The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-01-23
Has the monarchial bee that was


Has the monarchial bee that was
banished from bleeding Europe found
lodgment in some of the bonnets OF
American autocracy? And are the
men who are financed, sacrificed md
praised for crushing despotism
abroad to be called upon to establish
and protect a similar tyranny at
home? Is the spirit of Amer:canism to
be chained?
A nation composed of all nations.
that arose as a man to defend the
Stars and Stripes, and the principl S
OF free democracy against d common
foe is she now to be distrusted and
permeated with hate engendering
propaganda?
OF all the diabclical pmps that ha
DIES eevr Matched, the Internal, hate
injecting propaganda struts OIL
with the CAKE. Hate is the magic
wand OF the arch flend that causeJ
man to revert in type to his jungle an
cestry appealing only to the instincts
OF the beast. Love your enemies" is
tn admonit:on of the super man.
and come let us reason together, .
but no" says the new American auto
cracy with the monarchial be buzz
Ing, throw hatred among classes,
make neighbors distrust nsighbors,
suppress free speeches, censor the
press and protect with standing. army
the usurpers on Americas throne.
Will America after having struck
down tyranny abroad tolerate it at
home? Yet it is here and the propa-
ganda to protect it IS insidiously at
work The farmer who questions their
right TO make all the rules of the
game political and commercial is look
ed upon and branded by the propa-
gandists of these bandit rivals to he
peoples throne as brush whiskered
fire eating bolshevists. The farms of
the Dakotas are being played up
over the country as populated with
foreign brigands that are liable at
any t,ma to swqop down upon Kansas
or some ether site as did the Huns
uader Attila invade Europe. and
plunder and appropriate at will, but
from MY travels over the state and
the homes | have visited some being
so reckless as to display Sl00 N. p. l..
diplomas on their walls ] must CON
fsss that | haze failed to note the
villain lurking or anything unusual
The doorsreamined unlocked with the
iatcllstring ON the outside. Union
meetings. are held in the farm homes.
the ladies attending iii large numbers
as we'll as the men; programs are put
on, games played and food served.
and If there is any place whsre good
old American spirit. both in quality
nd quantity, is 100 per cent it is ON
these farms that the propagandists da
pict as the hot beds of anarchy Racl,
OF some protecting wall or manuscript
or desk the foes of democracy stand
and continue their incessant stem.
sem, labor VS.. farmer; sic'm, STEM.
farmer VS.. labor; stem stem Ameri-
can Legion VS. both.
During the next 10 months humid
reds OF trainloads of paper will he
employed as one of their war meas
ures to carry their poisonous mental
gases, like miasmal vapor, into every
part OF our land while the little linda
pendent political, agricultural and in
austrial sheets from the free and omen
country will probably be notified that
they will have to suspend publication
owing to shortage of paper.
In the free and open country where
>breathes in her freeest and
truest spirit to be cnsored and polio
ed! We say no, and the sacrifice that
was made abroad was mere baga-
teile compared with what will be
made to protect and maintain an un-
chained democracy and Americanism
at home The paid propagandists
with their poisonous gas have under
estimated the psychological task of
hypnotizing America, and they have
another guess coming if they think
they can put the spirit of America in
chains
The great commercial unit system
u trust has been proven efficient, ser
yiceable and profitable. The same
methods applied to agriculture will
put The farmer and his class second
20 none, make agriculture a Gibraltar
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