Dakota farmers' leader., December 05, 1890, Image 4

About Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??

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—PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY—
FARMERS' PUBLISHING COMPANY,
—INCORPORATED—
A. J. WIMBLE, PRESIDENT
JERE GEHON, VICE PRESIDENT
E. W. OWENS, SECRETARY
JOHN ISACKSON, TREASURER.
J. F. COOLEY, EDITOR AND MANAGER.
Entered at the postofilce In Canton as second
Class mall matter.
THE FARMERS' LEADER Is owned by A com
pany composed of nearly 400 of the most
gota.
cogressive farmers of southeastern South Da
It Is a fearless advocate of the rights of
the farmer, mechanio, day laborer and artisan
and as such it will use its best influence toward
the upbuilding of the Farmers' Alliance, the
Knights of Labor and kindred organizations,
and, incidentally, toward the support of the
principles of the Independent party.
The paper is conducted under the direction
of a board of directors composes of the follow
ing named gentlemen: A. J. Wimple, Jere
Gehon, E. W. Owens, John Isackson, Henry
Bradshaw, Ole Byre, Nels Larson, Ole Hoken
•tad, A. T. Sundvold.
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NEW CREDIT DEVICES.
From the Dakata Ruralist.
The clipping under the above from the
•Pioneer Press is given that our readers
may see the inevitable tendency of affairs
our present monetary system. It is
confessedly a divice to find a substitute
for monev founded upon the confidence
inspired by the power of aggregated
credit. It is no less than a proposition to
make a gigantic trust or a combination of
the united collaterals of the entire na
tional banking system into which pool
all the convertable wealth of the nation
is to be speedily absorbed. The ostensi
ble obiect of this combination is to pre
vent the ruinous depreciation of banking
securites in time of panics but the real
obiect is by far greater and broader than
this. It is no other than the absolute and
lrresistable domination of the "clearing
house over everything that "lives, moves
or has a being" tins land of ours.
Study careiully the linos of tins device
and see how certainly Wall street will
dominate every commercial transaction in
all tne laud. There will be absolutely no
credit anywhere except at the will and
pleasure of tm plutocrats enthroned there.
The Tress, with satanic subtilty. seeks to
sur.-i r.cout this culmination of the power
of moiiev t: oppress, upon the plea of
stability. When this is accomplished,
not a wave ot trouble will ever disturb
the hauR'l.uv plutocrats of America.
Every limb will be bound and every
nerve pal.-ied, and the ironciad mortgage
of perdition will close down forever over
the pulselfs.': hopes of American freemen.
Sit still.' 11:. oiwe sons of'noble sires, and
contemplate what you will oe when this
merciless inquisition has perfect mastery
over every tin lisaction ol trade and com
merce. Tliev will buy and sell and work
and rob you iike cattle. Jieware in time.
Tin- alternative to this is plain, practical
and sufficient. The device of credit is a
complete coiiiession of all that we de
mand. It t':!dlv states that ''this com
bined credit is a substitute for money.
There lS IK.I, money enough, else why the
need to substitute credit? Until this
vacum is filled there could be no infla
tion by reason of the government meeting
this demand. They simply propose to
make their credit take the placc of the
nation's credit. They do not pretend to
base their credit on any intrinsic values.
It is their proposition to stamp their cer
tificates Witn I lie flat of the clearing
house. Ilie certificates are issued in
place of money upon collaterals judg
ed by the clearing house to be sound."
But suppose some dark day the collaterals
be adiudged unsound—what then? Who
will redeem these wildly inflated certifi
cates of the clearing houses? The issue
will now be more plainly comprehended
by the people than ever before. Shall Wall
Street control tne finances of this country,
or will the people (lo it through the gov
ernment. which is created bv the paople?
The "device' will bean eve opener.
BONDS AND MORTGAGES.
CANTON. Dec. 2.—EDITOR FAKMEBS'
LEADEH: '•They ale and they drank,
they gave lo marriage and they took to
marriage until the flood came and took
them all away.
There was a time when bondage was a
dread bin nol so now. Under a free re
publican governiiicnt bondage has lost its
thorn, people will go voluntarily into
tHiutlnge. bond tin inseives, their fellow
men, their independence, their prosperity
jinu ihf ir cniKiivn and childrens children
forever.
AV lijr complain of hurci times, of cp
pivssive HK.MI'V liower. ot monopoly
ami usuj*\ v. iien man himself voluntarily
makes ii.i Hi.,- ,-v.i. made ilns world
and uie I uliie.ss there with good luteu
tioi.fc !cr in ben .:i and comforts of man­
kind, and he endowed man with. faculty
and power to subdue the natural forces
and make them serviceable to his conven
ience. This land of ,..ours, especially is
richly and bountifully gifted with na-'
tures blessings, and its inhabitants might
dwell in comfort and plenty if the spirit
of virtue and righteousness could avail.
Man makes his own destiny, as all the
work of man is imperfect, the result of
his deeds are corruption. The modern
mania is to go into bondage un
der money power our laws have made
this road broad and easy, and our govern
ment has not only set the example but in
a great measure forced the citizen onto
this road.
Generous advisers are always ready to
dissuade the farmer from incumbering
himself with debts and mortgages.
Townsmen and editors'exhibit a special
zeal in this line,-but "it is a poor rule
that won't work both ways our cities
are manifestly prolific in the fabrication
of bondage.
What about the virgin city of Canton?
A $10,000 bonds for a schoolhouse, and
that bond in six years growing to $14,000.
Four years more and her citizens have
paid interest on their school house bonds
equal in amount to the original debt.
The debt increasing at the same ratio
for the next four years, the bonded prin
cipal will be $17,000 and the yearly in
terest $1,190.
But this don't hinder the good citizens
of Canton from re-voting around their
own necks a new bondage of $17,000
more. This is'easy to carry you know,
only 0 per cent interest $1,020 a year, the
two bond items will only make an annu
al interest of $2,210, it all helps to feed
the New York money broker. Still it is
undisputablv proven that productive in
dustries do not yield over 2 to 3i per cent.
But the city of Canton produces just at
the point of nothing. From whence then
comes the interest with which she is to
meet her bonded obligations? Together
with her $4,000 to $5,000 yearly current
school expenses, her individual debt and
interest thereon, her taxes, insurance and
the daily subsistance of her citizens?
The new waterworks, with our manu
facturing projects, will produce this,
says her senior editor. We shall put an
interrogation point at that. But the same
editor also has an other expedient: "Her
unsurpassed agricultural surroundings."
Pin this in your hats, ye strudy, horny
handed sons of toil.
Our venerable editor is a good old
timer, a patriotic? ex-soldier, a'farmers
friend? To a man at a distance it also
looks as if he were in league, with the
money power. At the 4th 'of November
election he gives this advise to the voters.
The question of state debt should com
mand the earnest thought of every tax
payer. On this question the News be
lieves all should vote "yes." Of cours,
bondage, bondage till you can't move.
Treat the money broker well if you starve
yourself—follow Canton's example and
place the money qroker in the lead of
your municipal as well as county, state
and national management, and you shall
never suffer from want—want of bond
re.
The Lord beheld the wickedness of
Sodom and Gomorrah and said "I will
destroy thee." But Abraham plead with
the Lord until the Lord promised to not
destroy the city of Sodom if he found ten
ten righteous men there. But the city of
Canton has 15 and will surely obtain the
grace of God.
Now I don't blame Canton for wanting
water works. She certainly needs it but
I do blame her for laying herself and her
tributaries prostarte at the feet of the
money power, while we have presented
to her a fair and just proposition toad
just the circulation of the people's cur
rency in such away as to take that legal
ized but unrighteous advantage of inter
est-sucking out of the hands of greedy,
gambling money-brokers, and place it
with the people where it undoubtedly be
longs.
A little over a year ago the farmers
earnestly discussed the feasibility of start
ing a binding twine manufactory they
have also discussed other projects, but
wisely have come to the conclusion that
interest on hired money will place any
such enterprise on a scaly foundation
with our present money system.
They have therefor determined to go to
the root of the evil for the only true solu
tion of this problem is to place the peo
ples woney in their own hands untram
meled by that iniquitous interest drawing
arrangement.
But Canton says "no" to this and to
the tune of 299, against, 14, says "you
shall not meddle with finances for we
just now want to place a set of new
bonds, you shall secure them for us, and
you shall pay them too. Finance you
don't understand anyhow, you Cranky
knownothings, you go home and work
your farms, If you want merchandise
you just bring in you produce, we will
tell you what it is worth. When we have
got our margiu sufficient to pay our in
terest,. bonds, taxes, rent, insurance,
pleasures and conveniences you can have
the balance, if you are not satisfied you
can go to the dogs, there is where you are
going anyhow." Glorious antidote, you
have the cure.
But Mr. Editor, I must stop and apolo
gize for my intrusion on you space.
J. E. HOLTER.
In another column of this issue will be
found a letter from Miss Josephene
Gerber, of Worthing, protesting against
the article in THE LEADEH of last week,
relating to the inefficiency of the mail
I',
service at Worthing aftd.elsewhere. The
Communication is nott^ublislied by way
of a recognition of any Vmerits in Miss
Josphene's case but because of a disposi
tion on "the part of thiq paper to let all
sides be heard. No one will probably be
surprised to learn that Miss Josephene
maintains that the Worthing office is con
ducted in the best manner possible.
There is probably no postmaster under
heavens who would not claim the same
thing. He would inform Miss Josephene,
however that she is much mistaken in
her idea of THE LEADER'S correspondent
at Worthing and who he is. The com
munications received from that point
parties.
have come from several different
New Jersey Scandalized.
Bound Brook, N. J., had a Sunday
school festival. It was one of the most
delightful of its kind. Between recita
tions, music and pantomime the time
passed on wings. The united congrega
tions of Greenbrook and Chimney Rock
were happy. The entertainment had
netted them $400.
The audience were hoiwever thrilled
with the highest pitch of delight on be
ing informed that the greatest pleasure of
all was left to the last, like the raisins a
child leaves to be eaten after the rice, at
the end of the pudding. What that was
nobody knew exactly, but everybody
knew it must be something very won
derful. The New York Evening Sun
describes how they found out as follows:
Professor McGehay announced with much im
pressiveness that he had a surprise for them, and
everybody smiled in anticipation, while the pro
fessor sat down to the piano and struck two pre
liminary chords, and then came'two beautiful
young persons with absolutely bare arms and
necks, and in dresses which were actually cut off
just above the knee. The audience was too much
surprised to do anything but laugh at first, while
the mothers of the little pupils felt warm waves
of indignation swelling up under their bonnet
strings and suffusing their faces.
Serenely unconscious that anything
was wrong the two girls, professional
ballet dancers, advanced to the foot
lights and began to pirouette and to
sing, "We hate to tell, bat then we
must."
Fancy the scene at a Sunday school
entertainment! What next happened is
thus described by The Sims
They had only reached the third kick when a
very large lady, with a somewhat sheepish look
ing husband, rose and sailed down the aisle and
out. At the fifth kick two more women, with
three little girls in tow, followed her
example, and
then all over the hall the indignant and horrified
members of the congregations of Greenbrook and
Chimney Rock rose and silently withdrew.
But there was a leaven of the ungodly among
the youqg men present, and they made up for the
Absence of the others by the noise they made.
They applauded and
shouted and cheered, and the
.skirt women kicked and turned and twisted Hke
beautiful tigers blown by a summer's breeze, and
all this while Superintendent McNabb sat and
shivered with indignation against Professor Mc
Gehay.
Professor McGehay has been busy
ever since explaining that he had tele
graphed to a theatrical agent for two
lady hell ringers, and the abandoned
villain had sent on the ballet dancers in
stead, by what it is charitable to sap
pose was a mistake.
A Southern Republican's View.
A. W. Shaffer, chief supervisor of elec
tions in North Carolina, writing in The
North American Review, handles the
Lodge election bill without gloves. He
says of it that it ii at once structurally
weak and calculated to stir up violence.
It is impossible of enforcement to begin.
The kind of a time an official who hon
estly attempted to see it enforced in the
south would have is set forth in a quota
tion Mr. Shaffer makes from a speech of
Senator Vance at Raleigh. The senator
remarked:
"A southern man who supports the
force bill ought not to be allowed to
live among us. Don't understand me as
advocating violence, bat there is such a
thing as driving such men out by fierce
intolerance and contempt, and they de
serve all that can be Reaped upon them."
Some of the points Sa which the Lodge
bill is hopelessly weak too mentioned by
Mr. Shaffer as follows:
The bill contains structural infirmities which
ought to be fatal. Of these, three are worthy of
•pedal consideration, to wit:
Flrat—The disfranchisement of fifty citixens in
every election precinct, town, parish, city' county
or congressional district, and 100 in every city of
SO,000 inhabitants, asking for the supervision of
election/ (See sec. 6.)
Second—The gross inequality ot compensation
provided for services performed by the various
officials. (See sees. 14 and 21)
111114—1316 excess of penalties provided beyond
the limit of prosecutions upon information in Hen
of indictment. (See penalties.)
In the closing portion ot his paper
Mr. Shaffer says:
In oonclMinn it has dawned upon tbc intellect
ot those who have borne the brunt of the political
crimes for the last twentv-flve yean that their
experience and opinions arc neither sought nor
accepted, nor do they pass currant in high places
that when they have asked for bread they hare
received a stone and when they sought a national
system of congressional elections—a system that
would be neither evaded nor annulled—lo! there
is tendered this miserable caricature of a long
dead and forgotten statute, valuable only for the
spoilsman and fairly reeking with fraud, violence
and blood, because both threatening and impo
tent. Who shall judge them if, in the bitterness
of deferred hope and violated promises, they
cry aloud for deliverance from these their friends?
Gladstone will be 82 years old this De
cember. Spite of the declaration of his
opponents that he is declining mentally
he has never shown grander power than
in his campaign speeches this falL
Never in his life have his addresses been
more full of fire and enthusiasm, more
eloquent and convincing. He has shown
also a degree of physical activity and en
durance as he skipped from town to town
that would have been commendable in a
man of 40. Doubtless, too, if he should
write a magazine article his sentences
would be as long and ponderous as ever.
No Gladstone is not declining, either
physically or intellectually. He is still
the leader.
California, betides having Oe largest
trees in the world, has certainly also
the largest grasevine. It ins slanted
seventy years ago by a Mexican woman
from a catting of amission grapevine.
The vine is now three feet around, and
produces six tons of grapes a year. Some
of the bunches weigh seven pounds. It.
would be interesting to know how long
a grapevine will live, and how large-it
will become. The California vine covers
a space of 12,000 feet, and is still grow
ing.
Bismarck, after swaying the destinies
of nearly all Europe for twenty years,
will now sway the destinies of a big
brewery at Friedrichsruhe. Thus the
greatest man on the continent of Europe
has petered oat. Will he, perhaps, ran
his brewery on the blood and iron plan?
Along with the other November elec
tion surprises was the announcement
thai for the first time in the history of
Baltimorl, a colored man, Harry S.
Cummings, had been elected to the city
council Mr. Cummings is a lawyer.
Another fine vein of coking coal has
been found in Virginia in the southwest
ern part of the state. It is twenty-two
feet thick and pronounced to be of ex
cellent quality. A few more discoveries
like this will bring back to the old state,
but in afar different way, some of the
prosperity of bygone times and perhaps
help pay her debt after a while.
The Halifax Herald takes an original
view of the McKinley tariff law. It de
clares that the law was passed with the
"avowed purpose of coercing Canada
into severing her connection with1 the
British empire and becoming a part of
the United States. It is, therefore, in its
nature an act of war on the British em
pire to bring about its dismemberment."
Ex-Governor Gilpin, of Colorado, may
possibly yet see before he dies the con
summation of his great scheme for build
ing a railroad around the world by way
of Alaska and Behring straits. The plan
has been pronounced by engineers feasi
ble and really capable of being carried
out on the lines proposed by Governor
Gilpin, except at one point. Gilpin ad
vocated building a road from island to
island across the straits. Capt. Emery,
of the Thetis, thinks it would not be
possible to use at all seasons of the year
a road built across the islands, on ac
count of the cold. But he says a tunnel
can be constructed under the straits that
could be used by trains the year around.
THE KNIGHTS OF LAB0B.
To the public: The alarming development
and the aggressiveness of the power of great
capitalists and corporations under the present
industrial system will inevitably lead to the
pauperization and hopeless degradation' of the
toiling masses. It is imperative, if we desire
to enjoy the full blessings of life, that unjust
accumulation and this power for evil of aggre-
§esiredobjectshallbe
ated wealth be prevented. This much
can accomplished only by the
united efforts of those who obey the divine in
junction "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou
eat bread." Therefore we have formed the
Order of the Knights of Lalor for the purpose
of organizing, educating, and directing the
power of the industral masses.
Itisnotapoliticalparty.it is more,—for in
it are crystallized sentiments and measures for
the benefit of the whole people but it should
be born in mind, when exercising the right of
suffrage, that the most of the objects herein set
forth can only be obtained through legislation,'
and: that it is the duty regardless of party, of
all to assist in nominating and supporting with
their votes such candidates as will support
these measures. No one shall, however, be
compelled to vote with the majority.
Calling upon all who believe in securing "the
greatest good to the greatest number" to join
and assist us, we declare to the world that our
aims are:—
I. To make industrial and moral worth, not
wealth, the true standard ol individual and
National greatness.
XI. To secure to the workers the full enjoy-.
inent of the wealth they create sufflioient
leisure in which to develop their intellectual,
moral and social faculties all of the benefits,
^recreations, and pleasures of association in a
word, to enable them to share in gains and
honors of advancing civilization,
In order to secure these results, we demand
at the hands of the law-making power of State
and Nation
III. The establishment of Bureaus of Labor
Statistics, that we may arrive at a correct
knowledge of the educational, moral, and
financial condition of the laboring masses.
IV. That the pubic lands, the heritage of
thepeople.be reserved for actual settlers,—
not another acre for railroad or other specula
tors, or alien landlords and that all lands now
held for speculative purposes be taxed to their
full value
•V. The abrogation of all laws that do not
bear equally upon capitalists and laborers, and
the removal of unjust technicalities, delays,
and discriminations in the administration of
justice.
VI. The adoption of measures providing for
the health and safty of those engaged In min
ing, manufacturing, and building Industries,
and forjidnemnificatlon to
those engaged therein
for injuries received through lack of necessary
safeguards.
VII. The recognition, by incorporation, of
order and other associations organized by the
workers to
improve their condition and protect
their rights.
VIII. The enactment of laws to compel
corporptions to pay their employes weekly, in
laircul money, for the labor of the proceeding
week, and giving mechanics and laborers a
first lien upon the product of their labor to the
extent of their full wages.
IX.' The abolition of the contract system on
National, State, and Municipal works.
X. The enactment of laws providing for
arbitration between employers and employed,
and to enforce the decision of the arbitrators.
XI. The prohibition, by law, of the employ
ment of children under fifteen years of age.
XII. To prohibit the hiring out of convict
labor.
XIII. That a gratuted income tax be levied.
XTV. The establishment of a National
monetary, system, in which a circulating medi
um In necessary quantity shall issue directly
to the-people, without the intervention of
banks that all the National Issue shal be fnll
legal tender in payment of all debts, public and
private and that the Government shall not
guarantee or recognize any private banks or
create any banking corporation.
XV. That interest- bearing bonds, bills of
credit, or notes shall never be issued by the
Government but that, when need arises tBe
emergency shall be met by issue of legal
tender, non-interest-bearing money.
XVI. That the importation of foreign labor
under contract be prohibited.
XVII. Th&t, In connection witb the post
offlce, the Government shall organize finanoial
exahanges, safe deposits, and facilities for de
posits of savings of the people in small sums.
xvni. That the Government shall obtain
posession, by purchase, under the right of
eminent domain, of all telegraphs, telephones,
and railroads and that hereafter no charter
or license be issued to any corporation for con
struction or operation of any means of trans'
porting Intelligence, passengers, or freight.
And while making the foregoing demands
upon the State and National Government, we
will endeavor to associate our own labors
XIX. To establish co-operative institutions,
such as will tend to supersede the wage system,
by the introduction of a co-operative industrial
system.
XX. To secure for both sexes equal pay for
equal work.
XXI. To gain some of the benefits of labor
saving machinery by a gradual reduction of.the
hours of labor to eight per day.
VYTT. To persuade employers to agree to
arbitrate all differences which may arise be
tween them and their employes, in order that
the bonds of sympathy between them may be
strengthened ana that strikes may be rendered
unnecessary.
The Boom Still On
Although my competitors are dorag all
in their power to destroy my credit by re
porting to the public that I am buying
Unlimited Quantities of grain
and paying AWAY ABOVE MARKET
VALUE and
GIVING flWfly GOOD
Less Than Cost.
I am still prepared to take
All the Grain
Offered at the same old rate,
And as for Goods,
Have just brought in a car load andean
sell Felt boots and Overs for $1.50 per set.
Overshoes for 75 cents.
White bed blankets for $1.25 per pair.
Pretty dress Prints for 4 l-2c a yard.
Coats thread for 4 cents a spool.
Are away down.
Granulated sugar, 14 lbs. for
Pure Java coffee for 25 cents a pound.
Pure Maple Syrup from the barrel at
95 cents a gallon.
Nothing fine, but good warm goods cheap.
I ,-A"'
Gliristmais Goods.
The largest supply ever offered. 100 dif
ferent styles of albums alone just look
and see.
ASD SOW ABOUT JEWELRY.
I have decided to close out my Post office
Jewelry store and will give you
WATCHES, RUGS, SILVERWARE, Etc,
Cheaper than you ever thought of buying.
Pretty New Clocks,
Just drop in and ask for prices. But I must
close with,
Bring in yrar drain
ani
Bay yonr
D.
J.
CARPENTER