The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-05-21

timidates or purchases congresses
into. granting concessions. outlaw.
labor, and refuses adequate servico
in return for confiscatory rates.
16. Monopoly corrupts our press
and limits the supply Of paper in an
attempt to starve out and ruin tho
progressive and liberal publication:
of the land.
II. Monopoly buys politicians and
newspapers, and manages old party
nominating conventions as means
of perpetuating it's control of gov
ernment.
IS. Monopoly of the basic indus.
tries of the country extorted profits
during 1917 equal to its entire CAPT
tai investment.
19. Monopoly foments foreign
wars, wastes or steals half our con-
tributions in liberty bonds, and then
attempts to paddock our mouth:
with drastic sedition laws, as I'M
constitutional as they are repulsivc
to liberty-loving people.
90. Monopoly unloads taxes from
manufacturer to wholesaler, from
wholesaler to jobber from jobber te
retailer, and then intrigues to re.
peal excess profits and income taxes
and lay the burden upon the break
fast tables of poor people.
81. Monopoly induces congress te
vote steal of eight billion dollar
to the. owners of railway stocks and
bonds, and now attempts to advance
rates 25 per cent to pay six per cent
interest on this fraudulent valua.
ton.
%. Monopoly's friendly court de-
cides that stock dividends shall no
be taxed, to relieve the owners
thereof from just burdens occasion
ed by the war.
90. Land monopoly goes on apace.
rents increase, tenantry multiplies
ON every hand. A people without
homes is not expected to quarrel
with its masters.
"a. Through the conspiracies OF
monopoly we now have nationai
treasury deficit Of six billions of dol
lars.
25. Through the manipulations Of
monopoly congress expended ir
twenty-seven months of war as
much as was appropriated by 1t in
one hundred and twenty seven years
before the war.
26. Two thousand men and WON.
en- are in prison cellllvictims Of
monopolyxfor the crime of excer
cising their constitutional right Of
free press and peaceable asemblage.
"a. Monopoly cajoles our soldiers.
but when it is proposed to tax In
comes in excess of $4,000 per yea,i
to pay these brave boys the differ.
ence between their civilian wages
and their pay as soldiers in the wa,
for democracy. monopoly refuses the
proposal and exposes IT'S hypocriti-
cal pewter-plated brand Of patriot
ism. CO..
Z %. Monopoly. acting through the
department Of justice, has denied
the right of trial by jury, made bru-
tai. hasty and unjust arrests Of in.
nocent people. held them long peri.
ods without bail, and inflicted harsh
and unusual penalties. in violation
of the constitution .of the United
States. -.
20. Monopoly has flooded con.
sress With sedition. bills TO- IQnell dis,
cassionI OF its plunders OF tho people.
80. Monopoly has taxed 1 US
through the agencies of government
IS maintain a un-AnlerfcSn SPY
system. to inquire into our private
affairs and supervise our opinion.
81. Monopoly has filled the press
with vicious red propaganda and in
cited mobs. in the interest Of an In
ternational bankers plunderbund
which. knows no nag and measures
patriotism on a percentage basis.
80. Monopoly engaged US in for
eign war to protect the bonds j:
bought from France and England