arouse antagonism against an
recognition of the right of the people
to intelligently direct their own
affairs.
He Missed A Train.
j A travelling man who rushed down
to the depot Friday morning to catch